Historical Military Photography

A collection of vintage images depicting military scenes and events, from flag hoisting to wartime realities.

Death in a Shell Hole. This striking photo, taken by a U.S. Coast Guard combat photographer Raphel R. Platnick at Eniwetok, shows a dead Marine lying face down in a shell hole. A comrade marked the spot with the dead Marine's rifle to attract litter bearers.

Ramming of Italian Submarine Cobalto by the British destroyer Ithuriel in the Mediterranean. December 28, 1942.

Hoist from the Dutch flag on the beach of Valkveen, c. 1915 - c. 1925 photograph Fixing the Dutch flag on the beach of Valkveen. Valkeveen iron (metal). cardboard ferrotyping beach (as place of recreation). flag raising Valkeveen

French Girl. This little French girl broke out the tri-color to greet the advancing Yanks. See also 26-G-2367, Box 37.

Death in a Shell Hole. This striking photo, taken by a U.S. Coast Guard combat photographer Raphel R. Platnick at Eniwetok, shows a dead Marine lying face down in a shell hole. A comrade marked the spot with the dead Marine's rifle to attract litter bearers.

Trenching of the inf. Rgts. NGO. 56.

Description: Commissioner & Interpreter. Location: Canada; United States of America Date: 1876 canada, americas

"Special delivery" For Tokyo. From the foreward battery of a Coast Guard cutter, a blinding flash hurls a barrage of steel into the night during practice firing somewhere in the Pacific. The Coast Guard gunners are sharpening up for a "Special Delivery" shells they hope to dispatch into the Japanese homeland.

Wehrmacht officer with wife, 1941 - 1942 photograph Album magazine with four photos of a Wehrmacht officer (presumably the compiler of the album) and his wife. Part of the photo album ABRECOMSINTENTENDANTur van de Wehrmacht 1941-1943. Netherlands photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print occupation ~ war. occupier and civilians. leave ~ the soldier off duty Netherlands

Pvt. Varney, Co. "A", 12th Regiment 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Landscape with a hussar seen from behind, Leon Eugène Auguste Abry (attributed to), 1867 - 1905 print paper etching / drypoint private soldier (+ cavalry, horsemen)

Cutter Bow. This image depicts the armed bow of a U.S. Coast Guard convoy cutter as she cleaves the ocean waters.

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front. Work of the Waac Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France - A Bathing Parade .. {1914-1918}. France

Thirty-Third Infantry, New York Regiment 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Gunnery. This image depicts a U.S. Coast Guardsmen going through a rifle drill aboard a Coast Guard ship.

Fight fee in Bainsiziza Plateau. 24.9.17. .

The shooting down of a German dirigible over London. H. Scott Orr (British, active about 1916)

Two postcards with portraits of Prince Hendrik, Ferdinand Robert Ebner, c. 1905 - c. 1915 photograph These photos are part of an album. The Hague baryta paper gelatin silver print historical persons. prince. throne. (military) uniforms

Description: On left of platform behind H.E. is Captain P.B. Bowring, The Bedford Regt. A.D.C. to His Excellency Location: Cyprus Date: June 1953 mediterranean, mediterraneanthroughalens

War Release Photo 20951, A Tank Going Over the Top. 1912 - 1917. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Haskell Institute. 1887-9/18/1947. Photographs of School Life

The Wounded Come Out. An American invader, wounded in a beachhead battle, is carefully moved aboard a Coast Guard landing craft for a quick run to a Coast Guard-manned assault transport standing off shore. Coast Guard landing craft bring in the invaders and fighting equipment; they carry back wounded Americans and capture enemies.

Massachusetts Coast Guardsmen Photograph War in Pacific. Coast Guardsmen Edward O. Donovan, photographer's mate second class (below), of 6 Kenneth St., Newton Highland, Suffolk, Mass. and Paul A. Queenan, photographer's mate second class, of 318 Tappen St., Brookline Mass., don't always have time for this kind of monkey business. Serving with the Coast Guard in the Pacific, they are making a photographic record of activities in advanced combat zones where American fighting men are blasting the Japs out of island strongholds.

