Historic Warfare Scenes

Black and white images depicting soldiers in combat during World War I and II, including trench warfare and gas mask use, illustrating the intensity of historical battles.

World War I 1914-1918. German machine gun unit in a trench, c1916.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

''La resistance Serbe; Lignes successives d'infanterie serbe en formation d'attaque', 1915 (1924). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

The French Foreign Legion on manoeuvres, Boudenib, Morocco, 1911. Artist: Unknown

08/31/1917. On the Salonica front General Sarrail Decorating an officer De "Sphais".

Anefo photo collection. Japanese guard in Bandoeng. March 26, 1946. Bandung, Indonesia, Indonesia, Java

09/30/1918. The War in Flanders. Improvised coats of a French infantry regiment.

Stretcher bearers Battle of Ginchy 09-09-1916

Australians about to man the Anti Aircraft guns at Haifa Palestine. September 23, 1940.

84th Battery and Balloon Corps, Boer War, South Africa, 1901.Artist: Underwood & Underwood

07/31/1914. The Belgian army in the War. Belgian infantry soldiers who so heroically defend Liège from the attack of the Germans.

Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Soest. The armed part in Soest, where the Germans have to hand in their weapons. May 10, 1945. Soest, Utrecht (province)

The important Battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought between the Việt Minh (led by General Vo Nguyen Giap), and the French Union (led by General Henri Navarre, successor to General Raoul Salan). The siege of the French garrison lasted fifty-seven days, from 5: 30PM on March 13 to 5: 30PM on May 7, 1954. The southern outpost or fire base of the camp, Isabelle, did not follow the cease-fire order and fought until the next day at 01: 00AM; a few hours before the long-scheduled Geneva Meeting's Indochina conference involving the United States, the United Kingdom, the French Union and the Soviet Union. The battle was significant beyond the valleys of Dien Bien Phu. Giap's victory ended major French involvement in Indochina and led to the accords which partitioned Vietnam into North and South. Eventually, these conditions inspired the United States to increase their involvement in Vietnam leading to the Second Indochina War. The battle of Điện Biên Phủ is described by historians as the first tim

German soldiers running during a gas attack, 1915

Grabe mirror observer.

Exercise with air scaling syringe in fire position, 1939 Exercise with air scaling gun in fire rack from fir bus. Four soldiers at machine gun under 'Skåne maneuver' 1939.

Photograph of a gun crew in training. Dated 1939

The British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918

Allies Move Up On Munster: Soldiers of the 17th U.S. airborne Division await orders to_advance on Munster, Reich town 50 miles northeast of the Rhine from Wesel, which is "being entered by tanks of the British Sixth Coldstream Guards, some of which can be seen rolling down the highway (left). The German Strongpoint was cleared April 3, 1945, by Allied troops which included elements of' the Ninth U.S. Army. May 21, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Signal Corps Photo ).

Finska Flyktingar I HaParanda, Hösten 1944. Militar Sjukvård.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Anefo photo collection. Mass grave in Waalsdorp. Mass grave in Waalsdorp. German war criminals and Dutch collaborators give indications that buried victims of their crimes and do the excavation yourself. Dutch police are supervised. Canadian soldiers watch. August 1945. Waalsdorp, South Holland

A sauterelle, or 'grasshopper', being loaded with grenades by French soldiers. Working on a cross-bow principle, the sauterelle could throw grenades a distance of ninety yards. Date: September 4th 1915

Dead Confederate soldier , One of Ewell's Corps as he lay on the field, after the battle of the 19th May, 1864. No. 725, Title from item, Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner..by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003, Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Dead at Spottsylvania, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Spotsylvania.

NLS Haig - Getting Granny ready to strafe the Germans

Group of Soldiers carrying Wounded Men aboard Hospital Train, Herouville, France, U.S. Army Signal Corps, April 27, 1918

08/31/1921. Melilla. The Legionaries 1. The Legionaries Platon (A) and Alarcon (B), Promoted for War Merits To Sergeants in the field of Operations, Accompanied by the Standard Bearers and Legion Companions, 2. Reviewing the Legion.

Polish anti-aircraft guns lined up at the start of manoeuvres near the German frontier. April 28, 1939. (Photo by Keystone).

