Historical Military Exercises

Photographs illustrate European military training with tanks and artillery, showcasing drills and logistics during exercises from the mid-20th century.

Bundeswehr practice shooting on 27. 11. 1975 in Soltau-Weizendorf, Germany, Europe

Battery exercise of heavy air target artillery with the 90 mm guns on the grounds of the Hague (new) Alexanderkazerne. Loading the cannon.

Anefo photo collection. Test Mobilization Cavalry (TANKESCADRON). Packing in the tanks of the plunge bags. May 2, 1963

British artillery firing at positions in France across the english Channel. 1916. world War I

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Purification actions II-2 RVA at Salatiga. Reksosari: 2-2 -2 RvA guns during a break with their field guns standing in the art. October 23, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Tanks and Afvs of the British Army 1939-45 Coventry armoured car Mk I

The Second Opium War, 1856-1860 North Taku Forts.

Churchills For Russia - Loading Churchill Tanks prior to shipment at a vast railway siding.At a Central ordnance depot of Britain are Rushing Churchill (The Famous A.22) tanks to the Soviet Union. March 20, 1943. (Photo by Fox Photos).

DA-ST-89-06601. Base: Unknown

Photograph showing an Italian Army tank, which carried and laid a metal bridge, taking part in manoevres near Naples, 1936. Machines such as this were used by both sides in World War II to create bridges across small obstacles, such as rivers, ravines and anti-tank ditches. Date: 1936

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Tjikempek - Wadas. A Bulldozer from the Genius in action. December 19, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

After being assembled at a munitions annexe in N.S.W., Bren carriers are ***** surmounting a steep embankment during a thorough test by Army inspection *****. June 29, 1942.

Anefo photo collection. Dutch army exercises in La Courtine, France; 17th armored infantry bataljon with tanks. August 7, 1970. France, La Courtine

Anefo photo collection. About a thousand Marechaussees examine Ambonese camps on weapons in Capelle aan den IJssel; Ambone girls look at tank. October 15, 1970. Capelle aan den IJssel

Bren gun carriers over-loaded with troops of 2nd Division set out on patrol near Sadaung, January 1945.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Balige, Tarooeng, Si Borong-Brong and on the way to Padang Sidempoean 2nd police action, actions "rooster", "duck" and "pigeon". A Bren carrier drives over a being improvised bridge. December 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Tanks and Afvs of the British Army 1939-45 Daimler Mk II armoured car

Vintage Photograph. Gun crew operating a 75 mm anti-aircraft gun during practice

British Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles 1939-45 Infantry Tank Mk IV Churchill III (A22)

Marines going through training at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center stand by as they wait for a visit from the touring Secretary of the Navy John Lehman Jr. Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Australians unloading Bren gun carriers in Egypt. October 23, 1940. (Photo by Commonwealth Department Of Information).

North Africa-This rugged assault gun was left behind, undamaged, by the Afrika Korps. The 150 mm gun is mounted on the self-propelled tanks and was abandoned by the Germans when it ran out of fuel.

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.

Dans le Désert Libyen - des Tanks, de Construction Américaine, ont des Équipages Fournis par un Fameux Régiment de Cavalerie Irlandaise. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters

An Inside Shakeup - Drivers On The American Locomotive company tank testing grounds at Schenectady, New York give and M3 (Medium) tank a rough ride before turning it over to the Army. A 28 ton tank is hurled off a four foot jump, while an emergency crew stands ready with fire extinguishers. There are handles inside, but no cushions. January 28, 1942. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited.).

A left side view of a vehicle-mounted Soviet SA-4 Ganef surface-to-air missile. Country: Unknown

DA-ST-89-06584. Base: Unknown

Image of the liberation of Utrecht. A Bren Gun Carrier with soldiers in the Nobelstraat in Utrecht during the arrival of the Allied army.

Anefo photo collection. Royal Dutch Princess Irene Brigade takes liberation Netherlands. February 1945. Vrouwenpolder, Zeeland

Canadians Push Through Ortona -- Tanks and Canadian infantrymen advance through a shell-torn street in Ortona during the final stages of the bitter fighting for the coastal town in Italy which fell to the eighth army late in December. January 20, 1944. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

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.

A Leopard 1 tank and an armored wheel vehicle DAF YP-408 pass each other during an exercise.

Italian Advance on Sidi Barrani Africa -- Field Guns being pulled over the African Desert , During the Italian Advance on Sidi Barrani. April 10, 1940. (Photo by ACME).

