'The Spirit Of 44'
Hong Kong, China: April 8, 1927 British Bluejackets marching through the Chinese quarter of Hong Kong in a show of strength as they try to quell the unrest there.
Chaplain R.T. DuBrau conducting Rainy GI Funeral, photo by William R. Wilson, 1941-1945
Vietnam Ammo Scene
Iwo Jima, Japan: March 2, 1945 Fourth Division Marines charging from their landing craft onto the beach in the battle at Iwo Jima.
Tientsin, China: March 31, 1926 Soldiers behind the sand barricades at the boundary of the Japanese concession at Tientsin during China's civil war.
Korean Armistice Building
New York, New York: August 7, 1919 The 2nd Division is welcomed home with a rose strewn parade in NYC.
Soldiers Welcome Home Parade
B-26 Marauder Very Closeup
Nguyen Van Thieu On Base Tour
Marines Land On Iwo Jima
Liberty Bond Drive.
Expeditionary Force Parade
British Marines Defend Antwerp
A Battery Of British Howitzers
A Viet Cong Surrenders
Viet Cong Camp
Navy SEALS In Covert Op
France: c. 1915 A French soldier spied a German lookout in front of their position in the trenches and forced his surrender with a bayonet charge..
Washington, D.C.: April 14, 1945 The caisson bearing the body of Franklin Delano Roosevelt proceeds with a military escort up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House.
WWII DUKW Crossing The Rhine
U.S. Soldiers of 55th Armored Inf Bn, 22nd Tank Bn, 11th Armored Div, US Third Army, run through Smoke Filled Street, Wernberg, Germany, April 22, 1944
7th Armored Division of U.S. Army Halted in its Advance while Tank Blasted Path into Japanese Positions, Kwajalein Island, U.S. Army photo, February 1944
Abyssinian Troops Marching
German Soldiers In Brussels
Sgt. Walter P. Goworek, Jersey City, N.J., treating two little French Girls with Candy, France, U.S. Army Signal Corps, July 4, 1944
American Legion Parade
North Vietnamese Gun Crew
Running Soldier
Marines To DMZ
Col. William Hayward
Infantryman Pausing in Advance Through Forest, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign, Battle of the Bulge, 1944
Members of Airborne Division Moving Through Forest, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign, Battle of the Bulge,
Two Infantrymen, Bastogne, Belgium, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign, Battle of the Bulge, December 1944
Infantrymen Fire at German Troops in Advance to Relieve Surrounded Paratroopers, Bastogne, Belgium, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign, Battle of the Bulge, December 1944
Infantrymen Advance, Bastogne, Belgium, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign, Battle of the Bulge, December 1944
Soldiers In The Mekong Delta
Vietnam Pineapple Snack
Marching Down Fifth Avenue
Crew of Multiple Gun Motor Carriage M16 Waiting to Fire on Enemy Plane as Vapor Trails Fill Sky, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign, Battle of the Bulge, 1944
American Howitzers Shell German Forces Retreating near Carentan, France, Franklin, U.S. Signal Corps, July 11, 1944
U.S. Soldier Standing at Knocked Out Crisbecq Battery near Utah Beach, Saint-Marcouf, Normandy, France, June 1944
U.S. Soldier using Mine Detector to Identify Mines Laid in Field, Normandy, France, June 1944
Iwo Jima Moument
General Westmoreland
France: c. 1916 A periscope system devised by the French for staying below the level of the trenches and without exposing themselves to fire effectively at the Germans in the trenches opposite.
Battle of Antietam, by Meisel Lampe & Co., Illustration, 1863
Howitzer Crew In Action
Soldier Napping
Belgian Troops In Ruhr
Belgian Bicycle Corps
27th Division In Action
Surrendering Japanese soldier emerges from cave on island of Saipan, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Marine Corps photo, July 1944
American Soldiers wading from Coast Guard landing barge toward Beach at Normandy, France on D-Day, Robert F. Sargent, June 6, 1944
Temporary U.S. Military Cemetery, North Coast, Sicily, Italy, William R. Wilson, U.S. Office of War Information, 1945
United States: February 11, 1919 One of the big 14 inch guns used in the war against the Germans. This one fires a 1200 pound shell with a range of 19 miles. It can be removed from the railway tracks for turntable use on land foundations.
