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Historical Military Vehicles

Black and white imagery of armored vehicles from different eras, highlighting military exercises and historical significance with rugged landscapes.

New Tank Retriever at Work - The Army Shows off its T-51 tank Retriever, designed to drag disabled tanks and other heavy equipment from battlefields under fire. Shown here hauling away one tank, the Army says it is capable of Towing three medium size tanks over Rough Terrain at the same time. It was among newer weapons on display today at the Proving Ground for viewing by 4,000 civilian and military ordnance experts. October 08, 1953. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Sidelights on the Submarine Service. 26, 27 and 28 January 1943, Malta. On the bridge of HMS UNA, Lt T W Lancaster, (with beard) RN, Navigator, and Coxswain C Falck. UNA is changing berth.

Black and white photograph of German troops in Prague on 9 March 1939.

Floods in Normandy -- There has been torrential rain on the Caen front, and the tank tracks, on which the dust flew bitingly yesterday, are now pools of mud. This picture shows vehicles and troops negotiating the muddy roads and tracks in Normandy. October 09, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Anefo photo collection. Additional employment in Heusden. The recovery work on the defense skylights, symbolically carried out by tankoer. May 9, 1968. Heusden

Military assistance after severe snowfall during strict winter conditions.

tanks and soldiers 1930, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Russians Enter Minsk -- According to the caption accompanying this photo, which was received in New York by radio, on July 6, from Moscow, Russian tanks and troops pass the Government building as they enter the liberated city of Minsk. June 7, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Radiophoto).

British Victory Parade In Berlin -- British Armored units roll down Charlotten ***** Chaussee in a victory parade through the ***** war-torn Berlin, Germany. In background ***** Prussian Column. July 21, 1945. (Photo by B. Sanders, Associated Press).

Anefo photo collection. The war museum at Overloon. War Museum at Overloon. German armored scatter. November 12, 1945. Overloon

Germany, Wittstock, 12.11.1992, entrance to the former military training area Ruppiner Heide (Bombodrom), former Soviet occupation, action: FREIeHEIDe, war equipment on the field, lorries, dozer blades, cranes

A wooden decoy 105 mm howitzer is seen on display. These decoys were used during World War One to deceive the enemy, mimicking artillery placements and diverting attention away from real military activities.

Russian generals inspecting an exposition of captured German armaments, Russia, 1943. Red Army Deputy Commander-in-Chief Marshal Georgi Zhukov with colleagues including Marshal Kliment Voroshilov and Marshal Nikolai Voronov. The photographer is unknown.

German and British Fighting Vehicles On Show - On left is an English Beetle Tank, electrically driven, which was scraped in 1939, compared to a German Goliath (right) which was used in Italy in 19343. An exhibition of British an German Fighting Vehicles is being held at Chobham Lane, Chertsey, Surrey this week. Many vehicle have only just come off the secret list. July 30, 1946.

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.

During Operation ROUGH RIDER, a route reconnaissance patrol, a column of LAV25 light armored vehicles from Company D, 2nd Light Armored Infantry Battalion, encounters a crowd of Panamanians blocking the road as they protest the US presence in Panama. Subject Operation/Series: ROUGH RIDER Country: Panama (PAN)

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.

Weapons and equipment used by a Marine reconnaissance team during Operation Desert Shield include, from left: an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) with an M-249 squad automatic weapon (SAW) on top and an M998 with an M-2 .50 caliber machine gun. In front of the hard-roofed M998 is a Marine armed with an M-249 SAW. A Marine armed with an M16 rifle, equipped with M-209 grenade launcher, is beside the M998. In front is an M-19 automatic grenade launcher equipped with Starlight scope, center, flanked by an M-60E3, left, and a SAW. Modular universal laser equipment and radio equipment complete with display.. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Africa 1940/1941. Egyptian front. Moving artillery during advance to Sidi El Barrani. September 1940

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

Australian Tanks In Syria -- Three Australian tanks move over the flat terrain during recon naissance movements in the advance into Syria. tank crews peer out and pennants fly from the Radio Antennae. July 24, 1941. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

A Turkish Stronghold firing artillery during World War I

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Festivities following the birth of Princess Marijke. Saluute shots by cannon artillery. 19 February 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

GUERRA CIVIL - CARROS REPUBLICANOS T-26 FRENTE A LA PLAZA DE TOROS DE TERUEL - ENERO DE 1938.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC A-Division Surabaya Presentation of weapons and vehicles. Universal Carrier (or Bren Carrier). Plate with inscription "Bren carrier. X-bde. K.L .. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

An M4 Sherman enjoyment tank with Dozerblad passes the downlet point with O.A. H.M. Koningin Juliana and Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard during the parade in Ede on the occasion of Liberation Day.

