Military Fortifications and Historic Battlefields

Images of anti-tank barricades, battlefields, and natural landscapes, highlighting military history and outdoor training, with a focus on greenery and fortifications.

Airmen with the 109th Airlift Wing recover a container delivery system, following an airdrop conducted during a large scale readiness exercise May 14 2022.
Airmen with the 109th Airlift Wing recover a container delivery system, following an airdrop conducted during a large scale readiness exercise May 14 2022.
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A well camouflaged bunker position at Gun Position 99, East Camp Fuji, Japan. Part of 3D Marine Division unit's, nine firing day relocation shoot, designed to enhance military occupational specialty proficiency within the artillery field. Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE 2000 Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN)
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France, Brittany, Morbihan, Saint-Pierre-Quiberon on 2022-03-29. Students from the Ecole Militaire Interarmes (EMIA), the military academy responsible for training army officers recruited internally, i.e. from the ranks of non-commissioned officers and other ranks, take part in a training course at Fort de Penthievre, a fortified structure on the Quiberon peninsula that has become a training base. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Morbihan, Saint-Pierre-Quiberon le 2022-03-29. Les eleves de l' ecole militaire interarmes ( EMIA ), l' ecole militaire chargee de la formation des officiers de l' armee de Terre issus du recrutement interne, c'est-a-dire issus des rangs des sous-officiers et des militaires du rang, participe a un stage d'aguerrissment au Fort de Penthievre, un ouvrage fortifie sur la presqu'ile de Quiberon devenu une base d'entrainement. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.
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North Macedonian soldiers with the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade prepare to move from behind cover at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany as part of Exercise Saber Junction 22, Sept. 15, 2022.Saber Junction 22 is a multinational rotational exercise designed to assess the readiness of the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade to execute unified land operations in a joint, combined environment and to promote interoperability with more than 4,500 participants from the U.S. and Allied and partner nations at the U.S. Army's Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas from August 29 to September 20, 2022. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army's Contingency Response Force in Europe, providing rapidly deployable forces to the United States European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility. Forward deployed across Italy and Germany, the brigade routinely trains alongside NATO allies and partners to build partnerships and strengt
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220527-N-LZ409-1167 KEKAHA, Hawai`i (May 27, 2022) Senior Chief Master-at-Arms Lorna Blackburn, left, and Naval Air Crewman (Operator) 2nd Class Laura Huser, assigned to Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, compete in tug-of-war during a Captains Cup competition as an Asian American Pacific Islander celebration. PMRF is the worlds largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously.
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A M249 Squad Automatic Weapon sits idle after several U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers fired it at targets downrange during a weapons qualification event at the Marseilles Training Center at Marseilles, Illinois, July 9. U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers are required to qualify on their assigned weapons each year in order to maintain proficiency and individual readiness. (Official U.S. Army Reserve photo by Pfc. Noah Carlsson)
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060329-N-1683M-007. Base: Naval Magazine Indian Island State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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USFWS special agents at outdoor firing range in Connecticut. Subjects: Law enforcement. Location: Connecticut. . 1998 - 2011.
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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Cameron Scott, a native of Rogers, Ark. and a light armored reconnaissance Marine with 2D Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2D Marine Division, participates in a caomoflage class during Littoral Exercise I (LEX I) in Parris Island, S.C., Jan. 26, 2022. During LEX I, Marines and Sailors aboard the Wichita and on various bases throughout the East Coast will be conducting new types of training to prepare for future scenarios in littoral environments. They will be experimenting with new tactics and training with multi-domain reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance teams in accordance with Force Design 2030.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brian Bolin Jr.)
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050720-A-6634T-014. Base: Fort Gordon State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, dodge paintballs during the third challenge of the 25th Annual All-Terrain Unit Competition at Devil Dog Dare, MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, Oct. 28, 2022. Participants completed five physically demanding challenges over a seven-mile course. The competition allowed various units to build comradery while boosting morale.
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Duelling demonstration at British Military,Royal Nancy,American Military Encampment with reenactors with Pirates,Voyageurs and Royal Navy
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Austro-Hungarian war cemetery Austro-Hungarian war cemetery, World War I, Bovec, julian alps. Slovenia, Central Europe, Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21362645
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Russian search and rescue teams arrive at the landing site seconds after the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft touched down with Expedition 24 Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Russian Cosmonauts Skvortsov and Kornienko and NASA Astronaut Caldwell Dyson, are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 23 and 24 crews.
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Civil War Battlefield.
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Culture History Army Monument Protection Culture of Remembrance GDR 20 09 2024 Potsdam State Capital Brandenburg Potsdam Museum For Art And History 30 Years of the Withd
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Picker upper team following the Guns to the next shooting peg
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Stele from WW 1 commemorating soldiers. Vigo di Fassa (Vich) in valley Val di Fassa in the Dolomites, Italy.
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A satellite communications antenna at Korat Royal Thai Air Base during Exercise CHECKERED FLAG. Subject Operation/Series: CHECKERED FLAG Country: Thailand (THA)
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030108-F-6932M-004. Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AFSPC
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The 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, hosts a change of command ceremony on June 29, 2022. 3rd ABCT commander, Col. Justin Y. Reese, relinquished command to Col. John B. Guilliam.
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Pointe du Hoc, D-day beach, Normandy, France.
