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AIRMEN WHO SANK THE “ESPANA

Although the government chose to remain neutral, many Americans nevertheless were quite sympathetic to the cause of the Spanish Republicans.

American volunteers for the International Brigades arrive in Barcelona, circa 1937.

A militiawoman takes a break from the street fighting of the initial uprising with a magazine, July, 1936.

An anarchist armored car during the Spanish Civil War.

Anarchist militia after the Franco uprising. Spain, 1936

Anarchist militiamen posing on a tractor, Barcelona, August, 1936.

Anarchist militia with mummy from a desecrated church. Spanish Revolution

An armored car of the Anarchists. Spain civil war

An explosion that killed 300 fascists in the Casa Blanca building in Madrid. Republican troops tunneled 600 yards over a six-month period to lay the explosives that caused the explosion, 1938.

Anonymous photographer, Spanish War (1936)

An unidentified black soldier of the American Lincoln Brigade serves in the Spanish civil war.

April 1, 1939 The Spanish Civil War ends.

a Republican aircraft completes a bombing run over Nationalist positions.

A Republican militiaman talks with a woman in a village in Extremadura, 1936.

A Republican soldier drinking wine. Aragon front, Spain, August-September 1936.

A Republican soldier is killed while making the attempt to fix some telephone lines in northeastern Spain on the Aragon Front during the Spanish Civil War - December 1937

A Soviet-built T-26 light tank.1

A Soviet-built T-26 light tank.2

A Soviet-built T-26 light tank.3

Association of Friends of the Soviet Union (Spain), 1930

A tank called Durruti.

A UNL-35 armored car, a domestically manufactured vehicle during the Spanish Civil War, was build in notable numbers by the Republican forces.

¡Ay Carmela!. By Wes Stone.

Ay Carmela - Viva la Quinta Brigada

A young boy, dressed up in the manner of the Spanish Loyalist UHP militia, during the Civil War.

Barcelona, 1936.1

Barcelona, 1936.2

Barcelona, Spain, 1937.

Basque anarchist militia, August 1936. The North would fall to Francoist forces just over a year later.

British volunteers arrive in Barcelona, December, 1936.

Burning truck, Battle of Brunete, Spain, July 1937.

Children take refuge in underground shelters to escape the bombings.

Church destroyed by anarchists. Spanish Civil War.

Civilian casualties following a Nationalist bombardment of Barcelona.

Claude Pringle, American volunteer in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion during the Spanish Civil.

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CNT-FAI propaganda poster, Spanish Civil War

CNT tiznaos - ad hoc armoured cars hastily produced in factories to give militias some kind of armoured support in the opening phases of the war - in Barcelona, July, 1936.

Collectivised tram ran by the workers of the CNT during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Communist members of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.

Comrade Marina Ginestà, Spanish Civil War militant, January 29, 1919 - January 6, 2014

Corpses in Madrid, Spain, 1936

Dolores Ibárruri, pseudonym La Pasionaria

Education was of great importance to the libertarian movement. Schools throughout revolutionary Spain came under popular control and many new ones were started.” “Young children enter a libertarian school.

Education was of great importance to the libertarian movement. Schools throughout revolutionary Spain came under popular control and many new ones were started 2

El Greco’s The Burial of the Count of Orgaz during the Spanish Civil War, Toledo, Spain, 1937

Ernest Hemingway during the Spanish Civil War c.1938

Examples of the jerry-rigged armored vehicles constructed by the Republican forces in the summer of 1936, prior to the influx of vehicular aid from the Soviet Union.

Families take refuge on a Madrid subway platform, as bombs are dropped by General Franco’s aircraft overhead during the Spanish civil war, December 1936

Farmers with a new mechanized tractor on a collectivized farm

Female members of an Anarchist militia group during the Spanish Civil War.

Fighting in the streets during the first days of the uprising.

Flag Gif

“Funeral for an anti-fascist militia woman, Madrid 1936.”

George Orwell holds a puppy during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Ernest Hemingway can be seen in the background.

George Orwell with other soldiers in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

Gerda Taro, Barcelona at the outbreak of war, 1936

Gerda Taro in Spain, July 1937.

