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“The Face of a Modern Crusader- with his hair matted and grit and determination stamped all over his face, an American soldier, injured while landing on a beachhead on the northern coast of France, has his hand bandaged by an American medical officer” June 6, 1944.
USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) passing through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Med. Nov 9, 2025
Four principal classes of Russian Navy surface combatants are seen here, from left to right: a Slava-class guided missile cruiser, a Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser, an Udaloy-class anti-submarine destroyer, and an Admiral Gorshkov-class multirole frigate.
Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) .
The fast and heavily armed Yugoslavian destroyer ‘Dubrovnik’
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  • In Pyongyang, North Korea (2012), a child aims a toy gun at a depiction of a U.S. soldier while playing a game
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  • Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany inspecting troops (circa 1915)
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  • A British soldier scolding a German civilian for laughing at a screening of concentration camp conditions. She was ordered to rewatch the film. (May 1945)(1296×958)
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  • Hugh Thompson, the hero who stopped a massacre committed by US troops in the Vietnamese village of My Lai by landing his helicopter in the line of fire, 1968.
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  • 3 girls strolling past two British soldiers keeping watch for snipers after a spate of rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1981)
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  • ‘Come on in, I’ll treat you well!I used to know your daddy! ‘ Anti-war poster by C. D. Batchelor from 1936 showing how European young men are getting involved in war
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  • A boy carrying oversized pretzels in post-war Germany, 1950s. A symbol of recovery, resilience, and the joy of simple things.
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  • A caricature of the war in Afghanistan, 2019
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  • A Rhodesian soldier wearing sneakers takes a smoke break during the Rhodesian Bush War, 1970s
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  • Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972.
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  • Two Soviet soldiers sitting together Circa 1970
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  • U.S. Soldier picking up the corpse of a dead Viet Cong soldier, 1960s
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  • German soldiers hang teenagers suspected of aiding Soviet soldiers, 1942
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  • Auschwitz officer Irma Grese on trial for war crimes at only 22 years old, September 1945
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  • A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, Serbia, 1914.
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  • Soviet cartoon from the Second World War (1942) showing a concerned Goebbels inspecting soldiers at the front while holding a propaganda image of a cheery soldier behind his back. Artist: Kukryniksy.
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  • A mother in Chicago offers her children for sale during extreme post-war poverty. USA, 1948.(750 × 600)
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  • Soviet soldiers holding the captured German banners at the Moscow Victory Parade, June 24, 1945
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  • Former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny in Madrid, Spain, 1970. Skorzeny led the famous 1943 Gran Sasso raid in which Mussolini was rescued from captivity. After the war he escaped allied captivity & worked as an arms dealer, advising authoritarian leaders like Nasser & Peron, as well as Mossad. (1300×859)
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  • A marine mourns the loss of a friend during the battle of Okinawa 1945
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