Soldiers in Action

Historic photos of soldiers in diverse roles, from combat to training, showcasing equipment and environments from different military conflicts with a focus on human resilience.

Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman, as a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 1900. Churchill standing at the opening of his tent.

Telescope rifle sight Springfield M.1903

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1998 Title: A Soldier's Solitude Category: Portrait Place: Honorable Mention PortraitU.S. Army SPECIALIST Grochowski, a tank driver with 369th Armor Compnay ponders his fate as he will soon depart Hunter Army Air Field, Georgia on the 18th of February, 1998 to support Operation Southern Watch somewhere in Southwest Asia. Country: Unknown

Hansen holding the whale Cuppling bomb that is exploded in the whale ***** the close of the struggle this is the modern substitute from the old whale lance. September 15, 1950.

Agansing Rai VC (24 April 1920 - 27 May 2000) was a Nepalese Gurkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Agansing Rai was a 24-year-old Naik in the 2nd Battalion, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, in the Indian Army during World War II, when he led his section in an attack on one of two posts which had been taken by the enemy and were threatening the British forces' communications on 26 June 1944 near the town of Bishenpur in the state of Manipur, India.

Enoch Hooper Cook, Jr., Pvt, Co. H. 38th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A., half-length portrait, facing front holding rifle. Civil War Photograph Collection . Cook, Enoch Hooper, Military service, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Confederate, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Confederate.

Cohen, Col. Harold I. Austin Red Cross Commander taken in Palestine. October 28, 1940.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Anschütz / Photographers. Photographer service army contacts?. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

SAAR Story - SAAR Customs Barrier. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Second World War. Front pictures. Soviet Union. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht while drinking from a bottle

Spotting The Position. How to Plant a Mooring Buoy, in a series of difficult lessons by Coast Guard Buoy Tender, LAUREL. After the immediate area of the anchorage, where the mooring buoy is to be placed, has been carefully sounded for depth, charted for currents, and the nature of the bottom has been determined, the LAUREL's quartermaster picks up the exact position for the "slanting" by means of the azimuth circle. The "circle" is set on the "gyro compass repeater," located on a bridge wing. Note: These scenes of Coast Guard action are laid in a Greenland Fjord.

08/31/1937. Lamb Separated from the Captured Loot To the National Troops, Become the Mascot of the Company that Found It.

Satelberg. Australian troops stormed the steep heights to wrest the Village of Satelburg from the Japanese. Sgt. T.C. Derrick D.C.M. of Adelaide S.A. a South Australian unit, First to enter Satelberg. Sgt. Derrick, after the decision to withdraw, secured permission to launch final attack in falling light up a steep scope. His unit met terrific resistance but cleaned out six Jap. Positions. An artillery bar covered the position Derrick's men had won. November 10, 1947.

Everyday life of Bundeswehr recruits in a barracks on 26.05.1976 in Hemer, Germany, Europe

U.S. Army, African American soldier, ca. 1917

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Man in citizen holds self-manufactured machine gun without warehouse. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

"Saki" Sees Action at Biak Island. "Saki," black cocker mascot of a Coast Guard-manned LST, was in there with his shipmates when American forces attacked and finally conquered the Japanese bastion on Biak Island in the Southwest Pacific. Here, "Saki" is shown with one of his pals, Coast Guardsman Kenneth D. Smith, seaman first class, of 317 Kinross Avenue, Clawson, Michigan, on the deck of the LST before an anti-aircraft gun.

American Troops in Iceland. February 6, 1951.

Oskar Werner, on-set of the film, "Decision before Dawn", 20th Century-Fox, 1951

Anefo photo collection. Navy Navy Anefo London series. board Dutch cruiser southwest Pacific Ocean. Ammo anti-aircraft guns. {1940-1945}

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Harrevelds. Funeral of J. van Harreveld and wife on the ceremony for civilian cases in Menteng Poeloe. Trumpeter. October 31, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

French poilu, 1914, France, Europe

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival of the ship Volendam with the Prince Bernhard Chapel on board. A trumpet player of the Prince Bernhard Chapel. November 12, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

An armed infantryman jumps from a bunker on the Waalsdorper Practitioner.

DN-SN-87-11728. Base: Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB)

Major General Oscar W. Griswold, USA, Commander of the 14th Army Corps, which is leading drive for Manila. January 1, 1945.

