Historical Military Operations

Vintage footage showcasing U.S. military personnel during key battles in Vietnam and Iwo Jima, highlighting combat actions and troop movements.

Operation OREGON, a search and destroy mission conducted by an infantry platoon of Troop B, 1st Recon Sqd, 9th Cav, 1st Cav Div (Airmobile) three km west of Duc Pho. Troops prepare to move out in search of a suspected Viet Cong outpost as a Huey takes off. 24 April 1967, Vietnam.

Five medics transport a wounded soldier on a stretcher into an ambulance, somewhere in Korea. Buildings surround the area.

Aggressors of the 554th Civil Engineering Squadron instruct others on how to apply camouflage facial make-up. The unit is participating in a joint Red Horse Team mobility training exercise. Base: Camp Casey Country: South Korea

CMDR Donald Thurston explains the use of an insecticide to a French medic during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. Thurston is part of a preventive medicine team inspecting refugee camps for unsanitary conditions which might promote disease. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ)

JACK BLACK, ROBERT DOWNEY JR., BEN STILLER, JAY BARUCHEL and BRANDON T. JACKSON in TROPIC THUNDER (2008), directed by BEN STILLER.

Two Marines rush a building in combat town, a mock town built for small unit combat training in the Central Training Area. State: Okinawa Country: Japan (JPN)

DF-SD-03-17790. Complete Scene Caption: Medics treat the blown of foot of an Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldier immediately after he was extracted from a burning minefield at Bien-Hoa Air Base in the Republic of Vietnam (RVM). The soldier lost a foot when he stepped on a landmine. Nobody could figure out how to extract the wounded soldier without tripping the mines. AIRMAN First Class (A1C) William Hart Pitsenbarger, Pararescue Crew Member, Detachment 6, 38th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron (ARRS) said, "No problem, just lower me down on the penetrator, Ill straddle the guy, pick him up, and then you can lift me up." Risky as everyone knew that the prop wash could also setoff the mines. A1C Pitsenbarger earned the Airmans Medal and Vietnam's Medal of Military Merit and the Gallantry Cross with Bronze Palm for this action. Base: Bien Hoa Air Base Country: Republic Of Vietnam (RVN)

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 (NMCB-3) take a meal break at the firing range during Exercise Kennel Bear '89. Subject Operation/Series: KENNEL BEAR '89 Base: Tinian Island Country: Northern Mariana Islands (MNP)

Nordic-Polish Brigade Lieutenant Colonel Andrzej Turek, S-5 officer, Polish Battalion, and a member of the International Police Task Force (IPTF) in Bosnia and Herzegovina talks with a factory worker during an investigation of various suspected prisoners of war camps during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

A judge from Headquarters, Tactical Air Command, records their time as team members bear a simulated battlefield casualty into the remains processing shelter during the civil engineering/services competition Readiness Challenge '90. Subject Operation/Series: READINESS CHALLENGE '90 Base: Hurlburt Field State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

LGEN Claud M. Kicklighter, right, Commanding General, U.S. Army Western Command, stops to talk with a member of the 25th Infantry Division (Light), during the joint Australian/U.S. exercise Kangaroo '89. Subject Operation/Series: KANGAROO '89 Base: Caravale Country: Australia (AUS)

A soldier hooks up the safety strap on the back of a truck as he and other members of Co. B, 5th Bn., 87th Infantry Regt., are taken to a riot control training session. Base: Fort Clayton Country: Panama (PAN)

U.S. Marines with Headquarters and Service Battalion (HQSVCBN), U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC), and members of the Marine Infantry Regiment in French Polynesia, French Armed Forces, treat Capt. Daniel W. Chow, company commander, Headquarters Company, HQSVCBN, MARFORPAC, for wounds during the Aito Course in Taravao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Sept. 7, 2022. The event provided a bilateral training opportunity between the French Armed Forces and Marines with U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific. The nine Marines and Sailor from HQSVCBN participated in the bilateral training with the French Armed Forces in order to strengthen relationships with the region. The courses name comes from the Tahitian word aito, which means warrior.

During Operation Uphold Democracy, an army soldier, wearing a flack vest, sits atop a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) from the 55th MP Battalion mounted with an M60 machine gun. He is providing security just inside the gate of the Presidential Palace during the inauguration ceremony for President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who is being returned as president. Haitian supporters crowd the outside of the gate. Subject Operation/Series: UPHOLD DEMOCRACY Base: Port Au Prince Country: Haiti (HTI)

STAFF SGT. Elizabeth M. Brown, instructor, 3707th Basic Military Training Squadron, conducts a drill at the Military Training School. Base: Lackland Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A Royal Canadian Air Force member watches the judge check his target for his score on the firing range during the Volant Rodeo 1981 competition. Base: Pope Air Force Base State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Laos, Armed guard on upcountry truck.