Wiener duty, Emil Mayer -, photographer

Soldier with lance and shield on watch at a window, Eugène Leroux, After Adrien Guignet, 1855 - 1856 print Paris paper. guard duty, keeping sentry. private soldier. helved weapons, polearms (for striking, hacking, thrusting): lance. protective weapons: shield. helmet

Naval Stores - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Smokejumpers: Training - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Destroy German Radio Base in Greenland. U.S. Coast Guardsmen and soldiers charge in skirmish formation toward the German Army's radio station and base beyond the hills. The base was discovered by a force of Free Danish hunters, operating under the American Army, on an island off the coast of Greenland. It represented the first attempt by the Germans to establish a foothold in the Western hemisphere since the start of the war.

"De pick ob de hull roost.". B. L. Singley (American, 1864 - 1938)

Debarkation Close-up. This image depicts a Coast Guard-manned landing craft during the invasion of Saipan, drawn by Coast Guard Combat Artist Ken Riley.

First Wave Casualties on Luzon Beach. First Wave Casualties on Luzon Beach. Coast Guard beach parties give emergency treatment to wounded Yankees who fell in securing the beachhead on Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, under Japanese shell, machinegun and mortar fire. The casualties are awaiting transfer by landing barges to transports riding off shore, while their comrades push forward to open the advance upon Manila.

Machine gun in cover on the little pal. .

Martyre Chretienne , Martyrs, Carte de Visite Collection

Our own method of saving submarine seamen. Showing two divers wearing the recently invented copper helmet and waterproof jacket, allowing the men to breathe underwater for a significant length of time. The submarines are also fitted with air locks. Date: 1911

Photograph of Breeches Buoy.

Project 19 - Operation Sandstone (Enewatak) Test Activities. Decontamination Truck and B-17 Drone. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Blijdorp, Zaltbommel and Friedrichsfeld, 1941 - 1944 photograph Album magazine with three photos of the loved one Werner Neufang and Thea Driesen: in Blijdorp on March 9, 1941, in Zaltbommel in July 1944 and in Friedrichsfeld on their wedding day on September 27, 1944. part of a photo album about the German Werner Neufang of the Kriegsmarine and the Dutch Thea Driesen. Rotterdam paper. photographic support. pencil gelatin silver print / drawing / writing (processes) outing, pleasure trip. lovers; courting, flirting. (civil) marriage ceremonies Rotterdam. Zaltbommel. Blijdorp Zoo. Germany

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Pioneers SchilderhausMeissen. Pioneers Schilderhaus

Union troops climbing Roper's Rock on their way to the summit of Lookout Mountain / J.B. Linn & Co., photographers, Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain, Tenn.. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs , pp/liljpaper. Wilson, John, 1822-1896, United States, Army, Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 8th (1862-1864), People, Soldiers, Union, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, 1860-1870, Rock climbing, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, 1860-1870, Historical reenactments, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain.

Men in uniform on board the Hohenzollern, 1889 photograph Norway paper. cardboard Norway

Youth storm in a stadium; Youth storm. Group leaders of the youth storm in uniform are behind a low wall, presumably in a stadium. Fourth of the left is the leader of the youth storm C. van Geelkerken. The flag of the youth storm is about the wall. There are even more people behind them.

Exhibit of arms and flags 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Lt. General Sir W.J. Codrington, K.C.B.. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Risk information service own, photo number 156-0042. 1956

Military in the rabbit hutch, 1940 - 1944 photograph German soldier on his knees with a box in which three rabbits. Probably the rabbits go into the pan. Photo on page 13 in photo album surveillance bunkers. Netherlands photographic support gelatin silver print Netherlands

Trenches of 19.osman.Division, entrance to the Fuchsloch. .

Reconnaissance of the Inlandsbanan. From the land of the mosquitoes.

War album 106, picture 32425.

U.S. Coast Guard... On Land, On the Sea, In the Air. The U.S. Coast Guard.. On Land, On the Sea, In the Air. This U.S. Coast Guardsman finding protective cover on a beach is typical of Coast Guardsman, who operate on the ground as well as on the sea and in the air. They have ranged to foreign soils from the invasion shores of the Solomons to Sicily, and guard the shores and ports of America on foot as well as by sea.

Ready For Action. This image depicts a Coast Guard gun crew standing by on alert for enemy action. These Coast Guardsmen symbolize the determination of fighting men.

Dual-level cannon.

On August 13th, the Japanese army was dispatched from the Japanese Special Marine Corps Command in Hongkou. This was during the Japanese invasion of China.

War album 93, picture 27599.

