World War II Military Operations

Images of military personnel during WWII, depicting food distribution, troop conversations, and crew coordination during operations.

Crew Of 410Th Bomb Group Takes Part In A Broadcast For The British Broadcasting Company At A 9Th Air Force Base In France. 22 January 1945.

Armament Men Of The 79Th Fighter Group, Based At Capodichino, Italy, Loading 50 Cal. Machine Gun Belts.

The Polish Navy during the Second World War Christmas aboard the Polish Navy destroyer ORP Krakowiak in Devonport. Polish sailors reading their Christmas mail.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Shipping from the U-Brigade from Batavia to Padang (3rd series). Colonel J.W. Sluyter, Commander U-Brigade speaks with a British officer, seated in a jeep. November 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Padang, Sumatra

Their Troubles Have "Packed Up" -- When the present supply of kitbags is exhausted, the soldier of the future will be issued with a modern substitute. It holds as much as the old bag, easier to pack, has compartments for different items of kit, and can be carried by its handles or slung from the shoulder. The new kitbag can be carried by hand. October 17, 1947. (Photo by Mirror Features).

Anefo photo collection. Marine divers at Dordrecht. May 25, 1949. Dordrecht

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Masamba affair. Two soldiers are working on the repair of parts of their vehicle. November 1949. Celebes, Indonesia, Masamba, Dutch East Indies

Species.The shooting.At the middle of the Stockholm archipelago.Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Poll photo collection. Prince Bernhard visits Dutch troops on their army base in Great Britain during the Second World War. Prince Bernhard in conversation with a soldier. 1940. Great Britain

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Flying Officer D H Greaves (far left) and Warrant Officer F M Robbins (fifth from left), a successful Bristol Beaufighter night-fighting team with No. 255 Squadron RAF, display a trophy cut from their fifth victim, a Cant Z1007 which they intercepted over Bone on the night of 18/19 January 1943, to other members of the Squadron at Setif, Algeria. The group includes No. 255's Commanding Officer, Wing Commander D P D G Kelly, standing second from the right. Greaves (pilot) and Robbins (radar operator) joined forces while serving with No. 68 Squadron RAF in the United Kingdom. They were posted to 255 Squadron in September 1941 and flew out to North Africa with them in November 1942. They returned to the United Kingdom in April 1943, being posted to the Telecommunications Flying Unit at Defford, but resumed night-fighting operations with No. 25 Squadron RAF in January 1944, with whom they enjoyed further successes.

USA/Germany: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, and Gen. Omar N. Bradley, CG, 12th Army Group, examine a suitcase of silverware, part of German loot stored in Merkers salt mine, 12 April, 1945

Anefo photo collection. VVDM performs Paasakie in barracks, soldiers with Easter eggs. April 22, 1973

Work with the reduction of the Swedish Gothenburg-Stockholm Rikskel.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Christmas 1948 in Soebang and Poerwakarta. Soldier working on the maintenance of his motorcycle. December 25, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

10/31/1913. The Emperor of Germany Hunting. Kaiser Wilhelm II examining a chamois collected by him during a recent hunt.

Reid Hall-Paris Resident Club for American Women Students. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Warsaw Uprising: Two medics and a soldier (right) from 'Parasol' battalion after coming out of sewers at Warecka Street near Nowy wiat (North ródmiecie district). In the center Maria Stypukowska-Chojecka 'Kama'. On the right Krzysztof Palester 'Krzych' ca. September 1, 1944.

Poll photo collection. Prince Bernhard inspects Dutch soldiers at the Valkenboskade, corner of Berberisstraat in The Hague. Royal house. 1945. The Hague, South Holland

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht in Dunes on the North Sea (probably at The Hague)

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. Flight Lieutenant J M Woodcock (seated), the Commanding Officer of No. 1 'M' Balloon Unit, checks the position of a bundle of propaganda leaflets and ballast loaded under an M-type balloon by the roadside at Bunsbeek, Belgium, before it is despatched over Germany.

SHAPE Headquarters. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Jeugdspoorweg-Brigade Heiloo. February 25, 1952. Heiloo

08/31/1923. Brussels. More Victims of the Aerostatic contest. The North American Military Airmen, Lieutenants Olmstead (1), Choptway (2), who perished as a result of an Accident. Photo: Champroux -.

Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 Women of the American Ambulance Great Britain bandage to paw of a dog, injured following a devastating V1 attack in the Highland Road and Lunham Road area of Upper Norwood. According to the original caption, the dog would always run into the Morrison shelter when the siren sounded and so was safe when his owner's house was destroyed. This man (the dog's owner) had been for a walk as his wife prepared the Sunday lunch, and returned to find that his house was now a pile of rubble and that his wife had been killed.

Prince Carl bottom damage.Prince Carl (pictured - name)

Anefo photo collection. Water shortage 1953. Zierikzee. Soldiers help with evacuation. February 25, 1953. Zeeland, Zierikzee

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC 1 m.p. 3 in Padang celebrates 2th anniversary. Soldiers Spectators motorcycle competition? Sit on D erand of a landing craft. August 11, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

R.N. "Survival Suit". February 14, 1952. (Photo by Daily Mail Contract Picture).

Anefo photo collection. Preparation exercise for emergency guard Amsterdam, extinguishing work on the emplacement in Watergraafsmeer. April 7, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Tuskegee airmen Roscoe C. Brown, Marcellus G. Smith, and Benjamin O. Davis, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945, African-Americans

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Group of the British Army senior officers at one of their tents. The officer on the left serves with the Highland Light Infantry.

Anefo photo collection. REPORTAGE MOD. September 24, 1947

US Troops Attend British Army School- American Soldiers Train at the British Army School of Hygiene, UK, 1944 Courses at the British Army School of Hygiene are a mixture of lectures and practical work. Here Sergeant Thomas Feeley (of 7901, 4th Avenue, New York City, USA) and Trooper H Pussey (of Highbridge, Somerset, England) work together to put up a mosquito tent.

Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Harskamp camp where SS people and countrykeepers are convenient. The war correspondent of the Anep, Ton van Beers and a Canadian Guard Officer in conversation with a P.K. Presse Korrespondent, Aspirant officer Hugo Kemps (right). June 1945. Gelderland, Harskamp

Bridge with officer at Hr.Ms. Rozenburg (1943-1957)

No. 151 Wing Royal Air Force Operations in Russia, September-november 1941 RAF personnel and Soviet sailors gather round a gramophone at a dispersal at Vaenga, while a Russian sentry guards Hawker Hurricane Mark IIB, Z5227 'FE-53', of No. 81 Squadron RAF.

Normandy, France: June 7, 1944. Medics gving plasma on the beach to a wounded survivor of a sunken landing craft during the Normandy invasion.

Military transport on the line between Nässjö - Falköping. Redeveloped freight wagon for the house of soldiers.

Anefo photo collection. Dutch sailor transmission equipment. 1940-1945}. Britain

Military transport on the line between Nässjö - Falköping.

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Petersburg, Virginia Two youthful military telegraph operators at headquarters. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Communications, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865, Telegraph, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.

Anefo photo collection. Pontonniers demonstration with Colonel Schafroth. April 7, 1948

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Train trip Departure 2-7 R.I (the Amsterdam Battalion). Repatriating soldiers overlook the windows of a rail wagon and waving. 13 July 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Kamp Doeri on the Tangerangse road. Dutch militari and two women (Babo's?). November 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Mixture of fuel to airbomb, 1940s.Two men in work at a barrel. Mixture of fuel to airbage, 1940s.

Berlin Children Escape Winter's Grip -- A little Berlin Boy, labelled for his new destination, is lifted by the conductor into the bus which will take him and his little friends from the Deutschland Haus in Berlin to the British airfield at Gatow for air transport to the west.A programme to spare children the Bitter cold of winter, when fuel will be at a premium in the western sectors of Berlin, has been set up by German, American and British Welafe officials. Only one condition is asked of parents who wish their children to be taken from Berlin to warmer places west - the children must remain out of Berlin for the duration of existing conditions of fuel supply, whereby the allied airlift must take in furl to their sectors of Berlin out off by land from the west. November 06, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

L to R - Col William *****, C.O. 7th Cavalry, Brig. B. A. Coad and Major Bill "Mike" coch***** 7th Cavalry. Col, Harris Shpws Brig. Coad the cavalry sad***** mounted on the front of his jeep. January 01, 1950. (Photo by Alan Lambert/Fairfax Media)

Anefo photo collection. Four Days Marches of Nijmegen, third day, blisters treating soldier. July 22, 1976

Nearly 400 permanent air men and active reservists attached to 82 Wing at Amberley are to take part in a fortnight's mobility exercise at Evans head. Feeding 20 millimeter ammo into the mid upper turret of Lincoln bomber at Amberley today are L.A.C. C.G. Kath (active reserve, of Pomona) and Flight Sergeant P. Bramley (of Adelaide). March 18, 1952. (Photo by The Telegraph Feature Service Brisbane).

