Naval Operations and Communication

Black and white images of naval operations, focusing on communication rooms and radar systems, reflecting the technological aspects of military life at sea.

The commander of the cruiser duilio. 1965.

Anefo photo collection. The cold. December 12, 1945

Photographs are evaluated to show the result-damage to the targets, England.

Mobilisomstation exercise at the Marine Barracks Willemsoord (MKWD) in Den Helder in May 1990.

DN-SN-88-03255. Base: USS Okinawa (LPH 3)

State Railways, SJ AC02C, sleeping compartment. 3rd grade.

De Lier, LSK. A sergeant-luva in training behind the radar screen.

Army shops, dust mountain cabinet for testing Torpedo MK 37 rangers, 1978.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting army technical service in Meester Cornelis (Batavia). Workplace. February 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Three uniformed men dealing with the preparation of a magazine. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Radio Operator ca. 1910-1920.

Lt. Arthur F. D'Agostino of Newark, New Jersey is shown doing his toilette in one corner of the "Shackteau," a two-story tent which he and a group of men built at a base somewhere in France.

Lt. Virginia N. Justy, 502 1/2 South Ogden St., Los Angeles, Calif., in front of Airdrome status map in ops. room, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Dressed only in shorts and gym shoes, a stoker of a midget submarine (otherwise known as X Craft) tends his engines. The submarine was one of the British Pacific Submarine Fleet based out of Sydney, Australia.

Italy -- M/Sgt. Walter M. Bakula, Buena Vista, Iowa, Gives His Latest Invention A Tryout. This Particular Looking Gadget Is A Hydraulically Operated Tire Remover And Will Whisk A Tire Off Of A Wheel In Less Time Than It Takes To Tell About It.

Anefo photo collection. Visit on board English warships in Rotterdam. November 24, 1960. Rotterdam, South Holland

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

A Japanese naval officer mans the telephone to relay information at one of the command cells at Sims Hall during a war game. Base: Naval STAFF College, Newport State: Rhode Island (RI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Image of the main signal guards A. van de Brink and A. Peterse at the NX control tableau in the Seinhuis (NX-POST) of the N.S. in Amersfoort.

Visiting days for family members of staff of the Ypenburg airbase. (Family days, parent days, open days).

White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) staff and facilities, Otis Air Force Base and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; preparations for birthday party for President Kennedy, Commonwealth Armory, Boston, Massachusetts. White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) staff prepare for President John F. Kennedy's birthday party celebration at the Commonwealth Armory.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Official Wartime Film Production: Army Film Unit cameramen filming a Wren marking a position on the chart in the Atlantic Battle Operations Room at Derby House, Liverpool, for use in 'The True Glory', January 1945. The location is genuine, though a later caption says 'The report on the board was an imaginary one'.

LCDR John Rosenblatt, left, is assisted while conducting Jewish Sabbath services in the chapel aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62). Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

Seman Roland Voshel scans the screen of the Digi-Plot on the bridge of the fleet oiler USS CIMARRON (AO 177). Country: Unknown

The disbursing office aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61). Country: Unknown

DN-SN-89-04822. Base: USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3)

A member of the US Navy, left, explains the operation of communications equipment to a Grenadian, as they establish "Spice Island Radio" during Operation URGENT FURY. The station will be used by the newly established provisional government of Sir Paul Scoon. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Base: Point Salines Country: Grenada (GRD)

Royal Air Force Army Co-operation Command, 1940-1943. WAAF parachute repairers at work at No. 38 Wing RAF and Airborne Division Headquarters, Netheravon, Wiltshire.

Christmas Entertainment in the Home Fleet. Entertainment on Board a Destroyer Depot Ship at Scapa Flow, 18 December 1942. A scene in the dressing room, nearest the camera Leading Stoker R C Wright making up Stoker A J Barnes. In the background is Stoker F Dickinson being made up by Stoker A Hills.

Anefo photo collection. Columns for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee in Nieuwersluis. October 24, 1949. Nieuwersluis

An American admiral visits the naval base Den Helder in May 1990 and is on the bridge of the L-fregat Hr.Ms. Witte de With (1986-2005) received by the commander Captain-Lieutenant-Sea J. van der Aa (1947, third from the left). Right is the commander of naval power (CZM) in the Netherlands Vice-Admiraal J.D.W. Van Renesse (1934).