West Point: Cadet shaving in front of tent, June 1913

Hunting and Staff, Anonymous, 1949 photograph Album magazine with seven photos of a wild boar shot by the Dutch soldiers, the interior of a house in the camp in Tjikalonkelon (Cikalong-Kulon) and soldiers posing with female staff. Part of the photo album 'My years in India' with photos about the military actions in the Dutch East Indies. Dutch East Indies, The cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print the company, the unit, the troop ~ military service. shelter ~ military service. historical persons. house personnel, servants. hoofed animals: boar (+ animal killed by man) Dutch East Indies, The

Other Project. 1941-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

United States Coast Guard Bering Sea Patrol - Cutter NORTHWIND, Point Barrow. United States Coast Guard Bering Sea Patrol - The Coast Guard Cutter NORTHWIND in the ice east of Point Barrow, northern-most point of our Arctic possessions. On 23 July, 1948, shorefast ice still clung and the ship anchored in the lee of a field of grounded ice.

Location: China Date: 1920-1940 china, asia, asiathroughalens

Soldier Creek Pump - Assembly. 1900 - 1960.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

"Stereo photograph of a still life by Franz Antoine d. J., taken on albumin paper in August 1859, showing three helmets, swords, and skulls arranged as objects."

Sinbad "Sacks In" to Sleep It Off. Sinbad, famed mascot of a Coast Guard Combat Cutter, is in the doghouse again. After a big night of shore liberty with the boys, he failed to muster and stayed sacked in in his specially made sea hammock. Sinbad is a gay blade with the ladies, and surpassing his shipmates, has several in every port.

Coast Guard Pigeons Help Protect Convoys. Coast Guard carrier pigeons are used to carry records of bombing practice from the target tow-boat back to a Coast Guard Air Station. In this way, the record of "hits" and "near misses" is in the "Flying Cutter" bomber's hands the moment he alights from his plane. The pigeon corps also serves as winged messengers from the "Flying Cutters" protecting the coastal waters from enemy subs. This picture shows a Coast Guardsman releasing a pigeon from a target tow boat.

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. The British Western front in France. During the British advance on the Somme a machine gun position was being held by the Germans behind the remnants of this factory boiler. The holes were caused by British shrapnel which soon dislodged them.. 1914-1918}. Frankrijk, Somme

Group from the Michigan 4th Infantry 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

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Playing Ball In Gas Masks. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen playing ball in gas masks as part of their training.

Photo collection Government information service. Putten. The postman has an extra task. He helps the widow of the butcher in his free time so that the population of Putten can get their skinny meat ration. October 29, 1945. Putten

Leading climber at the top of the mountain, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 23, June 4, 1916.

Lt. General Sir Harry Jones, K.C.B.. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

Dorp and Machinegeweer, Anonymous, 1948 - 1949 photograph Album magazine with seven photos of Dutch soldiers in a village, posing with house staff and on the street with machine gun. Part of the photo album 'My years in India' with photos about the military actions in the Dutch East Indies. Dutch East Indies, The cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print the company, the unit, the troop ~ military service. village. firearms (with NAME) Dutch East Indies, The

Flying Cross Awarded Coast Guard Officer. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox today awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross to Commander Richard L. Burke, U.S. Coast Guard, who has performed many daring rescues, including that of the German shown above. This German was one of seven survivors of a destroyed German U-Boat rescued by the Coast Guard officer, part of whose plane shows at the left.

Debreczyn Exhibition Photojournalist Rudnik Andrzej Photography

Photograph of Two Sets of Brothers Reuniting. "Japo" Deserts the Japs In The Marshalls. Two sets of brothers, holding a reunion aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport at Guadalcanal, meet "Japo," the famed chicken who deserted the Japs and came over to the American invaders in the conquest of the Marshalls. "Japo" found the fire too hot. She suddenly ran out from a bomb blasted island, fluttered cackling up the ramp of a landing barge and leaped into the arms of the boat crew. Since that day Japo has been given the run of the transport and seems destined to escape the stew pot. The brothers, meeting on a gun platform, are (left to right): Major Lyle J. Robertson, U. S. Army Air Forces; and Coast Guardsman M. T. Robertson, motor machinist's mate second class, both from Carbondale, Illinois; Coast Guard Lieutenant (j.g.) Norman F. Heydinger, and Staff Sergt. E. R. Heydinger, U. S. Army Air Forces, both from Toledo, Ohio.

