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Vintage photos depicting guerilla warfare and military parades involving Allied forces in Southeast Asia, emphasizing historical military operations.

Grafton - N.S.W. November 16, 1941.

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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Soldiers with hobbies depok. Colonial home or alloy building. In the foreground a sign with inscription "53 pel. 6tp". October 5, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Army mobile laundry. Installed in railway wagons.

Grignon National Agticultural School. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Various topics article "Weapon brothers", shooting downstad, landscapes and kampong image, recording sloop Farywell. City gate Batavia Amsterdamse Poort. July 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. Hawker Typhoon Mark IB, JP672 'EL-U', of No. 181 Squadron RAF is serviced outside a hangar, elaborately camouflaged as domestic buildings by the former German occupants, at B58/Melsbroek, Belgium.

Toul-Rosiers Air Base. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

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.

Operation 'Alert' , Parking lots, Buildings, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Bridge repair from the road to Malang, inscription at Villa Singosari. Ruin of a burned out building with graffiti. Boot with Nazi Cross (Swastika) on back of woman with child. Text: O.A. Djika Blanda and Djangan Mendjadjah .. November 4, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

A Filipino businessman who had named his restaurant "Benzai" hastily scratches out the name at the moment the 13th AAF Combat Cameraman arrived on the scene on Leyte Island, central Philippines.

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.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Great East. Seascape. November 10, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

School For Evacuees- Everyday Life at Marchant's Hill Camp School, Hindhead, Surrey, England, UK, 1944 Children play in the swimming pool in the sunshine at Marchant's Hill School, Hindhead. The original caption states that this pool was actually built as a static water tank, required by law as a defence against incendiary attacks. The headmaster, Mr William Skipsey, asked the National Fire Service for it to be built with a sloping bottom so that it could also be used as a swimming pool. The wooden huts which serve as classrooms and accommodation at the camp can be clearly seen in the background.

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Officer's quarters. 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery, Fort Darling. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Post office at Bulolo. Officers Mess, etc., New Guinea. February 24, 1942.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC airbases. Laha airport (Ambon). Pilots of the Quonset type (or Romsey). Behind this two traffic or watchtowers. April 1947. Ambon, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Old Glory And White Crosses Mark Cemeteries On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. A Grim Reminder Of The Okinawan Campaign Is This Typical American Military Cemetery, Of Which There Are Several On The Island. Set On A Hillside Overlooking The Pacific Ocean, With Na

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.

280 mm ammunitions awaiting their destination by Italian troops at the front, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 28, July 11, 1915.

An area of the city that sustained damage from a confrontation between Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Marines from the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit have been deployed here to participate in a multinational peacekeeping operation. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

Anefo photo collection. 40 anniversary for Air Force Soesterberg in a party. July 6, 1953

Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps - Arizona. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

DA-SN-85-05248. Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Dogura - New Guinea. July 28, 1942.

A fire team of marine officer candidates from The Basic School are slowly approaching a hut near the edge of a mockup Southeast Asian village. Base: Marine Corps Dev&Ec, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Fiji - General Scenes. May 1, 1948.

Reconstruction of Aunay-Sur-Odon, France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Königsbrück. Troop Exercise Platz Stables B. Pulp

Bell P-39S Taxi Down The Strip At Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands Before Take-Off. 12 December 1943.

Anefo photo collection. Pretty of the first combat group of the Dutch army to La Courtine in France from the Oirschot camp, the troops exceed Dutch. July 2, 1959

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.

Charleston, South Carolina East Battery; dismantled Blakely gun in foreground. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment and supplies, Charleston (S.C.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865, artillery (weaponry) , United States, South Carolina, Charleston.

"Star" theatre of the Fifth Air Force. Luzon Island, Philippine Islands, 1945.

Yaralla Military Hospital Concord, Sydney. July 08, 1940.;Yaralla Military Hospital Concord, Sydney.

