World War Transport and Logistics

Historic photos illustrating military transport logistics, focusing on troops and equipment movement during the early 20th century.

French big guns captured by German troops, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVII, No 29, July 21, 1940.
French big guns captured by German troops, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVII, No 29, July 21, 1940.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Sector Cheribon (1st Police Action 21-27 July 1947). Cheribon sector: With their flight, the Republican troops blew out countless large and small bridges behind. However, it was counted on and everywhere, where our troops came to a destroyed bridge, a bridge was beaten by the genius in a short time. The genius busy building a Bailey bridge on the way to Cheribon .. July 1947. Cheribon, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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War album 95, picture 28352.
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A cross roads shelling of ammunition trains - shells landing near an American convoy in France, including horse-drawn wagons, in World War I.
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War album 95, picture 28212.
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Poll photo collection. Travel to Poland. Officers at the Russian border post. 1934. Belarus
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Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders,' arrival in Tampa, Fla., U.S.A. , Cavalry, Horses, Troop movements, Spanish-American War, 1898
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Farmville, Virginia, vicinity. High bridge of the South Side Railroad across the Appomattox. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865, Bridges, United States, Virginia, Farmville.
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The Wall of Peking guarded by the Russian artillery, China - Russian soldiers and cannons assembled on the Beijing city wall, circa 1900
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Weapons Carriers Held UP -- These 108 British Bren gun carriers were shunted into a storage yard while the state department checks up on their origin and destination. They arrived here Nov. 1 aboard a freighter from London and were scheduled to go out over the week-end on another freighter bound for Formosa. A State department spokesman said the check will take about a week. November 16, 1950. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Conquest of Egypt by English troops, 1882. Egypt. Alexandria (English line). The armored train that General Alison uses in military reconnaissance. Engraving by Rico. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882. Author: Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). Spanish engraver.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC 2nd Infantry brigade group in Poerwakarta. Tjikempek: The army also uses the railway connections restored by the Dutch soldiers. An army material at the Purwakarta station. September 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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Air Raid Tests and Civil Defense Demonstration - Boston, Massachusetts , Fire fighters, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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Royal Tour training in NZ. January 12, 1954.
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No, of a sequence of war scenes, Oest, Photo of the war press quarters, editor
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French army heavy artillery piece in 1917.
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DF-SN-86-12372. Base: Norton Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Bankeeper Courses with Major Werner
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Group photo.
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GUERRA DE CUBA 1868 - 1898. NOMBRE GENERICO CON EL QUE SE CONOCE LAS TRES GUERRAS POR LA INDEPENDENCIA DE CUBA DE ESPAÑA. " TREN MILITAR CONDUCIENDO TROPAS , 1898 ". GRABADO DE LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.
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Washington, D.C. Central Signal Station, Winder Building, 17th and E Streets NW, and Signal Corps men. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. Washington (D.C.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865 , United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Communications, Signal stations, United States, District of Columbia, Washington (D.C.)
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Military transport on the line between Nässjö - Falköping.
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French Army - Training Recruits. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Anefo photo collection. Rail bridge at Buggenum put into use. December 2, 1945. Buggenum
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Workshop in the section of the fourth K.U.K. Army.
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Three men sipping. Three men with exposing uplifts are digging in the ground. A barrack in the background. It could be members of the Rad - Reichsarbeitsdienst. Photo associated with album 'Kriegservernerungen'.
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Germany: c. 1917 French prisoners of war at a German camp doing landscaping around their quarters.
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Photo collection First World War. Sacy, South of Reims, Main Street, An American Ambulance Car. November 18, 1918. France, Sacy
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The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 - September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements. Yet the two sides, for a variety of reasons, refrained from fighting a total war. In 1931, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by Japan's Kwantung Army followed the Mukden Incident. The last of these incidents was the Marco Polo B
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Guerra civil española (1936-1939). Zona nacional. Puente destruido por las tropas republicanas entre Pedroso y Cazalla de la Sierra (Sevilla).
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World war one French armaments foundry.
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Anefo photo collection. Dutch army exercises in La Courtine, France; practice. August 7, 1970. France, La Courtine
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Netherlands, 1900-09 part 1. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Netherlands
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german soldiers crossing the Desna river bridge Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division
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Ministry of Information First World War Miscellaneous Collection The life of a shell.
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Naval demolishers. 1920-1930.
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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.
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Joseph Pennell, Gun Testing, 1916 Gun-Testing
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Military exercise, cartilage in Åstorp.
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Artillery park with carts and guns at 1700 meters at the Col de Lano (Lana); Parc d 'Artillery à 1,700 Mètres (Col de Lano). Part of photo album Medical mission H. de Rothschild to the Italian Front 1916.
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Guerra Ruso-Japonesa (1904-1905). Voladura del puente de Hsuri-ho por los japoneses para cortar las comunicaciones del ejército ruso. Cromo de Chocolates Luciano Cunill. Año 1905.
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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Trench mortar shell dump outside the ruined Church of Ciano.
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Artilleriepark with carts and guns 1700 meters at the Col de Lano (Lana), Henri de Rothschild (attributed to), 1916 photograph Part of photo album Medical mission H. de Rothschild to the Italian front 1916. Col di Lana photographic support gelatin silver print war (+ land forces). firearms: cannon (+ land forces). (farm) wagon, freight wagon, cart Col di Lana
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''Les Turcos; Un arret dans une Gare d'un train de Tirailleurs', 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.
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Battalion Headquarters of x / 7 Captain Kielner. X. Army Commando Pipe.
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7th N.Y. departing - Col. Vanderbilt inspecting
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Railcar, the ALe 556 railcar.
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Containers Of Whole Blood Are Flown By Douglas C-47S Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command To Men Near The Frontline. 3 March 1945.
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Civil War Observation Ballons, Aviation
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French legionnaire colonial soldiers at a railway station on the Algeria-Morocco border 1911. postcard
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Train trip Departure 2-7 R.I (the Amsterdam Battalion). Rail wagon with soldiers. On the platform a boy walks a bowl of fruit on his head. The wagon is described with graffiti. 13 July 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Semarang