Polish children in occupied Warsaw. Żarnower, Teresa, 1897-1949. 1942 - 1945. Prints, Photographs. Manuscripts and Archives Division. World War, 1939-1945 , Poland, Warsaw (Poland) , History , Siege, 1939, Photomontages

10cm M.14 Field Heading Batt.1 / r.f.H.reg.94 In position at the Kl.Pal by enemy fire unusable. .

Photo collection Government information service. New Guinea. undated. New Guinea

Lobsters. Unknown

Photo collection First World War. "An obstacle is being taken." 1914-1918}. The Netherlands

It Is For Us, The Living. This image depicts an American remembering the more than a quarter million of their countrymen who have given their lives on the field of battle during World War II.

Evert Ingemansson - submarine images..

Edward Scott, Civil War victim. Unknown maker, American

View on Tennessee 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

German soldier with bicycle on a bridge, 1940 - 1943 photograph A German soldier poses with a bicycle on a bridge in Brielle. He wears an army trap and glasses. Behind him and an ANWB sign that points to, among others, Oostvoorne, Hellevoetsluis, Maassluis and The Hague. Half visible behind the soldier can be seen a sign in German. On the back it says: Mein Fahrrad ist Gründlich überholt, Neue Kette Etz. (Again the same person as on NG-2007-5-35 to 38). Brielle photographic support gelatin silver print occupation ~ war. bicycle Brielle

Eleonora Duse and Giuseppe Primoli in Athens.

Greek soldier. 1911. Photographs. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.), New York (N.Y.) , Emigration and immigration, Immigrants , New York (State) , New York, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)

Immerseing submarine. .

Unknown Japanese soldiers, left two group portraits on a boat, Anonymous, 1937 - 1941 photograph These photos are part of an album. baryta paper gelatin silver print the soldier; the soldier's life. anonymous historical person portrayed

Artillery coaches at work in Sempeter, at Gorizia (Görz).

Elsevier photo collection. Eisenhower attended day International AviationSchow Ypenburg. General, Flank Prime Minister Drees Minister War C. Staff tense attention .. July 28, 1951. Hague, Ypenburg, South Holland

Description: Manchu Iron Works - Anshan, Manchuria. Photographed by U.S.Signal Corps, 12 June 1946. View number 2 of destruction caused by demolition around blast furnaces numbers 2, 1 and 4 attributed by Chinese Nationalist authorities to Chinese Communist Army. Location: Anshan, China Date: 12 June 1946 china, asia, anshan, , , asiathroughalens

Equipment. 1938-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Iwo Jima's Volcano Erupts -- With Shellfire. This image depicts the volcano on the southern tip of Iwo Jima which is heavily fortified by the Japanese as it is erupted with deadly fire when the Marines Stormed Beachward.

Soldier's home.

Free From the Shackles. Free From the Shackles. Jubilant Filipinos swarm over Luzon's beaches to welcome a Coast Guardsman (foreground), one of the first American liberators to land on Jan. 9. Joy is unbounded among the natives as they pour forth to hail the forces who struck the Jap shackles and returned them from bondage. This picture was made a few hours after the amphibious landings on Lingayen Gulf beachheads which quickly drove the Japs inland and which set up the march on Manila.

Bollenvelden, 1944 photograph Album magazine with five photos of a trip from Käte and Hedwig with two officers from the Deutsche Reichsbahn to the bulb fields near Hillegom on April 20, 1944 and of a rowing trip. Part of the photo album Deutsche Reichsbahn, 1943-1944. Hillegom photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print historical persons - BB - woman. outing, pleasure trip Hillegom

THE LATE COUNT VON MOLTKE LYING IN STATE IN THE PALACE OF THE GENERAL STAFF, BERLIN, GERMANY

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Articles lute. King (Wajang-Goleg dolls Tangerang). Visiting PA Ahim in Tangerang, which is the manufacturer of the Wajang-Golek dolls .. November 25, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection First World War. The British Forces at Salonika. A bombing officer "Lobbing" a Mills Grenade. 1914-1918}. Greece, Saloniki

Dedicated to the heroes of the United States Battleship Maine, the great white ships of the U.S. | Library of Congress

Ammunition refuse. (Terz: mid-May 1918.).

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