ARTILLEROS EN UN TANQUE. Location: DESFILE MILITAR. MADRID. SPANIEN.

Kurdish men sit in the shade beneath a tent fly at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Schoolboys engaged in military training exercises as army cadets, southern England, UK, late 1950s boys lining up kit for inspection in front of their tents at campsite.

CAPT. Rodney Anderson, left, and LT. GEN. Gary Luck, XVIII Airborne Corps commanding general, escort LT. GEN. Calvin A.H. Waller, deputy chief of staff, U.S. Central Command, as he departs the XVIII Airborne Corps tactical operations center following a visit during Operation Desert Shield.. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

SENIOR AIRMAN Andrew Hill of the 435th Security Police Squadron uses his handkerchief for relief from the heat during the Defender Challenge '88 competition. Subject Operation/Series: DEFENDER CHALLENGE '88 Base: Little Rock Air Force Base State: Arkansas (AR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team members check their gear before diving into the oil-polluted water to search for Iraqi mines. Australian and British EOD teams are also taking part in the effort to clear the area of ordnance left by Iraqi forces who were ousted from the country by U.S. and allied forces during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Kenya Police Airwing. Four officers of the Kenya Police Airwing watch as a light aircraft comes in to land on a grassy plain. Nakuru, Kenya, 1955. Nakuru, Rift Valley, Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa.

An airman guides a Kurdish refugee away from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter that has landed to deliver supplies to the refugee camp. The food delivery is part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ)

LCPL Cornelius Harrison (left) and LCPLD Christopher Johnson assist vistors at the main gate at Marine Expeditionary Camp-Pohang (MEC-P), Oct. 11, 1998. Harrison is out of the Combat Service Support Group, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, and Johnson is from the Combat Service Support Detachment, Camp Hansen, Okinawa. Both are deployed to MEC-P, in support of Foal Eagle '98 for two months. Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE '98KOREA CD Base: Marine Expeditionary, Pohang Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

G.I. in Battle.

A member of the Combat Harbor Patrol Division at Naval Station Rodman, scans the riverbank from a patrol boat during riverine/jungle warfare exercises. Base: Chagres River Country: Panama (PAN)

DN-SC-89-03225. Base: Malabo Country: Equatorial Guinea (GNQ)

Airmen from the 1369th Audiovisual Flight carry sand bags down to a low-lying area to protect against flooding as the rainy season begins after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Base: Clark Air Base State: Luzon Country: Philippines(PHL)

A view of a manning post adjacent to the Marine Amphibious Unit Command Post. The Marines are participating as members of a multinational peacekeeping force. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

A female recruit attacks a practice dummy on the bayonet course. Base: Fort Jackson State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

THE DOWNFALL: HITLER AND THE END OF THE THIRD REICH (2004) -Original title: DER UNTERGANG-, directed by OLIVER HIRSCHBIEGEL.

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Sgt. Joshua Minter, a company first sergeant with 7th Communication Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, right, speaks during a Battle of Iwo Jima professional military education (PME) at Iwo To, Japan, May 31, 2022. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force traveled to Iwo To for a PME where they learned about the Battle of Iwo Jima.

España. Guerra civil (1936-1939). Falange española y de las J.O.N.S. División 72 del Cuerpo del Ejército de Castilla. Flechas Verdes, junto a legionarios del Corpo Truppe Volontaire, CTV, formaron una unidad mixta italo-española movilizada para hacer frente en la ofensiva de Catalunya al final de la contienda. Oficial italiano y un soldado en el peñón de Ifach, en Calpe, observando el mar y las salinas a través de unos prismáticos. Marzo de 1939.