Search Lights - War File. November 01, 1932.

The Abyssinian Expedition, Ethiopia 1868 The Naval Brigade parade beside Goon-Goona Rock.

British 55th (West Lancashire) Division troops blinded by tear gas await treatment at an Advanced Dressing Station near Bethune during the Battle of Estaires, 10 April 1918, part of the German offensive in Flanders.

Anefo photo collection. Rhenen Bridgeslags exercise "Pluto". May 26, 1954. Rhenen

Where The Danzig Poles Made Their Gallant Stand. -- At last after day and night bombardment since the beginning of the war, the German army flag flies over the ammunition dump of the Westerplatte, Danzig.Shelled From The Sea, Bombed from the air, and constantly attacked from the land a small body of poles held out in the Westerplatte, Danzig.Eventually they had to surrender to incalculably superior Odds. Even the Germans Honoured their Gallantry. September 14, 1939. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Aggression of fascist Italy in Ethiopia. Italian motorcycle parts. 1935

Manchuria: c. 1935. Japanese cavalrymen of the first Brigade bundle up against the bitter cold of northern Manchuria as they advance against the Chinese insurgents.

The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918

Invasion Of Walcheren Island -- German prisoners being brought in.At dawn on November 1st., British Commando troops invaded the island of Walcheren at the mouth of the Scheldt. The attack was proceeded by heavy air sea and land bombardment. January 1, 1945. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

11/30/1915. The French Recruits of 1917. The Future Artillerymen in a military review Verified in the Tuileries garden, in Paris, in the presence of Justin Godart.

02/07/1915. The Germans in Campaign. Artillery observation post of the German Imperial Guard - photo Haeckel.

Battle of Menin Road. Australian wounded on the Menin Road, near Birr Cross Road on September 20th, 1917

Under The Protection Of "Tommy" -- Photo just received shows a British tommy on Keswick Road, Shanghai, disciplining the queue of between fifteen and twenty thousand Chinese who cross daily into the conquered areas for firewood and food, and return by four p.m. (Japanese curfow). March 21, 1938. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).

Anefo photo collection. Army exercise flint in Oldebroek, the fire line in a truck. September 6, 1962. Oldenbroek

Pheasant hunt , Dead animals, Hunting. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Italian working party clearing a road through Canove, 1918.

Convoy of Spahis at Frane le Port i.e., Francport

07/31/1916. The Destroys of War. Ruins of the entrance to a village in the Somme River region.

Russians taken prisoner by Germany on the Eastern front, World War I. Among them are many Cossacks in their distinctive fur hats.

events Second World War WWII North Africa Algeria a company of US Rangers during maneuvers 20.12.1942,

Listening for sounds from underground, Western Front, First World War, c1916, (c1920). 'Guarding against Underground Attack: British listening post on duty in the open...Note the position of the bayonet for the transmission of sound to the ear of the man on the left'. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume VI, edited by Frank A Mumby. The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920

This photo, taken during World War I, hsows shells for Verdun in France. The captions says: Big shells for Verdun. One of the many ammunition depots in the rear of the French lines at Verdun.

American troops after the flag raising Fort San Antonio de Abad, Malate, Manila, on August 13, 1898. US and Spanish commanders agreed to a choreographed engagement, the 'mock' Battle of Manila, after which the Spanish quickly surrendered to save soldiers' lives and Spanish honor. With an easy battle, US did not need the help of the Philippine Revolutionary army, and prevented their entry into Manila, thus weakening their claim for national independence (BSLOC_2017_10_66)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Soldiers in the statement behind the dyke of rice field. June 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

07/31/1917. Official photographs of the front in Thessaloniki.

Russian troops retreating in disarray, Ternopil, Ukraine, First World War, 1 July 1917. Artist: Unknown

The Famous 369th Arrive in New York City. Members of the 369th African American Infantry, formerly 15th New York Regulars. Back to little old New York.

Dresden. K. S. 2nd Hunter battalion No.13, goal exercise

08/31/1936. The water in the Sierra Fronts.

Soldiers digging graves for the victims of the 'Lusitania' disaster. The 'Lusitania' liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1200 lives. Date: May 15th 1915.

