Military Monuments and Memorials

Various monuments commemorating military history, featuring statues of soldiers and symbolic elements set against clear skies and lush greenery.

France, ile-de-France, Paris, 20th arrondissement, Pere Lachaise cemetery. Memorial to Russian servicemen who fell in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
France, ile-de-France, Paris, 20th arrondissement, Pere Lachaise cemetery. Memorial to Russian servicemen who fell in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
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Statue of Colonel Wiliam Prescott stands in front of Bunker Hill Memorial. It stands 221 feet tall at Breed's Hill, the site of the first major battle of the American Revolution, June 17, 1775, Boston, MA
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Falkland Islands. Stanley. Falklands war memorial.
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World War II memorial at the Banzai Cliff in Saipan, Northern Marianas, Central Pacific
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Guards Crimean War Memorial, Waterloo Place, London, U.K.
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England, London, Westminster, Victoria Embankment Gardens, Korean War Memorial
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Grand Monument memorial commemorates the Battle of Musan in 1939, when Korean resistance-fighters under the command of Kim Il Sung fought against Japanese troops. This group of sculptures depicts 'Fatherland', North Korea
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England, Hampshire, Portsmouth, Royal Marines Museum on Southsea Seafront with bronze sculpture titled Yomper by Philip Jackson modelled on a photograph of Corporal Peter Robinson yomping to Sapper Hill during the Falklands War.
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A view of the United States Aircraft Carrier Memorial located on Harbor Drive near the Naval Supply Depot. The memorial was conceived by aircraft carrier veterans and dedicated on February 17, 1993. Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Anefo photo collection. "Prince Bernhard" image (in uniform air force) discloses Hague; image "Prince Bernhard". December 15, 1988. Hague, South Holland
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A view of a new memorial to fallen Wisconsin State Patrol troopers is shown Sept. 16, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis., at the Wisconsin State Patrol Academy. The new memorial was dedicated Sept. 9, 2022, by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The academy is a tenant organization at Fort McCoy.
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New York Guard First Provisional Regiment Aqueduct Defense Memorial Stone, located at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on May 1, 2022. The ceremony remembers the 40 Soldiers of the New York Guard First Provisional Regiment who died while serving New York during World War I, protecting the New York City Reservoir System. The New York Guard are the predecessors to the current NYC DEP, who protected the systems over one hundred years ago, the mission in which the NYC DEP continues to this day. (New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs photos by New York Guard Captain Mark Getman)
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The Memorial to the 24th Regiment at Rorke's Drift. KwaZulu Natal. South Africa
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USA, Florida, Miami, Little Havana, Calle Ocho, SW 8th Street, memorial to Bay of Pigs Invasion veteran who also fought against the Sandanistas in Nicaragua.
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Juno Beach in Normandy, France
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031020-M-6515T-002. Base: Marine Corps Base, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Vintage Photograph. The Minnesota and Pennsylvania Memorials at Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
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Names of fallen soldiers overlayed on the German guns from Normandy's D Day beaches
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A man with an umbrella in the Armed Service Memorial.
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War Memorial Commando Memorial north-west of Spean Bridge, Highland, Scotland, Great Britain
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Monument of sailors of the Kursk in Murmansk, Russia, Europe
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Spanish War Memorial, Wilcox Park, Westerly, R.I. , Monuments & memorials, Parks, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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United States Naval Academy in historic Annapolis, Maryland.
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Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge, Highlands, Scotland
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Last stone marker of the Route of Liberty near the World War Two Mardasson Monument at Bastogne in the Belgian Ardennes, Belgium, Europe
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Statues of Generals Buford and Reynolds, and Hall's Maine Battery, Gettysburg, Pa. , Monuments & memorials, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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U.S. Army Brig. Gen Laura McHugh, Deputy Adjutant General-Army of the Pennsylvania National Guard, speaks at the 213th Regional Support Group leadership conference held at the Keystone Conference Center at Fort Indiantown Gap, Jan 6. 2024
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War memorial in the town centre at Brackley, Northamptonshire England; covered with poppy wreaths for Rememberance Day in November. Dated 21st Century
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France, Noyers Sur Serein, Resistance Memorial
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Monument to the Women of World War II, London, England, Great Britain
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Vietnam and Malaysia war inscriptions at Melbourne's war memorial
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Street art in Port Stanley commemorating the 40-year anniversary of the Falkland Island war in 1982.
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Netherlands (aka Holland), Arnhem, Oosterbeek. Hartenstein (aka Airborne Museum) WWII monument.
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DA-SC-86-10653. Base: Point Du Hoc Country: France (FRA)
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Bucy-le-Long, Aisne, France German Tomber of the Grenadier Rochl died on March 15, 1915 , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Bucy-le-Long , Aisne , France Pierre tombale allemande du grenadier Rochl mort le 15 mars 1915). Grave, funeral inscription, commemoration, Registration , Information, First World War, France, Bucy-le-Long, Pierre Tommes engraved by the Germans
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A view of the memorial plaque dedicated to COL William R. Higgins erected near his grave at the Quantico National Cemetery. COL Higgins was killed by terrorists after being taken hostage while serving with the United Nations Truce and Observer Force in Beirut, Lebanon. Base: Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Monument to the Women of World War II, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
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British armed forces flags displayed on The Centotaph War memorial in Whitehall, London.
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Monument to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Calle Ocho, Miami, Florida, USA,
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Revolutionary War stone sign marks where Acton Minutemen and Line of March, April 19, 1775, Lexington, MA
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061024-N-1226D-049. Base: Coronad0 State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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DF-SC-84-11907. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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First World War One grave of Hindu soldier of the Indian army at the Etaples Military Cemetery, largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery in France
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486th Bombardment Group ( H) memorial monument, Sudbury, Suffolk, England, UK dedicated 4th July 1987
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Anefo photo collection. Danish Training ship Danmark (1933). September 24, 1947
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A close-up view of the ship's plaque for the guided missile frigate SIMPSON (FFG 56). Country: Unknown