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Animated Maps and Military Propaganda

Historic animations and maps depict military strategies and wartime propaganda, illustrating the global context of military actions.

1941 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Russian soldiers fight off German invaders in various cities (narrated in 1943)."

Panoramic bird's eye view looking south from Cairo, Illinois, 1861. It depicts southern Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Smoke over Fort Donelson, Tennessee, and the presence of gunboats on the Cumberland River, indicates the fort's fall to Union forces in February 1862, during the US Civil War (BSLOC_2018_7_5)

The tremendous range of RAF bombers pictorially shown. The uninterrupted increase in British bombers' ranges since 1918, down to the Vickers Wellington, which could fly non-stop with full load to Khartoum. 1939

Three Fronts in France - The Solid Black shows territory occupied by the Allies at the close of the Hindenburg retreat in 1918. The white line from Arras to Soissons shows the front at the opening of the Battle of the Somme in July, 1916. The white line from La Bassee through Beauvais, Meaux, Esternay, Vitry, to Verdun and south of Verdun shows the limits of German Advance in the Marne Campaign of 1914

Map of the First and Second Battle of Ypres and the Ypres Salient during World War I

Anefo photo collection. State visit President Nyerere van Tanzania, president Nyerere visited tropical museum, president Nyerere at African department. April 21, 1965

A U.S. Air Force officer poses by a mock-up of runways and surrounding terrain. This mock-up is scanned and projected on the cockpit viewing screen in an F-16 Fighting Falcon flight simulator by a mounted TV camera. Base: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base State: Ohio (OH) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Map showing the speed of the Russian army's drive into the heart of Reich territory, January 1945, during WWII. From The War in Pictures, Sixth Year.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A numbered aerial reconnaissance photograph of Alten Fjord showing, among other things, the anchorage for the TIRPITZ (No 6).

First day of the Somme Catalogue reference: WO 153/167 This trench map shows the objectives of the British Armys 29th Infantry Division for the first day of the Somme. The intention was for the army to reach the first thick red line 20 minutes after zero hour - 7.50am. However, Beaumont-Hamel, which can be seen in the middle of the map, to the right of the thick red line, was not captured until November 1916. somme, somme100, first, world, war, one

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GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1821-1830) The naval Battle of Navarino (October 20, 1827) in Navarino Bay (now Pylos), in the Peloponnese. A combined France, Russia and Great Britain naval force won the Turkish-Egyptian fleet of Sultan Ibrahim.

030406-M-3138H-019. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

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The Sino-Vietnamese War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh biên giới Việt-Trung), also known as the Third Indochina War, known in the PRC as 越自卫反击战 (duì yuè zìwèi fǎnjī zhàn) (Counterattack against Vietnam in Self-Defense) and in Vietnam as Chiến tranh chống bành trướng Trung Hoa (War against Chinese expansionism), was a brief but bloody border war fought in 1979 between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The PRC launched the offensive in response to Vietnam's 1978 invasion and occupation of Cambodia, which ended the reign of the PRC-backed Khmer Rouge. The Chinese invaded Northern Vietnam and captured some of the northernmost cities in Vietnam. On March 6 China declared that the gate to Hanoi was open and that their punitive mission had been achieved and retreated back to China. Both China and Vietnam claimed victory in the last of the Indochina Wars of the twentieth century; as Vietnamese troops remained in Cambodia until 1989 it can be said that the P

Salvage Engineering Response Team - New Orleans - Early October - 26-HK-351-122. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Air Force Outside the Wire pre-deployment training students gather protractors and maps to learn how to plot points in order to orient themselves during the land navigation training lane at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, Feb. 9, 2023. OTW places students in realistic and strenuous training scenarios used to teach skills such as weapons control, combative techniques, communications, mounted and dismounted movements and land navigation.

Operation Crossroads was a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. It was the first test of a nuclear weapon since the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and the first detonation of a nuclear device since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Its purpose was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on naval ships

A close-up view of a computer monitor display that shows the grid for special operations forces, coalition forces, and fire control. Challenged by the desert environment and technical integration with a variety of other U.S. and multinational services for 10 days, personnel are participating in the largest air defense exercise in the free world. Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '95 Base: Fort Bliss State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Airbases in France, Information Tour. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

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