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Two anti-fascist militia of the Spanish Republic marrying in Madrid, Spanish Civil War, 1936

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80mm French mountain gun with a mine-shell ready to be fired, Western Front, WW1, 1914-1918

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Field trials for the AK-47, Soviet Union, 1948

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Lorraine Hurdle (second from left), a gay woman who served during WW2, with fellow friends and veterans of the WAC, USA, photo taken in the 1960s

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Warriors posing for a photo, Africa, exact location unknown, between 1920-1950

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Mounted warriors in Cameroon, ~1905

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Canadian troops in an Armored Autocar, France, WW1, 1914-1918

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German troops during a gas attack exercise, WW1, ~1915?

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Austro-Hungarian troops crossing a ford during the 12th Battle of the Isonzo, WW1, 1917

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Manchu soldier of Qing China, 1874

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Swiss troops manning an observation post in the Alps, sometime between 1914-1918

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US troops with a French 37mm gun, France, WW1, 1918

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Training military dogs, Japanese Empire, WW2, some time between 1940-1945

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Mercenary artillerymen with British guns, Qing-dynasty China, ~1880

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British soldier eating his midday meal in a snowy trench, the Netherlands, WW2, 1945

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Pakistani troops manning a 106mm recoilless rifle during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965

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Female soldiers in service to the anti-fascist Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War, 1936

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Iraq Levies in training, British-occupied Iraq, between 1939-1945

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US Marine at Khe Sahn, Vietnam, Vietnam War, 1968

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Irregulars with Mustafa Kemal (later known as Ataturk), Turkish War of Independence, ~1920

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Hand-colored photograph of samurai in armor, Japan, late 19th century

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Christian field chaplains on the Western Front, France, WW1, 1915

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Member of the Royal Guard of the Kingdom of Greece, ~1900 AD

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Female militia of the anarchist CNT-FAI, Catalonia, Spanish Civil War, 1936

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Dervish warrior, Sudan, 1909

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US soldier Mike Vining (bottom right) with Delta Force, 1980s?

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Military men with a naval mine, Australia, ~1890

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Gendarmes, with one on a pedal-draisine, Russian Empire, ~1890

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Artillerymen in military maneuvers, Weimar Germany, 1924

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Pro-Polish insurgents in Silesia, Germany, ~1920

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Canadian troops posing next to spike-traps laid by German forces to pop truck tires, France, WW1, 1914-1918

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Chechen fighter displaying his improvised submachinegun, Grozny, Chechnya, First Chechen War, 1995

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Hand-colored portrait of Emperor Menelik II armed for war, Ethiopia, 1889

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RAF Folland Gnat T.1s flying in formation, UK, 1966

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Ship's Dog "Venus" of the Royal Navy, UK, WW2, 1941

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Portuguese troops at a medical station, France, WW1, between 1914-1918

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Romanian troops in a trench, WW1, 1917

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Manchu archer, Qing China, 1874

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Latvian riflemen, WW1, 1916

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Machinegun team of the Polish Voluntary Legion of Women, Polish-Soviet War, 1920

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Argentinian Air Force wreckage after a nighttime raid by the British RAF, Falklands War, 1982

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Kalmyk soldier of Tsarist Russia riding a Bactrian Camel, Ukraine, WW1, 1915

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British soldier demonstrating the use of a German armored mask, WW1, ~1916?

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US Army nurses liberated from a Japanese PoW camp, the Philippines, WW2, 1945

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Revolutionary militiamen posing for a photo, Hungarian Revolution, 1956

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Type 91 experimental tank going over an obstacle, Japanese Empire, 1930s

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Lithuanian troops (and dog) with an armored car, Lithuania, ~1920

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Two Soviet soldiers help a wounded comrade during urban combat in Vienna, Austria, WW2, 1945

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Finnish personnel in a rowboat disarming a sea mine, WW2, 1944

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Armed anti-Soviet revolutionaries, Budapest, Hungary, 1956

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Brigadier General John Vaughan Campbell addressing troops on the Riqueval Bridge, France, WW1, October 2, 1918

