This photograph was taken on May 18, 1966. 18 May 1966. These men are from the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. The day before, they had taken a hill at a cost of 13 KIA and twice that many WIA. The soldier in front is PFC Toliver.
This photograph, taken on June 6, 1944 on Omaha Beach in Normandy France, an American soldier holds a group of German troops and laborers at gunpoint in a ditch during D Day operations. An American soldier wearing a bandage under his chin stands by.
Troops of the famed 82nd Airborne Div (3rd Batt; 504th Para. Reg.) march through snow behind tanks of the 340th Tank Bn on the way to engage Germans near the town of Herresbach during the Battle of the Bulge. Herresbach, Belgium. December 1944.
The Saigon fire dept's job was to collect the dead from the streets during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. When they put the girl, killed by U.S. helicopter fire, in their truck, her brother found her. The NY Times published this photo & denied that US forces had killed her. 1968.
Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac are seen posing with a cannon on the battlefield either before or during the First Battle of Bull Run which took place on July 21, 1861, near Manassas Junction, Va.
USS Hancock burning after struck by a kamikaze attack aircraft off Okinawa, Apr 7, 1945. Fires are burning fore & aft, & TBM Avenger flying over the carrier. Photograph taken from USS Pasadena.
Dodge WC54 ambulances and International Harvester M-5 trucks pick up Okinawa casualties from hospital ship AH-8 USS Mercy with a 400-bed capacity, Guam, Mariana Islands, May 1945
A burning Yokosuka P1Y Ginga ‘Frances’ aircraft crossing astern of escort carrier USS Ommaney Bay in the Sulu Sea, Philippines, 15 Dec 1944. Moments later, the airplane crashed into the sea.
On April 12, 1945, US Forces liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, & Manton Eddy are inspecting a cremation pyre at the camp. Over 7,000 people died in only 5 months of the camp's operation.
1) Louis-Joseph de Montcalm tried to stop Natives from attacking British soldiers & civilians as they leave Fort William Henry after the Battle of Fort William Henry. Aug 10, 1757
2) A British officer negotiates the surrender of Fort William Henry with French General Montcalm 2/2
On Aug 10, 1757, after the Battle of Fort William Henry, British forces surrendered to the French, who promised safe passage. Tragically, their native allies attacked the retreating British. 200 were killed, & many captives were taken. A dark chapter of the French & Indian War. 1/2
The death of Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock at Battle of the Monongahela, July 9, 1755, during French & Indian War (1754-1763).
British couldn't take Fort Duquesne from French. Due to forest terrain Braddock also died. British were routed. Fort Duquesne was French for 4 more years.
The US Army 2nd Infantry Division troops march up the bluff at the E-1 draw in the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy, France on D+1, June 7, 1944. They are passing the German bunker, Widerstandsnest 65 (WN 65), that defended the route to Ruquet Valley to St-Laurent-sur-Mer.
Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944. Note helmet netting; faint "No Smoking" sign on the LCVP's ramp; and M1903 rifles and M1 carbines carried by some of these men.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses paratroopers from Co. E, 502nd Parachute Inf. Reg't (Strike) of 101st Airborne Div.,before D-Day. Gen. Eisenhower gives order of the Day. 'Full victory- nothing less' to the troops in England before the invasion of the continent of Europe began.
"The Bottisham Four", four U.S. Army Air Force North American P-51 Mustang fighters from the 375th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group, from RAF Bottisham, Cambridgeshire (UK), in flight on 26 July 1944.