British tank destroys a tree en route to the battle of Cambrai , during World war One 1917. The Battle of Cambrai was a British military offensive, that involved the first successful use of tanks and combined arms.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Patrol boat with aircraft guns on the quay at a river. 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

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

The Royal Navy during the Second World War WRNS craftswomen painting a motor-launch (ML 195) at HMS TORMENTOR, Southampton.

Children climbing and sitting on captured guns in the Mall, London, on Armistice Day at the end of World War One. Date: 11th November 1918

The English tank Lusitania, France, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 50, December 16, 1917.

Gas Turbine Engines For Army Vehicles.The new vehicle powered by a gas-turbine engine during the display at Chertsey.A feature of a demonstration of British military vehicles staged at Chertsey, Surrey, was the first appearance of a huge tank prol propelled by a gas-turbine angina. The object of the experiment is to utilize the high horsepower the gas-turbine can generate. The unit is reported to be capable of, developing 1,000 horsepower. October 01, 1954. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Artwork: "Slovakian Tanks in Action," 1941. Artist: Bloss-Eisfeld. Catalog Number: G.O.2.123.50. US Army Art Collection. Country: Unknown

German children watch U.S. Tanks of 87th Division, Third U.S. Army, enter town of Kobern, Germany. March 16, 1945. Kobern, was on the Moselle River five miles southwest of Coblenz. World War 2 (BSLOC_2015_13_70)

British tank on 5th Ave.

FOTOGRAFIA-AVANCE DE LA DIVISION PANZER 1940.

Various results of the war Disabled tank at Gaza 1917, Gaza Strip, Middle East

World war Two: American forces near Strasbourg, France

Children climb on a leopard 1 combat tank in a cavalry bivaint during an open day. A long-haired hussar grants assistance with the cloak work.

990626-M-5696S-007. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN State: Kosovo Country: Yugoslavia (YUG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26th Marine Expedtionary Unit

Anefo photo collection. "Nouveautes" presented at the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee in Apeldoorn; The new M113A1 armored crawler vehicle. October 28, 1975. Apeldoorn, Gelderland

Anefo photo collection. Folk entertainment in Amsterdam. Bump REP. of the different festivities N.A.v. The liberation in the capital. DEILER for the Palace on Dam Square. Sherman Tank. 28 June 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

'Mobile anti-aircraft gun used by Territorial and Home Defence units. From ''Air Raid Precautions'' Set of 50 cards issued in 1938, preparing the British population for outbreak of war. Antipicitated. World War II.'

Machine Gunner guards Military Construction Site.

Sailors and Marines secure two LAV-25 light armored vehicles to the deck of an Air Cushion Landing Craft (LCAC) during Exercise Ocean Venture '88. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '88 Base: Nas, Roosevelt Roads State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Parade on Red Squares in Moscow, Nov. 7, 1945 -- Columns of Soviet self-propelled guns and armored automobiles on the way to Red Square. October 20, 1950. (Photo by M. Trakhman, Pictorial Press).

Anefo photo collection. Police and army with armored cars and tanks clear up barricades in Vondelbuurt, Amsterdam; Salvage tank. March 3, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Tour of Prince Bernhard by West Netherlands. The prince on the market in Delft. June 29, 1945. Delft, South Holland

Visit from Prince Bernhard on the open day in the airbase Deelen, also his 60th birthday. Static show from Army equipment. M113.

'La Nouvelle Europe; la guerre civile a Berlin; du 5 au 11 janvier 1919 a Berlin; un tank, pris naguere a l'armee britannique, utilise par les troupes gouvernementales et traversant la ville pour aller defendre la prefecture de police', 1919. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Tanks rolling across fields in search of the enemy , Tanks Military science, Military personnel, Airplanes, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

DEU, Germany: NATO field parade on 24.3.1972

A artist's concept of Soviet surface-to-air laser weapons. PHOTO courtesy of Soviet Military Power Magazine. Country: Unknown

Jeeps on the war path , Military personnel, Jeep automobiles, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Tanks rolling across fields in search of the enemy , Tanks Military science, Military personnel, Airplanes, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

05/08/1965. Battle Tanks in the Victory Parade.

Rommel's Panzers: details of the PZ Mark IV, and German methods of tank transportation and refuelling during the Second World War. Date: 1942

A staghound armored wagon. This reconnaissance vehicle, equipped with a 37 mm cannon into a rotating dome, was one of the first armored cars that entered the army after 1945.

The Commander-in-Chief Home Forces, General Sir Bernard Paget, in the turret of a Crusader tank of 42nd Armoured Division during a large-scale exercise near Malton in Yorkshire, 29 September 1942.

A Caravan Control Truck On An Airbase In England. 17 June 1944.

German militarisation during 1936. Parade of tanks at a Nazi rally.

Soviet main battle tank chart. Country: Unknown

A left side view of a Soviet SA-9 Gaskin weapon system. Country: Unknown

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