War-torn Mountain Terrain

Images highlighting rugged and snowy mountain scenes associated with historical military engagements.

War album 46, picture 12707b.

War album 46, picture 12706d.

War album 46, Figure 12714b.

War album 46, picture 12707b.

War album 45, picture 12473a.

War album 46, picture 12706c.

Panorama against Mt. Zermula to Find Kofel. Position: Artillery Observer Shoulder; Rattendorfer Alpe. .

Col Quaterrad: Italian positions with iron rich. .

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War album 39, picture 10695g.

War album 10, Figure 02643F - Caption is missing.

Kastreinspitzen InfanTr.Section of the Lir.4 and Missenscharte.

View from the small Lagazuoi on enemy positions. .

War album 89, picture 26087.

War album 47, Figure 12732B.

An Army CH-47 helicopter from Detachment 1, Company G, 140th Aviation, Nevada Army National Guard prepares to land at the lower landing zone to drop off A-10 recovery team members. Base: Gold Dust Peak State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

War album 45, picture 12475a.

War album 93, picture 27528h.

View of Piazza from the Terragnolofront. Recorded on 13. v. 16.

War album 45, Figure 12468B.

Brandrodung Brandrodung in Laos,Asien. Copyright: xZoonar.com/UwexBauchx 1399865

Locate Isera in the background San Bernardo on Monte Fae with its own artillery positions.

War album 45, picture 12260a.

War album 46, picture 12708c.

A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook heavy lift helicopter takes off on Feb. 4 from Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. The Chinooks primary missions are troop movement, artillery emplacement, and combat resupply.

War album 44, Figure 12229D.

War album 88, picture 25605a.

Enemy field guards in front of the Coltorondo pierced.

A New Jersey Air National Guard F-4E Phantom II aircraft flies off the right wing of a Norwegian F-16B Fighting Falcon aircraft during exercise Barfrost '89. New Jersey's 108th Tactical Fighter Wing deployed to the Arctic Circle location for a six-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air-land exercise. Subject Operation/Series: BARFROST '89 Base: Bodo Air Station Country: Norway (NOR)

Two men left with gear as helicopter returns home.

War album 16, picture 4373d.

Photograph - Operation Fire Fly. Photograph - Operation Fire Fly. Operation Firefly- Rugged terrain and a spot of fire. If the fire is allowed to spread, it may endanger the whole area, so hardy parachutists of the 555th Parachute Infantry will drop nearby to extinguish it. Wallowa Forest, Oregon.

Monte game. Italian drum fire on Col del Rosso. .

First bombardment by Lafraun and Awesgeutsh.

War album 47, picture 12722a.

Sgt. 1st Class Tim McLaughlin, instructor, U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School, Vermont Army National Guard, checks the team below him as he ascends a technical ridge during the 2023 Edelweiss Raid, March 2, 2023. The Raid is a tactical competition and requires that the squad remains together for the duration of the two-day event or risk disqualification.

Denali, North America's highest peak at 20,310 feet, can be seen through the clouds from the window of a Chinook helicopter. The Soldiers of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, also known as the Sugar Bears, transported and offloaded gear for the National Park Service at the mountaineering base camp for the Denali climbing season. (US Army photo, Eve Baker, Fort Wainwright Public Affairs Office)

U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper and His Spotter, Camouflaged in the Snow

View Against Own Field Guard: 4,5,6, below enemy position on Ercavallo from the comegiolo standpoint. .

Enemy position. Ecms of Cimbroslawa. Mielka. .

An Air Force tactical air control party specialist, assigned to Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron, recovers his parachute after landing at Geronimo Drop Zone, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 31, 2022. Air Force special warfare and combat weather Airmen and Army paratroopers, supported by Alaska Army National Guard aircrew from the 207th Aviation Troop Command, conducted the training to demonstrate airborne and mission-readiness skills in austere conditions.

Second charge of the guards - when they retook the two gun battery at the battle of Inkermann

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U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, establish a forward command post during Exercise Cold Response 2022, Norway, March 30, 2022. Exercise Cold Response '22 is a biennial Norwegian national readiness and defense exercise that takes place across Norway, with participation from each of its military services, as well as from 26 additional North Atlantic Treaty Organization allied nations and regional partners.

DF-ST-86-05133. Subject Operation/Series: COPE THUNDER '84-7 Country: Philippines (PHL)

War album 47, Figure 12734b.

U.S. Air Force C-17s from 204th Airlift Squadron and 535th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, performs an airdrop of humvees on Pohakuloa Training Grounds, Nov. 1, 2022. Realistic training exercises, like JPMRC 23-01, strengthen defense relationships, foster multinational interoperability, increase U.S. readiness, and reinforce the unified regional land power network that supports a Free and Open Indo-Pacific.

Zinnenstateau, Haitzer with shrapneller protector.

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 1, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, conduct a motorized fire and movement event during Integrated Training Exercise 3-22 on Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, April 10, 2022. ITX is a live-fire event that increases unit readiness. It teaches the tactical application of combined-arms maneuver as well as offensive and defensive operations during combat.

DN-ST-88-03614. Base: Naval Air Station, Adak State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Artillery delivery at the ridge to the PoliniScharte, received on May 8, 1916.

Camouflage netting covers the campsite of airmen participating in Exercise CROWN DEFENDER. Subject Operation/Series: CROWN DEFENDER Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Pararescuemen from the 210th Rescue Squadron deploy from a HH-60G Pavehawk helicopter in a snow field high in the mountains above Anchorage for a training exercise to rescue a downed pilot. Base: Anchorage State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

War album 47, Figure 12726b.

