World War II Troop Movements

Vintage images of soldiers and prisoners during WWII, capturing moments of deployment, evacuation, and the challenges faced in war.

Echelon of workers departing for Ethiopia arriving in Genoa, November 18, 1936, Italy, 20th century.

Huge Mass of Prisoners in Belgium Some of the thousands of Prisoners caught in the American trap on the Belgium border. Here they are seen at Maubeuge, a French town near the border, where they arrived in one Endless procession. October 30, 1944.

New American Soldiers Arriving in France, 1918 4th US Infantry disembarking at Brest, 18 April 1918

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Evacuation T.N.I. Koeningan. Koeningan: Too Koeningan too, TNI troops also reported to evacuation .. February 8, 1948. Indonesia, Kuningan, Dutch East Indies

Konitsa Battlefront: ConvoyA convoy, consisting of mules and mechanised on its; moves along the road between Bourozani Bridge and Konitsa, bringing supplies to Greek Government forces, during recent action against rebel forces.It was reported yesterday, January 11, that the Balkans Commission observer team, while visiting the Greek-Albanian frontier beyond Konitsa, satisfied itself that a battery of guns was firing on the Greek 43rd Brigade from within Albanian territory. February 1, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Marvo command. MP and loaded women at stones. July 20, 1948

Echelon of workers departing for Ethiopia arriving in Genoa, November 18, 1936, Italy, 20th century.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit Prince Bernhard Chapel to Surabaya. Members of the chapel, somewhere on the road, at a warn. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

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.

British Soldiers Fight For SpainMembers of the British Battalion of the International Brigade enjoying a rest in a wood "somewhere in Spain" during a lull in operations. A big battalion of Englishmen is fighting on the side of the government forces. It is known as the British force, and the International Brigade has in it representatives of almost every country in the world. August 02, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Arabs captured by the Jews during the Jewish military advance in Palestine, entering an internment camp. On the left, the Jewish camp authorities.

The British Offensive - First Pictures -- Italians and German Prisoners Marching down to a concentration point.These first official photographs to be received of the British and imperial offensive against the axis forces in Libya show the ***** stages of the advance and initial clashes with the enemy forces. December 4, 1941. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Vietnam/China: Chinese PLA troops guarded by Vietnamese forces, Third Indochina War, 1979

African chasseur, two Turcos and three British soldiers, Soissons, France, First World War, 1914. Artist: Unknown

French Train as NATO Paratroopers at Pau. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Long Line of Captured German Soldiers, Prisoners of War, walking along Road, France, 1916-1918

Photograph showing General Montgomery (1887-1976), reading the lesson at an outdoor Church service in France, 1944. In the right background is the first mobile motor Church, adapted from a heavy truck, to give services to Allied soldiers on the Western front during the Second World War. Date: 1944

Refugees from the ship Exodus 1947 (President Warfield) getting onto trucks before they are sent back to DP camps, September 47, Anonymous

Ruth Ellis Is Hanged -- Crowds Rush across the road at Holloway Prison, London, This Morning July 13 to Read the official notice Saying Ruth Ellis had been Hanged. She was Executed for the Murder of her Lover, David Blakely, a racing motorist, and was the 14th Woman hanged in Britain This Century. Mounted Police were needed to keep the crowds in order outside the Gaol. July 21, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Welfare Centre for evacuees, East Galicia, Austria-Hungary (present day Poland)

06/01/1913. The Spanish in Morocco. Aspect of the Dar-Mucia camp (Tetuan), Occupied by Forces of the Hunters brigade.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Inspection travel General P.L.G. Doorman (September-October 1946). Visit to Battaljon "Friesland" 1-9 R.I. Leged in Tjimahi. General Doorman passes the garage where staff cars are maintained. September 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Salatiga. Repatrants who go back to Republican area in Dutch military vehicles. December 2, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Salatiga

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.

