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Soldiers in Historic Trenches

Photographs of soldiers entrenched during various conflicts, displaying military strategy and the harsh conditions faced in historical battles.

Normandy, France: June 9, 1944. American troops of the 4th Infantry Division at Utah Beach taking a breather before continuing the assault over the hill to the interior of France.

The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916

Transport and care of injured soldiers during an exercise of medical troops during the Mobilization 1939-1940.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War- Operation Torch, North Africa, November 1942 Troops making their way inland after landing at Algiers. Here some men are pulling and pushing a trailer of equipment over the sandy beach, and in the background two soldiers are manhandling a motorbike.

British Eighth Army infantry men run through the dust of the Western Desert passing an Axis tank which was put out of the battle. Troops of the Eighth Army drove Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Axis forces from El Aghila today as the long-awaited offensive in Western Libya got underway. December 12, 1942. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

10/31/1915. The Italians in War. Column Of "Bersaglieri" Cyclists marching towards the Conquered Positions. Photo: Strazza -Approximate date.

A photograph of two French soldiers taking shelter from artillery fire inside a captured German ammunition depot. The Illustrated London News reported that the men were in the process of removing artillery shells from the structure when the Germans turned their guns against it in the hope of destroying it. Date: 1916

Photo collection First World War. Tommies at a well. 1914-1918}

Estrees, France: c. 1916 German prisoners of war waiting with stretchers for the transport of their own wounded.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Italian artillerymen manhandling a heavy gun on a mountain road.

The fighting had barely passed the outskirts of Fort Stotsenburg, on the southwestern edge of Clark Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands, when foraging GI's came upon a huge dump of Jap beer, hidden in a cave on the hillside. The war was forgotten for a

Infantry Regiment 8 in the construction of reserve suburbines (Moszcenica) 21.10.1915.

A 105mm howitzer crew from Charlie Company, 1ST Battalion, 10th Marines, prepare for a fire mission. The company is participating in Operation CAX-1-2-82. Subject Operation/Series: CAX-1-2-82 Base: Mcagcc, Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918

Koreakriget 1951

Sprawled bodies on beach of Tarawa, testifying to ferocity of the struggle for this stretch of sand. November 1943.

Anefo photo collection. Military funeral Marinier W. Baas Surabaja. Ersite grave. October 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

National Police addresses children in the taking of weapons of the battlefields in the southern Netherlands, 1945 documentary photographs In a sandy landscape there is a group of children and government policies in the midst of remains of weaponry. The national police points to the boys that they should hand in the weapons found and warns against the possible dangers. South of the Netherlands photographic support South of the Netherlands

In this photo, dating to before 1922, relates to World War I. The caption reads: Yankees receiving instruction by an English sergeant in the use of a machine gun.

Anefo photo collection. Shooting exercises Oldebroek. April 12, 1946. Oldebroek

02/22/1937. Workers Fortifying Positions Taken From the Nationals in one of the Madrid Fronts.

Theresienstadt. Machine Gun Department in Fire Maker

Anefo photo collection. Exercise "Grand Repulse" West Germany. September 27, 1953. Germany

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front in France. The German Offensive. The Effect Of One Shell in a Roadway. 1914-1918}. France

Anefo photo collection. American ambassador Allied governments, Drexel Biddle, visits Princess Irene Brigade camp company Dutch Prime Minister, Minister War Dutch ministers .. September 2, 1941. America, Britain

The Battle of Shanghai (1937), known in Chinese as the Battle of Songhu, was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army of the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the entire war. According to historians Yoshiaki Yoshimi and Kentaro Awaya, gas weapons, such as tear gas, were used only sporadically in 1937 but in early 1938, the Imperial Japanese Army began full-scale use of sneeze and nausea gas (red), and from mid-1939, used mustard gas (yellow) against both Kuomintang and Communist Chinese troops. According to historians Yoshiaki Yoshimi and Seiya Matsuno, the chemical weapons were authorized by specific orders given by Emperor Hirohito himself, transmitted by the chief of staff of the army. For example, the Emperor authorized the use of toxic gas on 375 separate occasions during the Battle of Wuhan from August to

Combing The Beaches: The exercise in progress. Our troops are constantly carrying out exercises in which they practice dealing with a force of enemy which is assumed to have landed on the coast. In this way they keep themselves fit and accustomed to the technique of seashore fighting. June 2, 1941. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Genie restores a bridge, 1947 - 1949 photograph Genie troops restore a bridge that was destroyed by the TRI. Java photographic support military engineering ~ communication and transport Java. Dutch East Indies, The

Paratroopers Wait ***** - Members of a Paratroop Outfit ***** loaded with their gear, beside their plane at an ***** base in the British Isles for loading time. These men will be taken to their invasion tasks ***** Planes of the Troop Carrier Command. May 27, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

World War I: German soldiers reading, writing and smoking in the trenches during a lull in hostilities

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC occupied Bandoeng area. Soldiers stack sandbags. 1946. Bandung, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

The Invasion Of Albania. Italian Troops on the shore it the Albanian port of Durazzo, after being landed from the troop transport seen in background. April 10, 1939. (Photo by Keystone)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Patrolgang.in a ditch is to dig out a Dutch military landmines. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Melilla, 1925. Landing exercises on Hasane beach.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Italian horse drawn transport passing through the village of Canove.

'Etats-Unis et Mexique; pres du camp americain de San-Antonio: troupes americaines masses le long d'une voie ou stationne un train charge de reguliers mexicains que le president Carranza envoyait alors la la poursuite de Villa', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916".