Moroccan War, November 1920. Morocco, the last maneuvers. 1. General Barrera (X), in Zeltún. 2. An outpost. 3. Construction of the Mesena bolcao. 4. General Barrera (X), directing the withdrawal of forces.

10/31/1915. On the Western Front. Russian Machine Gun, Seized by the Germans, Who Now Use It Against Enemy Airplanes.

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Group of the British Army senior officers at one of their tents. The officer seated on the bed serves with the Highland Light Infantry.

The land periscope: A German staf officer observing with a hyposcope. Date: P

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French first world war marksman takes aim

Anefo photo collection. Wijchen. Build military bridges over the mesh arm. October 14, 1953. Gelderland, Wijchen

March 1917. The War on the Western Front. Trench occupied by a front line machine gun section.

Anefo photo collection. Landmines clear in Hoek van Holland. Series Landmines clear in Hoek van Holland. August 1945. Hoek van Holland

British colonial African soldiers cross a river in East Africa during World War One

The commanding officers in charge of the attack on the Cukla position, with a captured Italian machine-gun Near Flitsch, Slovenia, Julian Alps; photographer: 10. Armeekommando, Rohr.

Lunch in the Canadian trenches, within fifty yards of the German lines.

A soldier of the British Expeditionary Force, having arrived in Boulogne, is watched while shaving by a French comrade. Date: August 1914

''Les Britanniques au Nord de la Somme; Notre-Dame de Brebieres. L'entrée a Albert des troupes de Rawlinson, le 22 aout 1918; des cavaliers, des cyclistes, des camions automobiles traversent la petite ville qui n'est plus qu'un desert de pierres et de broussailles, autour de l'amoncellement des ruines de la basilique', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Poll photo collection. Liberation from Noord-Brabant along the Corridor Bergeijk - Valkenswaard - Aalst - Eindhoven. Soldiers of the Irish Guards posing for a tank at the Texaco gas station in Aalst. September 18, 1944. Aalst, Noord-Brabant

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A party of Royal Marines practising their land exercises as they charge forward with fixed bayonets.

09/30/1916. On the French front in the Vosges. Machine guns against airplanes, placed on the shores of a lake.

Hand grenades attack at Isonzofront.9.9.17. .

Royal Saxon Protection Regiment No. 108

'Those --- Mouth-Organs' "Keep away from the 'ive, Bert; 'e's goin' to sting yer!" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1917

Schützen-(Füsilier-)Regiment Prinz Georg (Königlich Sächsisches) Nr. 108, 1911, Germany, Königlich Sächsisches Schützen, Regiment Nr. 108

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Throwing Guns into sea ca. 1910-1915.

German Language Cross over Grave of French Soldier during World War I, Bain News Service, 1915

German soldiers with captured French barricade, near Paris, June 1940. Artist: Unknown

World War I, English field artillery in action in France, ca. 1914

Trasmulas (Granada). 1913 (CA.). HM the King and the other hunters before the "picture" formed with the dead birds during one of the hunts.

Swiss field Howitzer

British mountain battery going into position

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting Semarang and surroundings. Ereveld Tjandi Candi. Speech by an officer standing at the memorial. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

British troops are shown marching across German trenches at the beginning of the Somme offensive of July 1916. Some soldiers are shown consolidating the captured positions, altering and repairing the captured trenches, whilst others surge forward to the second German line. Date: 1916

''En Alsace; Le soir du 26, une neige abondante servit de linceul aux cadavres', 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1926.

Anefo photo collection. South of the Netherlands. Report on the dangers of mines and abandoned ammunition for children playing. Speeches from fire brigade and police to the children. Encons of accidents. 24 December 1945. Southern Netherlands

gruppo bersaglieri, 1915-1918

U.S. Soldiers And Equipment Along Utah Beach, Normandy, France, June 1944

Mairi Lambert Gooden-Chisholm of Chisholm, better known as Mairi Chisholm (1895-1981), Scottish nurse and ambulance driver during World War I, pictured right with, on the left, Elsie Knocker (known here as Baroness de T'Serclaes after her second marriage to a Belgian in 1916), also a nurse and ambulance driver. Both were awarded the Military Medal for their bravery and work with the wounded on the Western Front in Belgium. The pair initially joined the Voluntary Emergency Corps but then later se

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