Men and Boys Marching, Gulf Division, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, September 1918
Tanks and vehicles advancing
Soldiers fighting
Wartime In The Mountains
Soldier Learning how to use Thompson Submachine Gun, firing from Standing Position, Air Service Command, Daniel Field, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano for U.S. Office of War Information, July 1943
Soldiers On The Maginot Line
Russian Sharpshooters
French Army Guns & Wagons
WWI Indian Soldiers In France
Citizen Versus National Guard
Coastal Defense Mines
Vietnam Training Exercise
Soldiers Transporting Cannons
The Prince Of Wales In India
Muzzle Of A 14' Gun
Crowd Greeting Soldiers During the Liberation of Paris, France during WWII, November 23, 1944
North Vietnamese Co-op
Sergeant George Camblair on Sentry Duty, fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, September 1942
Calumet, Michigan: 1913 A parade of striking copper miners passing the offfices of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company while National Guard troops stand by in case of trouble.
China: 1937 Chinese men leave their homes and head off to war against the invading Japanese.
Vladivostok, Siberia: October 24, 1918 U.S. troops on parade through the streets of Vladivostok during a celebration held in their honor.
German Spy Signs In Paris
War Medals From Italy
Navy Victory Fleet Parade
Navy Arrives For Football Game
Vietnam Artillery Firing
U.S. Marines and Tanks assaulting Japanese Positions on Peleliu ridge, Battle of Peleliu, Palau, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Marine Corps photo, October 7, 1944
U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Division move onward against the Japanese on Saipan, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Marine Corps photo, June 1944
U.S. Marines dig in on Beach at Saipan, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Marine Corps photo, June 1944
British Marines Playing Cards
Spotlight For Night Warfare
WORLD WAR II: BREST, 1944.
U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson Standing Amongst Vietnamese Soldiers during Visit, Saigon, South Vietnam, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, May 1961
Prisoners Taken During Advance of Bastogne, Belgium, Being Evacuated, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign, Battle of the Bulge, December 1944
American Assault Troops with Full Equipment Move onto a Beachhead in Northern France, by Wall, U.S. Signal Corps, June 7, 1944
American Men and Equipment Moving in on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, by U.S. Signal Corps, June 8, 1944
U.S. Soldiers of 116th Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division being helped to shore after Arriving at Omaha Beach in Life Raft after their Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) had been Sunk off Beachhead, Nicholas Russin (3rd from right), being dragged
U.S. Soldiers And Equipment Along Utah Beach, Normandy, France, June 1944
U.S. Soldiers Protect themselves from Enemy Fire as 88mm Shell from German Howitzer Explodes in Background, Utah Beach, Normandy, France, June 1944
U.S. LCT(A) 2008 Navy Ship Loaded with U.S. Troops Heading toward Beachhead during Invasion of Normandy, Normandy, France, June 7, 1944
U.S. Soldier trying to Extinguish Flames of Burning Republic P-47 Fighter Plane on Ground during Invasion of Normandy, Cotentin Peninsula, France, June 1944
American Paratroopers in Captured German Jeep Patrolling Carentan while other American Soldiers Rest against a Building, Normandy, France, June 1944
Three U.S. Soldiers Patrolling Occupied Area after D-Day Invasion, Normandy, France, June 1944
U.S. Military Vehicles crossing Pontoon Bridge to Omaha Beach from Temporary Mulberry Harbour A, Normandy, France, June 16, 1944
U.S. Military Vehicles move ashore across Pontoon Bridge to Omaha Beach from Temporary Mulberry Harbour A, Normandy, France, June 16, 1944
U.S. Pontoon Bridges Connecting Omaha Beach to Temporary Mulberry Harbour A, Normandy, France, June 16, 1944
U.S. Military Truck with Soldiers driving through water toward shore during Invasion of Normandy, France, June 1944
Two U.S. Soldiers Searching through Damaged Buildings, Battle of Normandy, Cherbourg, France, June 1944
U.S. Army Soldiers eating from Mess Kits, Normandy, France, June 1944
Two U.S. Infantrymen Share a Foxhole near Frontlines after the Allied Invasion of Normandy, Near Bayeux, Calvados, France, July 1944
Artillery To The Front
Navy SEAL In Mekong Delta
Doolittle's Raiders In China
WWI French Dinner
Gunners laying siege
British Soldiers Firing on the Boers from Trenches at Honey Nest Kloof, South Africa, Second Boer War, 1901
German Officers Reviewing Troops, 1939
US Army artillery in action
Soldier watching a destroyed tank
Searching For Viet Cong
Training For Vietnam
U.S. Soldiers on March during Military Training Exercises, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA, Jack Delano for U.S. Office of War Information, September 1942
Marines finishing Training, Parris Island, South Carolina, USA, Alfred T. Palmer, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1942
Air Service Command, Robins Field, Warner Robins, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, July 1943
Soldier learning how to disarm opponent during Bayonet Class, Air Service Command, Daniel Field, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, July 1943
Young Italian Fascists exercising
B-29 Bomb on Public Display, this is largest Load that B-29 had Carried to date, National Airport, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by J. Sherrell Lakey, U.S. Office of War Information, November 1944
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) propaganda poster in Nicaragua.