Army soldier film and photo service in an improvised dark room during exercises in La Courtine.

A Marine teletype operator puts in long hours sending and receiving messages for the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit. Base: Mcas, Cherry Point State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Radar maintenance technicians of the 2137th Communications Squadron perform minor maintenance on an AN/GPN-47 surveillance radar scope. Base: Spangdahlem Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Indian Arms Workers Train in Britain- War Industry at Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK, 1941.

Anefo photo collection. Decors for Rhine in the RAI in Zuiderkerk. March 14, 1952

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Patrol in the mountains between Tjikadjang and BOOFLOG. Radio installation. December 16, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Airport Andir. Training parachut goods. Women fold parachutes. January 3, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Midshipman Van Buer adjusts the straps of his oxygen mask prior to his simulated "flight" in a hyperbaric chamber at the Aviation Physiology Training Unit. He is participating in a one-week aviation training program for students enrolled in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC). Base: Naval Air Station, Miramar State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Student officer at mobile carriage shop , Armories, Ordnance industry, Arms & armament, Cadets, Military officers, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

DN-SN-89-04819. Base: USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3)

The bottelier to boning a / b of the submarine hunter Hr.Ms. Utrecht (D 817), February 1958.

DN-SN-85-10989. Base: USS Tarawa (LHA 1)

A Canadian photographic reconnaissance pilot examining a mosaic of Hamburg docks at Benson, Oxfordshire, August 1943. A Canadian photographic-reconnaissance pilot examining a mosaic of Hamburg docks at Benson, Oxfordshire.

1979 - A Marine teletype operator puts in long hours sending and receiving messages for the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit.

DN-SN-85-07588. Base: USS Enterprise (CVN 65)

Boiler Technician 1ST Class Fred L. E. Stewart checks the boiler gauges in the engine room of the amphibious transport dock USS NASHVILLE (LPD-9). Stewart is the Nashville's "Sailor of the Year.". Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Anefo photo collection. Command of GPD, alderman Spoelstra. January 15, 1981

Royal Air Force Technical Training Command, 1940-1945. Students learning how to use theodolites while training to be meteorological assistants at the RAF Meteorological School at Barnwood, near Gloucester.

DN-SN-85-12789. Base: Naval Station, Sima State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

MSGT David Harris (right), and SSGT Gregory Sullivan, from the television maintenance section of the 2044th Communication Group (2044th Comm. Gp.) trouble shoot equipment at the Pentagon. The 2044th Communication Group is the recipient of the 1980 MGEN Harold M. McClelland Award. Base: Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Members of the 2179th Information Systems Group inspect telephone wires. Base: Patrick Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Lt. Thomas Palmer At Work In The Flying Control Office Of The 91St Bomb Group At Bassingbourne, England, 6 June 1944.

Lieutenant Commander Michael G. Ducan, executive officer (blue crew) of the nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine USS GEORGIA (SSBN 729), plots a route on a navigation chart on board the submarine. Country: Unknown

School of artillery Officer course at ***** loading 18 pounder of death in the breech of a field gun during a practice shoot. August 17, 1940. (Photo by Barry Newberry/).

An airman 1ST class performs maintenance on a gattling gun. Base: K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base State: Michigan (MI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Students man the command cell at Sims Hall during a war game. Base: Naval STAFF College, Newport State: Rhode Island (RI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Photograph of the testing of 12,000 General Electric electrically heated flying suits being made for the U.S. Air Corps in a cold room. Dated 1941

On board the patrol ship Hr.Ms. Freyr state Seiner-Telexist Kplodvb Leo Schouten in contact with Radio Station Nora during the Domestic Flag Done of 1984. Above the photo is a UHF transmission receiver (UZO) visible.

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. Fitters of a Mobile Signals Service Unit in Normandy assemble the aerial of a VHF Direction Finder on the roof of a receiver vehicle.

An officer and crewman on board the guided missile destroyer USS DEWEY (DDG-45) sort through rounds in preparation for a 21-gun salute during exercise Unitas XX. Subject Operation/Series: UNITAS XX Base: La Guaira Country: Venezuela (VEN)

DF-SN-86-06547. Base: Raf Lakenheath State: East Anglia Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

The British Reoccupation of Burma A Japanese prisoner of war passes the time in Ahlone transit camp waiting for his turn to board a ship bound for home during Operation Nipoff, the scheme devised to repatriate 35,000 prisoners to Japan. The operation was directed by Headquarters Burma Command but administered by the Japanese themselves through their former Burma Area Army Headquarters staff.

