Historical Military Engagements

Images depict soldiers in various historical military scenarios, including training exercises and combat, conveying a sense of bravery and camaraderie.

Anti-aircraft Bofors gun in at position on a mound overlooking the beach in Algeria, during the Second World War. Dated 1943

Photograph of Paratroopers just before They Took off for the Initial Assault of D-Day. Photograph of Paratroopers just before They Took off for the Initial Assault of D-Day. See You in Berlin. Resolute faces of paratroopers just before they took off for the initial assault of D-Day. Paratrooper in foreground has just read Gen. Eisenhower's message of good luck and clasps his bazooka in determination. Note Eisenhower's D-Day order in hands of paratrooper in foreground.. 1940 - 1983.

CPL Sard of 1ST Battalion, 64th Infantry, cuts his way through a concertina wire obstacle during an exercise. Base: Fort Irwin State: California(CA) Country: United States Of America(USA)

Warrant Officer McDougall fires an MK19 40 mm machine gun, MOD 3, while Warrant Officer Luther feeds the launcher ammunition, during a live fire weapons shoot. Base: Fort A. P. Hill State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Outposts in the desert, Libya, Italian-Turkish war, photograph by Aldo Molinari, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 45, November 5, 1911.

Unloading the Weapons of War: Ducks and amphibious trucks as well as men wading in the water work together to unload supplies for the U.S. fifth army's drive inland from the Salerno beachhead in Italy. September 18, 1943. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Germany Nurses - Germany War File. January 1, 1945. (Photo by Canadian Army Photo)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC A-Division Surabaya Presentation of weapons and vehicles. KNIL soldiers posing at immune gun. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

During water survival training at the station pool, eight Marines from Combat Service Support Detachment-36 (CSSD-36) are walking in waist deep water in column formation. They are wearing: helmet with chin strap, flak jacket, the all purpose, light weight, individual carrying equipment (ALICE) pack while carrying the M16A2 rifle at port arms. Base: Marine Corps Air Station,Iwakuni Country: Japan (JPN)

King's Shropshire light infantry restore Order at Koje -- Troops wearing gas masks as they use tear Gas while Queeling communist Rioters on Koje Island. These troops are members of the King's Shropshire light infantry. The position on Koje island has improved fast since the arrival of British Troops to aid the American is in restoring order in the prisoner of War Camps. June 18, 1952. (Photo by Paul Popper).

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division carry a fellow paratrooper to a waiting UH-1 Iroquois medevac helicopter, after he was injured in a mass air drop during Exercise Gallant Eagle '82. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '82 Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Alpino, 1944

American Fighter In Solomons -- This American fighter on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons is ready to plunge into the jungle in an attack on the remaining Japs on the island. His face is blackened as a camouflage measure. March 22, 1943. (Photo by Interphoto News Pictures, Inc.).

Chinese Communist military training exercise. Kuo Hsing-Fu, the company commander, puts stress on both political ideological work as well as technical training. He has developed a program to give soldiers combat training in a short time, which is being adapted for other units. July 1964.

Photograph showing American troops storming one of the Normandy beaches on 'D-Day', 6 June 1944. This image shows the first tanks charging through the water to the shore, as following soldiers return enemy fire. In the foreground a number of German metal anti-tank/anti-landing craft defences are visible. 6 June 1944

World War I (1914-1918). German troops against the Italian artillery. 1917.

All showing Argylls in Chongju. Laity morning D.V.S. tanks in support. Laity had been bombed by aircraft and very little fighting took place. November 27, 1950.

Marine reservists from Headquarters and Service Company, 1ST Battalion, 23rd Marines, fire the M-60A1 machine gun for familiarization. Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

JAMES COBURN in CROSS OF IRON (1977), directed by SAM PECKINPAH.

Saipan, Mariana Islands July 19, 1944A tiny Japanese baby is passed from hand to hand down a long line of American troops on its way to level ground and and an ambulance jeep. The child was the only living thing found among hundreds of Japanese dead by patrols clearing out difficult terrain on Saipan.Photograph by W. Eugene Smith.

A camouflaged CPL M. J. Cranford, Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 (MWSS-171), aims his M-16A2 rifle during basic skills testing/essential subjects testing. The rifle is equipped with a blank firing attachment. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN)

Attu, Aleutian Islands. Landing boats pouring soldiers and their equipment onto the beach at Massacre Bay. This is the Southern landing force. May 11, 1943

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Infantry v Klil and 4th Eskadron armored cars in the Bandoeng area. Throwing a hand grenade. July 1947. Bandung, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

The Korean War (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953) was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. The Korean peninsula was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. Following the surrender of Japan in 1945, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part. The failure to hold free elections throughout the Korean Peninsula in 1948 deepened the division between the two sides, and the North established a Communist government. The situation escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. It

DN-SN-89-05098. Subject Operation/Series: VALIANT USHER 88 Base: Unknown

DM-SN-89-07963. Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Australian Tanks - Tanks - War File. October 22, 1942.

