Historic Military Trenches and Memorials

Images of preserved trenches, memorials, and wartime relics showcasing scenes of military history, with a focus on somber, historical sites and artifacts.

Boezinge, Belgium, 09/10/2017.Yorkshire Trenches, the preserved trenches, once ;ost and rediscovered and kept as a memorial.

Boezinge, Belgium, 09/10/2017.Yorkshire Trenches, the preserved trenches, once ;ost and rediscovered and kept as a memorial.

Boezinge, Belgium, 09/10/2017.Yorkshire Trenches, the preserved trenches, once ;ost and rediscovered and kept as a memorial.

Interior of German Second World War Two Tobruk, Ringstand at the Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, Europe

Afghanistan, Balkh, Looters' trench with discarded artifact

Dramatization of the battlegrounds, Gallipoli, Canakkale, Turkey

Boezinge, Belgium, 09/10/2017.Yorkshire Trenches, the preserved trenches, once ;ost and rediscovered and kept as a memorial.

An M1-A1 Abrams tank, from C Troop of the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment waits to approach the revetment where it will then seek a target and fire during live fire training range at the Korea Training Center, Republic of Korea on Oct. 25, 1998. The center is manned throughout the year and various armored units rotate through training scenarios to meet yearly live gunnery training requirements. Subject Operation/Series: KOREA CD Base: Korea Training Center Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

War views of Neby Samuel (Mizpah). Neby Samuel from the Turkish trenches. Photograph was taken from an Ottoman Turkish outpost at El Burj about a mile southwest of Nebi Samwil. 1917, Israel, Nebi Samwil

Boezinge, Belgium, 09/10/2017.Yorkshire Trenches, the preserved trenches, once ;ost and rediscovered and kept as a memorial.

This Muslim bunker near Opasici, Bosnia, in the Zone of Separation, is scheduled to be demolished during Operation Joint Endeavor. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Opasici Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

France, Pas de Calais, Mimoyecques, Fortresse de Mimoyecques, WWII German HDP / V3 super-gun bunker, bunker interior. (Editorial Use Only)

Valona-tal.eeply shielded protection. .

Granville, artillery bunker, gun bunker of a German coastal battery in the course of the Atlantic Wall

France, Normandy, D-Day Beaches Area, Courseulles Sur Mer, Juno Beach site of WWII D-Day invasion, ruins of German bunker.

Camouflage netting covers communications equipment during Operation Sand Eagle '88. Subject Operation/Series: SAND EAGLE '88 Base: Mcdill Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A tunnel in Mount Lagazuoi, part of a defense system in the First World War at the Dolomite Alps, Autonomous Pronvince of South Tirol

An aerial view of a section of Iraqi field fortifications abandoned during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait(KWT)

First World War One battlefield with trenches at Vimy ridge near Canadian National Vimy Memorial at Givenchy-en-Gohelle, France

041228-M-0036Y-169. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Typical view of the Canadian Grange Subway defensive tunnels of World War 1, beneath Vimy Ridge at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial Neuville Saint Vaast, Nord Pas de Calais, France.

A wooden structure lies in ruins in the aftermath of a cyclone which struck the area on April 30th. U.S. military personnel are in the region coordinating efforts to aid the disaster victims during Operation Sea Angel. Subject Operation/Series: SEA ANGEL Base: Sandwip Island Country: Bangladesh(BGD)

Poppies growing on sandbags at the Dodengang, Boyau de la Mort, Trench of Death, First World War One trenches along the river IJzer, Diksmuide, Belgium, Europe

Vietnam, DMZ Area. Quang Tri Province, Khe Sanh, Former Khe Sanh US Combat Base, museum, former US Army, CH-47 Chinook helicopter

Fort de Douaumont, France , 1919 - Meuse - Georges Chevalier and Fernand Cuville - (September 10-12) (French - Fort de Douaumont , France). Forehead, trenches, fortress, post-war period, First World War, France, Fort de Douaumont, near the fort, a trench

Denmark, Langeland, Bagenkop, Langelandsfort Cold War Museum, Cold war artifacts at former NATO base, anti-aircraft bunker

Soissons, Aisne, France The Trench of the Red House next to Soissons, occupied in 1915 during the first battle of Aisne , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Soissons , Aisne , France La tranchée de la Maison-Rouge à côté de Soissons , occupée en 1915 lors de la première bataille de l' Aisne). Landscape, front, trench, Nature , Environment, First World War

Defense wall of the Germans, reproduction, Varus Battle or Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Kalkriese Museum and Park, Osnabruecker Land region, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe *** IMPORTANT: WARNING: Publication only with the following note: "Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in Osnabruecker Land region - Kalkriese Museum and Park" ***

USA, Tennessee, Shiloh: Shiloh Civil War Battlefield, Hornet's Nest Battlefield

Staff Sgt. Neal Wiggs, an EOD technician from the 155th Air Refueling Wing, Lincoln, Neb., ties a line to secure to potential explosives in an underground tunnel during a training exercise May 18, 2022 at Fort McCoy, Wis. Audacious Warrior is an explosive ordnance disposal exercise with participation from Airmen, Marines, and Soldiers from a range of units and career fields.

