Jeep-based automobile put together from scrapped vehicles by USAAF 8th Air Force maintenance men stationed in England in 1945

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Beck-Mahoney Sorceress staggerwing biplane racer in flight in 1974

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XM6 armament subsystem with 2 x M60C 7.62mm machine guns on each side of a UH-1B Gunship

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M4 Sherman acts as a moving target for infantry training with the M8 grenade launcher on their M1 carbines

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Latecoere 521 F-NORD six-engined double decker flying boat in August 1938

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North Korean tank crews with their T-34/85s circa 1950

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PBY waist gunner mans his machine gun

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Second of two Junkers G.38 blended wing body transports in flight in the early 1930s

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BL 13.5-inch Mk V railway gun bombarding German positions across the English Channel during the Battle of Britain

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LSM-1 Class Landing Ship Medium LSM-265 hit by two torpedoes from a submarine off Pearl Harbor on March 6th 1946

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Lockheed R6V Constitution, only two built and the largest fixed-wing aircraft type ever operated by the US Navy

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UH-1 Crew Chief marks an LZ with smoke and proceeds to lay down suppressive fire with his minigun in Vietnam

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Panthers in Ukraine in December 1943

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2.75 inch rocket battery on the F-94C Starfire [876x740]

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P-40 Tomahawk gun alignment

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MGM-1 Matador missile shot down by an AIM-4 Falcon missile during a 1957 test

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Chevrolet WB 30 cwt truck armed with a Bofors 37 mm anti-tank gun and Lewis machine gun operating with the Long Range Desert Group in Cairo in 1941

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USAF armorer gets a leg up while hooking up High Velocity Aircraft Rockets to a B-26 Invader in Korea

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USS LSM(R)-196 and her sister ships unleash their 5 inch rockets in support of the amphibious invasion of Okinawa

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Terrifying perspective of a captured Soviet KV-2 in 1941

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Diving A6M Zero catches a burst from a F6F Hellcat based on USS Hornet in June 1944

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Convair XC-99 heavy transport under construction

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British personnel pose with a V-1 missile that failed to detonate

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Blohm & Voss BV 138 flying boat takes off with a pair of Walter HWK 109-500 Starthilfe RATO jettisonable rocket pods

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Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A takes off from USS Saratoga in May 1967

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Hans Butterfinger misses the shell casing on an M-class minesweeper in the English Channel in early 1942

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German propaganda reel showing SS Wiking troops with burning Soviet T-34/85 and JS-2 tanks near the Polish border in 1944

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Moncrieff or disappearing type US coastal artillery firing in 1931

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US Jeep fitted with a British Browning .303 Mk II aircraft machine gun for airfield defense at RAF Ridgewell in Essex in the Summer of 1943

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Messerschmitt Bf 109 ambushed on takeoff in December 1944

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C-47 Transport damaged by flak during the first Market parachute drops manages to smash into a knocked out Jagdpanther during a forced landing near Gheel on September 17th 1944

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37mm Pak 36 anti-tank gun crew fires on a Soviet tank in June 1941

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Gunner on the GE MK-29 20mm weapons station on a LVTPX12 blasts away with reckless abandon

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Israeli Mirage takes out a pair of Egyptian MiG-17s during the Six-Day War in 1967

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Vought XF7U-1 Cutlass prototype in flight

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IDF aircraft attacking an Egyptian motorized column with napalm during the Six Day War in 1967

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T-34/76 destroyed in 1945 with the gun stuck in the driver's hatch

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Early model Tiger tank during trials

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Worst tank cosplay ever

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Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning prototype in flight seen from above

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View from the ground of Soviet IS-2 tanks engaged by a Ju 87G armed with 37mm cannon in early 1945

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Republic XF-12 Rainbow reconnaissance aircraft prototype in flight

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Dornier Do 335A-12 two-seat trainer captured by US forces at Oberpfaffenhofen in May 1945

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Browning BAR 1918A2 instructional demo cutaway [2600x737]

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Armored train in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s