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Ministry of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection

Col. Lawrence on motor cycle ***** R.A.F. uniform. March 26, 1927. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

The image represents two crew members aboard the mincoat river fair during the long journey 1966-1967.Over Synsaspirant Curt Persson and at the bottom aspirant Nils Bruzelius, both 4. The block.Aspirant Nils Bruzelius, both of the block.Included in albums with photographs from Älvsnabben's long journey 1966-1967.She declined 10/11 1966 from Karlskrona and went through the Suez Canal to Australia, US West Coast, through the Panama Canal via Dublin home to Marstrand 6/5 1967. The album contains images on board and on the visits you made in land.King Carl XVI Gustaf went on this trip and there was therefore a photographer on board.The album has belonged to Oskar Linde.

New Zealand ACE's Farewell Kill -- Flight Lieutenant E. Jameson, left with his navigator, Flying Officer Arthur Norman Crockes, of New Tupton, Chesterfield. They shared the eleven "Kills".Flight Lieutenant George E. Jameson. D.F.C. the A.E.A.F. Mosquito night fighter "ace" has eleven confirmed victories to his credit. He shot down a Ju 88, and damaged another enemy aircraft on his last patrol over the battle area in France, before returning home to New Zealand. He made most of his kills" in the ***** Mosquito "R for Robert" including four in one night. November 10, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photograph)

Poll photo collection. Rome: The papal Swiss Guard in Vatican City. Soldier poses in excercity Tenue with a gun. December 1937. Italy, Rome, Vatican City

A Chinese soldier during the Second Sino-Japanese war: a private of the modernised armies maintained by the central Government of China. Date: August 1937

1940s TWO SENIOR MEN DUCK HUNTERS SHOTGUNS IN TALL GRASS POINTING

Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Wageningen. Preparations and negotiations to the capitulation in Wageningen. War reporter passes his findings per radio microphone (Het Loo, Apeldoorn). May 5, 1945. Apeldoorn, Gelderland

Anefo photo collection. Royal Dutch Princess Irene Brigade. February 1945. Vrouwenpolder, Zeeland

Shipfitter Second Class Steven J. Kusial working on Seabee Road crew on Guam, 1944.

Second World War. Front pictures. Soviet Union. German soldier when lifting a castle trail

The German military cemetery. Identification of the remains of German soldiers by soldiers of the graver service.

GRABADO-MINERO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

The Army Takes Control -- On duty in Victoria Street today this member of the Australian Provost Corps dismounted from his motor cycle to direct military transports. August 24, 1942.;The Army Takes Control -- On duty in Victoria Street today this member of the Australian Provost Corps dismounted from his motor cycle to direct military transports.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Semarang - Salatiga, Ambaraya, 2-year anniversary T-Brigade; Sport festivals and commemoration of cases. Athletics competition on "De Bult" in Salatiga on March 10, 1948. March 10, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Salatiga

Sergeant Dutch Landsturn C.J. Kolyn Iron cross first class.The "Dutch" who were terrorising and murdering their own people for so many years on the service of the enemy, are now put into security. A special camp has been erected, where ca. 4000 Dutch SS prisoners (landguards, landsturn, Viking, Germania, Dutch Green Police, etc) await their judgement. June 01, 1945. (Photo by Willem Van De Poll, Anefo).

Photograph Relating to Port Security.

Smoking gun

Z.K.H. Prince visits his capacity as Inspector General of the Royal Netherlands Air Force The Leeuwarden airbase. From the airbase the prince informed the Vliehorst on the island of Terschelling where he makes film recordings.

Mascots - Australian - Military. November 01, 1945.;Mascots - Australian - Military.

Whaling Skipper Gjelstad at the harpoon gun.Sivert Gjelstad, who would be recognised always as a Scandinavian, dresses for the weather. April 25, 1951.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

(French - Aqaba ( ) , Arabie ( actuelle Jordanie ) L' ordonnance du capitaine Pisani).

Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Harskamp camp where SS people and countrykeepers are convenient. A "Bühne" was built in Kamp Harskamp, where a few performances per day are given and for the comrades. Singers and musicians bring their number for a large audience (addiction Anefo). June 1945. Gelderland, Harskamp

A US Navy Seabee constructs a building at the Seabees campsite. The construction battalion is in Tunisia to repair a flood-damaged railroad during exercise ATLAS RAIL. Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RAIL Country: Tunisia (TUN)

Artwork: "Soldiers at Camp Dragon". Artist: Sieger Hartgers. Catalog Number: 2.63.91, US Army Art Collection. Country: Unknown

DM-SN-85-13562. Country: Unknown

Description: A Corporal of the Sudan Horse. Date: June 1964 portrait, africa

Anefo photo collection. Front Noord-Oost Nederland: Groningen-Friesland. With the liberation of Northern Netherlands, the Allied troops have held the statements at the Afsluitdijk at Zurich (Friesland) .A of the liberators at an ANWB signpost on the head of the Afsluitdijk .. April 1945. Afsluitdijk, Friesland

1920s 1930s BOY SCOUT IN UNIFORM BLOWING A BUGLE

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Bagpipe player of a British Indian military music corps. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Colonel Cohen. May 25, 1942.

The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist nations. The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and part of their wider strategy of containment. The North Vietnamese government viewed the war as a colonial war, fought initially against France, backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state. U.S. military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations spanned

Vintage Photograph. Man reaches for second gun with one already drawn he wears cowboy outfit.

Coburg Nightwatchman Mr. Clem Hollis fired six shots about 2.30 a.m. today to give warning of a fire in Shaw's Battery Service, Sydney Road, Coburg. He tried to awaken Mr. L. J. Bortnaski, an upholsterer, who lives at the back of the next-door shop, with his wife and 22-year-old son Aaron. When he got no response to his knocking, he fired the shots. The fire destroyed batteries, a 12 ft. launch, and caused considerable damage to the rear of the building. February 8, 1951.

Military- Australian Troops - Light Horse Regiment - (See Also: Milit- Wars- WWI - A'lian Troops, Milit- Wars- WWI - Embarkation, Milit- Wars- WWI - In France, Milit- Wars- WWI - Gallipoli, Milit- Wars- WWI - In Middle East, Milit- Wars- WWI - Veterans, Milit - A'lia-Troops - Aborigines). May 16, 1940.

08/31/1937. A sample of the unexploded bombs thrown by the Germans in Albacete, being held by the distinguished sergeant Alejandro Sánchez, who extracted more than seven hundred unexploded bombs on the different fronts.

African Chief's Gift To Field-Marshal Montgomery -- Field Marshal Montgomery with the watch. This is a copy of the photograph he autographed to be sent to Chief Makongoro.A ceremonial switch with a handle of elephant ivory and ebony, and a throng made from the tail of a wile beeste, has been presented to Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery by Chief Makongoro, chief of the Waikizu people in the Musoma district of Tanganyike.The switch was made by chief Makongoro's special craftsman and is only bestowed upon persons of high rank and esteem, or for exceptional bravery. October 1, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photo).

The Communist Party of Burma (Burmese: မာပြည်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီ; CPB) is the oldest existing political party in Burma. The party is unrecognised by the Burmese authorities, rendering it illegal; so it operates in a clandestine manner, often associating with insurgent armies along the border of People's Republic of China. It is often referred to as the Burma Communist Party (BCP) by both the Burmese government and the foreign media.

Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Zoo. December 02, 1945. (Photo by Gordon Herbert Short/).

Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. Wing Commander G H Westlake, Commanding Officer of No.1 Mobile Operations Room Unit, photographed with a cask of Sicilian wine at Comiso. Westlake shot down nine enemy aircraft and shared in the destruction of two during his period as a fighter pilot with Nos, 80 and 213 Squadrons RAF, leading the latter unit in North Africa between August and October 1942. He then worked as a controller with Nos. 211 and 212 Groups in Tunisia before becoming 1 MORU for the invasions of Sicily and Italy. He later returned to operations, commanding a unit of the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force, then leading No. 239 Wing RAF in Italy until June 1945. He was responsible for the success of Operation BOWLER, when, on 26 March 1945, he led the wing on a very sensitive attack on shipping in the harbour of Venice.

A Bracer of Coffee for the Sea Watch. This image depicts Coast Guardsman George Alexa.

Workman at the naval air base. Corpus Christi, Texas. Notice his identification badge which allows him to enter base. Picture taken on Sunday 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Corpus Christi, Texas , Nueces County

12/31/1926. The General's Machinist.

Major P.S. Bapty. February 6, 1938.

DN-SN-88-00911. Base: USS Nassau (LHA 4)

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