Explosives and War Damage

Images of remnants from military operations and conflicts, showcasing debris, unexploded ordnance, and bomb damage in Iraq and beyond.

A rock climber flakes out some rope next to a cliff face while climbing at night in Western Massachusetts.
A rock climber flakes out some rope next to a cliff face while climbing at night in Western Massachusetts.
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Marine Safety Unit - 26-HK-133-187. Hurricane Katrina
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TECH. SGT. Andy Alonso from the 7th Security Police Squadron, Dyess AFB, TX, makes his way through the minefield during the competition. Subject Operation/Series: RODEO 1996 Base: Mcchord Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Reims , Marne , Champagne , France , 1917 - Marne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the armies) (French - Reims , Marne , Champagne , France). Rear-front, ruins, rear, bombardment, rubble, First World War, France, Reims, strong trunk in the middle of the ruins
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Members of the 71st Civil Support Team (Weapons of Mass Destruction) perform an initial site survey at a train derailment during exercise Vigilant Guard, a training exercise in Des Moines, Iowa, THursday, June 18, 2009. Vigilant Guard is a large scale training exercise that brings together National Guard units and local civilian agencies and allows for a realistic disaster-type training scenario.
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040610-M-7514K-020. Base: Ar Ar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: Navy Sea Bees
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990628-M-5696S-024. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN Base: Zegra State: Kosovo Country: Yugoslavia (YUG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26th Marine Expedtionary Unit
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050821-A-6108G-278. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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Miscellaneous - Katrina and Rita - 26-HK-431-185. Hurricane Katrina
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Russian military khaki colored booth with antenna
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041115-M-2353F-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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DA-ST-87-12904. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '87 Base: Camp Humphreys State: Gyeonggi-Do Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)
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041115-A-1067B-033. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Karmah Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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041228-M-0036Y-068. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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030312-M-3138H-025. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Ripper Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines
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Muslim residents use a tractor and small trailer to unload dirt and debris near the town of Celic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, during the rebuilding and resettlement process. A Russian BTR-70 Armored Personnel Carrie is parked in the background. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Celic Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
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US Army services members field dress and store their parachutes after participating in an US/Thai joint-combined jump exchange at this year's Exercise COBRA GOLD 2001. A jump exchange is a time honored jump tradition that affords individual the opportunity to earn the right to wear the wings of foreign military paratroopers who participate in the jump exchange. CG '01 is regularly scheduled, joint-combined exercise designed to ensure regional peace and strengthen the ability of the royal Thai Armed Forces to defend Thailand or respond to regional contingencies. This year's exercise, the 20th in the series, will focus on peace enforcement operations. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD 2001 Country: Thailand (THA)
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030404-M-5753Q-094. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines
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U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Lawson, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery noncommissioned officer (NCO), and U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mitchell Davis, DPAA recovery NCO, remove water from a unit during a recovery mission in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Oct. 3, 2022. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.
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040903-M-9529D-011. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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Bullet holes in one of the four British bunkers as headquarters on the Lettenberg, World War One site at Kemmel, Belgium, Europe
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U.S. Marines patrol during the 3d Marine Division Squad Competition on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 23, 2024. The competition tested the Marines across various combat-related tasks to evaluate each squad's tactical proficiency, mental and physical endurance, and decision-making skills to determine the Division's most proficient and capable rifle squad. The Marines are with 2d Battalion, 2d Marine Regiment. 2/2 is forward deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division as part of the Unit Deployment Program.
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970404-F-7910D-502. Subject Operation/Series: PHOENIX GAUNTLET Base: Brazzaville Country: Congo (COG)
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Members of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team construct a dam for a wet-screen pond during a DPAA recovery mission in England, April 30, 2022. The recovery team made a dam in the center of the pond to prevent silt from clogging the hoses while the team is screening. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.
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Striped of identity and rank, nameless Marine inductees push their physical and mental limits to the edge during the 5th Force Reconnaissance Indoctrination to become a member of the most exclusive fighting force in the United States Marine Corps: A Reconnaissance Marine. This took place at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan on April 29th, 2000. Base: Camp Schwab Country: Japan (JPN)
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A black flag indicates the possibility of chemical contaminants in the area during a field training exercise for the 9191th Civil Engineering Squadron.. Base: Eglin Air Force Base State: Florida(FL) Country: United States Of America(USA)
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030418-M-0715G-023. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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US Marine Corps (USMC) utility personnel from Marine Wing Support Squadron-271 (MWSS-271) collect local stream water for drinking and bathing at Three Rivers, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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020506-F-2409C-001. Base: Travis Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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040903-M-1947M-027. Base: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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Members of the Gravendienst gather the remains of a German soldier, who fell in the Second World War. In addition, a number of excavated equipment, such as a helmet, gas mask bus, eating utensil, belt and footwear.