Members of the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, arrive at auxiliary field 6 during exercise BOLD EAGLE '82. Subject Operation/Series: BOLD EAGLE '82 Base: Eglin Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A story for TIME magazine on the War on Drugs in Washington DC, DC in November 1989

A role player pleads for help from a US Marine Corps Team 4 soldier during the Non-combatant Evacuation portion of Situational Training Exercise -2, COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96. Cooperative Osprey '96 is a United States Atlantic Command sponsored exercise, that will be conducted by Marine Forces Atlantic, in August 1996 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Cooperative Osprey, under the Partnership for Peace program, will provide interoperability training in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations along NATO/IFOR standards, with anemphasis on individual and collective skills. Subject Operation/Series: COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96 Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Chaplains, U.S. Marines and family members observe a moment of silence at memorial services for the 241 Marines killed during the terrorist bombing of the barracks at Beirut International Airport. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of the multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

ROBERT DOWNEY JR., JAY BARUCHEL and BRANDON T. JACKSON in TROPIC THUNDER (2008), directed by BEN STILLER.

Infantrymen undergo physical training at the Army Air Assault School. Base: Fort Campbell State: Kentucky (KY) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DA-SC-88-00457. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD '86 Country: Thailand (THA)

DF-ST-86-10972. Base: Colorado Springs State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A U.S. Navy Basic Underwater Demolition/Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) (BUD/S) trainees struggle in a mud pit during a "hell week" exercise. Phase I of BUD/S training concludes with "hell week," when students' physical, emotional and mental abilities are tested under adverse conditions. Base: Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Philippine Marines march in a parade after participating in the reenactment of General MacArthur's landing at Red Beach on October 20, 1944. Base: Leyte Island Country: Philippines (PHL)

LT Hamad Al-Angari of Kuwait leads a patrol during ranger training at the Dahlonega Ranger Camp. Base: Fort Benning State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Bosnia, Near Konic. Landmine Victim

DENNIS HOPPER, MARTIN SHEEN and FREDERIC FORREST in APOCALYPSE NOW (1979), directed by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA.

US Army, SPECIALIST (SPC) Michael Morris, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, stands guard during training in conducting a temporary checkpoint near Brcko, Bosina-Herzegovina, part of force protection training. Operation Joint Guard, 30 April 1997. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Brcko Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

SPEC. 4 Kelly Wray uses a radio to keep in contact with operations control during Lifeline Operations. The operations are being conducted by the 155th, 567th and 870th Transportation companies. Subject Operation/Series: LIFELINE Base: Southport State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Washington, D.C. Vietnam Veterans War Memorial

World War II Re-enactment, Reading, PA

SENIOR AIRMAN Robert T. Ontiveros, a security policeman, approaches to frish Technical Sergeant Joseph E. Britt, who is spread-eagled on the ground. Ontiveros is providing security for PATRIOT PORT '83, a reserve exercise in which reserve personnel from the 57th and 85th Aerial Port Squadrons (APS), Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, take over the duties of the 437th APS. Subject Operation/Series: PATRIOT PORT '83 Base: Charleston Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-85-12473. Country: Philippines (PHL)

CAZADORES DESCANSANDO - FOTO AÑOS 60. Location: CACERIA. PROVINCIA. Guadalajara. SPANIEN.

HARRISON FORD in FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE (1978), directed by GUY HAMILTON.

DA-ST-85-02182. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

US Marine Corps (USMC) Recruit Brag and the rest of the recruits from Fourth Battalion, "N" Company, doing push-ups during morning physical training on April 24th, 2000, at Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot, South Carolina. Base: Parris Island State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-89-00440. Base: Darien Province Country: Panama (PAN)

DA-ST-88-08145. Subject Operation/Series: MEDRETE Base: Palmerola Air Base Country: Honduras (HND)

SPC William Michael runs a phone cord across the top of a barracks building at the Rebuplic of Korea, K-2 Air Base, Taegu, on Oct. 16, 1998. The compound is set aside for a group of Army Special Forces who will be arriving within the next week in support of Foal Eagle '98. Foal Eagle is a deployment exercise that takes place once a year in Korea. Subject Operation/Series: FOALEAGLE '98KOREA CD Base: K-2, Taegu Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Bangladesh civilians and military personnel help to unload supplies from a CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter during Operation Sea Angel, a U.S. military effort to aid victims of a cyclone which struck the area on April 30th. Subject Operation/Series: SEA ANGEL Base: Markhata Country: Bangladesh(BGD)

Members of the Combat Mobility Team from Clark Air Base, Philippines, and Yokta Air Base, Japan, stand on the site where atomic bombs were loaded onto B-29 aircraft during World War II. The airfield is presently being used for Exercise Kennel Bear '4-82. Subject Operation/Series: KENNEL BEAR '4-82 Base: Tinian Island Country: Northern Mariana Islands (MNP)

DN-ST-85-12702. Base: Andrews Air Force Base State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

JOHN WOO in WINDTALKERS (2002), directed by JOHN WOO.

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