Military Art and Cartoons

A collection of wartime artwork and political cartoons, showcasing the lighter side of military life and the sentiments of various historical conflicts.

Farmer, Work for the People who have Feed You, Spanish Civil War

Artwork: "Boston Havocs Bomb German Troops in Austria", ink, 10"x 15-1/4". Artist: Herb Mott. Catalog Number: D.21.8.46. US Army Art Collection. Country: Unknown

Artwork: "Loading a C-130 - Mildenhall, England" Artist: Jeremiah Donovan. Country: Unknown

Artwork: "Our Attack on Yarssenaere - Aerodrome," August 13, 1918 Artist: Hyden Kellum. Country: Unknown

Cartoon - Men 'o' War. John Collins (1917-2007)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Caricature. Four men in tropical uniforms with sunglasses and armed with guns walk cheerfully through a sunny landscape. A refrigerator and a playing radio is included in a hand cart. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

030426-M-7262C-112. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Unknown

Cartoon - Make Your Ballot a Bullet. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - When Good Fellows Get Together !. John Collins (1917-2007)

Farmer, Work for the People who have Feed You, Spanish Civil War

Adolf Hitler (* 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn) ( 30 April 1945 Berlin), Leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor from 1933, also self-appointed "Fuehrer" and head of state of Germany

Artwork: "Air Force Astronaut"Artist: Fred Mason. Country: Unknown

030502-M-7262C-137. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Diwanyah State: Al Qadisiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Artwork: "Air Police and Artist" Artist: Charles Waterhouse. Country: Unknown

Death during a fight; Death in the battle. unfinished. Death, sitting on a steep horse. He is wearing a harness and helmet and has a lance and shield. Soldiers with lances around him. There is a building on the right.

'Other Times, Other Manners' The decline of poetry and romance in war A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, in The Bystander Date: 1916

Artwork: "Thunder Over Sangre De Cristo Mts., 27th TAC Fighter Wing, Cannon AFB, New Mexico." Artist: Herb Mott. (US Air Force Art Collection). Country: Unknown

American Field Service.

Artwork: "High Voltage Repairs, Nha Trang, Vietnam," AFCS Artist: Wm. Landis. Country: Unknown

Cartoon - Waiting for a Cease-Fire. John Collins (1917-2007)

Artwork: "Change of Command". Artist: SGT. Adam Glenday, Catalog Number: 10.14.90. Country: Unknown

Cartoon - The Battle of Quebec. John Collins (1917-2007)

030407-M-7262C-051. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Cossacks lighting a beacon to give warning of Japanese flanking movement - Russo Japanese War

Cartoon - Tell It to the Marines !. John Collins (1917-2007)

DF-SC-88-02311. Country: Unknown

Cartoon - The Volunteer Fireman. John Collins (1917-2007)

Illustration of a street and fortress battle in an Italian city, illustrations from the yearbooks of Genoa from 1194, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century

World war Two, Soviet propaganda postcard depicting a German plane being prepared in the afternoon for an attack on Russia. The lower half of the image shows the same aircraft as it has crashed or been shot down that same evening.

Cartoon - The War Drums. John Collins (1917-2007)

DIBUJO-GUARDIA CIVIL CON NINOS A CABALLO. Author: DANIEL URRABIETA VIERGE (1851-1904) DANIEL VIERGE. Location: ARCHIVO MUNICIPAL. MURCIA. SPAIN.

DF-SN-88-02336. Country: Unknown

Cartoon - After the War Italian Pants Will Need Much Mending as Well as Hun Breeches Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

The air tragedies: deadly crash of two French military planes, circa 1912

030430-M-7262C-130. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Unknown

Cartoon - Warsaw Packed. John Collins (1917-2007)

DA-SN-85-06160. Country: Unknown

Near Falmouth, Jany. 1863. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Military camps, Union, 1860-1870, Carts & wagons, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military life, Union, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Union, United States, Virginia, Falmouth

Cover photo of the illustrated newspaper Daheim, special edition on the death of Field Marshal Graf Moltke, 1891, Germany, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th-century model, exact date of presentation unknown, historical, decorative coat of arms with wreath and figures of angels, accompanied by texts and symbolism

Artwork: "Corpsman Talking to Patient" Artist: Alvin Pimsler. Country: Unknown

Poster showing loyalist (republican) colonial soldiers from Morocco during the first year of the Spanish civil war 1936

Cartoon - Fishing through the Cold War Ice. John Collins (1917-2007)

030405-M-7262C-045. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Yasin Su Ud Country: Iraq (IRQ)

MOROS PARAPETADOS EN EL FRENTE DE MADRID-GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA. Author: ARTURO REQUE MERUVIA-KEMER-. Location: ARCHIVO HISTORICO MILITAR. MADRID. SPAIN.

Sectional view of a typical Boer entrenchment, Boer War, c1900. Artist: Unknown

DF-SC-85-05568. Country: Unknown

Cowboy shooting with a rifle

Artwork: "Blackbird Night Runup" Artist: Chris Kenyon, US Air Force Art Collection. Country: Unknown

Elsevier photo collection. Series cartrents Fritz Behrendt World War; Adolf Hitler "Unity Outside World". 1950

Anti-American and Anti-Jewish Second World War propaganda poster. Dated 20th Century

DF-SC-85-09675. Country: Unknown

A diver from a "Simon Lake" submarine placing a mine in channels used by enemy ship 2 of 2 Date: 1915

A few scenes characteristic of when British troops arrived at their billets in an Italian village, as witnessed by the famous silhouette artist, Captain H. L. Oakley. The travelling field kitchens were of great interest to the Italian women, The Parrocho, or priest, is refusing an invitation to dinner as he is fasting and the top illustration shows troops on the march. Date: 1918

The Korean War (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953) was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. The Korean peninsula was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. Following the surrender of Japan in 1945, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part. The failure to hold free elections throughout the Korean Peninsula in 1948 deepened the division between the two sides, and the North established a Communist government. The situation escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. It

This illustration of a siege of a fortress shows an attack upon an Egyptian fortress by troops carrying various arms.

