1357 best r/MilitaryHistory images on Pholder | Would there still be any visible human remains inside battleships and carriers sunk during WWII?

Would there still be any visible human remains inside battleships and carriers sunk during WWII?

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American troops execute SS guards of KZ Dachau the day it was liberated, April 29th, 1945

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German soldier with a G3 rifle during the Cold War

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West and East German guards face each other after a young woman crosses the border in Berlin. Generally considered a real photo, it is actually from the film Oggi a Berlino (1962).

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One of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, Samuel Sandoval, has passed away at age 98. If this has already been posted today I'm sorry. Just want to make sure my Dine people are not forgotten. RIP warrior.

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US Army soldiers with gold bullions in Iraq, 2003. [602x858]

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A “Trench Raider” during WW1. Both sides had them and they were sent in small groups where they snuck into forward enemy trenches and killed everyone. Armed with a revolver, several knives, and brass knuckles. It was a fully volunteer position.

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My grandfather receiving a bronze star during WW2. He actually earned two bronze stars and a silver star before the war was over!

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A column of German POWs passes a US Sherman tank on the autobahn near Giesen, Germany, 1945. [1188x670]

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A Roman military diploma awarded to a soldier named Longinus Festius in AD 132, who had served in the 1st Cohort of Hamian Archers, after an honorable discharge from the RomanArmy after 25+ years service. It granted Festius & his descendants full legal Roman citizenship rights.

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North-South Korean border before JSA axe murder

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Marine Lance Corporal Ernest Delgado at Khe Sahn, Vietnam, 1968. Note his blood type and Tour of Duty countdown calendar on his cover, with “California”across front. (photo by David Duncan Douglas) [754x943]

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On this day in 1941, Stalin ordered the traditional October Revolution Parade while Axis forces are near Moscow, 7 November 1941. Stalin delivered a speech to the soldiers on the parade on Red Square who would go to battle immediately after the parade. [656x680]

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One of the last photos taken of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who died of a heart attack on this date in 1944. Suffering arthritis and having chest pains since D-Day, he kept his condition secret from superiors for fear that he would be taken away from his men in the 4th Infantry Division. [2048x1610]

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Soviet drip in Afghanistan, 1980's.

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My Grandfather’s service 1911, paratrooper goggles, pins, patches, stripes, and more. Served in WWII and Korea.

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What is the dark gray German uniform?

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Found amongst my grandfather’s Navy medals. WWII, not sure what FIGO stands for.

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Happy Vietnam Veterans Day! A day to commemorate those lost during the Vietnam War and those who served

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Today I learned that the first battle ever photographed was Sedan.

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Soviet APS underwater assault rifle (APS stands for Avtomat Podvodny Spetsialnyy / Автомат Подводныи Специальныи, or Special Underwater Automatic Rifle)

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German Nazi SS soldiers massacre fleeing civilians in Yugoslavia, 1943.

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Exhausted United States Marine Corps Private Theodore James Miller exhibits the “thousand yard stare” after returning from 2 days of constant combat on Eniwetok Atoll, 1944. He would return to combat and be killed one month later. I’ll be paying my respects at his gravesite on Honolulu tomorrow.

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A Polish soldier in World War II, armed with a Mosin Nagant M91/30

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Uniforms of WW1 (of some major nations)

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These women will die for Rhodesia, Rhodesian propaganda poster from 1976 during the Rhodesian Bush War (1964-1979).

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My greatgrandfather with his comrades, this was the last picture he sent to us. He died in south-east of Riga. Picture was taken August 1944. Zakumuiza, Latvia.

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the America's response statue in NYC dedicated to the first green berets to land in Afghanistan

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A Yugoslav army Mp and a soldier of the British KFOR Podujevo British army first contact 1999 .

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An American Vietnam veteran, hired as a security guard in Rhodesia by ranchers, poses with his Uzi, Africa, 1970s. [640x1006]

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Is this a WWII photo? This badly damaged photo came to me as part of my uncle's photo collection.

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Ten biggest battles of 19th century in Europe

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What are these I found them moving houses

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And another picture of German Panzergrenadiers in action.

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My Great-Grandfather in his US Army uniform, c. 1918

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During the last days of World War II and as the Soviets were closing in on the government quarter of Berlin, the Volksturm were pressed into service using a wide range of uniforms and arms.

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June 1944, Latvia, real picture from WWII. My great-grandfather with two of his friends. Despite hard times they still shared a laugh. Post is not meant political.

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On this day, the Ottoman authorities began the systematic extermination of one and a half million Armenians in the three years 1915-1918. This year marks 107 years since the Armenian Genocide by the Turks. The Turkish government continues to deny the appalling magnitude of these events.

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Four G3 Battle Rifles in an experimental mount developed in West Germany in the 1960s as a form of close range anti aircraft. It was never adopted for use by the Bundeswehr. It is on Display at the Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung Koblenz.