Anefo photo collection. Test exercise of the Army Force in Valkenswaard (NB). December 9, 1964. Noord-Brabant, Valkenswaard

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Farewell parade British Indian tank regiment 13th Lancers. General E.C. Mansergh shakes the hand of a tank commander. August 1, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Germans Repulsed With Heavy Losses North West of Stalingrad. Left bank if Don Littered With Smashed Enemy Machines. Smashed German fighting machines North West of Stalingrad where Soviet troops repulsed German armoured and infantry attacks inflicting heavy lesses in and materials. March 15, 1949. (Photo by U.S.S.R. Official Photograph).

Tanks and Afvs of the British Army 1939-45 Daimler Lynx scout car

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.

Royal Tanks Corps and Royal Engineers in training.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Recordings Armored cars Stuart tanks Eskadron Fighting trucks KNIL. Group photo of three tank crews of a knitted eskadron fighters. 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Column of Soviet tanks ( Operation Little Saturn, December 1942)

Steenkerke, Belgique , 1917 - North of France, Belgium - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (September 1-5) (French - Steenkerke , Belgique). Backbug, military uniform, cannon, bombardment, artillery, man, army, First World War, clothing, human beings, society, Belgique, prisely stoneks, pigences the 370 prisries stones

An RAF Humber light reconnaissance car in Middelburg, Holland, November 1944. An RAF Humber light reconnaissance car in Middelburg, Holland, November 1944.

Tanks and Afvs of the British Army 1939-45 Humber light reconnaissance car Mk IIIa

Two M4 high speed tractors with a drawn M115 8 inch HOUWITSER of 49 Veldartillerie department pass the downfall with O.A. H.M. Koningin Juliana and Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard during the Parade in Ede on the occasion of Liberation Day.

French Army Prepared for Defense (Magazine Unit Story). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

American troops on island of Luzon. January 1945

The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 - September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called 'incidents'. Yet the two sides, for a variety of reasons, refrained from fighting a total war. In 1931, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by Japan's Kwantung Army followed the Mukden Incident. The last of these inciden

Czechoslovak soldiers in the end of the War in La Panne (Belgium) near Dunkerque in 1945

1973 when the Chilean government headed by Salvador Allende was toppled by a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Dressed by West Java of the Hussars van Boreel, W.O. Radiowagen (Film car). Humber armored car. Commander and radiotelefonist in the gunpost. Behind them is a soldier on the rear of the armored wagon. April 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

One of the Japanese tanks that were put out of action by the Australians at Milne Bay being examined by officers before being sent south for further examination. January 01, 1942. (Photo by Department Of Information Photo).

Members of the 1ST Battalion, 28th Infantry (Blue Forces), travel in a tactical formation in armored personnel carriers. They are a part of Exercise Reforger '82. Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER '82 Base: Gruenfeld Country: West Germany (FRG)

Parade and Demonstration in Moscow on Nov. 7, 1945 in Honor of the 28th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.45. Powerful Soviet tanks move across Red Square. October 20, 1950. (Photo by V. Kinelovsky, Pictorial Press)

Everyday life of Bundeswehr recruits in a barracks on 26.05.1976 in Hemer, Germany, Europe

Ridgway Inspects Turkish Armour -- General Matthew Ridgway, American supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe, inspects tanks of Turkey's crack 5th Armoured brigade at Mamak near Ankara on September 6.Ridgway is a on a six-day inspection tour of the Turkish Army - The largest unit in his command. September 9, 1952. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Fordson Armoured Cars and support vehicles of No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF, leave their base for a patrol in the Western Desert, 1941. Fordson Armoured Cars and support vehicles of No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF, leave their base for a patrol in the Western Desert.

Precious woods, sawn tree trunks, 1935, Cameroon, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the early 20th century, exact original date unknown, Africa

An M-60A1 tank attached to the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit (31st MAU) gets mired in a swamp during Exercise Kangaroo 4. Subject Operation/Series: KANGAROO 4 Country: Australia (AUS)

''Premieres visions de Guerre; Sans cesse en mouvement, les autos-mitrailleuses blindees belges harcelent les colonnes allemandes', 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Parade of the Bundeswehr on the 20th anniversary of the founding of NATO in April 1969 at Dortmund Airport, Germany, Europe

Panzers at rest in the Russian Steppes by Franz Eichhorst (b. September 7, 1885 in Berlin, died April 30, 1948, Innsbruck) was a German painter, engraver and illustrator, one of a number of German artists known for his war paintings supporting the Nazi regime. Published in 'Die Kunst im deutschen Reich' (Art in the German Reich) was first published in January 1937 by Gauleiter Adolf Wagner and later issued under the direction Adolf Hitler himself.