(One Of A Set) Arrives By Sedan Chair.Generalissimo Ching Kai-Shek, (in Sedan Chair), arrives, July 19, at the famous summer resort of Kuling, in middle China. The General Issimo will spend about six weeks at his summer residence there. February 8, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival of the December 7 Division per MS Boissevain. From the ship, soldiers look at the quay. October 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Polish prisoners of war. English text: Polish prisoners of war in a German prison camp. It is assumed that the shortages to workers in German industry these prisoners will be used as slaves. September 24, 1939. Poland

Nurses wearing a Red Cross armlet and a Red Cross ribbon round their hats disembark from a Channel steamer after arriving at an undisclosed location in France in the early weeks of World War II. Airmen can be seen coming down the gangplank. As well as luggage, the nurses are carrying steel helmets and gas masks. Date: 1939

Wounded men from the stricken carrier U.S.S. Bunker Hill receive first aid treatment aboard the light cruiser U.S.S. Wilkes Barre, which played a major role in aiding the carrier. June 21, 1945. (Photo by ACME).

War album 20, Figure 5135.

Polish Jews captured by Germans during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Poland) - Photo from Jürgen Stroop Report to Heinrich Himmler from May 1943. .

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Co Amacab in Padalarang. Co Amacab Commanding Officer - Allied Military Authority, Civil Affairs Branch is welcomed in Bandoeng. Slamatan with clappers. October 1946. Bandung, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Royal Dutch Brigade Princess Irene. Landing Normandy. August 1944. France, Normandy

Anefo photo collection. Commemoration Battle of Arnhem at Airborne Cemetery, Oosterbeek; Overviews during commemoration. September 23, 1984. Oosterbeek

01/31/1938. Fortifiers Marching To Consolidate Conquered Positions.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Swing in second Lieutenant Niehof in the Prins Bernhard instruction schedule perscopie, no caption list. A short ceremony was held due to the finishing of the first framework training for the safety battails to the Prince Bernhard instruction school in Tjimahi. After inspecting the troops through the col. De Vries, Inspector of Security Bataljons, kept a short speech. After him, the Sultan of Assahan, HFD was still spoken after him. The P. of safety. Then Col. De Vries to the new versions of the distinction signs. A Defile for the authorities decided this ceremony. 15 May 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Anti-Communists Chinese Pows Freed -- The anti-Communist Chinese prisoners of war march away to Freedom in Korea. They were bound for Inchon from where they were taken to Formosa. They carry portraits of Chiang Kai-Shek and Sun Yet-sen, and flags of Nationalist China. January 26, 1954.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Red crosswork in water goal. Women and children are sitting on the floor. Behind them a man with the Red Cross flag. February 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Farewell Defile 5th and 9th Infantry Regiment. 25 November 1947. Zwolle

Japanese prisoners of war helping in the massive cleanup after the Battle of Manila in 1945.

French Army - Training Recruits. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Bridge over the Lau Renoem, 8th field genius. During a delay, because Republican armed forces had destroyed a bridge for Sidikalang (Sumatra), these men managed to spend the waiting time useful. Within fifteen minutes they had put together a canteen. December 30, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sidikalang, Sumatra

Italian seaman from the Bartolomeo Colleoni's crew being marched ashore at Alexandria. August 30, 1940.

British Troops Move Frontline-Wards -- British Troops Unload gear from trucks near the front lint in Korea. Most of them have stripped to the waist in the Midday Sun. They were kept away from the front line during training in the use of American weapons. September 04, 1950. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Near East relief: Armenian orphans being enloaded in barges from Constantinople, bound for Greece

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC New Guinea series. Flute orchestra. October 1948. New Guinea

Japanese POW, with heads bowed after hearing Emperor Hirohito make Announcement of Japan's Unconditional Surrender, Guam, U.S. Navy Photo, August 15, 1945

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Poerwakarta: Evacuation T.N.I. Staff 2nd inf. Brig. Group. Poerwakarta: The TNI evacuation center in Poerwakarta has a busy work. Large quotas arrive daily, which must be registered and fed. They are then removed by train. At the registration table. February 10, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Purwakarta

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Funeral General Spoor. Funeral General S.H. Track on ereveld Menteng Pulo. In the consequence of O.A. High Representative of the Crown L.H. Beel, General D.C. Buurman of Vreede, vice-admiral Pinke, brother and wife of the General. 28 August 1949. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Dadapajam at Salatiga. ... plays on his accordion. October 12, 1947. Dadapajam, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

British Reoccupation of Singapore, 1945 Japanese soldiers sit by the roadside in Singapore after being rounded up by troops of the 5th Indian Division.