WWII: TRAINING, 1940.
Allied troops advancing in Italy
German soldiers among the ruins of Sevastopol
German tanks and artillery towards Volga
German soldiers on a tank
Reinforcements for the Africa Korps
Water supply on the way to Tobruk
U.S. gun on the Passo della Futa
Tank wreck
Russian tanks in Berlin
Italian vehicles in transit
German tanks
Two German tanks
Troops and tanks advancing
Soviet tank burning
German troops and tanks resting
German infantry in advance
Romanian soldier waiting to counterattack
African-American Troops, Portrait Near Tents and American Flag, circa 1917
Soldier With A Heavy Load
Man holding high powered shotgun, wearing special forces uniform and balaclava
Man wearing special forces uniform and holding high powered semi-automatic rifle
Man wearing special forces uniform and holding high powered semi-automatic rifle, guarding doorway
Two men wearing special forces uniforms, holding high powered guns
Man aiming high powered rifle, in sniper position
Detail of man aiming high powered hand gun with silencer
Man in armed forces holding high powered sniper rifle
Cropped view of man in special forces, holding high powered shotgun
Man in special forces, aiming high powered hand gun with silencer attached
US Infantry Under Fire In WWII
WWII Soldiers In France
Captured German Soldiers Taken Prisoner by U.S. Troops near Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, June 1944
Trucks Exit From The Hold Of A US Naval LST on Beach After Storm Wrecked Artificial Mulberry Harbors, Normandy, France, June 1944
Treadway Bridge Built Across Rhine River near Remagen, Germany, Rhineland Campaign, March 1945
British tanks running into some German prisoners
Ike With D-Day Paratroopers
U.S. Soldier standing Guard near Ruins of Buildings destroyed by Riots following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's, Assassination, 7th and N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., USA, Warren K. Leffler, April 8, 1968
Battle Of The Bulge
New York Preparedness Parade
NY Streetcar Strike Parade
Marines At Operation Hastings
United States: c. 1955 An Army paratrooper exercise.
United States: c. 1958 An Army paratrooper exercise.
Shanghai, China: February 14, 1932. Some of the Japanese troops of the Kanazawa Division that has arrived in Shanghai under the command of Lieut.-General Uyeda. He has issued a warning that the Chinese must withdraw from the vicinity of Shanghai, or else the Japanese authorities would be forced to take extreme measures, including the destroying of all Chinese in the neighborhood of Shanghai.
Stuck Tank
Beijing, China: August 22, 1923 Members of the army of General Wu Pei-fu, China's greatest militarist and strategist, going through their training. They are the real power behind Beijing. Here they are loading up their weapons.
Chateau le Chenay, France: April, 1919 Harry Truman (second row, third from right) posed with his fellow soldiers of the 129th Field Arilllery unit during WWI.
Gettysburg. Pennsylvania: July, 1922 Marines during an reenactment of Pickett's Charge at the battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
France: c. 1916 German soldiers working in the fields in northern France.
Europe: c. 1916 A Russian infantry regiment resting in a small Galician village after desparate marching and fighting.
Tokyo, Japan: May 18, 1933 Japanese Reservists at Hibiya Park in Tokyo witness the reading of the Imperial Rescript on the Japanese withdrawal from the League of Nations.
U.S. Infantrymen Marching to Trenches, France, circa 1918
Chinese Army Troops
Equipment To The Korean Front
Belgian Soldiers And Farmers
French Infantry In Action
French Colonial Troops
French Submarines In WWI
First Tanks In Warfare
Water Supplies For The Front
French Soldiers Occupy Essen
Turkish Soldiers Camp