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U.S. Army Soldiers fold the canvas cover from a COVID-19 drive through test site next to the McDonald Army Health Center at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, August 30, 2022. The site aided in the distribution of over 5,000 at-home COVID-19 test kits.
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Stacked grenade and bomb shells from World War One at the Sanctuary Wood Museum Hill 62 at Zillebeke, Belgium, Europe
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Marine Safety Unit - 26-HK-133-188. Hurricane Katrina
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F3228-SPT-95-000249-XX-0192. Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '95 Base: Fort Bliss State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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040612-M-5555L-077. Base: Camp Ali (AR RAMADI) State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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Old Second World War cannons in the island of Pohnpei, Micronesia, Central Pacific
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000723-N-5961C-003. Subject Operation/Series: CARAT 2000 Base: Surabuya Country: Indonesia (IDN)
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Close up shot of a rocket round, partially buried in the snow, prepared for detonation by M112 Demolition Charges at a site outside of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Close up shot of a rocket round, partially buried in the snow, prepared for detonation by M112 Demolition Charges at a site outside of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Core samples from a water well, drilled by Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 (NMCB-1), are arranged on board for later analysis. The well, near Bale Dogle, is intended to supply an old Soviet air base being used by U.S. Moroccan personnel during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Country: Somalia (SOM)
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110321-N-9436A-099HACHINOHE, Japan (March 21, 2011) Cryptologic Technician (Collection) 2nd Class Gregory Allison, left center, from Glen Burnie, Md., helps local volunteers haul a net filled with debris during relief efforts in Hachinohe. More than 130 volunteers from Misawa Air Base and members of the French army and fire department assisted in a cleanup effort in the northern Japanese city that was devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami on Japan's eastern coastline.
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050110-F-6335P-070. Base: Sultan Iskandar Muda Afb State: Sumatra Country: Indonesia (IDN)
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030415-M-3138H-108. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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Anefo photo collection. Series: Collapse cave village Sisters (Belgium). hole ground there Belgian police officer. March 1966. Belgium
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070527-A-1906W-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE
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Nevada Test and Training Range personnel and All Source Intel Analysts, assigned to the 547th Intelligence Squadron, tour the recycling area of the NTTR, Nevada, August 5, 2022. Any money made from selling the recyclable materials are then put back into the NTTR funds to purchase equipment.
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nhq201704100036 (April 10, 2017) --- Russian support personnel work around the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft shortly after it landed with Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday, April 10, 2017 (Kazakh time). Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko are returning after 173 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 49 and 50 crews onboard the International Space Station.
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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Khanya Joseph, a search and extraction medic assigned to the 105th Airlift Wing Medical Group, Detachment 1, triages a simulated casualty during a combined training exercise at the State Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany, NY, August 6, 2022. The purpose of this event was to ensure all units are ready and able to meet all training metrics required to maintain the Chemical, Biological, Radiation, and Nuclear - Task Force mission.
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Midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy collect expended inert projectiles from a fire pit as they work at the center during a summer visit. Base: Naval Weapons Sup Cen, Crane State: Indiana(IN) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Straight on medium long shot as US Air Force Technical Sergeant John Trautt (Squatting with camera), a Videographer for the 786th Communications Squadron, Ramstein Air Base Germany, shoots a car that crashed into a rift in the road caused by heavy flooding in Polama Canico, a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique. This mission is in direct support of Operation Atlas Response. Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE Base: Maputo State: Inhambane Country: Mozambique (MOZ)
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Historical reenactment activities marking the centennial of the first powered flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
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U.S. Air Force DirtBoyz assigned to the 378th Civil Engineer Squadron, leave their mark on a cement pad at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oct. 11, 2022. The 378th ECESs mission is to provide the facilities and infrastructure required to make PSAB a ready, robust, and resilient warfighting platform in AFCENTs area of responsibility.
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SOUTHWEST ASIA - Master Sgt. Michael Barros, 386th Civil Engineer Squadron entomologist, checks on the puppies that were recovered from a fox hole on a flight line at an air base in Southwest Asia, March 3. The dogs were removed because leaving them on the flight line can cause an issue with aircraft safety out on the runways. Sergeant Barros is deployed from 110th Fighter Wing, Michigan Air National Guard, Battle Creek, Mich. and is originally from Haslett, Mich.