WW1 - British Tommies welcomed on arrival in France Date: 1914

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Palembang. The supplementation from 7 R.S. Departs from Palembang to Semarang. Part of the troops that emerged at the time to supplement 7 Rs will go on the way to Semarang from where they will be demobilized. The journey of Palembang along the MoSi to Street Banka was made with the LST Albatros Release to Semarang?. March 15, 1948. Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Cherbourg Arms France - French army controls special arms reception dock in the port, and soldiers are much in evidence in the town. Here, a contingent just arrived leaves the railway station. November 14, 1951. (Photo by Eugene Kammerman, Camera Press).

Anefo photo collection. Netherlands mobilization time. Dutch troops unloading weapons. 1940

Anefo photo collection. Opening States General Morning Pressed. September 20, 1949

Air Force Ground Crewmen Arrive In England -- U.S. Air Force ground crewmen line the rails of their transport as the ship moors at Liverpool, England, Sept. 12. Two Army transports brought 2,500 men to service Super Fortresses based in Britain and transport planes of the Berlin airlift. September 15, 1948. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Photograph showing two New Zealanders of the Allied army guarding a group of German prisoners, Cassino, Italy, March 1944. The Germans pictured were elite paratroops, who were taken prisoner trying to defend Cassino. Between January and May 1944 the town of Cassino and Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino were completely destroyed as the Allied Fifth Army attempted to push the occupying Nazi troops out of their strong defensive position in the area. Date: 1944

Inchon Korean War. October 09, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. Queen on Walcheren. September 6, 1946. Walcheren, Zeeland

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Madura. Field kitchen shares food. August 1947. Indonesia, Madura, Dutch East Indies

08/31/1936. Forces of the Castellón column, upon arriving at Segorbe.

09/30/1911. The Monarchical Counterrevolution in Porto.

Allied POW cheer their liberty after being freed near Homburg, Germany, by 7th U.S. Army troops. Some of the Russians, Czechs, Poles, and French had been prisoners for three years. March 22, 1945. World War 2. (BSLOC_2014_10_184)

Marines Patrol Pow Compound -- A group of U.S. Marines patrol outside the barbed wire of Pow camp No.10 at Ascom City near Inchon after an estimated 494 anti-Communist Pows had escaped. Marine and soldier gun fire stopped a mass breakout. Orders from South Korean President Syngman Rhee resulted in the escape of some 26,000 Pows in camps throughout South Korea. June 19, 1953. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

In October 1949, after Mao proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China, the Nationalists were driven from Canton

Students from the Saint George's University School of Medicine walk to Point Salines Airfield where they will be processed for evacuation during the multiservice, multinational Operation URGENT FURY. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Commemoration Semarang (1-year existence T-Brigade). Commemoration on the ereveld tillemaplein in Semarang. Speech from the memorial under construction. March 9, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

Ulster volunteers, armed and drilling preparatoy to forcibly rejecting Home Rule.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Four native soldiers with a ammunition or weapon chest? with inscription "soro - la". 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

The crew of the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku salute as the flag is lowered during the Battle off Cape Engano, October 25, 1944.

1936-1939. Spanish Civil War, Talavera sector. The militias cause the enemy to flee from a house.