Ghosts of the Spanish Civil War - Toledo 1936 1

Ghosts of the Spanish Civil War - Toledo 1936 2

H-111 Condor Legion dropping bombs over Spain

Huesca, Spain, 1936.

Image taken from issue No. 10 (pub. Dec. 1993) of Montreal based anarchist publication entitled SAOIRSE. This image was used in a piece recounting personal stories from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War.

Improvised anarchist armoured car from the Spanish Civil War.

In Spain, loyalist soldiers teach target practice to women who are learning to defend the city of Barcelona against fascist rebel troops of general Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War, on June 2, 1937.

“July of 1936. The people of Barcelona take up arms against the fascist uprising.”

Kati Horna

Kids Playing

“Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936

Loyalist troops fight near Burgos, Spain, on Sept. 12, 1936, while one of the attacking Nationalist soldiers lobs a hand grenade over the barbed-wire defenses.

Machine gunners of the Canadian Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion at the Battle of Belchite, September, 1937.

Madrid, 1936.

Madrid, Spain, 1937.

MADRID, Spain—A building destroyed by Italian-German air raids.

María de Gernika, 1937

“Men operating sewing machines in a collectivized factory.”

Mika Etchebehere was an Argentinian marxist who in 1936 joined the fight against fascism in Spain and became a commander in the P.O.U.M-militia.

Milicianas, female republican partisans of the Spanish Civil War. 1

Milicianas, female republican partisans of the Spanish Civil War. 2

Milicianas, female republican partisans of the Spanish Civil War. 3

Milicianas, Spain 1936-37 1

Milicianas, Spain 1936-37 2

Milicianas, Spain 1936-37 3

Militia members displaying vandalised religious icons in Catalonia. Spanish Civil War.

Militiamen firing against defenders of the Alcazar of Toledo.

militia with anarcho-syndicalist flag. Spanish Civil War

Milton “Milt” Wolff, officer in the Abraham Lincoln Batallion during the Spanish Civil War

Modern Art Was Used As a Torture Technique in Prison Cells During the Spanish Civil War

Nationalist plane

Nurses join the Anarchist militia “Durruti Column”

Plaza de Catalunya in Barcelona after fighting in the Spanish Civil War, July 1936 by Agustin Centelles.

Popular Front volunteer.

“Poster of the CNT-FAI. Caption reads ‘The Revolution and the War are inseparable.’”

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POUM gif

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.1

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.2

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.3

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.4

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.5

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.6

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.7

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.8

Propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.9

Refugees on the road, 1936. Over 500,000 refugees fled from Spain during the war, and many more were internally displaced by the fighting.

Religious sculptures damaged during the Spanish Civil War in Toledo.1

Religious sculptures damaged during the Spanish Civil War in Toledo.2

Religious sculptures damaged during the Spanish Civil War in Toledo.3

Religious sculptures damaged during the Spanish Civil War in Toledo.4

Religious sculptures damaged during the Spanish Civil War in Toledo.5

Religious sculptures damaged during the Spanish Civil War in Toledo.6

Religious sculptures damaged during the Spanish Civil War in Toledo.7

Republican militiamen lie in ambush approaching Nationalists, near Madrid, 1937.

Republican Snipers at the Battle of Teruel, January, 1938.

Republican sniper takes up a fallen comrades position.

Republican soldier, Brunete, Spain, July 1937.

Republican soldiers advance on a Nationalist position on the Aragon front, 1936.

Republican soldiers at Segovia front, 1936 Gerda Taro

Republican T-26 during the spanish civil war

Republican troops marching on their way to the front, Aragon, 1936.

Revolutionary slogans decorate the collectivized railroads.” “Slogan reads, ‘The land is yours, workers!

Revolutionary slogans decorate the collectivized railroads.” “Working together, people paint slogans on a train.

Rio Segre, Aragon front (near Fraga) Spain, 7 November 1938.

