Historical Military Actions

Black and white images depicting military strategies, troop movements, and significant events from past conflicts, reflecting the intensity of war.

Chinese nationalist troops use a small artillery gun on Quemoy Island, 1955
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The Normandy Landings - 6th June 1944 - WW2. Note the American soldier in the landing craft holding a metal detector to sweep for landmines. Date: 1944
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world war I, An Italian military truck falling off a narrow bridge at Sarantaporos on the Greek-Albanian border.
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Korean War Veterans Memorial (1995). Group of 19 stainless steel sculptures, by Frank Gaylord, representing a squad patrol. Detail. West Potomac Park. National Mall. Washington D.C. United States.
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German mortar crew in action Date: 1940
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Marines finishing training at Parris Island, South Carolina. 1942.
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Big Foot, leader of the Sioux, captured at the battle of Wonded Knee, here he lies frozen on the snow covered battlefield where he died, photograph, 1890
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Marines of the Fourth Division received airmail in the most literal sense when planes flew over Iwo Jima and parachuted mail bags to the beach. The post office was in operation on the tenth day of the campaign. Iwo Jima, March, 1945.
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Landing Barge D-Day Invasion Of France. World War Ii
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German artillery of the railroad bridge across the Volga in the occupied city of Kalinin, Anonymous
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Bayonet drill , Military personnel, Bayonets, Military training, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Troops on Tower of David, showing minaret of Citadel, Jerusalem, Israel
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The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the indigenous Afghan Mujahideen and foreign 'Arab-Afghan' volunteers. The mujahideen found other support from a variety of sources including the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Egypt, China and other nations. The Afghan war became a proxy war in the broader context of the late Cold War. The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began on December 24, 1979 under Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev. The final troop withdrawal started on May 15, 1988, and ended on February 15, 1989 under the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. (Photo by: Erwin Lux/Pictures From History via Getty Images)
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Yad Vashem Jerusalem Israel
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Information panel near the crash site of the Red Baron, the German First World War One ace fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen at Vaux-sur-Somme, France, Europe