Italian prisoner being taken to headquarters by motor bike. March 01, 1942.

Anefo photo collection. Exercises in Belgium. November 12, 1951. Belgium

Airmen in Disguise After the boat bringing them home from France had been bombed and sunk, these RAF airmen were picked up by a destoyer and given the quaintly assorted costumes shown in this image.

U.S. Military Training during World War I, Harris & Ewing, 1917

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Naval ratings, under the watchful gaze of a NCO (left) sweep up spent cartridge cases for the eight barrelled, Vickers two pounder Mark VIII 'pom pom' gun. These ratings were firing live ammunition at the anti-aircraft gunnery school, Portsmouth Harbour.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

The RCAF spitfire wing's operations can be quickly switched from one sector of the front to another, for the Intelligence map library can promptly produce maps of any new area. Oshawa Squadron Pilot, P/O Rex Tapley of Hamilton, Ont., finds that LAC Jack O'Malley, Falconbridge, Ont., has a store of some 6,000 aerial maps covering every part of the western front. Map room is a canvas-walled "verandah " whose roof roof floor flaps fold up into side of Intelligence-Operations van when wing moves to a new base. March 13, 1945. (Photo by RCAF Photo).

Italian prisoners of war being fed after detraining at Wadi al-Sarar Railway Station, Mandatory Palestine, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, December 21, 1940

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

King and Queen Tour Northern Command - The Queen Places her hand on a 12 inch shell, during the tour over heavy railway guns yesterday. August 29, 1940. (Photo by Keystone).

Major General Elwood R. Quesada Talks With A Member Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion During His Visit To St. Pierre Du Mont Airfield, Normandy, France.

Anefo photo collection. Journalists in military uniform. April 21, 1951

This photo shows an Australian soldier muffled up at a desert outpost. April 17, 1940.

Anefo photo collection. Firefighter championships in the Heineken-Brewery building. September 15, 1962

Anefo photo collection. American ambassador Allied governments, Drexel Biddle, visits camp Princess Irene Brigade company Dutch Prime Minister, Minister War Dutch ministers. exercises, exercises served female volunteers "Young America Help Committee". September 1941. America, Britain

Anefo photo collection. NATO exercise "Atlantic Lion" visited by Queen Beatrix in West Germany. Queen Beatrix in conversation with soldiers in the field. September 21, 1983. Germany

Recovering U.S. Soldiers taken to see sights, captured German U-boat, London, England, UK, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, between 1917 and 1919

The War in the Far East- the Burma Campaign 1941-1945 British Personalities: Major General T W Rees GOC (General Officer Commanding) 19th Indian Division, directing operations during the advance on Mandalay.

'Evacuation de prisonniers allemands du front de la Somme; des gaillards qui se resignent a leur sort', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Officers aboard Queen Victoria.

Anefo photo collection. South Pole Expedition left. The four Dutch partnerem Ir. J. Rietman, ir. P. M. Buis, Mr. J. van Ameyde and P. Verschoor. December 7, 1963

Second World War. For billeting. Soviet Union. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht when celebrating outdoors. four participants

Anefo photo collection. Offer gift to Princess Irene for her birthday. August 1, 1955

Command transfer of the wardremy hunters by Lieutenant-Colonel Jhr. J.van Suchtelen to Lieutenant-Colonel van Buren.

Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Pilots and gunners of No 264 Squadron RAF, pass the time with a game of draughts while waiting at readiness outside their dispersal tent at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire.

Military equestrian championships on the Waterloo site in Amersfoort. A Captain Ter Sea (KTZ) extends a prize to a sergeant of the 1st class (SGT 1) of the Royal Netherlands Army (KL).

British Medical Services in the Second World War Specialist Medical Service: Major Patton RAMC, of London, assisted by Private A Haggard, of Aberdeen, removes a foreign body from a soldier's eye at No. 1 Mobile Ophthalmic Unit (MOU) in Italy, March 1944. The men working in these units keep and supply forward units with spectacles as well as giving eye treatment.

