World War II Photograph Search [orse]

103 items in this album on 6 pages.


Ludwig Beck on horseback in the Grunewald forest, Berlin, Germany, Jun 1936	Portrait of cadet Albert O. Vorse from the 1937 United States Naval Academy “Luck Bag” yearbook.

Crew of a 3.7-inch howitzer of A Battery (The Chestnut Troop) Royal Horse Artillery prepared their gun for firing during an exercise, England, United Kingdom, circa 1938	Emperor Showa reviewing troops on his horse Shirayuki, Japan, circa late 1930s

Light Dragon tractor towing a 3.7-inch howitzer on Carriage Mk IV and limber of A Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, circa 1938	Nationalist Chinese cavalry troops on Mongolian horses, possibly in Inner Mongolia region of China, late 1930s

Emperor Showa reviewing troops of the Japanese Army on his horse Shirayuki, Japan, 8 Jan 1938	Ma Clique soldiers on horseback, northwestern China, circa 1930s

Vatican Apostolic Nuncio to Germany Cesare Orsenigo speaking with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin, Germany, 12 Jan 1939; note Adolf Hitler in background	German troops at the Egiertowo crossroads on the road to Danzig during the initial invasion of Poland, 1 Sep 1939. Note the heavy German reliance on horse-drawn transports.

A lone horse wondering a recent battlefield, Poland, Sep 1939	Horses employed by the German Army towing a 7.5 cm le.IG 18 infantry gun, Poland, Sep 1939

A horse-drawn cart and an automobile on a street in Warsaw, Poland, Sep-Oct 1939	Blenheim light bomber of the RAF being towed away by horses after landing on the frozen Jukajärvi lake, near Juva village, Finland, 25 Feb 1940

German Panzer II and Panzer I light tanks in Horsens, Denmark, Apr 1940	HMS Hermes and HMS Dorsetshire escorting convoy US.3 with Australian and New Zealand troops on board, Atlantic Ocean, 9 Jun 1940

Survivors of battleship Bismarck being pulled aboard HMS Dorsetshire, 27 May 1941	German anti-tank guns (rebuilt French R35 light tanks), motorcycles, and horse carts moving through a forest in northern Russia, summer of 1941

British cruiser Dorsetshire at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 8 Aug 1941	German Bf 109 refueling in Russia, 1941-1942; note horse-drawn fuel tank