U.S. troops in France during World War I. 18th Infantry troops respond to gas by sounding manual alarm and donning gas masks. They wear gas masks in trenches. Two soldiers in gas masks converse in a trench. Troops outside the trenches employ various gas detection devices to confirm safe conditions. Troops digging new trenches.
German troops at the Lithuanian Front in winter, during World War II. Soldiers fire rifles and other guns at a battlefield. Allied aircraft in flight overhead. The soldiers load and fire anti aircraft guns. Smoke from firing and bombardment. Soldiers fire rifles from a trench. A soldier looks through binoculars. An Allied aircraft is shot down by German antiaircraft fire. A soldier talks over a field phone. German Soldiers come out of a dugout, wearing warm clothing on a snow covered field. German StuG III assault guns and tank moving along a road. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment . Tiger tanks of s.Pz.Abt.502 open fire. Barbed wire entanglements. German troops take up new positions in snowy battlefield. Soviet prisoners of war pose for camera.
Indian civilians during post-independence riots in Delhi, India. Exterior of Jama Masjid or the Main Mosque of Delhi, built by Mughals. A crowd assembled in front of the Jama Masjid Mosque (Jama Masjid Rd, Jama Masjid, Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, Delhi 110006, India). They bow in prayer. Smoke rising in the foreground. Burning buildings. Streets littered with dead bodies. A body is carried on a litter. A long line of Indians carrying their belongings walk through streets. A great crowd assembled in front of the Jama Masjid Mosque. Men, women, and children wait in a line for water ration. People in lines holding several utensils for water.
U.S. ships at Sao Miguel Island in the Azores Islands. Technician Mr. Fred New works on a teletype aboard USS Compass Island. The technician at work. A yellow paper in the machine in motion. Other technician aboard the ship. Two men in the background working on some equipment. The two men work on a plotting chart. The teletype is in direct communication with Tyros satellite. A technician hands over a teletype communication to navigator Paul Taylor and Dr. Chester L Buchanon who is a senior scientist. Both men are working on a plotting chart. A digital clock. The teletype in operation.
Allied campaign against Nazi Germany in 1944 during World War II. Tanks, artillery and supplies piled up in England for invasion of Europe. Allied soldiers from various Allied nations like Britain, America, New Zealand and South Africa gathered at docks. The soldiers loaded onto transport ships. Soldiers get into landing crafts. Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower at a map in Headquarters as he plans the invasion of France. The Allied invasion fleet underway in the English Channel to invade France. A map shows the location of Caen, France. Allied aircraft in flight and view at aircraft door as line of paratroopers jump. Massive group of parachutes in the sky as paratroopers descend. Explosions occur at a coast. Landing crafts beached and soldiers come ashore amidst heavy firing. Rockets and artillery being fired. Vehicles on the beach. A truck burns. A map depicts the area under Nazi German occupation before World War II and the recapture of those areas by Allied armies in 1944.
U.S. 23rd Infantry Division sniper school in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldier students in a classroom at the sniper school. A non commissioned officer gives orientation briefing to new students. Sniper weapons and accessories being displayed. Rifles and pistols on a table. An officer shows rifles to the students. A non commissioned officer writes on a paper as a rifle is being issued to a soldier.
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