DM-SN-87-10964. Subject Operation/Series: NEZ ROUGE Country: Canada (CAN)

The Battle of Libya A long line of prisoners (all German in the peaked caps) being passed down from the forward areas to a concentration point en route for a prisoner-of-war encampment. December 14, 1941. (Photo by British Official).

"I Don't Mind If I Do" - Surrender - A German first aid man talking in a pleased and animated fashion to a G.I. of the 87th., Division, to whom he surrendered. May 21, 1945. (Photo by Acme)

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Trying out anti tank gun. March 20, 1942.

A flue granate is shot with a 2 inch mortar.

Normandy, France: June 13, 1944 Allied reinforcement troops landing on Normandy beaches during the invasion of France a week after D-Day.

A Marine from 1ST Battalion, 5th marines carries his gear near the battalion combat operations center (COC) during Operation Desert Shield.. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Project 40-11 - Operation Buster/Jangle (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. DOG cloud, troops in foreground. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Anefo photo collection. Exercise Dutch soldiers going to Lebanon in forests at Schayk (explosives and barriers) make barbed wire extinguishers. February 8, 1979. Noord-Brabant, Schaijk

Anefo photo collection. Netherlands Brigade maneuvers. 19. Heavy Machine Guns Action Princess Irene Brigade exercises. Heavy machine guns action. July 1943. Britain

1940s COLUMN OF UNITED STATES MARINES BADLY IN NEED OF REST AND FOOD AFTER COMBAT ACTION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC WORLD WAR II

Taking The Hurdles -- Chinese soldiers, training at the American ***** for Chinese Expeditionary ***** somewhere in India, charge across the obstacle course as part of their training. The uniform combines modern with primitive latest helmet design to primitive sandals. March 6, 1943. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Stalingrad - War File. January 3, 1949. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited.).

Nanking, China: December, 1937. An official Japanese picture of a captured Chinese soldier at Nanking. With or without uniforms, thousands of Chinese soldiers at Nanking were brutally executed.

Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.

Lance CPL. M.S. Spann sets up an M-18A2 Claymore mine at the entrance to the combat operations center for the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines, during Operation Desert Shield.. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Two commandos of the Royal Engineers with their Yukon packs containing the gear with which they land on the beaches practising assault tactics at the Combined Operations School at Dundonald Camp.

Historic Photographs: Victory At Stalingrad -- Bodies of the German dead after the Russians had retaken Stalingrad in February 1943. February 14, 1943. (Photo by Camera Press).

U.S. Troops. January 17, 1952. (Photo by Look Magazine).

Men of the Royal Navy's Coast Watch man a Lewis gun emplacement on a cliff top in Devon, 1940. Men of the Royal Navy's Coast Watch in a Lewis gun emplacement on the cliff top, watching for the approach of enemy aircraft.

Champion Mine-Lifter - The 8th Army's victorious desert offensive in progress: Enemy tanks, guns, vehicles & planes and hundreds of prisoners, are brought in each day. Corporal David Hursthouse, of the Royal Australian Engineers, lifting a French mine. This N.G.O. served in Tobruk, and during his service has lifted thousands of mines. February 08, 1943. (Photo by British Official Photo)

DM-SN-89-01602. Country: Unknown

LEW AYRES in ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930), directed by LEWIS MILESTONE.

Soldiers advancing through dense jungle during Operation Badger Tooth on February 5, 1968, during the Vietnam War.

Lone Yank Advances Toward Bastogne -- A U. S. soldier advances across a field white with snow and scarred only by the pone form of a German during the drive to relieve Yanks Trapped in Bastogne by the enemy December break through into Luxembourg and Belgium. January 6, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

SGT Alier, 2nd Marine Division, PHOTO, waits for the Tank Company from the 8th Marine Regiment to move out for a live fire exercise during Operation CAX 4-81. Subject Operation/Series: CAX 4-81 Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Revolt In The Prison Of San Vittore, Milan.

French Train as NATO Paratroopers at Pau. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Solid types of handy fighter were these colored American troops who arrived in Australia recently. April 10, 1942.

