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World War II Military Actions

Historic black-and-white images of World War II battles, depicting soldiers in combat, monitoring enemy positions, and managing POWs during significant military campaigns.

1945 - US Marines on an observation post use radio equipment on Iwo Jima.

US Marines with the 5th Division inch their way up a slope on Red Beach No 1 toward Surbachi Yama, Battle for the pacific 1945

Hispano-Moroccan War or First Moroccan War (1859-1860). It faced Spain against the Sultanate of Morocco. "Episode in the war with Africa". Oil on canvas by Marcelino de Unceta (1835-1905), 1880. Army Museum. Toledo, Spain. Author: Marcelino de Unceta (1835-1905). Spanish illustrator and painter.

Second World War. Front pictures. Soviet Union. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht with machine gun in a Schützenhoch

Technical Course Chelm.Bajonettfechten. .

Italian vedette shooting at the Austrian enemy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 23, June 4, 1916.

War in Marshes. Soviet artillerymen manhandling a Howitzer that had got stuck in the soft ground. June 26, 1944. (Photo by O. Knorring, SIB Photo Service).

Photo collection First World War. Ein Gefährlicher Beobachtungspas .. 1914-1918}. Belgium

Wading through swamps covered with matted water lily leaves these troops wend their way along the Ramu Valley towards Shaggy Ridge. These swamps are full of leeches, and every now and then a crocodile is discovered lying like a half immersed log. March 22, 1944.

Driven into the snow by the Russian attack on Finland - An old Finnish women, forced to evacuate her home, is driven out into the snow by the Russian attack near the Mannerheim Line. With her belongings trapped hastily in a bundle on her back and her head wrapped up to keep out the cold. She is seen setting out, with thick snow on the round. - Picture received in London by air today. Dec. 14. December 14, 1939. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

German infantrymen following a tank towards Moscow in the snow, Russia, 1941. Artist: Unknown

Second World War. Battle breaks. Soviet Union. Soldiers of the Wehrmacht when translating in a dinghy

Marines Blast Jap Tarawa Snipers -- Two Marines (center), Barely visible Due to Camouflage suits, hide behind stumps of palm trees as they blast, with dynamite, a Jap sniper's pillbox, on Tarawa Island, Gilbert Island strongpoint wrested from the Japs in a bloody 79 hours fight. December 4, 1943. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Second World War. Front pictures. Soviet Union. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht with writing pad

Light enhanced photography fish-eye lens view show an unidentified US Air Force (USAF) Security Police Military Working Dog Handler on range duty during training conducted at the Air Mobility Warfare Center, Fort Dix, New Jersey (NJ), during Exercise PHOENIX READINESS 2002. Base: Mcguire Air Force Base State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Knatchbull M (capt the Hon) Collection Turkish prisoners at work on an aerodrome: Gallipoli, August 1915.

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