Reconnaisance Collection

WW1 - French soldiers firing (in vain) toward a German Taube
WW1 - French soldiers firing (in vain) toward a German Rumbler Taube Aircraft flying over their position on a reconnaisance mission. Date: 1914

Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 reconnaisance aircraft
Photograph showing a Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 reconnaisance aircraft, right view, standing on a grass airfield with it?s crew in the cockpits, 1917-1918 (c)

Uhlan on Reconnaisance
Uhlan on reconnaisance. Date: circa 1830

WW1 - French air reconnaisance, 1914
WW1 - French air-scouts on a Breguet biplane. A Sergeant of Engineers is piloting, one passenger is observing the country below, the other throws out a cylindrical case containing a message

How Lieutenant Colonel Forbes-Robertson Saved the Western Li
Forbes-Robertson won the Victoria Cross saved the defence line by making a rapid reconnaisance on horse-back in full view of the enemy under machine gun and close range shell fire

Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Franco-Prussian War 1870
Graf FERDINAND VON ZEPPELIN (1838-1917) has a narrow escape in 1870 during a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines in the Franco-Prussian War. 1870

Tunisia - A Spahi reconnoitering
Tunisia - A Spahi (a term given to a soldier of a French colonial cavalry unit) reconnoitering. Date: circa 1910s

Three Fairey Battle Aircraft on patrol - WWII
Three Fairey Battle Aircraft on patrol over France during WWII. These aircraft entered service in 1937 - 2419 were built, production ceasing in 1941

Aerial photograph of Vermandovillers, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (French) of a battlefield on the western front at Vermandovillers, northern France, during the First World War

Reconnaisance Airship
An airship of the future carries out a reconnaisance flight, using powerful searchlights to reveal the enemys defences. Date: 1907

Battle of Messines 1917
Soldiers of the 13th Brigade (who were to take part in the second phase of the battle) studying a large contour map of the area to be attacked between Petit Pont

German observation post 1917
A German observation post on the Lens Arras Road on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1917

Cavalry reconnaisance party 1917
British Cavalry reconnaisance party in France on the British front during World War I in March 1917

Observation Balloon 1915
Photograph taken from an observation balloon, Thelus near Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I on 26th September 1915

Reserve Officers Training Corps maneuvers
The ROTC(Reserve Officers Training Corps) Army Artillery on maneuvers at Purdue University, America, January 1926. A 1918 Dodge Brothers Command car is leading three Harley Davidson motorcycles

French front First World War
Hill 125 near Carency, east of Souchey. General Nudant commanding 82nd Infantry Division and Colonel Jacqueau observing British artillery preparations on the German position on Hill 119 on the French

French reconnaisance patrol 1916
French reconnaisance patrol watering their horses at Oise on the French front during World War I in 1916

Belgian Aircraft 1916
Farman biplanes of a Belgian squadron, used for reconnaisance

French Reconnaisance
The French expeditionary force in Italy conducts a reconnaisance in force

Partisan Reconnaisance
A partisan reconnaisance unit in Briansk. A member hides in the undergrowth and signals to his comrades

German Aviatik 1916
A German Aviatik plane, photographed in mid-air by a Belgian reconnaisance aircraft over Holland

Aerial Recce Foreseen
A flying machine capable of carrying out reconnaisance over the battlefield will be of great help in tomorrows wars : this fantastic device shows how it might look

French Capture Hong-Hoa
The French use captive balloons for reconnaisance purposes at the capture of Hong-Hoa in Indo-China (Vietnam)

ENTREPRENANT - 3
Balloon, used by the French for reconnaisance during the Revolutionary War, notably at the battle of Fleurus - the first use of a manned airborne device in warfare

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