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Freedom fighters on top of a government tank during the Hungarian Revolution, Budapest, Hungary, 1956

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Gunner Hector Murdoch arrives at his new house, greeted by his wife and son. London, UK, end of WW2, 1945

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US Marine smiling as he reads his mail, Iwo Jima, Pacific Theatre, WW2, 1945

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Indian soldiers arriving in France, World War I, 1914

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Israeli forces withdrawing from occupied territory after the Suez Canal Crisis, 1956

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Autochrome of French artillery, France, WW1, 1914

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US Civil War veteran Samuel H. Decker posing with the prosthetic arms he designed for himself, ~1867

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Soviet anti-Nazi partisan, WW2, 1944

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Algerian cavalryman showing off for an audience in Groningen, the Netherlands, 1961

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French troops in a trench at Verdun, WW1, 1916

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Anglo-Egyptian cavalryman and mount (camel), 1900-1920

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Sailors dancing on a fake battleship built for recruiting/fundraising purposes in New York City, USA, WW1, 1917

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Australian troops escorting the body of the Imperial German ace pilot Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron", for a full military funeral, with an English priest leading, France, WW1, 1918

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Wounded French soldiers in the Grand Palais practicing military drill to return to active duty, WW1, 1916

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Finnish troops with a Maxim machine gun during the Winter War against Soviet invasion, 1939-1940

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British soldiers after the punitive raid on Benin City, Nigeria, 1897

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Partisan leader Fatma Seher Erden and some of her companions, Turkish War of Independence, between 1919-1922

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Irish civilians being detained by British troops on Bloody Sunday, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, 1972

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Khevsur warriors in traditional armor, Georgia, ~1910?

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French tanks running obstacle courses in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1920s

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2nd Indian Cavalry Division, France, WW1, 1916

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Polish cavalry riding to confront Nazi forces in the Battle of Bzura, WW2, 1939

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Armored samurai posing for a photo, Meiji-era Japan, ~1880

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Cat being given a checkup before qualifying as a ship's cat for the US Navy, WW2, 1943

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US Marines with puppies, the Marshall Islands, WW2, ~1942-1945

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US nuclear weapon testing at Bikini Atoll, the Marshall Islands, 1946

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Troops at an outpost during the Mexican Revolution, Mexico, ~1910

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Prototype 'amoeba' camouflage, the Soviet Union, late 1930s

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Imperial German troops having a game of cards during a quiet moment, Europe, WW1, 1916

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HMS Barham explodes and sinks, WW2, 1941

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Soldiers in a confectionary shop, Switzerland, between 1914-1918

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Concrete acoustic mirror for long-range aircraft detection, Kent, UK, 1930

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American helicopter ACH-47 "Guns-a-go-go", Vietnam, ~1967?

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500 tons of TNT detonated in Alberta, Canada, 1964

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Chinese infantryman with an anti-tank suicide vest made of grenades, Second Sino-Japanese War, 1938

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Imperial German troops crossing a bridge, Riga, Latvia, WW1, 1917

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Japanese surrender delegation, end of WW2, 1945

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USS Indiana returning from the Pacific, San Francisco, USA, end of WW2, 1945

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US troops around a crater made by a bomb dropped from airplane, testing grounds in the USA, WW1, 1918

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US troops advancing over no man's land, France or Belgium, WW1, 1918

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Union drummer boys, Virginia, US Civil War, 1863

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US troops playing baseball in gas masks, Long Island, New York, USA, WW1, 1918

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Imperial German Soldier, WW1, Eastern Front?, 1916?

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American biplanes over NYC, USA, WW1, 1917 or 1918

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Army motorcycle messengers training in gas masks, Richmond, Virginia, USA, WW1, 1918?

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Military modelers experimenting with 'razzle-dazzle' ship camouflage patterns, Washington DC, USA, WW1, 1918?

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US troops fleeing from an exploding observation balloon in a training accident, Oklahoma, USA, WW1, 1918

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Tank tests, Ohio, USA, WW1, 1917

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Red Army patrol, USSR, Russian Civil War, 1918

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