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40 KB WWII German Soldier riding a camel.
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72 KB WWII German Soldier riding a small donkey next to camels.
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94 KB WWII German pilots riding camels in Africa. Notice the fighter airplane behind the camel in the background.
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70 KB Camel Gun Mounted on Saddle. The earliest type was the 'hand gonne' developed in the fifteenth century, but was not a great influence in battle. It was a small cannon with a touch-hole for ignition and had an effective range of only about thirty to fourty yards.
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92 KB Camel with army pack saddle and a small canon loaded on the top.
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105 KB 1946 TransJordan Royal Corps of Signals, Gendarmes of the Arab-Legion Camel Corps. The Desert Patrol enforced the law of Jordan that the Bedouin
would stop raiding neighboring tribes and those across the Saudi border. John
Bagot Glubb (Glubb Pasha) was their commander for many years, until after WW2.
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93 KB The great European war, 1914 Camel corps..The services of the famous Bikanir camel corps of India, utilized during the war against Germany and Austria.
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85 KB Iraq desert policemen riding camels.
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85 KB Circa 1910, written on the back it says, "Camel Corps. Khartoum, R. Messrs, Lloyd Phillips, Maj. Croslsey, Welch Regt".
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85 KB Circa 1910, written on the back is, "Camel Corps Khartoum, Mar. 8".
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85 KB Circa 1910, written on the back is, "Camel Lines, March 8". Very rare military images of a legendary Regiment in North Africa!!
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85 KB 1-26-1942 American Troops at Fedala Morocco, After the successful Yank landing there. The lofty camel seems to have the same "come-right-ahead" attitude toward the Doughboys as expressed by his turbaned mesters.
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85 KB Very rare Qing dynasty photo of an American army sergeant, probably in Beijing )Peking) during the very late nineteenth century to very early 1900s. Awesome and rare view of an officicer with a team of camels for hauling items for the military.
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85 KB French Army photograph taken in Macedonia during the First World War c1916/17. Photo shows camels laden with supplies moving alongside walking French soldiers.
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85 KB French Army photograph of a border crossing check point.
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85 KB German Solder checking out two Bactrian camels.
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85 KB Cairo 1920s, The Holy Carpet, Camels, horses and wagons
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