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| Italian troops fighting in Ethiopia, late 1935 | Italian troops in Ethiopia, 1936 |
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| Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia posing with an anti-aircraft gun at Battle of Maychew, Ethiopia, 31 Mar 1936 | Troops of the South African 1st Infantry Division celebrating the capture of Fort Hobok in southwestern Ethiopia, 1941 |
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| British Brigadier Daniel Arthur Sandford, Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, and British Colonel Orde Wingate at Dembecha, Ethiopia, 15 Apr 1941 | Emperor Haile Selassie I in his study at the palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, circa 1942 |
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