Spanish Republican Army
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The Spanish Republican Army was the main branch of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic between 1931 and 1939.
Cartoon by Joan Junceda ridiculing the Spanish Army that led to the attack of the Cu-Cut! head office
14 April 1931, proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in Barcelona
Spanish Republican military flag used in the Battle of the Ebro. 1938
The Loring R-3 built for Aeronáutica Militar.
Francisco Franco
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Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo. This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain or as the Francoist dictatorship.
His parents with Francisco in arms, on the day of his baptism on 17 December 1892
Francisco and his brother Ramón in North Africa, 1925
Franco in 1930