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Nature's little panzer on its bigger brother Panzer III in North Africa in 1941

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Tiger tanks in action near Kursk in the Summer of 1943

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The three V bomber types in flight during trials [1400x900]

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My friend combination knuckleduster and 7 shot .22 caliber revolver patented in 1865 [2000x1379]

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QF 3.7-inch AA guns score a direct hit on the warhead of a V-1 Flying Bomb over England in 1944

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1942 diagram illustrating the amount of firepower a formation of four B-17 Flying Fortresses could bring to bear on intercepting fighters from various angles

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McDonnell XF-85 Goblin parasite fighter fails to hook up with mother on August 23rd 1948

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Australian Transavia PL-12 Airtruk agricultural aircraft at work spraying crops in 1968

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Japanese battleship Ise during sea trials in August 1943 after she was converted to a hybrid carrier [1750x840]

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Ryan FR-1 Fireball mixed power fighter flying on jet power alone with its prop feathered

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PzKpfw IV with a shell hole in the turret skirt and missing hatch being towed by a Churchill ARV in 1944 near Caen

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RAF Spitfire avoids the fire of an Axis fighter over the coast of Malta

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Surface mine detonated after a few attempts by 40mm gunfire from a US Navy submarine (likely USS Bugara) in 1945

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AEC Mammoth Major armed with a BL 4-inch Mk IX naval gun for the defense of the United Kingdom in July 1940

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Sherman tank of 23rd Battalion 12th AD cannibalized for armor plate after being put out of action South of Herrlisheim in January 1945

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P-51 Mustang wearing invasion stripes flies through the line of fire of a Luftwaffe fighter seemingly unscathed in 1944

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Swiss soldier aims a Leichtes Maschinengewehr Modell 1925 during maneuvers [1045x1450]

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Near miss on a Japanese vessel in Truk Lagoon during Operation Hailstone in February 1944

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Independent Cupola on the British Conqueror tank that allowed the commander to seek out targets for the gunner

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The Cox Submarine Gun devised to puncture the hull of a sunken submarine in order to supply air to the trapped crew

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Inert Sparrow missile from an F3D Skynight knocks the drop tank off a F6F Hellcat target drone

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Japanese supersonic jetliner scale model prototype crashes on launch in Woomera, startling local kangaroos on July 14 2002

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Tupolev ANT-20bis, even Comrade Stalin is weirded out

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Shockwave in the dust of urban warfare in France

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M-139 20mm cannon on a pintle mount tested on the UH-1B Helicopter Gunship [2371 x 1875]

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Four generations of NATO interceptors in formation in 1979 [1800x1560]

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Boulton Paul Defiant NF Mk I turret fighter in flight in 1942

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Japanese ship explodes while under fire from an F6F Hellcat from USS Yorktown in early 1944

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An official points to a small caliber bullet hole in the skull of one of the victims of the Katyn massacre exhumed in 1943

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Soviet KV-1 sunk in a crater south of Lake Ladoga in mid 1943

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Convair XFY-1 Pogo prototype transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and makes a high speed pass

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Bitch I don't care about your air travel restrictions

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M1941 Johnson rifles and Light Machine Gun in the hands of Dutch sailors

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Horse-drawn QF 18-pounder battery brought into action against dummy tank targets during an artillery demonstration on Salisbury Plain in 1936

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B-26 Marauders leave a trail of destruction in their wake over France in 1944

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1943 propaganda image intended to be an illustration of what it means for a Luftwaffe ace to have 100 kills under his belt

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JG 53 pilot in a Bf 109 forces an RAF Spitfire pilot to break off his attack on a Junkers Ju 88 in the Mediterranean theater in 1942

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The only known footage of a successful bomber interception by an Me 163 rocket fighter on August 24th 1944

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Gunfire damage to USMC M4A2 Sherman Commando knocked out during the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943

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Typhoon-class submarine underway [940x1380]

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Uparmored M4A3E2 Jumbo Sherman possibly with the 745th Tank Battalion smoldering the ETO in early 1945