220822-N-EV253-1096 An F/A-18 assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 192 flies over Pyramid Cove during a mine countermeasure (MCM) live fire training exercise off the coast of San Clemente Island, Aug. 22, 2022. The MCM live fire is realistic, relevant training that enables our joint, multi-domain forces to integrate and rehearse a critical capability and complex skillset.

A U.S. Marine with 3d Battalion, 2d Marines patrols during Exercise Shinka 22.1 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, June 21, 2022. Shinka exemplifies a shared commitment to realistic training that produces lethal, ready, and adaptable forces capable of decentralized operations across a wide range of missions. 3/2 is forward deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division as part of the Unit Deployment Program.

Concrete entryways lead to pre-positioning caves used to store U.S. Marine Corps equipment. Country: Norway (NOR)

Tel Saki site of a fierce battle in the Yom Kippur war

DA-ST-90-01553. Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Aircraft bombs explode in the impact are at a live-fire range during the joint readiness exercise Arctic Warrior '91. Subject Operation/Series: ARCTIC WARRIOR '91 Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska(AK) Country: United States Of America(USA)

Major operation of the fire brigade after forest fire in the 1/1/2016 caused by two mountaineers, Helicopter of the Tirol mountain rescue service.

Alaska Army National Guardsmen with Bison Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, conduct a 5 kilometer snowshoe ruck march near the Alaska Army National Guard Readiness Center in Bethel, Feb. 3, 2024. The rugged terrain in Western Alaska served as an ideal testing ground for arctic warfare preparation. (Alaska National Guard

Left side view of a KC-10A Extender aircraft refueling a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight. Base: Edwards Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Transportation Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, the Japan Ground Self Defense Force soldiers, conduct a convoy during a bilateral vehicle recovery training during exercise Resolute Dragon 22 at Kamifurano Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 5, 2022. Resolute Dragon 22 is an annual exercise designed to strengthen the defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Japan Alliance by exercising integrated command and control, targeting, combined arms, and maneuver across multiple domains.

An Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, drops approximately 700 gallons of water from a Bambi Bucket” on to the Stetson Creek Fire near Cooper Landing, Alaska, June 17. Two AKARNG Black Hawk helicopters flew a total of 200 bucket missions, dumping more than 144,000 gallons of water on the 300-acre Stetson Creek Fire on the Kenai Peninsula.

A view of a four-ship formation of A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft flying over snow-covered mountains. The aircraft are from the 18th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 343rd Composite Wing, involved in a training mission. Base: Eielson Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

1997. Subjects: AMNWR; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Aleutian Island Unit; Scenics; History. . 1998 - 2011.

A camouflaged Ground Launch Cruise Missile (GLCM) position during a field training deployment. Base: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

January 25, 2012 - Pallets of supplies land in the snow-covered ground during an airdrop in Shah Joy district, Zabul province. Supply drops are a common way to resupply coalition special operations forces in remote areas of Afghanistan.

A U.S. Marine Corps pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 312, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, flies an F/A-18D Hornet during a routine flight operations in preparation for Exercise Nordic Response 24 at Andenes, Norway, Feb. 23, 2024. Exercise Nordic Response, formerly known as Cold Response, is a NATO training event conducted every two years to promote military competency in arctic environments and to foster interoperability between the U.S. Marine Corps and allied nations. Marine Corps

First bombardment by Lafraun and Awesgeutsh.

Searchers pick through rocks and debris on Colony Glacier June 13, 2022, working to recover the remains of 52 passengers and crewmembers, and wreckage of an Air Force C-124 Globemaster aircraft that crashed Nov. 22, 1952, near Mount Gannett, Alaska. Soldiers assigned to the Alaska Army National Guard discovered the debris on June 10, 2012, during a routine Black Hawk helicopter training mission on Colony Glacier nearly 14 miles from where the plane first crashed. (Army photo/John Pennell)

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Pima County, Arizona for tours of the Mexican border area, discussions with local Interior staff and Customs and Border Patrol personnel

DA-SC-85-06477. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '84 Base: Hongchon Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Accident Investigation Board members search the debris field for clues to determine why the A-10 crashed. Base: Gold Dust Peak State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-89-01034. Subject Operation/Series: SHADOW HAWK Base: King Faisal Air Base, Al Jafr Country: Jordan (JOR)

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A U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J Hercules aircraft assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1), participates in a low altitude air defense exercise during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-23 at Tacts Airfield, near Wellton, Arizona, Oct. 13, 2022. WTI is a seven-week training event hosted by MAWTS-1, providing standardized advanced tactical training and certification of unit instructor qualifications to support Marine aviation training and readiness, and assists in developing and employing aviation weapons and tactics.

U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and Tactical Training Exercise Control Group, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, pause while patrolling during the non-live fire training for the Ground Reconnaissance Course at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, May 16, 2022. During the course, Marines were tasked with patrolling and observing live role players positions and movements undetected.

U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment move in a tactical formation after conducting an airborne operation onto Hohenfels Drop Zone at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Sept. 7, 2022 as part of Exercise Saber Junction 22.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 all

Anefo photo collection. Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo); Camp Angolan refugees Zaire. August 16, 1973. Belgian Congo, Zaire

U.S. Army National Guard OH-58 Kiowa in Colorado's Rocky Mountains.

020111-N-2383B-504. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

An LC-130 "Skibird" sits on the flightline at Stratton Air National Guard Base, New York, Feb. 9, 2017, during a snow storm. Snow has been falling in the Capital Region and much of the Northeast since the early morning and is still going.

U.S. Air Force tactical air control party specialists assigned to Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, conduct mountaineering training at Sunshine Ridge, Alaska, July 22, 2022. The 3rd ASOS special warfare Airmen utilize Alaskas varied and austere training locations to prepare for conditions they may face on deployment.

DM-ST-88-08123. Subject Operation/Series: COLD WINTER Country: Norway (NOR)

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