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World War II Military Activities

Black-and-white imagery from WWII, showing military leaders, training scenes, and daily life in the midst of conflict.

Inspecting the J. Regiment No.14.Schricht Excellence Conrad v.ötzendorf at Feldpost 403.
Inspecting the J. Regiment No.14.Schricht Excellence Conrad v.ötzendorf at Feldpost 403.
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Dismayed Nazis Pour Out On Ice, Their Hands Raised In Surrender. This image depicts German seamen abandon the trawler and scramble out onto the ice pack, their hands raised in surrender to U.S Coast Guard.
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Shooting exercise..
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. The occupier in various countries. No caption. Two waiting stations in the snow. January 1940. International
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Snowstorm paralyzes Skåne 1942.
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Prisoner Italian. .
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The White Patrol: British "Recce" Party In Germany -- The patrol crawling through the snow. They would be difficult to spot from above. From 100 yards away on the ground they are invisible. This is the type of picture we have been accustomed to associate with the Russian Front. It was, however, taken by an Army photographer accompanying a British patrol on a reconnaissance patrol in Germany. British troops on this front and in the Ardennes have been issued with white camouflage cloaks; guns, rifles, radios, etc., all are wrapped in white, with the good effect seen in this and accompanying photographs. March 19, 1945. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Civilian Conservation Corps - New Hampshire. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Fire brigade parade in 1889, here in Herrnskretschen, today Hrensko, Czech Republic, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th cen...
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China. Sinkiang (Xinjiang). Kunlun. Kilian chain. Soss Pombai in the Upper Sandju Valley. Caravan camp
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Gun while firing.
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Marines on skis in snowy and hilly landscape during winter training in Norway.
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Several crewmen take a break from using push brooms and shovels to clear snow off the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUADALCANAL (LPH-7) while taking part in winter operations as part of NATO Exercise Teamwork '92. Subject Operation/Series: TEAMWORK '92 Base: Trondheim Fjord Country: Norway (NOR)
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Canadian Troops - Arctic & Ski Troops - Foreign Troops. April 23, 1951. (Photo by Wartime Information Board).
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Canadian Airmen Cooperate with U.S. In Operations off American west Coast -- Kittyhawk fighter planes of the Royal Canadian Air Force wing in formation over an Alaskan mountain range in one of the patrol operations in which Canadian flyers are cooperating with United states airmen in operations in the North Pacific area. October 11, 1943.
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Field mass at the peak of Eissee Hallenhütte; south front, area around Cevedale; photographer: Flamm, 16. Armeekommando.
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Marketing fee at the 2nd infantry division.
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Operation Deep Freeze: Navy's Task Force 43.
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20 mm Luftvarnskanon Model 41, 1943 20 mm Air defense panel Model 41
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Excellence of Roth and Oberstleutenant Zach, sub-section commander on filmoor height. .
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Eskimoes and Huskies Rescue Bomber Crew in Greenland -- A team of Husky dogs helping the airmen to salvage equipment from the rapidly sinking Hudson. There were no other human beings within 500 miles of this spot. messages sent by improvised wireless rescued in the crew being found by a U.S. Navy Catalina. August 2, 1942. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Elsevier photo collection. "Irozen" (the kicking ice blocks) ice dealers. "Irozen" (the looks ice blocks) ice dealers .. 1917
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Prospectors returning to camp, 62 degrees below zero, Alaska , Gold miners, Prospecting
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The second step and payload to a "German" Nike Apache has been found and dug out to be brought back to Esrange.
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Sparkut Flykt. Sparkutflykt.
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Hermann buhl after climbing the nanga parbat. 1953.
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World War I - The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February - 18 December 1916 . Around Verdun, during the battle. On the road auto trucks are being reinforced whileon the railway track, the walking wounded are moving towards the ambulance.
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Richard Evelyn Byrd American admiral and aerial explorer ; depicted entering his aircraft for the North Pole flight, 9 May 1926 Date: 1888 - 1957
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Portrait of military associated Swedish NGO in Finland, F 19, outdoors. Motifs: Portrait of military associated Swedish Volunteer in Finland, F 19, outdoors.
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DA-ST-90-01566. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '89 Base: Fort Richardson State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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The Stephansbote, the mailman on Christmas Eve, historical illustration, ca. 1893
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''La tragique retraite Serbe; A pied,aussi, l'etat-major general serbe, tranversant l'Albanie, passe le Drin Blanc sur le pont des Vizirs', 1915 (1924). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.
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Standal accident
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The operation of operations
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Attack at The Wall. On Dec. 16, 1962, Three Men Are Detonating A 3 to 5 Kilo Bomb at Jerusalemer Strasse in Berlin- Kruezberg
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Funeral by Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky, Oil on canvas, 1885, 1844-1905, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery,
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This photo dates to World War I. The caption reads: Russian prisoners just as captured. They usually require vigorous attention from the sanitary corps.
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Russia/Germany: The frozen body of a German soldier lies where he fell, Stalingrad, February 1943
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Officer grave on Cima di Bocche.
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1913. text. 1911 - 1913. General Research Division. Art , Poland
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Infantry in action, Indiantown Gap, Pa. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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World War 1 - First aspects of the state of war between gernay and the uSA 1917. Railways and tunnels are guareded against sabotage
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Ilgod package for the messle
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This photo dates to World War I and shows "Cossacks capture German spies on the thatched roof of a Polish farmhouse. Cossacks are member of a people of southern Russia and Ukraine, noted for their horsemanship and military skill. Cossacks, as here, refer to members of a Cossack military unit.
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This photo shows Captain Roald Amundsen Taking Sights at the South Pole. The caption continues from a photograph, by permission of Mr. John Murray and the Illustrated London News. Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions and a key figure of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He led the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage by sea, from 1903 to 1906, and the first expedition to the South Pole in 1911.
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Transfer of the corpse King Franz II from Naples from Arco to Trento. .
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DD-ST-88-09454. Base: Unknown
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Duel of gentlemen. Two men have started a pistol duel. An arranged historical scene. Sweden Photo Kristoffersson ref EA10-11