Aerial top view of a military tank .. Aerial top view of a military tank.

Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen). Remains of the Siegfried Line, Westwall, western wall. Anti-tank obstacle, dragon's teeth, Höckerlinie

Typical view of the Canadian Grange Subway defensive tunnels of World War 1, beneath Vimy Ridge at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial Neuville Saint Vaast, Nord Pas de Calais, France.

France, Normandy, D-Day Beaches Area, Longues Sur Mer, WWII German 150mm artillery battery.

Entrance to the Viet Cong tunnel system in Chu Chi, Vietnam, Asia

Vietnam, DMZ Area. Quang Tri Province, Khe Sanh, Former Khe Sanh US Combat Base, museum, exterior bunker

German soldiers with 4th Battery, 131st Artillery Battalion carry out a fire mission with self propelled howitzers as part of exercise Dynamic Front 22 (DF 22) at the 7th Army Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, July 18, 2022. DF22, led by 56th Artillery Command and U.S. Army Europe and Africa directed, is the premier U.S. led NATO Allied and Partner integrated fires exercise in the European Theater focusing on fires interoperability and increasing readiness, lethality and interoperability across the human, procedural, and technical domains.

An entrenched guard hut stands after being erected by U.S. Marines with Combat Logistic Battalion (CLB) 22, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation (MCCRE) on Bogue Airfield, in Bogue, North Carolina, Aug. 21, 2022. CLB-22s MCCRE is the battalion's final evaluation to demonstrate combat readiness through proficiency in core mission essential tasks before they begin a change of operational control (CHOP) to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

The trenches at Vimy Ridge in France

Two airmen work on a piece of equipment at the Pil Sung bombing range's Range Camera Site No. 1. The camera site is part of the television ordnance scoring system (TOSS) used at the range, which is operated jointly by the South Korean and U.S. Air Forces. Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

View of the former battlefield at LINGEKOPF from World War I, Museum of the Lingekopf Memorial, Orbey, Alsace, France, Europe

050117-F-3587F-006. Base: Kirkush Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DF-ST-85-12965. Subject Operation/Series: CROWN DRAGONFLY Base: San Lorenzo Country: Honduras (HND)

Special camp of the soviet army inside the concentration camp sachsenhausen, germany

Barbed wire fence used for protection purposes of a pproperty

France, bomb holes near Calais.

German World War Two gun casement on beach, The Atlantic Wall, Utah Beach, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France, August

Trenches, Gallipoli, Canakkale, Turkey

FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918). Telephone set in a trench. (France, 1915).

Electrified barbed wire, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany

Tourist Landmark of the Resistance, also known as Museum for Resistance Tourism, a war museum operated by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

German bunker and Livens projectors at the Hooge Crater, Zillebeke, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe

Tourist Landmark of the Resistance, also known as Museum for Resistance Tourism, a war museum operated by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

Trench, Hartmannswillerkopf, national monument of World War I, Wattwiller, Vosges, Alsace, France, Europe

Leomont, France a shell hole , 1914-1915 - Devastated zones, North and East of France - Jean Brunhes, Auguste Léon and Georges Chevalier - (December 1914 -April 1915) (French - Le Léomont , France Un trou d' obus). Back-fronst, landscape, field, front, bombardment, First World War, Nature , Environment, France, Léomont, a shell hole

Two-man tent of the Bundeswehr Federal Armed Forces

Remains of military tunnel on Mount Piano in the Dolomite Alps, built during the First World War, South Tirol

Impact of grenade on artillery bunker, gun casemate of WWII Batterie d'Azeville, Azeville Battery, part of German Atlantic Wall, Normandy, France, Europe

Barbed wire, barbed wire at Fort Breendonk, Belgium, Europe

Utah Beach Bomb Crater

National Park Andersonville or Camp Sumter, a National Historic Site in Georgia, site of Confederate Civil War prison and cemetery tombstones for Yankee Union prisoners

France, Pas de Calais, Mimoyecques, Fortresse de Mimoyecques, WWII German HDP / V3 super-gun bunker, armored plate showing openings for the guns.(Editorial Use Only)

Abandoned Soviet Artillery Piece Amid Barbed Wire

US Army Engineers, 2 Plt, B Co., 9th Engineers, destroyed this bunker located outside of Plesheim, Republic of Srpska. The US forces are in Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Guard. Operation Joint Guard is a peacekeeping effort by a multinational Implementation Force (IFOR), comprised of NATO and non-NATO military forces, deployed to Bosnia in support of the Dayton Peace Accords. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Plesheim Country: Republic Of Srpska

A Navy SEAL sniper team cross the beach from under the water of San Diego bay and conduct a reconnaissance of their beach crossing site during a training demonstration at the Naval Ampibious Base in Coronado, California..

