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World War II Soldiers in Action

Dramatic wartime images showcasing soldiers engaged in combat and military operations, set against the backdrop of various battlefields.

1937 - Mayor La Guardia operates a power shovel at a construction site for a police department.
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WW2 - The D-Day Landings - Operation Overlord - Normandy, France, 6th June 1944 - General de Gaulle surveys the beaches.     Date: 1944
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Anefo photo collection. Army: Princess Irenebrigade in The Hague. Parade about the Lange Voorhout. Prince Bernhard and commander Stevenink Ruyter Salueren standing from a car. 1945. The Hague
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Work environment in steam locomotive
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Rotterdam during the surrender, 1940 photograph Five German soldiers stand with the Dutch Sergeant Major van Ommering, with the white flag, near the Koninginnebrug on the Noordereiland. It is around 1600 in the afternoon of the 14th of May, shortly after the German bombing. The surrender of Rotterdam is a fact. Rotterdam photographic support gelatin silver print the defeated (after the battle). surrender ~ war Rotterdam
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Guards Armoured Training Wing, Pirbright, Surrey, October 1943 A corporal of the Grenadier Guards with a Churchill tank.
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King George VI listens as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery outlines his future strategy at his mobile headquarters in Holland, 13 October 1944. During a tour of the 2nd Army area, HM King George VI visited the headquarters of the Commander of the 21st Army Group, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery. Field Marshal Montgomery is shown explaining his future plans to the King in his map lorry.
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American Red Cross Chaplain, Rev. F.M. Eliot, taking Home Addresses of Interned German Prisoners, so that their Families may be notified that they are well, Base Hospital No. 7, Tours, France, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, October 1918
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From Scratch to machine guns in five months New Haven, Conn.-- Col. Robert Sears firing one of the first guns to come off the assembly line less than five months after a 12,000-gun contract was signed with the British government. Another 12,000-gun contract is under negotiation. The guns are .50 caliber; will be mounted eight to a plane. From a vacant lot filled with discarded jalopies five months ago to a modern factory producing Browning aircraft machine guns is the saga of G. G. Swebilius's High Standard Mfg. Co. May 14, 1941. (Photo by Acme).
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North Africa - 1/Lt. Lawrence P. Liebers Of Burbank, California Receiving The Distinguished Flying Cross From Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz.
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Women at War 1939 - 1945 Auxiliary Territorial Service: ATS girls loading 25-pounder shells into the breech of an anti-aircraft gun at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit, Shoeburyness, Essex.
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U.S. Army Soldiers eating from Mess Kits, Normandy, France, June 1944
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LOK driver in Elllok.
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07/31/1926. View of King Alfonso Xiii, leaving the Altamira cave Located in the town of Santillana del Mar (Cantabria).
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African-American U.S. Army Soldier, Profile Saluting American Flag, USA, Harris & Ewing, 1917
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Swedish army during WW2. A soldier is standing in the snowfall och christmas eve 24 December. Sweden 1940s
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The Royal Air Force in Malta, June 1943 A red MG sports car with Air Vice Marshal Keith Park, AOC Malta, at the wheel and Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, AOC Desert Air Force, during the latter's visit to Malta.
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Lieutenant General M C Dempsey, Cb, Dso, Mc, Commander in Chief, British Second Army, April 1944 Half length portrait of Lieutenant General Dempsey studying a map.
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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Canadian Scottish soldier, 3/4 photograph.
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ROME ITALY MARCH 1951 Boys during military training in the 50s
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Philemon Arnold Follis. May 22, 1943.
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Province of Segovia, 06/21/1976. HRH Prince Felipe's first contact with the Spanish Army in Operation Galia-V.
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Sweden's Commander -in -Chief, General Olof Thörnell and the bureau chief at the Royal Swedish Railway, Lieutenant Colonel Henrik Wrede stand in front of the State Railways, SJ Hospital train tpnr H39.
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The Commander in Chief, Allied Armies in Italy, General Sir Harold Alexander, in Caserta, Italy, 4 May 1944 Three quarter length portrait of General Sir Harold Alexander, GCB, KCB, CB, CSI, DSO, MC, standing in front of a map of Italy at his headquarters in Caserta.
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Description: Jamaica. Jamaica Regiment. Drum Major BL Reid of the Jamaica Regiment at Newcastle Hill Station. Photograph No D 78839 issued by Central Office of Information, London. Location: Jamaica Date: 1955 March jamaica, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens
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The Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. About 9500 Swedish volunteer soldiers participated in the war. Pictured Swedish volunteer soldier Colonel Axel Dyrssen to the left. (Killed in the Winter War). He was the head of the Swedish volunteer organization in Sweden that was formed on December 4. To the right Euguene von Stedingk, who also was part of
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