Armed Europe can't see its way to making even a 25% cutback in armaments Date: 1932

Hand-painted lantern plate with cavalry, slide plate slideshope images glass paper, Hand-painted slides with top and bottom edges of white-red checkered paper. Image of five soldiers on horseback whose front one blows on trumpet. The soldier behind the trumpeter looks behind optics magic lantern to project lanterns

Ace of Spades - Prussian cannon. Tański, Czesław (1862-1942), draughtsman, cartoonist

Artwork: "C-5A Maintenance - I" Artist: Marbury Brown. Country: Unknown

A general is spinning a ball on a chain with the head of a representative of Vietnam. He's preparing to release it.

Artwork: "Teamwork--100 Yard Sprint With Crate of Ammo". Artist: SGT Adam Glenday, Catalog Number: 10.13.90. Country: Unknown

030324-M-7262C-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Grid 627-896 Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Ronald Searle, the English creator of the Girls of St. Trinians, sketched this scene of Changi teaching surviving man's worst days. November 22, 1950.

Book and Rifle Training, Chinese Communist Propaganda

Cartoon - New Weapons, Same Aim. John Collins (1917-2007)

A machine gun nest , Military personnel, Machine guns, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Illustration from a nineteenth century edition of 'Robinson Crusoe' a novel by Daniel Defoe. The book was first published on 25 April 1719. It relates the story of Robinson Crusoe, stranded on a desert Island for 28 years and his subsequent fight for survival.

030508-M-7262C-146. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Unknown

The bird for the job! , Military personnel, Eagles, Mountains, Emperors, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Artwork: "A Squadron Dance at an Air Base in England" Artist: John Scott. Country: Unknown

Cartoon - Russian Guard-Changing Ceremony. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - "I Suppose You Might Call It a Green Beret". John Collins (1917-2007)

Artwork: "122 (TAC) Fighter Wing, Alpena, Michigan 1982". Artist: John Downs. (US Air Force Art Collection). Country: Unknown

Caricature image of military from the Air Force, 1930s Caricature image of military from the Air Force, 1930s. Labeled 'Bod'. Fall photographed drawing.

Cartoon - Ottawa Maginot Line. John Collins (1917-2007)

DF-SC-88-02347. Country: Unknown

Abyssinia (Ethiopia) under attack by Italy. An Italian bomber approaching herdsmen and their goats. On 9 May 1936 Mussolini was able to announce that Italy had an empire. Italian propaganda postcard.

Korean War. 1950. 'Long live the united Korean people! Glory to the heroic People's Army!'

Cartoon, Siege Guns of Rhetoric, or how our politicians are helping the work of the services. Showing politicians of different persuasions combining together against the common enemy in the early part of the First World War. Depicted as cannons, they are: Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Asquith, John Redmond, Bonar Law and Will Crooks. Date: September 1914

DF-SC-88-02324. Country: Unknown

DF-SC-89-10930. Country: Unknown

Greek Unireme war ship circa 6th century BC

Insignia Of The 612Th Bomb Squadron, 401St Bomb Group, Based In England. 5 July 1944.

The bird for the job! , Military personnel, Eagles, Mountains, Emperors, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Approved insignia of the 19th Operations Squadron. Country: Unknown

Wheeled war engine designed to break up enemy ranks or crush the opposing troops. From 'Epitome Institutionum Rei Militaris' by Flavius Vegetius (1532).

Cartoon - Ottawa Anti-Aircraft Gun. John Collins (1917-2007)

DM-SN-85-13554. Country: Unknown

DF-SC-89-11497. Country: Unknown

This is for the Sake of Peace, Anonymous

Artwork: "Impressions at Eglin 1-15" Artist: Maurice Silber. Country: Unknown

Boy! What a tank , Tanks Military science, Military personnel, Military life, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Cartoon - Drowned Out by the Noise of the Tanks. John Collins (1917-2007)

These Are U.S. Defense Posters -- Inconceivable would be a war without posters. Like bands, parades, flags and patriotic speeches, they are designed to rouse peaceful citizens to deeds of daring and hard work. Since America's entry into World War II, posters are being hung in defense factories during workers to obey regulations work hard, keep their mouths shut, look out for fifth columnists and saboteurs. Creators of these new cartoon-posters are Cy Hungerford, famous cartoonist of the Pittsbu

Cartoon - Cold War Training. John Collins (1917-2007)

Korean War propaganda poster, 1950. 'Everything for the front! Everything for victory!'

030508-M-7262C-149. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Unknown

Portuguese War Poster . Artist: Arias Bernal Contributor: Coordenador de Assuntos Interamericanos. 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

Spanish Civil War: victory parade by republicans in Madrid 1936

Reinforcements to guard the rear , Military personnel, Buttocks, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Forward Citizen Soldiers, Chinese Communist Propaganda

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