U.S. tanks and a tracked landing vehicle from the 34th Marine Amphibious Unit move inland during the amphibious operations of Phase III of the NATO exercise Display Determination '81. Subject Operation/Series: DISPLAY DETERMINATION '81 Base: Doganbey Country: Turkey (TUR)

"Convenanters" Go By Rail - "Convenanters "Mak 5 tanks being conveyed to their station by train somewhere in the Northern command The train en route with its load "Covenanters". October 23, 1941. (Photo by Topical Press).

Tanks and Afvs of the British Army 1939-45 Humber light reconnaissance car Mk IIIa

French army liberates the town of Mulhouse street by street

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection War bonds appeal. Tank in Trafalgar Square, November - December 1917.

Crippled Russian and Polish prisoners stand in front of a US armoured vehicle belonging to the US 11th Armoured Divison. This image was taken at Mauthausen concentration camp.

Burma/Myanmar/China: A mechanized unit of Chinese soldiers of the Kuomintangs (KMT) National Revolutionary Army head to the Siege of Bhamo in American-made M3 Stuart light tanks. Kachin State, November 1944.

Shanghai..... Taking Post.... Tank corps of the Japanese troops, is seen as entering the district, next to the International settlement in Shanghai, where was guarded by the French army till recent, to take the post in place of the French, according to the agreement. June 25, 1940. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).

A 10-ton artillery tractor (55 H.P.) manufactured by Holt Manufacturing Co., Pecria, Ill., is shown in this camouflage pattern. The photograph was taken on September 3, 1918, and received from Holt Manufacturing Co. It bears the description number 32736 and is intended for official use only.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Zeeland Visit from the British minister Attee to the vandalism and inundations on Walcheren. Vlissingen. The visit takes place per Dukw (amphibious vehicle). Attee (with hat) climbs in the Dukw. March 1945. Vlissingen, Walcheren, Zeeland

Tanks and Afvs of the British Army 1939-45 Humber light reconnasissance car

Aberdeen Proving Ground , Armories, Ordnance industry, Artillery Weaponry, Helicopters, Military vehicles. Records of U.S. Army Operational

World War I, German tank on the Hindenburg Line, 1918

U.S. Tank Speeds Toward Frankfurt -- A tank of the sixth armored, third U.S. Army, speeds past two dead Nazi bazooka gunnors lying surrounded by seattered equipment it heads toward Frankfurt, Germany, march 27, 1945. Third army units cleared the city, 17 miles coast of the Rhine River, March 29. March 2, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).

78th Division Takes Centuripe -- Bren carriers passing through the town.The Sicilian town of Centuripe, north west of Catania, fell to men of the 78th Division after two days of heavy fighting. The town had a good strategic position at the top of a mountain and was desperately defended. October 18, 1943. (Photo by British Official Photo).

***** tanks in the parade at Trento which ended the ***** in the North. September 30, 1935.

Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, Va....A Marine Corps personnel carrier, half track (M3), viewed from the left front with camouflage paint and without the canvas top. Base: Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC tour through West Java through the Hussars van Boreel (reproduction). Krawang: The reserve eskadron armored cars of the Hussars van Boreel regiment makes a fourteen-day exploration through West Java. March 13, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Krawang, Dutch East Indies

Battery exercise of heavy air target artillery with the 90 mm guns on the grounds of the Hague (new) Alexanderkazerne.

A Marine recruit of Series 3097, Company A, crawls through smoke during his field training at the combat infiltration course on Range 200. Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Anefo photo collection. Decision armored division. May 1, 1946

Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection

Anefo photo collection. Old soldiers employ another day at Amersfoort section. April 24, 1956. Amersfoort

DN-SN-88-07068. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Victory Parade In Tunis, Tunisia, 12 May 1943.

German Troops Enter Prague.A lorry full of German troops passing through one of the main streets in Prague to take over command of the city. March 17, 1939. (Photo by Keystone).

Britians Latest Tanks In Action: Mark III "Valentines" -- A "Valentine advancing over rough Country at speed Fo. In this picture is seen one of Britains latest tanks - fast moving - well armed vehicles - in Action during a regent exercise. These Mighty tanks now being produced in ever increasing numbers, are manned by crews who can be relied upon to fight them with the same indomitable spirit of their brothers-in-arms in the British Navy. August 8, 1941.(Photo by British Official Photograph).

Anefo photo collection. Police and army with armored cars and tanks clear up barricades in Vondelbuurt, Amsterdam; Salvage tanker of the Leopard type associated with a genius part enoughs the tank is a member of the b.b.e. from the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee .. March 3, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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