Elsevier photo collection. Bratenmeer Bali lies Leave Center Soldiers: Bedugul. March 1949. Bali, Bedugul, Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. 30, 1958, exchange commemorated Enarotali twenty ago Commissioner Police J.P.K. Van Eechoud brought board. HPB office, controller J. Massink held major speech kampong heads parties. 30, 1958. Enarotali, Guinea, exchange lakes

Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps - Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Album leaf with 5 photos at the time of the police actions in the Dutch East Indies. Album leaf with 5 photos. Above left a jeep with Dutch soldiers and the Republican flag. On the Jeep State: Never Too Much. At the top right of a typical soldier humor: Draw crazy pelvis, with the inscription: Tropenmolder. Bottom left the owner of the album with two Javanese in the kitchen outside, bottom right: the captain's home. Photos of approx. March 1949. Blade in the album entitled to memory of my overseas service, on police actions in the Dutch East Indies.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Makasser. Boulevard. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Life in a US Army Base: Evreux. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Bantam. At the arrival in Bantam, the Dutch troops found a monument, which was established by the Republican authorities as a memory of the Romushas died there. As is known, the Romushas Indonesians, who insist on and by means of Sukarno's teeth for the Japanese labor service. Many died as a result of poor treatment. December 23, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

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.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Application of decorations. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

Anefo photo collection. School Bovensmilde after attack with wall that drove tank. 11 June 1977. Bovensmilde

The Dutch army is practicing in 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.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC airbases. Laha airport (Ambon). Photo taken from a top of a high hill or mountain with a view of building complex with sheds. April 1947. Ambon, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

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.

An aerial view of the Battalion Landing Team headquarters used by Marines participating in a multinational peacekeeping operation. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Berkel work. Keppellaan. Police Training School Landgoed De Cloese in Lochem. May 1965. Lochem

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Poerwakarta. Entrance of the Pasar Malam of the Chinese trade union Chinese Labor Union. 25 April 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Purwakarta

US Troops in An English Village- Everyday Life With the Americans in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England, UK, 1944 GIs Pfc Roy St Jean (of 292 Union Street, Springfield, Massachusetts), Corporal Allan Decker (of 1657 South Central Park Avenue, Chicago) and Corporal James Flower (of 173 High Plain Street, Walpole, Massachusetts) talk to Mrs Howarth, the wife of the village schoolmaster, in the shade outside the village canteen in Burton Bradstock, Dorset. According to the original caption, Mrs Howarth opened the canteen in 1939 and it is open 'whenever anyone likes to bang on the door'. Tea or coffee costs a penny, as do sandwiches or cakes.

Photograph of Deck Gun said to Fire First Shot at Japanese at Pearl Harbor and Exhibit Entrance.

DF-SN-89-09125. Base: Keesler Air Force Base State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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.

A view looking down Regimental B Street near the YMCA at Camp Kearny, California (CA). Note: In the future this area became the US Navy (USN) Naval Air Station Miramar. (Exact Date Shot Unknown). Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Jobs For War Disabled -- The British Legion Village showing the store and Post Office.One of the best known of the British Legions work for war disabled men is the work of the rehabilitation centre at Preston Hall near Maidstone. Started after the 1914-18 war the British Legion Villa go now has a population of about 1,100 men disabled in this war and their families. The village is a model of what can be done in after care of Tubercular and Disabled men, it has its own shops, industries, trades to overcome their disability. June 20, 1946. (Photo by Barratt's).

DF-SN-85-11694. Base: Seymour Johnson Air Force Base State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The guided missile cruiser USS CHANCELLORSVILLE (CG 62) exits the Pedro Miguel Locks during its transit of the Panama Canal. Country: Panama (PAN)

50, 000 NATO soldiers in autumn manoeuvre Grosser Baer on 06.09.1976 in the district of Verden. View from the military helicopter ... Village in the district of Verden, Germany, Europe

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