British Provide Handicrafts For American Convalescents- Recreation For Wounded Troops at 159th US General Hospital, Yeovil, Somerset, England, UK, 1945 Pipe-smoking Reg Hawkins (foreman of the wood mill at the Westlands Plant, second from right) helps PBP R Covey (right) to cut up a damaged plexiglass windshield in the handicraft workshop at 159th US General Hospital, Yeovil. PSC K Parent (left) and T/S WA McKinney (second from left) use pieces of this reclaimed plexiglass to make a bracelet (Parent) and a photo frame (McKinney).

Woman Marine CPL. Snith performs one of her many jobs as an avionics electronic technician. Base: Mcas, Cherry Point State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Two seaman from a visiting U.S. ship look at a map in front of the International United SEAMAN's Service Club. Base: Casablanca Country: Morocco (MAR)

01/28/1908. HM Don Alfonso Xiii Witnessing the selection of the Mauser Capsules in military pyrotechnics.

Anefo photo collection. Arrival Sint Nicolaas in Amsterdam. Man holes in bearspak. November 30, 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Germany, Berlin, 16. 09. 1990, occupation of the Stasi, headquarters in Normannenstrasse, occupation by civil rights activists who want to prevent the destruction of the files, vigil, in a tent, Europe

Land Army & Woman War Workers - Britain - War File . June 10, 1942.

DN-SN-85-07590. Base: USS Enterprise (CVN 65)

Mr. Robertson with his invention which has helped to earn ***** of many Aust. Airman. March 4, 1945.

LCPL Matt Eaton, a tactical satellite operator with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 (MWSS-171), 7th Communications Battalion, adjusts a tactical satellite dish antenna. Country: Unknown

DN-SN-88-03189. Base: USS Missouri (BB 63)

Small weapons, January 1980.

Sharon Hogge, an electronics engineer, poses with heavy-lift hydraulic mobile robot being investigated at the Naval Surface Weapons Center Research and Development Laboratory. Base: Silver Springs State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

DN-SN-86-10464. Base: USS Coral Sea (CV 43) Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

DN-SN-89-07471. Base: Naval Air Station, Cubi Point Country: Philippines (PHL)

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition naval power. August 5, 1947

Man with helmets , Ordnance industry, Armories, Helmets, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

LTC James Rider, front seat, and LTC Maurice Johnston sit in an F-16B Fighting Falcon aircraft cockpit mockup during a design review at the General Dynamics Corporation plant. Both men are F-16 test pilots. Base: Fort Worth State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Army Teaches a Trade (G.I. Telegrapher). Date/Period: 1919. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 482.60 mm (19 in); Width: 736.60 mm (29 in). Author: Norman Rockwell.

Láchar (Granada), February 1915. HM King Alfonso XIII (X), on a break from a hunt, looking through the viewfinder of a "Kok" cinematographic device.

Anefo photo collection. "Meerkraker" Aage M. machined safe with thermal lance i.v.m. Presentation of his book "My nights with the thermal lance". October 5, 1976

DN-SN-88-03201. Base: USS Missouri (BB 63)

Women's Royal Naval Service- Wrens work on Assault Landing Craft, UK, 1944.

SSGT Allen White and CPT David Setzer, 1946th Communications Squadron, paint the Air Force Communications Command emblem on a wall in the briefing room. Its seven-foot height will make it the largest in the AFCC. Base: Hptc Airport, Berlin Country: West Germany (FRG)

Mess Management SPECIALIST 3rd Class (MS3) David Kirton prepares greased bread pans for bread dough aboard the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV 66). Base: USS America (CV 66) Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

020606-F-0558K-007. Base: Barksdale Air Force Base State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Photograph of Cake Cutting in Honor of the 100th Surgical Operation Aboard the USS Randolph (CVA-15)"Cake cutting in honor of the 100th surgical operation performed on the 1957 and 1958 Mediterranean Cruise aboard the USS Randolph (CVA-15) by Max J. Trummer, LCDR, M.C. USN." Photographer: J.N. Phan Karpisek.

A crew member makes a sewing repair on a foul weather jacket in the tailor shop of the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61). Country: Unknown

Signal Corps, U.S. Army

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