Torpedo boat test 1941. Malmö Shipyard History Association has received the album of a son of Nils Holmström.Peter Skanze from the association has in contacts with the Historical Museum's manager Hans-Lennart Ohlsson expressed that the gift is aimed at the Maritime History Museum, while in the donation letter a "desire to the album ends up at any museum with a focus on our marine heritage".At sea-historical, there is already an extensive collection of photographs from Kockum's MV.Since the images show the warships fit the album better in Marine Museum Karlskrona's gathering area and was therefore added to Marine Museum's collections.

The Royal Marines. With the Royal Marines of the Home Fleet, October and November, 1942. Even sergeants need recreation sometimes! These Royal Marine sergeants on board HMS CUMBERLAND have made the model of their ship and the doll's house entirely out of spent matches.

Water disaster 1953. The press in a vessel of care providers in the area affected by the disaster.

An RAMC orderly testing to see if the right quantity of chlorine is present in drinking water in Burma, April 1945. Hygiene in the Field: An RAMC orderly testing to see if the right quantity of chlorine is present in the water in Burma, April 1945. After treatment water is clear, tasteless, reasonably palatable and perfectly safe.

Dutch soldiers travel for exercises from Oirschot to La Courtine. Pay attention! The above description is a generic series description based on the information stated by the army film and photo service. In the long term, this global description will be specified.

Popular Man at the Legacy children's party in the Sergeants Mess at Victoria Barracks yesterday was "Charlie McCarthy." He is being: introduced to Cynthia Burns and Wilma Scambrey by Sergeant J. Leonard and W/O K. Williams. Tomorrow will be Legacy badge day in aid of war widows and orphans *****. September 1, 1949.

Anefo photo collection. Military exercises Castricum (paratroopers). October 17, 1951. Castricum

Arso Jovanovi, Mitar Baki and Ivan Milutinovi in Zaborje ca. May 1942.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reportage Dajeuhkolot (Bandoeng sector). A painter's applying marks on a truck. February 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Gis Of The 353Rd Fighter Group Based In England Drink A Toast To The Allied Victory Over The Japaneseanese On 15 August 1945 In Front Of Their "Ye O' Yankee Pub".

Anefo photo collection. Organized lifts for soldiers and sailors. January 14, 1955

They Stopped Napolean (Second of Six) - Swiss Newspapermen make notes in the dim field headquarters room of the "Red" Army as a Swiss Colonel (right) ponders the latest defense tactics of the "Blues". September 12, 1949. (Photo by Acme).

Elsevier photo collection. Water shortage 1953. drying flooded areas, population starts cleaning recovery. abandoned houses Zierikzee, soldiers Duckws removed stocks consumption. Soldiers bags flour attic. February 25, 1953. Zeeland, Zierikzee

Anefo photo collection. Mug Hilversum 5 years Defile and reception. March 6, 1951. Hilversum

A City of Oshawa squadron Spitfire pilot, P/O Gord Cameron of Edmonton, is interrogated after an armed recce into German territory by the Duty Intelligence Officer, F/L Alan MacNab of Toronto. Exact points at which pilots encountered enemy flak, shot-up German transport or "clobbered" a Luftwaffe fighter, are marked on map by D.I.O. in his corner of the "Int/Ops" office-on-wheels. March 13, 1945. (Photo by RCAF Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Army exercises West Germany. September 27, 1954. Germany

Postmen for Pows in Korea -- Working jointly on prisoner-of-war mail distribution, Lieutenant A.B. Stract, left, officer-in-charge, U.K. Detachment. British Commonwealth Army postal Unit, and warrant officer (Junior Grade) Douglas Hill, U.S.A., set out to deliver the day's mail to United Nations personnel held prisoner in North Korea. Two members of a team making sure that all UN prisoners-of-war receive news from home. They have delivered many thousands of letters to the peace talks for distribution. January 13, 1953. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Anefo photo collection. Test pre-mobilization in Amsterdam soldiers in uniform and with plunge bag gather at a station. August 3, 1953. Amsterdam

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Holland. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht outdoor, reading a letter

Anefo photo collection. Fifth lustrum girls school Nijmeegs students corps. November 28, 1953

The operating defense yard, Tomnäs

Anefo photo collection. French soldier bags in snow. February 8, 1953

Nurses, Masseuses, Ambulance Drivers - Britain - War File. August 21, 1944.

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