Photographic print of the German army motorized in Prague during the Second World War. Dated 20th Century

A member of the Peoples Revolutionary Army is escorted by Marines armed with M16A1 rifles, into a building after his capture during Operation URGENT FURY. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

Captain Joseph Kittinger after landing

Photograph of General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore during the initial landings in Leyte, Philippine Islands. Dated 1944

Ejército, servicio militar. Ejercicios de tiro. Campamento Sant Climent Sescebes, Girona. Años 70.

Poll photo collection. Reporting soldiers. A military exercise. A river must be crossed. Busy with the crossing. Men are raised in a storm boat. 1945

Sentry Charles Muller (French, 1815-1892). , n.d. Oil on canvas, 20 x 12 1/8 in. (50.8 x 30.8 cm). European Art n.d.

The entire Soviet people as one person rose up under the leadership of the Communist Party to a holy, just war against the German fascist invaders who attacked our socialist homeland on June 22, 1941.

Tanks Train In United States "Little Libya" -- Ready to move out to engage the theoretical "enemy," a force of M3 - medium tanks lines up for inspection with helmeted crews at attention. Slender rod projecting from each tank is aerial for radio with which each is equipped. August 08, 1942. (Photo by Interphoto News Pictures, Inc.).

This Japanese staff car was found in the middle of Gona village after its capture. It had been wrecked by machine-gun and rifle fire. The car was portion of the equipment captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell. December 21, 1942. (Photo by Dept. Of Information Picture).

A paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division moves out into the field after a drop at the Sicily drop zone during Exercise NEPTUNE II. Subject Operation/Series: NEPTUNE II Base: Fort Bragg State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day; 'Full victory--nothing else' to paratroopers somewhere in England; just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe; World War Two 1944

The Tenseness And Grim Readiness Of The Paratroopers Was Caught By T/Sgt. Roger Coster, Air Force Photographer, In This Phot Which He Took Inside One Of The C-46S As It Waited To Take Off.

A U.S. soldier with the U.S. 1st Cavalry, Vietnam, March 4, 1966

Marines of the Light Anti-Armor Missile Battalion, use a CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter, from Marine Helicopter Squadron, Medium-465, to airlift part of their equipment. Base: Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Artwork: "German Troops Landing at Oslo Airfield" Artist: Schmitz-Westerholt. Country: Unknown

Ejército, servicio militar. Ejercicios de entrenamiento. Campamento Sant Climent Sescebes, Girona. Años 70.

ERROL FLYNN and JAMES BROWN in OBJECTIVE, BURMA! (1945), directed by RAOUL WALSH.

Tuskegee airmen exiting the parachute room, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945, African-Americans

British Everest 1953 Expedition -- R.C. Evans wearing closed circuit oxygen equipment and T.D. Bourdillon wearing open circuit apparatus, climbing the South West Ridge of Amadablam at 18,500ft. May 14, 1953.

A tank company from the 8th Marine Regiment prepares for a live fire exercise during Operation CAX 4-81. Subject Operation/Series: CAX 4-81 Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

1979 - Female Marine Corps JROTC students practice firing the M-16A1 rifle at range #52. An instructor is helping one of the shooters to clear a malfunction in her weapon.

Elsevier photo collection. days 32th Infantry Regiment started major repeat exercises military practice "Vogelsang" Eiffel Mountains West Germany. Infantry enemy hill. October 10, 1956. Germany, Vogelsang

Paratroopers parachuting from a military airplane

The Ruhr area in the 60s and 70s, photos edited and alienated, Germany, Europe

British Soldier searches German in Tunisia -- A Soldier of the British first Army searches a German prisoner taken in the fighting near Sedjenane in Northern Tunisia. July 5, 1943.

Tom Hanks , Saving Private Ryan , 1998 directed by Steven Spielberg Dreamworks LLC ,Paramount Pictures

DM-SN-89-07959. Base: Uncheon Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

French Foreign Legion Of Today -- Column Commander signals halt. Trucks of the French Foreign Legion similar to those which rescued the survivors. Vehicles really need to be navigated on the featureless desert "roads". June 10, 1955. (Photo by Eugene Kammerman, Camera Press).

The 18th German Army of General von Kuchler crossing the Velikaya as they progress towards Leningrad.

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998), directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG.

DA-SN-85-06163. Country: Unknown

Photograph of a Korean Girl and her Brother stood in front of a tank. Dated 1952

DF-SC-88-02413. Country: Unknown

The U.S. Marine Corps honors the armistice that was signed between the United States on behalf of the United Nations Command, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea on July 27, 1953. More than 150,000 Marines fought in the Korean War, and 42 Marines and 5 U.S. Navy Corpsmen earned the Medal of Honor for their exceptional Valor. (U.S. Marine Corps Graphic by Cpl. Karen Amaro)

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