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Historical War Trenches and Ruins

Images depict wartime trenches, devastated landscapes, and artillery locations from World War I, showcasing the aftermath of battle and war ravaged environments.

Federal Troops occupying line of Breastworks on the North Bank of North Anna River, Virginia, USA, during Ulysses S. Grant's Wilderness Campaign, photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, May 25, 1864

Arrival wounded in Wippach.

mass funeral in St Petersburg; Russia as soldiers are buried 1917

Photo collection First World War. The Western Front. Ruins Near The Front. 1914-1918}

Italian troops waiting to advance in Val Cismon, World War I, Italy, 20th century.

Melilla, August 1909. Moroccan War, construction of a blockhouse.

A huge German tank captured by the Americans in France, shortly before the Armistice Date: 29 September 1918

Presumably a photo gallery of a honing unit with field of application in Galicia.

War album 20, picture 5407.

Weary and wounded rebels, Lerdo

Hood of conquered work campolongo. .

Position at Piave, 10.12.1917.

Italy -- 1st line trenches

Boni Expedition on South Celebes (Badjowé and Watamponé) from 1905-1906. A conquered Benteng (Inland's Fort).

Positions of the Infantry Regiment No.1.

Police action on Java. Dutch soldiers occupied a power station Totang in the neighborhood of Semarang, July 30, 1947.

Fort Mahone, (or Fort Damnation,) Petersburg. April, 1865. Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection). United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.

War album 95, picture 28220.

January 2, 1916. One of the blocks that contained projectiles.

Uderwangen, the war in the east, today Tschechowo, place in the Russian oblast Kaliningrad, view from ca 1910, digital reproduction of a public domain...

Granate-proof shelter of the cannon battery 4/25 at ptycze.

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. King of Belgians visits the western front. The King of the Belgians at the entrance of an old German dug-out with general Gough. 1914-1918}

Arrival of a shooter piece at the shelters at Heemskerk.The largest shooters piece from Van der Helst, the Vendel of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz Blauw is transported. The work is carried in the bunker from a glass truck. The bomb-free cellars were built in 1940 after the shelters in North Holland villages were not safe. The collection components of the museum were evacuated in 1939. The new cellars were put into use in 1941.

Sanitary patrol in ditch. Recorded on 5.Iv.1916 in the infantry regiments NGO.65. .

Men at hanging stone in Batoe. Gantong on Ambon. Part of travel album with pictures of Ambon.

Gury, Oise, Picardy, France Piece 75 Sous Casemate in Gury , 1915 - Picardie - Stéphane Passet (French - Gury , Oise , Picardie , France Pièce de 75 sous casemate à Gury). Military uniform, group portrait, canon, front, fortified architecture, artillery, man, army, Clothing, human beings, First World War, Habitat , Architecture, Society, France, Gury, 75 -sous Casemate piece in Gury

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Tombeaux sakalaves au Ménabé. Photographs. 1860 - 1914. General Research Division. Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Madagascar

French troops crossing a village street under German fire, First World War, 1914-1915, (c1920). 'On the Belgian Frontier'. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume II, edited by Frank A Mumby. The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920

The area of "Wolf's Shape", the head of Adolf Hitler's headquarters - the remaining of one of the bunkers; from a series of photographs to the article by Miroszek Azembski "in the field of" Mierci Field of harvest "," Wiatr "1953, No. 49, p. 20; Pra 1953 (1953-00-00-1953-00-00);

Interior of Fort Sumter in April 1861 after its surrender by U.S. garrison. No. 4798, Title from item, See also LOT 4166-C no. 219 for full stereo view, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.), 1860-1870, United States, South Carolina, Charleston.

Petersburg, Virginia. Fort Sedgwick. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

42 cm Haitzen position in the Canal Valley at Gugg. Insert of the ball bearing. Recorded on 5.VIII.1916. .

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection German East African Campaign. The Ngeri-Ngeri Bridge on Dar es Salaam to Mikesse Line, destroyed by the Germans when their retired south from the Central Railway. See p. 53 of 'With the Nigerians in G. E. A.', (Downes). The centre span was blown up, and train after train then driven into the deep valley, so that one train lay on top of another till the pile of wreckage was flush with the old bridge level. A deviation was made here by the Indian Pioneers.

8th Anniversary (Louis Stabber). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Boer War: arrival of a Boer Red Cross train with the wounded at Pretoria. Reproduction of a sketch by F. de Haenen after a photograph.