British Commander-In-Chief Goes Up The Line.General Viscount Gort, commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force (left foreground) during a tour of inspection with his staff of the British troops in France. Immediately behind the commander-in-chief is Major-General the Duke of Windsor. October 31, 1939.

430,000 Chinese Build Air Bases for US Superfortresses That Bombed Japan -- Chinese workers use a hand-driven water pump to drain a portion of the land where more than 430,000 Chinese constructed gigantic air bases from which U S B-29 Superfortresses took off on June 15, 1944 and bombed targets in the Japanese homeland. The Chinese journeyed on foot from as far away as 150 miles to work on the cluster of U.S. airfields one of the greatest single concentration of air bases in the world. Although the hundreds of thousands of workers had scarcely any tools, in less than three weeks from the time they began work, they had constructed a runway able to accommodate transport planes. A small number of American Army engineers and technicians and 50C Chinese engineers supervised the gigantic task of draining, and leveling the ground, laying foundations and paving miles of runways, taxiways and ordinary motor roads. July 17, 1944.

The heroes of Delville Wood: the glorious defence of the South Africans in July 1916, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

***** Striking The First Blow.***** an important stage of both the slum ***** scheme and the scheme for the ***** Rome when he struck the first blow with ***** to create a broad new avenue from the ***** the capital to St. Peter's Cathedral. After ***** of the work the mighty and imposing ***** will be visible from every part of Rome. October 31, 1936.

Photo collection First World War. The big blow to the west. German soldiers connect a seriously injured english on the street road at Ham. 1914-1918}. France, ham

The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II. It was one of the largest operations in World War II, involving almost 4,000,000 troops at a time stretched on a 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) long front. During its four-month duration, the eastern bank of the Dnieper was recovered from German forces by five of the Red Army's fronts, which conducted several assault river crossings to establish several lodgements on the western bank

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Egyptian Campaign. 1st Herts. Imperial Yeomanry in trenches on the Suez Canal. A sentry looking through a gap in the sandbagging, 1915.

British troops resting on road

General Marchand inspecting trenches, Champagne, 1915, France, Europe

Photograph of Military Individuals Laying in Prone Position With One Fuel Tank Backpack (Believed to be an Exercise at Exhibit).

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 The Royal Artillery gun crew transporting their gun across a river with the help of horses.

Historical WW I Photos - The spirit of our army .

German army soldiers on military exercises as Luftwaffe planes fly overhead

A French heavy-gun battery move up a steep hill during fighting with the Bulgarian army on the Macedonian border, October 1916. The battery was part of the Allied army based at the Greek port of Salonika and required a team of sixteen horses to move the weapon up the sharp incline pictured. Date: 1916

The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918

Photograph showing British infantry riding on Sherman tanks towards the Reichswald area, Germany, February 1945. On the left of the image anti-tank guns and their crews can be seen. Date: 1945

King Geo. views Peronne

07/31/1914. From the French army. A French column on its way to join the Belgian army. Maneuvers Du sud Ouest, infantry Du Parti Blu en Marche.

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Officer of the Highland Light Infantry with a dog, probably his unit mascot.

1860S Captured Military Confederate Soldiers Sitting Pile Logs Wooden Railroad Ties American Civil War

Yanks Search for Snipers Along Roer -- American combat Engineers, shot at while repairing a temporary bridge over the Roer River during the American Drive across the Roer, Stalk German snipers along the River's Bank. March 2, 1945. March 27, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Knatchbull M (capt the Hon) Collection No. 3 Squadron R N. A. S. Anti-aircraft machine gun practice. Imbros, Gallipoli, August 1915.

Rolling a trench by storm patrol.7.9.17. .

Battlefield tourists survey the battle torn landscape around Ypres shortly after the end of World War One. 20 September 1919

The Shooter Take ***** Fires. The stag starts to move off. But ***** whistle, the stalker attracts his *****, the Bullet thumps home. August 27, 1950. (Photo by Paul Popper).

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. The British Western front in France. First pictures of Cambrai. Just outside Cambrai. A brave deed. This man brought his wounded comrade up the road on his back and was being fired on by enemy shooting guns the whole time. 1914-1918}. Cambrai, Frankrijk

Colonel C Deems with a 75mm Split trail gun, Le Valdahon, 31 January 1919

Approx. 1939,1941, Training Wehrmacht, Original caption: Ulm, inflatable boats on the Danube, Ulm, Germany, Europe

US Ranger Goes To British Battle School- Americans Train For Battle in the UK, 1943 Corporal Harold F Clausen of the United States Army (right) and Sergeant Moug of the Black Watch put the finishing touches to their tin helmet camouflage. Sergeant Moug's camouflage is so good that his helmet is hardly visible! According to the original caption, Sergeant Moug has been in Gibraltar for two years and has come back to Britain especially for this course.

The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916

Anefo photo collection. Recruits ML-KNIL (Military Aviation Royal Dutch Indian Army) Training Camp St. Ives Bradfield Park Sydney (New South Wales). July 1945. Australia, Sydney

American Men and Equipment Moving in on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, by U.S. Signal Corps, June 8, 1944

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.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Zeeland Visit from the British minister Attee to the vandalism and inundations on Walcheren. British soldiers on an initiated Walcheren at the mill in Sint Laurens (direction Middelburg). A stranded man with handcart is helped. March 1945. Walcheren, Zeeland

The Women's Royal Naval Service during the First World War in the United Kingdom Members of the WRNS remove materials from a drifter at Gorleston Quay, Norfolk, during the First World War.

Italian Army Sharpshooters, 1918.

Anefo photo collection. German Steenzakers work on Afsluitdijk. April 7, 1953

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