Historic War Footage

Black and white archival footage depicting soldiers in combat and operational scenarios during significant historical conflicts, capturing military life and engagements.

TOKYO - 1945 - General MacArthur gives a short speech aboard the USS Missouri before asking representatives of Japan to sign the official surrender document.

Aunay-Sur-Odon. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Red Army Attack. Battle of Lake Khasan, Anonymous

The Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. About 9500 Swedish volunteer soldiers participated in the war. Here the Karelian Isthmus Finland. Finnish soldiers close to the frontline at the Mannerheim line. December 1939. Photo Kristoffersson ref 93-19.

CLAUDE RAINS in THE LAST OUTPOST (1935), directed by CHARLES BARTON.

Guards Armoured Training Wing, Pirbright, Surrey, November 1943 A sergeant of the Coldstream Guards wearing earphones attached to a steel helmet standing beside a tank at the Guards Armoured Training Wing.

Tuskegee Airmen Attending Briefing, Foreground (left to right): Joseph L. "Joe" Chineworth, Memphis, TN, Class 44-E; Emile G. Clifton, San Francisco, CA, Class 44-B; Richard S. Harder, Brooklyn, NY, Class 44-B. Along back wall (back to front): Frank N. Wright, Elmsford, NY, Class 44-F; Robert J. Murdic, Franklin, TN, Class 44-F; Jimmie D. Wheeler, Ramitelli, Italy, Toni Frissell, March 1945

Switzerland: July 25, 1918 A Swiss soldier mans an army outpost in the high Alps where the war fighting between the Austrians and the Italians can be watched.

Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Harskamp camp where SS people and countrykeepers are convenient. Young ss with a bread. June 1945. Gelderland, Harskamp

THE STEEL HELMET (1951), directed by SAMUEL FULLER.

Tuskegee airman Edward M. Thomas of Chicago, IL, Class 43-J, Full-Length Portrait, Ramitelli, Italy, photograph by Toni Frissell, March 1945

National Guard on Patrol during School Integration, Clinton, Tennessee, USA, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, September 1956

The British Army in North Africa, January 1943 The Commander of the 1st Army, Lieutenant General K A N Anderson, CB, MC, (right) during a visit to a forward divisional headquarters on the Tunisian front. Brigadier C B McNabb is on the left.

Viet Cong guerrillas in small boats patrol the Saigon River in South Vietnam in photo taken by communist forces.

Sheet Metal Workers Mend A Flak Punctured Rudder Of A Consolidated B-24 In England.

Bomber crew of the B-17G 'Full House' of the 95th Bomb Group outside a Nissen hut briefing room at Horham, August 1944.

Palestine disturbances 1936. Military guard examining the wreck near Kefr-Jenuis. 1936

Second World War. Four Wehrmacht members on a machine gun (presumably during training)

St. Johns, Arizona. Rationing in America During World War II. 1944

SHOCK TROOPS (1967) -Original title: UN HOMME DE TROP-, directed by CONSTANTIN COSTA-GAVRAS.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION (2023), directed by MATT BROWN.

Japanese surrender party placing swords on table in final act of surrender in the presence (not shown) of Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., Commanding Officer of the Sixth Marine Division, and General Shen Pao Cheng, representing Chinese government, Qingdao, Shandong, China, Connolly, U.S. Marine Corps, October 25, 1945

Gunners manning Captured Breda Gun ready to fire at any German Aircraft that ventures within Range, Tobruk, Libya, British official photograph, June 1941

France, Grand-Est, Bas Rhin (67) Alsace, Hatten, Abri museum

The Eighth Army Carrier Pigeon Service in Italy, November 1944 Checking in a message from a newly arrived bird at a mobile pigeon loft in the Rimini area of Italy before passing it to the appropriate department.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Do it yourself demonstration. undated

KAZUNARI NINOMIYA and RYO KASE in LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006), directed by CLINT EASTWOOD.

Comfort women were women and girls forced into a prostitution corps created by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The name 'comfort women' is a translation of a Japanese name ianfu (). Ianfu is a euphemism for shofu () whose meaning is 'prostitute'. Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with numbers ranging from as low as 20,000 to as high as 400,000, but the exact numbers are still being researched and debated. Many of the women were from occupied countries, including Korea, China, and the Philippines, although women from Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia and other Japanese-occupied territories were used for military brothels. Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, then Malaya, Thailand, Burma, New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and French Indochina. A smaller number of women of European origin from the Netherlands and Australia were also involved.

World War II, U.S. soldier at base in front of patriotic message, circa 1940-1946.

JOHN WAYNE and FORREST TUCKER in SANDS OF IWO JIMA (1949), directed by ALLAN DWAN.

THE SAME BREEDOld breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long asit's the Marine breed.” — Lt. Gen. Chesty” PullerThe uniforms may change, the battlegrounds may change, but Marineswill always be America’s warriors. Each week we’ll take a look at howas time goes on, we remain the same breed.

Second World War. Soviet Union. Portrait of a man in work jacket and with shield cap

1950s MAN BEHIND GRASS DUCK BLIND AIMING SHOTGUN AT DUCKS OVER POND

Dog soldier

Land Army girls sawing larch poles for use as pit props at the Women's Timber Corps training camp at Culford in Suffolk. Land Army girls sawing larch poles for use as pit props.

The Cuban Revolution was a successful armed revolt by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, which overthrew the US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista on 1 January 1959, after over five years of struggle.

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