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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Military badge

    1. Daniel Lavering collection

    Collection of badges, bars and shoulder patches stored in a cloth and leather bag belonging to Charles Lavering, member of the 305 and 309 Ordinance Battalion, received during his service in World War II. Military badge with copper-alloy round medal hanging from a red and white striped ribbon pin. Front of medal shows embossed eagle, sword and book with "Efficiency, Honor, Fidelity" and verso has star and wreath with "For Good Conduct"

  2. Military pass

    The military government pass was issued in Stadt Nordhausen to Emil Davidovits [donor's husband], a liberated victim, allowing him to travel to Kassel, Germany, to find his wife and return home.

  3. Military chaplains

    Narration. U.S. War Dept. Misc. 1170. Different houses of worship. People pray, sing. Ministers, priests and rabbis. American soldiers read the Bible. “Battles are won by military power, wars are won by spiritual power.” Military chaplains present communion wafers to soldiers kneeling. Army chaplain provides a group of soldiers with cigarettes, magazines, and letters. They smile and laugh. Chaplain writes and converses with soldiers. Sermon on a massive anti-aircraft weapon. Soldiers read bibles. A chaplain uses broadcasting technology to deliver sermons to men on the battlefront. Locals an...

  4. Military photograph

    1. Michael Silberstein collection

    Photo of 6 men wearing pith helmets. Stamped Verso: "Identity Studio/ 175 Pitt St./ Sydney/ Phone B 4408" "`Leica-Photo-Service'/ Kyle House/ 31 Macquarie Pl. Sydney."

  5. Military panel

    1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

    Military panel with Chairman Julian Kulas. 00:11:54 Fred Crawford, US soldier. Says that the Holocaust was why the war was fought; not prepared for what they saw but realized the importance of fighting when saw Dachau. (p. 70 "Liberation of the Camps") 00:18:46 Dan Dagan in Jewish Brigade in British Army. Speaks of forming the Jewish fighting Brigade. Also of the illegal maneuvering of Jewish DPs across borders and back to Palestine with the help of the Allies. (p. 71 "Liberation of the Camps") 00:28:28 Franciszek Skibinski, Polish soldier, speaks of the Poles liberating Germany (p. 73 "Lib...

  9. Military Parade

    1. Photos
    2. Taras Pinyazhko

  10. Military reserves

    Tests for NCO personnel. Assignments of military personnel to various units. Instructions and census of officers and NCOs in reserves. Lists from military districts.

  11. Military insignia

    1. Rattner and Breindler families collection

    British military insignia, Eastern Command, featuring a bulldog.

  12. Military personnel in Vienna

    Bus with German military personnel, inscription "Goeppingen" (a town in Baden-Wuertemberg where an air training ground and airfield was situated). Military vehicle. Austrian soldier greeting Germans in Goeppingen bus.

  13. Military parade honoring Pilsudski

    Title: "Warsaw, Poland. Military Parade in Memory of Pilsudski." MSs, CUs, parade in streets of Warsaw with Polish soldiers on horses, cannons, and soldiers on bicycles.

  15. Woman's military uniform cap

    1. Giza and Leon Falik and Mildred Stern collection

    United States Army woman's uniform cap. The collection relates to the experiences of Mordche Lieb (Leon Falik), his wife Giza Sternchuss (later Falik), and Giza's sister Mildred Stern [Malka Sternchuss] in Poland before and during the Holocaust, when Leon fled Poland for the Soviet Union and Giza fled Tarnopol and became a partisan. Mildred left for the United States before the war where she joined the US Women's Army Corps.

  16. US military inspecting weapons

    Sequence: VS of men in uniform around jeep in clearing inspecting some kind of artillery shells. Men working on their artillery weapons on trailers. A lake or a river in the BG. Men in uniform cleaning up and clearing off of field, packing up gear to move camp.

  17. Nazi propaganda: Military

    The pseudo-documentary depicts the military actions of a parachute battalion participating in the occupation of the Netherlands beginning on May 10, 1940 - the action that opened the western front of WWII. It starts with an address to the parachutists by their officer, who evokes the historical importance of this 'hour of decision' which determines the fate of the German people 'for the next thousand years.' The soldiers are also told that after the defeat of Poland the new enemy of Great Britain would threaten the western borders of Germany from its 'bridgehead' of the Netherlands. Later o...

  18. German military training

    At a military site (possibly Berthold's school), a large gun is fired several times.

  19. Military personnel return home

    High views of military personnel packed tightly on the deck of a large ship at sea. A trio of a bassist, a drummer, and a pianist entertain soldiers on a crowded ship deck. Scenes from the boat deck. American flag at mast. Captain Beatrice Wachter departed Europe for the United States on November 21, 1945.

  20. Military Entry Permit

    Consists of a military entry permit for S. Wallace Kagan to move freely around the British, French, and American occupied zones of Germany, dated December 1946.