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Russian soldiers wounded and convalescing in a village in Manchuria. Drawing of Gerlach on a photograph. "La Ilustracion Artistica", 20th century.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit Prince Bernhard Chapel to Surabaya. The chapel concerts somewhere on an outpost for Dutch troops. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Banjoemas, tjilatjap, on the children's sea, report T.N.I., Demarcation line. Passengers in a train wagon. February 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival of the ship Volendam with the Prince Bernhard Chapel on board. Soldiers throw cigarettes from the porthole for the children on the quay. November 12, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok

British Troops Withdrawn -- British soldiers are seen as to embark from Chinwangtao recently. Following the joint declaration by the British and French Governments of their plans to cut down the number of their forces in North China, a quick withdrawl of the men and equipment was effected. December 10, 1939. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reportage Hollandia. KNIL recruits with messtins in their hands. February 1947. Hollandia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, New Guinea

Churchill And Montgomery Cross The Rhine -- The Prime Minister and party walking to the bank after stepping as here. On March 25th Mr. Churchill, with Field Marshal Montgomery, crossed to the east bank of the Rhine in an L.C.U.P. January 01, 1944.

The first critique of Canadian volunteers to ***** in Hong Kong these men were among the first Canadian soldiers to *****. December 15, 1941. (Photo by Commonwealth Department Of Information).

The escape of Hungarians from Bolzano, Trentino Alto-Adige, Italy, World War I, from l'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLV, No 47, November 24, 1918.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Radiowagen in Lembang. Backside radio car with officer on board. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

06/30/1916. The army served in Corfu forming a Regiment, to embark for Thessaloniki.

Coffee and doughnuts at Nagasaki railway station, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of war from Japan Description: Coffee and doughnuts at Nagasaki railway station, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of war from Japan Location: Nagasaki, Japan Date: September-October 1945

Citizens of Waegwan, in the Republic of Korea are shown (right) streaming back into their city, as United States infantrymen move forward in their relentless mopping-up campaigns against remnants of the North Korean Communist forces in the Republic of Korea. November 23, 1950. (Photo by United States Information Service).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Withdrawal of Dutch troops from solo, Gondang Winangoe and clares. Ten minutes after the transfer of the town of Gondang Winoangoen, the T.N.I. troops came to take their posts. November 12, 1949. Gondang Winoangoen, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Portugese detraining in England.

Lawrence Textile Strike. Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a parade of strikers, Lawrence, Mass. January, 1912

U.S. Soldiers move up to the firing line in Korea on July 18, 1950. Troops on occupation duty in Japan were the first fight the North Korean invaders. African Americans in the near truck are with the now integrated 24th Infantry Regiment. Korean War, 1950-53. (BSLOC_2014_11_8)

Troops and materials embarking onto trains, Vienna's arsenal, Austria, mobilisation of the Austro-Hungarian army, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLI, No 31, August 2, 1914.

North Korean prisoners being led to a prison camp in South Korea, 1953.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Relocation of the 3rd eskadron armored cars from Praboemoelih to Moela enim. Moela enim. During and shortly after the relocation of the third Eskadron armored cars of the Hussars van Boreel Regiment, some pictures were made of this part. A remarkable contradiction! TANIs bring the 'slabs' (the rough rubber product) to the dealer with a speed of 3 km per hour, while a few modern cars, with tires of the same rubber, but then scientifically prepared, a speed of more than more than 60 km can reach. July 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

'A Revised Empire Air Scheme', 1939, (1940). Artist: Unknown.

March 1937. The Fortifiers Heading Towards the First Lines of Fire, after the taking of the town of Yela (Guadalajara) by the Republicans.

01/31/1922. Madrid. In the British cemetery. Burial of the English Airmen Milnes and Richardson, who perished in the aviation disaster last Tuesday. In the Circle, the presidency of the Duel, with the ambassador of England (1) and the minister Mr. La Cierva (2).

British Surrender In Singapore - Countries War File. October 29, 1945.

Their Faces Express The Emotions Of These Overjoyed G.I.'s For They Now Know Their Long Dark Days In The Hanowa Prisoner Of War Camp #6 At Honshu, Japanesean, Have Come To An End As They Feast Their Eyes Upon The First Americans They Have Seen In Three Or Four

The British Army in Burma 1945 Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, sits astride a captured Japanese 75mm gun while addressing men of the Royal Armoured Corps in Mandalay, 21 March 1945.

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