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World War I Trenches and Fortifications

Historic images of World War I trenches and fortifications, depicting the harsh conditions and strategic construction methods used during the conflict.

German reinforced concrete work protected by a netting against grenades, Cornillet hills, May 1917, Marne department, Grand East region, France, Europe

Tenderly lifting a serious case. Stretcher-bearers at work, Realistic Travels, 1914 - 1918 stereograph cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print (carrying a person on a) litter, stretcher. transport of the sick, wounded and dead (military). private soldier

Grendel was one of the three evil monsters in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem 'Beowulf' (c. A.D. 700-1000). Pictured here is the entrance to a passage grave at Uby, Denmark. After a long battle with the epic hero Beowulf, Grendel dies in a cave under a swamp. this site in Uby, Denmark, was probably the entrance to a passage-grave where an old chieftain had been buried. Legend and tradition came to call it Grendel's Den.

Reims , Marne , Champagne , France , 1917 - Marne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the armies) (French - Reims , Marne , Champagne , France). Military uniform, game , toy, quay, rear, hairy, rail transport, man, army, Clothing, entertainment, First World War, Transport, Human Starries, Society, France, Reims station

Officer B. Malga Laghetto. Recorded in May 1916..

Casematte for M. 80/96 Minimum sharting cannon in the battery Corte at Cherz.

Coast Guard Combat Photographer Charms Native Children with Camera. Coast Guardsman Larison M. Sater, photographer's mate third class, has established a reputation for charming native children, where other photographers fail. Here the photographer, a resident of 30 North Broadview Avenue, Lombard, Ill., makes a few pictures of a couple of kids on one of the Pacific islands. Coast Guardsman Sater is serving aboard a Coast Guard manned LST.

Bomb proof quarters at Ft. Burnham. The sides and top are 7 feet thick, contains two rooms, sleeping and cooking, US, USA, America, Vintage photography

Top of an Italian 35cm. Grenade at Fajti Hrib. .

Telephone resistance in the swarm line at the infantry regiment 4.

Watercolor reproduction: Julian Fa AT (1853-1929), hunting for a recent one; Z: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1889, No. 319 (February 9), p. 88; Society of Foundry Foundry and Printing House S. Orgelbrand Sons (Warsaw; Drukarnia; 1896-1919), Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warsaw; magazine; 1859-1939); 1889 (1883-00-00-1883-00-00);

Soissons, Aisne, France soldiers with wash house , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Soissons , Aisne , France Soldats au lavoir). Military uniform, work clothing, laundry, domestic life, rear, man, Clothing, daily life, First World War, human beings, France, Soissons, soldiers at the wash house

Saint-Ulrich, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, Senegalese France , 1917 - Alsace - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (June) (French - Saint-Ulrich , Haut-Rhin , Alsace , France Sénégalais). Work scene, laundry, domestic life, front, colonial army, Daily life, First World War, colonial history, France, St Ulrich, Senegalese

Masked defensive. .

Archduke Leopold in conversation with Colonel Reutter.

The mayor of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, France walks amongst the ruins of the village during World War One. 1915. From October 1914 to October 1915, the hill of Lorette was the object of fierce fights between the French army and the German army. This dominant position, which rises only 165 m above sea level, offers an exceptional observatory on the mining basin to the north, and the plain of Arras to the south. In one year, 188,000 soldiers, including 100,000 French, died to defend or take the spur of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.

Barrier car of artillery measuring department 506, Trento.

Anefo photo collection. Atlantikwal: Westkapelle. Reporting the war zone after the Battle of Scheldemonding (Westkapelle). A German journey arrangement in the Atlantic Wall. November 1944. Westerschelde, Westkapelle, Zeeland

Trenched trench at 310 honved in Sosnow. .

12/16/1936. Bridge over the Guadarrama River, Destroyed by the Republicans.

These monsters had strange adventures - Tanks in World War I

On the debris site of Siemikowce after the dismissed breakthrough on the 1st BIS 5. IX.1915.

05/31/1919. Orense. The murder of "Federal". 1.-Judge Mr. Marquina (X), with his Auxiliaries, in the place where the Corpse was found. 2.-the place of the Crime; To the house; B, entrance door; C, site where the corpse was found. 3.-the body of José Delgado (the Federal) in the well where he was found.

War album 42, Figure 11615.

Wounded Marines at Iwo Jima are sheltered in he undamaged section of a captured Japanese Concrete Air Raid Shelter 1945

US Civil War. Battle of Antietam, also called Battle of Sharpsburg, Sept. 17, 1862. A man stands at the grave of 1st Lt. John A. Clark, Company D, of the 7th Michigan Infantry. A dead rebel soldier lies next to it, still unburied a few days after the battle. Photographed by Alexander Gardner on Sept. 19-21, 1862 (BSLOC_2018_7_170)

WW1 - Four Australian Gunners from the ANZAC Corps in action at their base in Gallipoli. The gunners working topless in the heat as they prepare their ammunition for their weapons as a team. Date: 1916

Common grave of the Victims of the February Revolution at the Field of Mars in Petrograd, Anonymous

Civilian Conservation Corps - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photo collection First World War. With the British Navy in War Time. Preparing Nets and Mines to penalty 'U' boats. Fixing floats to top beach or just. 1914-1918}

The 64 m deep field fountain in the forest northeast of colony Alexandrowka, the same was produced within 3 weeks from the regimental pioneering department of the infantry regiment 4.