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Absolutely love this still from the 2002 adaptation of The Four Feathers. A British infantry square is glorious 🇬🇧

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Decorated skull of a Japanese sniper killed in Guadalcanal, painted with the motives of the First Marine Division. [960x720]

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Old picture of a German airman studying something

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Hiro Onoda Was an Imperial Japanese army intelligence officer who did not surrender in August 1945. Onoda spent the next twenty nine years holding out in the Philippines. Only when his former commander traveled from Japan to personally relieve him of duty in 1974 did he surrender

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Rhodesian SAS trooper posing with a captured DShK machine gun.

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I’m sure the answer is very obvious but does anyone happen to know what the pack these soldiers are wearing on the front of their uniform is and what it contained?

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Nicaragua Contra leaders meeting. One on the right with an Airborne patch on his uniform. Honduras in the mid to late 80s

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This is a photo of a ball that was kicked across No-Man’s land during the battle of the Somme during WWI. The soldiers passed the ball as they charged the enemy trenches to take their minds off the dangerous situation they were in.

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Russian soldiers enjoying a brief lull in the battle with a guitar and song, First Chechen War 1994-1996. [1080x1347]

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My great-grandfather, Percy, came home from Scotland with a war bride, my great-grandmother, Elizabeth. WW1.

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Is there a term for these parallel horizontal lines found on the chest of certain soldiers' uniforms, like this Hungarian Hussar?

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The Financial Facts You Never Learned About World War II (link in comments)

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Red Army parade in Moscow. Winter 1941.

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A French Legionnaire talking with a Lebanese Army soldier,Beirut 1982.

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George Washington is the only president to physically go to war while in office. In 1794, 6,000 angry men at taxes gathered at a field near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The aging president mounted his horse and personally led 13,000 men into Pennsylvania and put an end to the short lived rebellion.

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What camo is this?

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What do you think the German forces should have done to defeat the Red Army during the 'Operation Barbarossa'?

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A 79-year-old Gaspar Wallnofer, oldest soldier of Austro-Hungarian army during WW1. Veteran of imperial campaigns against Italians in 1848/49 and 1866

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My great grandfather, trying to find info on the uniform. More info in comments

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Another picture of the german army in the 60s

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A Combat Chaplain about to conduct a service for his unit out in the field in South Vietnam. No known date.

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We need more footage of women in combat

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Information on this Vietnam Era rifle. Allegedly brought back from US Soldier returning home

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The German Assault Platoon of late 1944 (see comment)

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How did the western corner of the Krim manage to resist during WWII ?

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The ceremonial Sig M17, made for the Sentinels of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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Walt Disney's drawing of a fighting Smoking Snake, symbolizing the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in WWII. [1106x800]

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I had multiple family members serve during WW2 and this was in some other military stuff I found at my grandmothers who recently passed. Can anyone tell me anything about it I have two of them. Thanks

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Christmas 1914 truce tattoo, I may have gone a little big for my first

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Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the then inspector general of the german Luftwaffe Johannes Steinhoff. Picture from the 70s.

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Soviet paratrooper in Afghanistan with a captured Thompson SMG, 1980's.

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Abandoned Mad-Max style Armored Train used during the Balkan Wars (vid in comments)

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The very flag that flew over the famous Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879. After being routed earlier that at Isandlwana, a small garrison of British Army soldiers mainly of the 24th Regiment of Foot(South Wales Borderers), defeated well over 3,000 zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses were won.

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American soldiers inspecting the Maginot Line, early 1945.

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Photo of my Great Great Grandfather Ik he is Ukrainian and fought in the First World War. But is there anything a history expert can me tell me about the photo from the uniform?

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The picture from Luftwaffe fighter pilot’s handbook that explains how to pick the best angle of attack. Fraulein as well as enemy aircraft is particularly accessible in the latter case

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An Australian comedy coming out in 2023. The Emu War.

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Pie Chart of World War I Deaths by Country

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A World War II photograph of an RAF Spitfire using its wing tip to push a German V1 rocket off course.

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Eisenhower, Stalin and Churchill. My guess is the photo taken at the Tehran Conference, but I'm not sure, if anyone has information, please write it in the comments.

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Found during today's research: the price of a British Army commission in 1866. £7250 is just below £960,000 in today's money. £450 is around £60,000.

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A US Marine gives a cigarette to a Japanese soldier buried in the sand. Iwo Jima, 1945.

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Confederate POWs pose for photographer Mathew Brady in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg, the three-day battle that stopped Confederate momentum in the north, killed any chance of European intervention, and gave the Union a badly needed victory and morale boost, July 1863. [920x537]

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german army in the 1960s

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One year ago today, the Russian cruiser Moskva was sunk by two Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles [720 x 960]

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German military officers (Heer and Luftwaffe) with some American officers

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