Robert Capa — SPAIN, Aragon front, Battle of Teruel. Republican soldiers trying to conquer this strategically located hilltop town on one of the major routes to Barcelona (December 1937-January 1938) 1

Robert Capa — SPAIN, Aragon front, Battle of Teruel. Republican soldiers trying to conquer this strategically located hilltop town on one of the major routes to Barcelona (December 1937-January 1938) 2

Robert Capa — SPAIN, Aragon front, Battle of Teruel. Republican soldiers trying to conquer this strategically located hilltop town on one of the major routes to Barcelona (December 1937-January 1938) 3

Robert Capa — SPAIN, Aragon front, Battle of Teruel. Republican soldiers trying to conquer this strategically located hilltop town on one of the major routes to Barcelona (December 1937-January 1938) 4

Robert Capa — SPAIN, Aragon front, Battle of Teruel. Republican soldiers trying to conquer this strategically located hilltop town on one of the major routes to Barcelona (December 1937-January 1938) 5

Robert Capa’s photograph of anarchist graffiti, Spain, 1936

Savoia SM 79s drop bomblets over Spain during the Civil War.

Savoia SM 81s, provided by Italy fly above Aragon.

Self management and collectivization at work, Spanish Revolution.1

Self management and collectivization at work, Spanish Revolution.2

Self management and collectivization at work, Spanish Revolution.3

Self management and collectivization at work, Spanish Revolution.4

Self management and collectivization at work, Spanish Revolution. 5

Simone Weil in Federación Anarquista uniform during the Spanish Civil War, 1936.

Singing songs of liberty and freedom, members of the International Brigade after the Battle of Guadalajara, 1936

Soldiers playing chess in a camp near the Aragon front during the Spanish Civil war by Robert Capa

Sophie Calle - Statues Ennemies- Icons mutilated in the Spanish Civil War

Soviet adviser oversees the delivery of a Russian BT-2 medium tank during the Spanish Civil War.

Soviet Made Republican T-36 during the battle of Belchite

SPAIN. Region of Extremadura. Militiaman or Republican Army soldier. 1936.

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Spanish civil war 2

Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War. Republican soldiers, Aragon front, near Huesca, August-September 1936.

Spanish Civil War, Barcelona 1936. Running for shelter during the air raids.

Spanish Civil War poster

Spanish loyalists lead a Francoist officer to be executed after a summary court martial, July 27, 1936.

Spanish men and women working side-by-side in a small, modern machine shop

Spanish militia-woman in Guadalajara during the Civil War.

Spanish political prisoners imprisoned by the Franco regime in 1952.

Spanish Republican groundscrew rearm a Nieuport NiD.52. The antiquated and unpopular ‘sesquiplane’ was nevertheless one of the most common aircraft of the small Spanish Air Force at the outbreak of the Civil War

Stukas of the Condor Legion in action in Spain. Notice the Francoist insignia, the Cross of Saint Andrew.

Surrender of Republican militiamen in Somosierra.

The Anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti.

the Durruti Column committing against fascism

The Fiat CR.32 was one of the best fighter planes of the era, eclipsed only with the rise of the monoplane, and was supplied to the Nationalists by Italy

“The first bus built in the workshops of the collectivized General Autobus Company.”

The grain harvest with horse drawn reaper

“They shall not pass! Fascism wants to conquer Madrid! Madrid will be the tomb of fascism!”

Three policemen (Guardia Civil Española) pose next to a SC500 bomb, somewhere in Castellón (Comunidad Valenciana, Spain) on 1938.

Three T-26 light tanks manufactured in the Soviet Union travels through a field during a battle in Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. 1936

Tupolev SB-2 bombers, supplied to the Spanish Republic during the Civil War by the Soviet Union

Two Republican soldiers patrol the streets of Madrid in 1937.

Two Republican soldiers patrol the streets of Madrid in 1937.

Union membership book, scarf, and hat issued by the CNT to Swedish volunteers in the CNT militia

US writer and war correspondent Ernest Hemingway in Spain during the Civil War, 1938 Robert Capa

Victims in a massgrave at Barcelona

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“While some anarchist collectives abolished the use of money altogether, others issued their own local currency coupons and ration cards for limited use within the collective.”

Woman on a collectivized farm

Woman with a rifle standing on a cannon during the Spanish Civil War. Barcelona, 1936.

Women at the Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo

“Women working in a collectivized textile factory in Barcelona.”

Workers in a collectivized aircraft engine plant in Barcelona

Workers in a large collectivized factory shifted to the production of war material

Workers on a collectivized farm bring in the grain harvest