Petersburg, Virginia Interior view of Confederate works. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865, Forts & fortifications, United States, Virginia, Petersburg.

Soldiers' graves 1917, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Photograph of Burned Body of Japanese Soldier. The Heat is on in the Pacific. This Jap Imperial Marine had started to crawl out of his foxhole when white hot fire, hurled from a flame gun in the hands of American Marines, burned him to a crisp. Flamer throwers proved effective in liquidating Nip snipers' nests during the smashing conquest of Engebi Ilsnad in Eniwetok Atoll. This graphic picture was made by a Coast Guard combat photographer from an assault troop transport.

Soldiers at a 75 mm air goal canon on a rotating breeding in the forests of the Dolomites, presumably Italians; Canon de "75" sur affût rotatif, disposé pour le tir contre les avions. Position de Forêt .. Part of photo album Medical mission H. De Rothschild to the Italian Front 1916.

Fuchs hole at the Landsturm Infantry Catalion No. 24 in Zennyn. .

Machine Gunner in Mosquito Netting

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front in France. Screening A Road near The Fire-Line in France From Ennemy Observation. 1914-1918}. France

Brick trillery of the fourth K.U.K. Army probably in the area of Kowel.

Effect 30.5 cm Mortar in the enemy position at Holobutów. (Stryj.).

Same gun, as shown in no. 1015, with Hurdle Revertment (i.e. revetment) and Epaulement - unfinished battery, US, USA, America, Vintage photography

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Dead Confederate sharpshooter at the foot of Round Top. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

11/30/1937. A trench taken from the national army by the Republicans.

08/31/1915. From the Italo-Austrian struggle. A refuge for Austro-Hungarian Soldiers in the Tyrolean Mountains. Photo: Azest -Approximate date.

Brick trillery of the fourth army probably at Kowel.

War album 95, picture 28423.

Madrid, 11/12/1937. Spanish Civil War. A corporal touring the posts confined to his command in the pouring rain.

Photo collection First World War. With the British Navy in War Time (Clyde and Newcastle). Women And Girls Doing Rough Work In The Yards. 1914-1918}. Clyde, Great Britain, Scotland

A battery Telphon at Nabresina.27.8.17. .

General Wheeler's Entrenchment at Cawnpore; Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909), Henry Hering (British, 1814 - 1893); India; 1858 - 1862; Albumen silver print

Shorter of 4.K.V. Fireworks Grobner Koniky.

Chalons -- Grave of four officers killed in battle

Belgium: c. 1914 German engineers excavating a railway tunnel that was blown up by the Belgians in an attampt to slow the advance of the German Army during World War I.

11/25/1919. Madrid. At the Engineering exhibition. HRH the Prince of Asturias (X), examining a machine gun at the artillery corps installation.

'Spell oh' - biscuits, bully and rifle oil. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.

12/17/1910. Landslide on the Monforte Line. General view of the Frieiras Tunnel, next to which the collapse of a trench 24 meters high and nine meters wide occurred.

Naval Stores - Hacking (Chipping). Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Naval Stores - Gathering. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Dead Confederate soldiers in trenches of Fort Mahone in front of Petersburg, Va., April 3, 1865 | Library of Congress

Five miners in Last Chance Company lead mine, in the Coeur d'Alene region of Idaho, Ca. 1910.

Resting civilians at Chiusaforte.

The remains from a bunker outside the town of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina. US Army Explosive Ordnance Specialists (EOD) from 9TH Engineers detonated unexploded ordnance in the bunker. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Celici Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Area behind the Isonzo front Testing the 3m camera. Making photographs with the Magnar long-range camera (80 cm focal length) and the 18x telescope. Photographer: 10. Armeekommando.

Concrete fox hole, 7 m deep. Recorded at 10.Iv.1916. 15.Itd. .

42 cm Haitzen position in the Canal Valley at Gugg. Service-free team during shooting. .

Hunting company at Boom on Plantage Accaribo, 1911 - 1932 photograph Posing the hunting company of four men between the roots of a large tree on plantation Accaribo. The man at the far left of the photo is Planter Theodoor Brouwers. Suriname photographic support Soulame. Plantage Accaria

Officer in the farmhouse in the position of the Infantry Regimental No. 1..

Human Wreckage in No Man's Land, Chemin des Dames, France.

Military cemetery of the spital Rabsztyn Östl. Olkusz the wounds realized soldiers. .

Presentation of civilian persons on the Russian war showplatz.

A dead Rebel soldier as he lay in the trenches before Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865.... The war for the Union, photographic history. 1861 - 1865. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

Vom östlichen Kriegsschauplatz. Grosse Reinigung der Gulaschkanone in einem kleinen Fluss.. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918 , Transportation, World War, 1914-1918 , Equipment and supplies, Chuck wagons, Vehicle maintenance & repair

Tramwagons buried in Arnhem, Anefo, 1945 photograph Buried tram wagons in Arnhem. They had buried the Germans for protection for attacks from the air. Arnhem photographic support Arnhem

Dead German Between Villeroy & Neufmontiers

'Australia will be there'. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF black-and-white prints, gelatin silver prints

Hunting Series (3 of 5) - Rabbit Shooting - In the Spinney Date: 1905

In a speech award-winning veteran from 1866.

Bullet in Tolmein.

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

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