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First flight of the only Blackburn R.B.2 Sydney built in July 1930

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Derelict LVT-2s on Omaha Beach pictured in May 1954 almost a decade after the D-Day landings

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Armor plate for Marmon-Herrington Mk.I armored cars manufactured in South Africa in 1940

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Rheinmetall 130mm APFSDS test fire

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Short Singapore III British Interwar biplane four-engined flying boat

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T-55 tank versus Spike NLOS tandem warhead

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NLAW top-attack warhead vs T-72 tank

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Color footage of P-39 Airacobra strafing runs including a third person view

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Death motif on the nose of a B-26 Invader during the Korean War

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Russian VKS Vykhlop large caliber suppressed subsonic rifle posed in an urban environment [800x1200]

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UH-1B tested with a massive M-139 20mm cannon on a pintle mount

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Knocked out Type 95 Ha-Go and turretless cast hull Sherman among the debris from the Battle of Kwajalein in early 1944

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Northrop YB-49 takes to the air in the late 1940s

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1916 Gotha WD.10 floatplane fighter prototype with retractable floats designed by Oskar Ursinus

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3-inch anti-aircraft gun M3 trained singly and as a battery of four by a director

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Phalanx CIWS successfully intercepts a Ryan BQM-34A Firebee drone that goes on to strike the vessel carrying it

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Short SA.4 Sperrin VX158 first prototype jet bomber

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Medical personnel look on as a B-17G Flying Fortress returning to England from a mission launches flares to indicate there are wounded on board

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M41 Walker Bulldog light tank hit by AGM-65 Maverick missile

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Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawks with undercarriage replaced with an external fuel tank drop from the flying aircraft carrier USS Macon

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North Korean ammunition wagon detonates after being strafed

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Troikaschlepp arrangement to get the Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant cargo glider airborne

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Gwinn Aircar experimental safe rudderless biplane

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AN/M2 Browning .50 cal mounted on a Jeep for airfield defense in the UK in 1944

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Ryan BGM-34A Maverick missile launch against a simulated mobile radar target in early trials of armed UAVs

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Short S.40 Shetland II flying boat prototype DX171 takes to the air in September 1947

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Four crew of a USMC Sherman tank trapped in their burning vehicle after hitting a Japanese mine during the Battle of Okinawa on May 14th 1945

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RAF Mustang II (P-51A) fitted with streamlined auxiliary underwing fuel tanks in 1943

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Running gear maintenance on a Panther

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Luftwaffe ace Leutnant Hans Strelow who committed suicide aged 20 to avoid capture after being forced down behind Soviet lines on May 22nd 1942 with 68 kills to his name

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Burning T-34 sans turret at the side of the road

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Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star in flight in the late 1950s

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Iraqi tank casualties line the road to Basra in March 2003

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Angry German insects do their thing in January 1944

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B-24D Liberator waist gunner mans his .50 cal

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Manufacture of the De Havilland Mosquito bomber in 1943

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Convair YB-60 strategic bomber prototype that failed to compete with the Boeing B-52

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307th BG 371st BS B-24L Liberator 44-41421 going down after being intercepted by Japanese fighters during a raid on Alicante Airfield on Negros on November 8th 1944

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M4A3 Sherman AUSTERLITZ of 4e Escadron 2e RCA hit by two Panzerfausts in Mulhouse on November 23rd 1944

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13th AR M3 Lee tanks knocked out by Axis shellfire in Tunisia in December 1942

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Panther tank used as a target

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Obliterating a tree line in Vietnam

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Heinkel He 219 Uhu night fighter that was the first operational aircraft to fly with ejector seats

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USS Saint Paul (CA-73) off the Vietnamese coast firing full broadsides at targets on shore in September 1966

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B-17 bomber engaged with cannon fire at close range

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Caesar turret on Tirpitz firing in 1942 [1800x1080]

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Test launch of the Bachem Ba 349 Natter point-defense rocket interceptor

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1945 Low level bombing in the Philippines

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Abandoned KV-1 and KV-2 tanks put out of action in July 1941

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