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Mediterranean patrol. A fine study of naval activity at Gibraltar, as a destroyer leaves on duty in the non-intervention patrol. In background are warships of the mediterranean fleet at anchor, and, dominating all, the rock.

Norway's little ships are in the front line. U.S. soldiers unload 500 and 1,000-pound bombs from a Norwegian supply ship onto a waiting duck off the Normandy beachhead. These supply ships cross the English Channel in convoy and are taken at high tide as closely as possible to the beach, where the light materials are ferried ashore. Later, when the ships are high and dry on the sandy beaches, the heavy ...

Along the right lines. A Skuadive-bomber, one of the latest acquisitions of the Fleet Air Arm, landing on the flight-deck of the aircraft-carrier Courageousduring training in the Firth of Fourth, Scotland.

Norway's little ships are in the front line. U.S. soldiers unload 500 and 1,000-pound bombs from a Norwegian supply ship onto a waiting duck off the Normandy beachhead. These supply ships cross the English Channel in convoy and are taken at high tide as closely as possible to the beach, where the light materials are ferried ashore. Later, when the ships are high and dry on the sandy beaches, the heavy ...

Under a stormy sky. Grim and purposeful, the grey shape of the destroyer Crusaderslides through choppy seas under an overcast sky during the British Fleet exercises in the Mediterranean. Crusaderis the attendant destroyer of the aircraft carrier Courageous.

Under a stormy sky. Grim and purposeful, the grey shape of the destroyer Crusadersllides through choppy seas under an overcast sky during the Britain Fleet exercises in the Mediterranean. Crusaderis the attendant destroyer of the aircraft carrier Courageous.

Chinese medals presented to U.S. Army and Navy leaders. Dr. H.H. Kung (left), personal representative of Chinese President Chiang-Kai-shek, presents the Grand Gordon of Paoting (Chinese medal) to Fleet Admiral of the Navy Ernest J. King (right), Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet and Chief of Naval William D. Leahy (center), Chief of Staff to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, looks on after receiving ...

Britain under arms. A Bren gun carrier of the 1dt Battalion the Border Regiment being hauled out aof a ditch on the Fleet Road, near Aldershot, London.

WO I; negen Britse militairen met eendeplanken (duckboards). Westfront, Eerste Wereldoorlog. Tekst: "Aan het Britsche Westelijke front in Frankrijk. Het vervoer van eendeplanken naar de eerste linien". Stempel achterop: "Official photograph issued by press bureau" en "Alfieri picture service, 12, 13 & 14 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, E.C. ".

Admiraal Isoroku Yamamoto (Japan). NI 1717 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Navy, (1884-1943). As a Captain, he served as Naval Attache to the United States in 1925-28. In the late 1920s and during the 1930s, he held a number of important positions, with Japanese naval aviation. Admiral Yamamoto commanded the Combined Fleet before the outbreak of the Pacific War and during its first sixteen months. ...

British flight movements in the Far East. A part of the town of Hongkong with the harbour, where the English fleet is stationed. NI 2487

Japanese Commanders meet. Lieutenant General Otozo Yamada, (right), photographed with vice Admiral Koshiro Oikawa on board the cruiser Idzumo, flagship of the Japanese fleet in China waters, when the Army leader called on his naval colleague in Shanghai. NI 6596