Soldier Friedhof Wojmica. .

Goats-Eye View of War. Mired in the sloppy going on Ihiya Iheya Shima, an American tank offers an unusual pen for a pair of native goats, while two of its fellows wallow in the mud. In capturing this tiny island, 25 miles northwest of Okinawa, the second Marine division, coming ashore in Coast Guard landing craft, sustained negligible casualties. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced the seizure of Ihiya Shima, 17th island of the Okinawa group to be taken, this week.

Work Lucerne Front Escarp With Leutnant Von Sölder, Lucerne, Luserna, Trentino, Dolomites. Photographer: Flam.

Soldier graves with sacrifices of the first days of sixth Isonzo blach.

Position at Fajti Hrib 1.3.18. .

Cemetery of Polish Aviators in Newark on Trent unknown

Watermodramp 1953 Nederlandse soldiers in the area affected by the disaster near Zijpe.

Major Müller Source in the snow cave at the lance head. .

Schumanzeugdepot of the 25th infantry division.

Billiard room and bar of the Bradley's hotel in Mafeking destroyed in the second peasant war; The Billiard and Bar Room of Bradley's Hotel After A 94 lb. Shell had entered, mapheking, s.a ...

US Civil War. Siege of Charleston, 1863. Two Confederate soldiers, standing on the ruins of a chimney, in Fort Sumter, 1863. During the Union bombardment in August 1863, Confederate Gen. Beauregard replaced the fort's usual garrison with 320 infantrymen, who withstood the shelling and repulsed a Union landing party on the night of Sept. 8, 1863. The attack by 400 Union sailors and marines failed, of whom 8 were killed, 19 wounded and 105 taken prisoner, against no Rebel casualties. Photo by George S. Cook (BSLOC_2018_8_107)

New graves on of fallen soldiers at the churchyard of bombarded Nieuwpoort in Flanders during the First World War, Belgium, Europe

Photograph of obsolete British military stores being dumped into the sea. Photograph taken during the Israeli War of Independence. Dated 20th Century

Daghestan. Rocher a Khounzak en Avarie.. Gagarin, Grigorii Grigorevich, kniaz (1810-1893). Prints, Illustrations. 1847. General Research Division. Caucasus

Artist's impression of the scene at Stoats's Nest station, Surrey, near Croydon, immediately after the Brighton to London Express train derailed and crashed into the station killing six people. Date: 29th January 1910

Boer War: soldiers' graves at Rondesbosch decorated with floral tributes for Easter. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. S. Smith.

Soldiers' graves 1917, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Northeast view of Battery no. 1, at Farnhold's house, York River, mounting one 200 pound & five 100 pound rifled guns, US, USA, America, Vintage photography

We buried them on the battleground below the Apex, where they gave their lives for their honour and their country. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF black-and-white prints, gelatin silver prints

Individual graves at the military cemetery at the 2nd infantry division.

Emergency Mass Feeding, Fort Dix, New Jersey 1954 , Civil defense, Stoves. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

War album 106, picture 32673.

Mounting a 42 cm howitzer in Serrada.

Conchy-les-Pots, Oise, France Casemate housing a cannon of 75 , 1915 - Picardie - Stéphane Passet (French - Conchy-les-Pots , Oise , France Casemate abritant un canon de 75). Military personality, military uniform, group portrait, canon, front, artillery, man, Personality, clothing, human beings, First World War, France, Conchy les pots, before a piece of 75 part

Way to K.A. Command fanisturm. .

Barricade in Sadovaja Street during the Moscow uprising, December 22-23, 1905, Russia, Russian Revolution, photograph from L'Illustration, No 3280, January 6, 1906.

A dead rebel soldier, as he lay in the trenches of "Fort Hell". Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-3176. War casualties, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, Trench warfare, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Casualties, Virginia, Petersburg, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Virginia, Petersburg, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865.

Some of the boats after landing. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.

Soissons, Aisne, France L 'Abbé Hivet, parish priest of Saint-Waast, 86, stayed in Soissons, clearing rubble , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Soissons , Aisne , France L' abbé Hivet , curé de Saint-Waast , 86 ans , resté à Soissons , déblayant des gravats). Religious habit, religious personality, Christianity, ruins, bombardment, man, Clothing, personality, religion, First World War, human beings

Devils' Den, Gettysburg, Pa. still image. Postcards. 1903 - 1904. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Battlefields , Pennsylvania , Gettysburg

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