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Dramatic scenes of battles and military equipment during WWII, illustrating intense action and destruction.

Armored vehicle firing a projectile across a field
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Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Overflight - 26-HK-388-90. Hurricane Katrina
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Armored vehicles with the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division prepare to cross the Vistula river during a wet-gap crossing operation part of Defender Europe 22 held at Dęblin, Poland, May 13, 2022. Defender Europe 2022 is a series of U.S. Army Europe and Africa multinational training exercises in Eastern Europe. The exercise demonstrates U.S. Army Europe and Africas ability to conduct large-scale ground combat operations across multiple theaters supporting NATO.
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The Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael Barratt, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft.
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Vintage Photograph. Civil war reenactment featuring historical cannon firing and soldier uniforms.
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Smoke and dust rise over the impact area during a live-fire exercise held as part of the combined Thai/U.S. Exercise Cobra Gold '89. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD '89 Base: Sukhothai Country: Thailand (THA)
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Men dressed in 18th century American military costume fire muskets and charge through mist during a Revolutionary War battle reenactment held in New Windsor, NY
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A 40-pound crater charge is set off by Florida National Guardsmen to create a crater obstacle April 10 at McCrady Training Center. Soldiers learned numerous new techniques during a two-week Combat Engineer Course, reclassifying as 12B at McCrady Training Center. The classes encompassed breaching doors, creating craters and other obstacles and recognizing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and other traps.
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A 1ST Battalion recruit crawls on an infiltration course. Base: Usmc Recruit Depot,Parris Island State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-17. Hurricane Katrina
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Inspection tour of NASA installations: Huntsville Alabama, Redstone Army Airfield and George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, 9:35AM. View of a static test-firing of a Saturn rocket booster at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; President John F. Kennedy and others watch from bunker in foreground. President Kennedy visited the MSFC as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
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A New York Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk based in Latham, N.Y. drops water above a tree line while doing training at Round Lake N.Y.on Thursday May 5, 2016. The collapsible 560 gallon water bucket is used in wildfire fighting, underneath their helicopter. The National Guard conducts this training annually to practice flying with that much additional weight under the aircraft. The Soldiers are part of the 42nd Combat Aviation Brigade.
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American flag viewed during Secretary Gale Norton's visit to the temporary memorial, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, honoring the passengers and crew of Flight 93, hijacked on September 11, 2001. Norton visited the site to swear in the members of the Flight 93 National Memorial Federal Advisory Commission
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Members of the 8th Fighter Wing leadership view the Black Eagles performing an air maneuver at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, May 13, 2022. Black Eagles pilots operate their T-50s while experiencing up-to 5-Gs during demonstrations, but can be subject to as high as 9-Gs during a technique called the maximum maneuver.
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U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, eliminate a target during a G-36 live-fire attack as a part of their Marine Corps Readiness Evaluation on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, June 14, 2022. This type of training evolution is the culminating event aimed at validating the units readiness to conduct combat operations.
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War, explosion and missile attack on a warzone during conflict or fighting for freedom with space. Sky, mockup and bomb with a cloud of smoke outdoor on a military battlefield in the countryside
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Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), conduct a night live fire iteration during a combined arms maneuver live fire exercise on Dec. 12, 2022, at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. Our commitment to defending NATO territory is ironclad and the United States will continue to bolster our posture to better defend our NATO allies. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Malcolm Cohens-Ashley, 2nd Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs.)
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Emergency Response Team officers from the Protective Services branch of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida move through a field on their way to an objective during a training exercise simulating a situation the team could confront at the center. A Huey helicopter from the Air Operations branch at Kennedy is visible in the background flying out of the training area after delivering the officers.
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Navy Explosive Ordnance Mobile Unit 11, San Diego, California, set off some charges during an exercise input while US Coast Guard cutter NAUSHON sails by in the background during Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2001, while deployed in Ketchikan, Alaska. Northern Edge is Alaska's premier joint training exercise and it encompasses military troops from all over North America. The exercise lasts for two weeks. Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN EDGE 2001 Country: United States Of America (USA)
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020708-F-6426D-038. Base: Barksdale Air Force Base State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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The Camp Grayling Fire Department practices responding to a fire emergency on the Grayling Army Airfield at Northern Strike 22-2 in Grayling, Mich. on Aug. 6, 2022. Northern Strike is designed to challenge the training audience with multiple forms of convergence that advances interoperability across multicomponent, multinational and interagency partners.
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040708-M-3717S-007. Base: Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Major Command Shown: 2, 25
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U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 373, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, detonate C4 to demolish the Bailey Bridge as part of phase I of Strategic Mobility Exercise (STRATMOBEX) II at San Clemente Island, California, Jan. 5, 2024. During phase I, MWSS-373 demolished a hazardous bridge that hindered range controls ability to insert targets into the Shore Bombardment Area of San Clemente Island. Phase I set conditions for phases II and III of STRATMOBEX II, the construct of a shallow water crossing and follow on missions.
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Expedition 69 Soyuz Landing. The parachute of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft is seen shortly the capsule landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The trio are returning to Earth after logging 371 days in space as members of Expeditions 68-69 aboard the International Space Station. For Rubio, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history.
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Service members at the installation hold training operations at a range June 13, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Annually, tens of thousands of troops complete institutional and transient troop training operations at Fort McCoy. During June 2022, thousands of troops also trained at Fort McCoy, including troops from the Wisconsin National Guard and Iowa National Guard.
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May 2016 (off). Social movement against the Labour Act in Rennes. Mai 2016 (off). Mouvement social contre la Loi Travail à Rennes.
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nhq201704100016 (April 10, 2017) --- Russian Search and Rescue teams chase the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft as it lands with Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday, April 10, 2017 (Kazakh time). Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko are returning after 173 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 49 and 50 crews onboard the International Space Station.
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A U.S. Airman assigned to the 20th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) flight oversees explosion during training on the pro range at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, Jan. 25, 2022. EOD technicians use explosives of all shapes and sizes as tools to complete their mission of locating, identifying, disarming, neutralizing, recovering and disposing of hazardous explosives. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cody Sanders)
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ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-18. Hurricane Katrina
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DF-SC-86-09805. Base: Edwards Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Coast Guard Cutters - Spencer - Aftermath and Rescue - 26-HK-332-16. Hurricane Katrina
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Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-123-63. Hurricane Katrina
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The U.S. flag is shown in front of garrison headquarters Dec. 9, 2022, during daily operations in a snow storm at Fort McCoy, Wis. The installation received several inches of snow Dec. 9, causing a winter weather advisory to be placed for the post. Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin. The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984. Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching usagmccoy.”
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U.S. Soldiers assigned to 10th Special Forces Group detonate a claymore mines during a live-fire exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Sept. 16, 2022.
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Service members at the installation hold training operations at a range June 13, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Annually, tens of thousands of troops complete institutional and transient troop training operations at Fort McCoy. During June 2022, thousands of troops also trained at Fort McCoy, including troops from the Wisconsin National Guard and Iowa National Guard.
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U.S. and Australian Army explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) soldiers train Indonesian Army soldiers on EOD techniques and procedures during Garuda Canti Dharma II  / Multinational Peacekeeping Exercise 22 at Pusat Misi Pemeliharaan, Indonesia, July 20, 2022. EOD training allows soldiers to learn to be experts in their field and proper safety measures for protection and security. Exercise Garuda Canti Dharma II enables instructors from multiple countries to integrate and provide cross education, strengthening cohesion between allies and partners.
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Smoke signals are used at the "mass casualty" site to locate and identify "victims" during Exercise Team Spirit '82. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '82 Base: Osan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)
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