Inflatable boat wreck on the sand

Near Varreddes, France , 1914-1915 - Devastated zones, North and East of France - Jean Brunhes, Auguste Léon and Georges Chevalier - (December 1914 -April 1915) (French - Près de Varreddes , France). Forehead, trenches, flag, man, First World War, human beings, France, near Varreddes, the trenches near Varreddes

Broken Terracotta soldiers and artifacts in a dimly lit ancient excavation site. Shaanxi Province, China

A medium close up view of a Former Yugoslavia stake mounted IMP anti-personnel mine placed near a damaged section of road, with a very visible trip wire. A medium close up view of a Former Yugoslavia stake mounted IMP anti-personnel mine placed near a damaged section of road, with a very visible trip wire.

The trenches at Vimy Ridge in France

Bunker that was built as part of Atlantic wall in Sangatte,France

Memorial to the Turkish pilot

Marines keep watch from their well-camouflaged LAV25 light armored vehicle (LAVs) as they wait near the canal for a utility landing craft (LCU). Country: Panama (PAN)

La Batterie Longues-sur-Mer Betonbunker mit 150-Millimeter-Kanone, Reste einer deutschen Gefechtsbatterie des Atlantikwalls im Zweiten Weltkrieg bei Arromanches an der Côte de Nacre Cote de Nacre, Perlmuttküste, Landungsstrände im Département Calvados in der Region Normandie in Frankreich *** La Battery Longues sur mer Concrete bunker with 150 Millimeters Cannon, Remainders a Germans Combat battery of Atlantic Walls at second World War II at Arromanches to the Côte de nacre Cote de Nacre, Mother-of-pearl coast, Landing beaches at Department Calvados in the Region Normandy in France

U.S. Marines with Food Service Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 37, 3d Marine Logistics Group, explore cave systems during a cave crawling tour, in Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan, Sep. 9, 2022. During the tour, Marines were taught how cave systems were used during the Battle of Okinawa. 3d MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward-deployed combat unit that serves as III Marine Expeditionary Forces comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility.

Cemetery of the German Protection Force in Namibia in Kub, Colony, German South West Africa, Namibia, Africa

Barbed wire fence. Old prison

Richard Murphy, a search and extraction instructor from L2 Defense, briefs New York National Guard Soldiers on proper rappelling techniques as part of a Homeland Defense Force validation exercise at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA on September 10, 2022. The Soldiers, who are assigned to the search and extraction component of the HDF, will rappel into a manhole to rehearse rescuing casualties from a confined space. (New York National Guard photo by SSG Matthew Gunther)

An LCMR, or Lightweight Counter Mortar Radar at a U.S. Marine Corps Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan's Helmand Province

Operator in Khatgal- Khovsgol

Division

Barbed wire surrounds the perimeter of a barracks compound on the Rebuplic of Korea, K-2 Air Base, Taegu, on Oct. 16, 1998. The wire is to keep a group of Army Special Forces in the compound to ensure 100 percent mission focus. The Special Forces group will be arriving within the next week in support of Foal Eagle '98. Foal Eagle is a deployment exercise that takes place once a year in Korea. Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE '98 Base: K-2, Taegu Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Neutral zone, barbed wire, electric fence, camp boundary, death strip, memorial site, concentration camp, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg near Berlin, Germany, Europe

The field site, under camouflage netting, for 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera) from Fort Meade, Maryland set up near the 82nd Airborne Division, Division Main Headquarters during JTFX 98-1. Subject Operation/Series: JTFX 98-1 Base: Fort Bragg State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Nazi Concentration Camp in Auschwitz-Binkenau Poland

Dodengang, Boyau de la Mort, Trench of Death, First World War One trenches along the river IJzer, Diksmuide, Belgium, Europe

Slovenia, Dolenjska, Podturn, Base 20. Museum to headquarters of Yugoslav Partisans in WW2, camouflaged barracks

Examples of booby traps used during Vietnam war, Cu Chi Tunnels, near Ho Chi Minh City Saigon, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Trap of the Viet Cong, with metal spikes, in the war museum in Cu Chi, Vietnam, Asia

Picture taken in conjunction with the Finnish evacuation in Haparanda, autumn 1944. Finnish place name signs.

Bayonet Trench, Verdun, northern France, c1916-c1918. Artist: Unknown.

A convoy of AAVP-7 amphibious assault vehicles halts as members of a U.S. Marine detachment study the surrounding territory during PACEX '89. Subject Operation/Series: PACEX '89 Country: United States Of America (USA)

Italy, Lombardy, Camonica Valley, Temù, WWI Museum (the White War Museum), italian army cableway (Ceretti & Tanfani model )

Tourists visiting the Fifth Engineer Special Brigade Memorial on top of German bunker at Omaha Beach, Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France, Europe

One of four British bunkers as headquarters on the Lettenberg, World War One site at Kemmel, Belgium, Europe

Tel Saki site of a fierce battle in the Yom Kippur war

Inside of big military tent with windows

The trenches at Vimy Ridge in France

Aerial view of the drop zone being used during Exercise Ocean Venture '81. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '81 Base: Nas, Roosevelt Roads State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

970624-M-2111R-001. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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