British soldiers operate a 9.45 inch trench mortar, during the Battle of the Somme, during World War 1 in France. A mortar bomb (called a "flying pig") is loaded into the mortar. The soldiers move to a safe location in their dugout and fire the mortar.
British soldiers fire 18pdr guns from captured Germans trenches during the Battle of Somme, World War 1 in France. Field battery directing, point blank, direct fire, from behind sand bag mounds. Two horses killed while bringing up the field battery lie in a field.
British soldiers during the Battle of Somme, World War I in France. German trenches bombarded on 1st July, 1916. Smoke rises. Soldiers of British Lancashire Fusiliers await instructions. Large group of British soldiers gathered and close-up views of the British soldiers, uniforms, and equipment being readied. Soldiers fix bayonets to their rifles and pass through communication trench to the first line. A huge mine blows up German trenches; view just after the explosion occurs (the Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt mine explosion). Royal Engineers arrive. A soldier looks through binoculars from behind sand mounds. British soldiers set up machine gun at the top of a trench parapet. Men at machine gun. Shrapnel bursts over German trench. British troops "go over the top" and launch an attack on German trenches under heavy enemy fire. Explosions occur but British soldiers continue to advance.
British soldiers during the Battle of Somme, World War 1 in France. Shells fired at British trenches as a British soldier carries a wounded comrade on his back across a trench. Two soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a wheeled stretcher along a trench.
From "The Battle of the Somme." British Essex Regiment soldiers wash themselves up at a wayside pool in France during the Battle of the Somme. Soldiers of Seaforth Highlanders assemble for a roll call. Soldiers lined up for the roll call.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Allied soldiers fire artillery and mortars. Troops advance after D-Day invasion along a road into the city of Saint Marcouf. Men of United States 82nd and 101st Airborne Division march into villages. A sign reads ' Sainte Marie Mont', ' Montebourg' and ' Point Labbe.' Heavy artillery being fired, camouflaged gun positions as paratroopers continue to advance. Paratroopers enter the town of Carentan, past a disabled M4 Sherman tank, fitted for deep wading on Utah beach. Paratroopers ride a captured German armored vehicle. Another paratrooper rides a bay horse. Two men ride a captured Sd.Kfz.2 (German: Sonderkraftfahrzeug 2) half-track motorcycle with a single front wheel, also known as the Kleines Kettenkraftrad HK 101 tracked motorcycle, down the street. Vehicle tows a small trailer loaded with ammunition. U.S, soldiers march German prisoners of war in the streets.
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