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Munitions specialists from the 23rd Wing, Moody Air Force Base completed Agile Combat Employment exercise, Agile Flag 22-2, using munitions facilities at the Air Dominance Center, a Combat Readiness Training Center, located in Savannah Georgia. These munitions specialists from the 23rd Wing will be building GBU-31v1 and GBU-54 simulation bombs to be used in the 2-week exercise. ACC's recent Agile Combat Employment transformation prepares todays leaders for the rapid operational decisions and mission type orders required to win against peer adversaries.
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Miscellaneous - Coast Guard Operations - 26-HK-434-165. Hurricane Katrina
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011125-F-4406B-002. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Naval Air Station, Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC
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Remains of the Godwin battery on the beach at Kilnsea at the head of Spurn point on Yorkshires East Coast, England, UK
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Battle of Longwoods reenactment, Anglo-American War of 1812, March 1814, reenactor, reenactors, dead soldiers on batlefield, Delaware, Ontario, Canada
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Fields pocked with craters and full of unexploded bombs from WWI near the Canadian National Vimy Memorial (First World War Memorial) near Arras.
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German Second World War Two Tobruk, Ringstand at the Pointe du Hoc cliff overlooking the English Channel, Normandy, France, Europe
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First World War (1914-1918). Pennants from 152th French Infantry Division (1915).
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A view of the helipad on the roof of a hotel in the combat village at the Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) Collective Training Facility. The helipad is designated Landing Zone (LZ) Pigeon. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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A TSC-93B van and antenna are shown positioned in a camoflage environment during a 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) pre-deployment workup. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Nazi Concentration Camp in Auschwitz Poland
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Two bagpipers play during an internment ceremony for U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Everett Raymond Stewart, of California, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 16, 2022. Stewart was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, which sustained fire from Japanese aircraft and multiple torpedo hits causing the ship to capsize and resulted in the deaths of more than 400 crew members on Dec. 7, 1941, at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. Stewart was recently identified through DNA analysis by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) forensic laboratory and laid to rest with full military honors.
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England, Yorkshire, Malton, Eden Camp Military Museum
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In December, the Federal Ministry of Defence decided that the new Logistics Battalion 471 would be stationed in the municipality of Bernsdorf in the district of Bautzen. Remnants of the former anti-aircraft missile regiment 31 of the National People's Army on the site. Air Defence Missile Regiment 31 of the National People's Army, Bernsdorf, Saxony, Germany, Europe
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The National Museum of the Marine Corps planted a tree from Belleau Wood, France on June 6, 2022. On this day 104 years ago, the Marines of the 5th and 6th Regiments began a coordinated assault to dislodge German forces, it's called the Battle of Belleau Wood. The National Museum of the Marine Corps commemorates the Marines who fought there by planting the ancestors of the trees they fought under.
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Display of various types of Civil War cannon, artillery and mortar. Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
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Second World War Pillbox - A pillbox is a type of blockhouse, or concrete dug-in guard-post, normally equipped with loopholes through which defenders can fire weapons. Pillboxes were hard to defeat and required artillery, anti-tank weapons or grenades to overcome.
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Joint Readiness Training Center at Ft. Polk
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U.S. Marine Corps Retired Lt. Col. Michael Kelly educates Marines on the Battle of Belleau Wood in Belleau, France, May 27, 2022. This visit is to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their respective countries during World War I.
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040605-F-9072P-001. Base: Mildenhall State: Suffolk Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)
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Sgt. Olivia W. Stephan, India Company, 132nd BSB, Michigan Army National Guard navigates the obstacle course during a Best Warrior Competition warrior task, Fort Custer Training Center, Augusta, Michigan, Sept. 14, 2022. The BWC reinforces fundamental warrior tasks and battle drills, promotes esprit de corps, and recognizes Soldiers who demonstrate commitment to the Army values and embody the warrior ethos.
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Blown-up gas chamber, concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
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Every year at Easter there are about 5 processions in Lusatia, each with about 200 riders. The Catholic Church continues old Sorbian rites here. Thousands of spectators watch the impressive cavalcades
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The observation tower where range technicians work command and control, and trigger pop up targets for gunners, at the live fire training range, Korea Training Center, Republic of Korea on Oct. 25, 1998. The center is manned throughout the year and various armored units rotate through training scenarios to meet yearly live gunnery training requirements. Subject Operation/Series: KOREA CD Base: Korea Training Center Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)
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Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu. A1 Hill, Eliane, battle site of the final Vietnamese military victory over the French in 1954, battlefield marker
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PEARL HARBOR (May 21, 2013) The rusted hull of USS LST-480 remains in the water at West Loch, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The remains honor the 163 Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines who died and 396 wounded when a fuel and ammunition explosion occurred at West Loch during World War II on May 21, 1944.
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Group of young Israelis carrying Israel flags visit the Birkenau Death Camp with the rail siding where victims were unloaded in the foreground Auschwitz Poland
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Every year at Easter there are about 5 processions in Lusatia, each with about 200 riders. The Catholic Church continues old Sorbian rites here. Thousands of spectators watch the impressive cavalcades
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An Expert Soldier Badge candidate looks for his points, May 24, 2022, during the ESBs day land navigation course on Fort Drum, New York. The 10th Mountain Division is conducting E3B, which encompasses Expert Infantry, Soldier and Field Medical Badge, from May 16 to 26.
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France, Normandie, Arromanches-les-Bains, Basse-Normandie, Calvados. D-Day 75 Garden