Military
VIETNAM WAR
The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans
Navajo Code Talkers
This iconic photo, taken on February 14, 1945, near Aboncourt, France, shows Sergeant Elvin Harley (Kalamazoo, Michigan) being kissed by a little French girl. After the liberation of France from Nazi rule, this proud member of the 3rd Armored Division survived the rest of the war and returned to Michigan.
Thank you to all of our veterans and those who currently serve in the armed forces for the sacrifices you have made for our freedom. God Bless.
1958, USS Enterprise (CV-6) made her final voyage as she moved from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the scrapper in New Jersey
A Pigeon Bus from WWI, served as collecting point for messenger pigeons from the front lines.
Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant standing by a tree in front of a tent, Cold Harbor, Va.
Drummer boy Johnny Jacobs in Union uniform with cup
c. 1861-1865
Princess Julia Grant Cantacuzene, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant
Sheridan, Merritt, Gregg, Davis, Wilson, Torbert
IRONCLAD
Virginia, Norfolk Navy Yard, Ruins of
Confederate torpedo boat David aground at Charleston, South Carolina
Pontoon Bridge across the James River at Richmond, Virginia
Religious services in camp, Catholic. Probably 69th New York State Militia. Mathew Brady Collection.
WORLD WAR I
Manufacturing airplanes for the government by Dayton-Wright Airplane Company. Completed plane on exhibition
Aeroplane Graflex camera in action. circa 1917-18
Photograph of Lieutenant Colonel R. D. Garrett
DOWN PLANES
WORLD WAR II PHOTOS
The most destructive war in human history was the Second World War which started on September 1, 1939, and ended on September 2, 1945. This war that lasted five years killed almost 60 million service personnel and civilians and the nations directly affected as a result were USSR, China, Japan, and Germany. It came to an end after the suicide of Adolf Hitler as Germany surrendered and when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This war was the largest armed battle that introduced nuclear as well as some other new powerful weapons, the effects of which can be seen even now in Japan. It also gave birth to two superpowers of the world that were the USA and the USSR, something that would lead directly into the Cold War era. In the end, victory came into the hands of the Allies.
THE FACE OF EVIL
KOREAN WAR
VIETNAM WAR
In Loving Memory of My Cousin Thomas R. Barry and all lost in Vietnam
Flares from planes light a field covered with the dead and wounded of the ambushed battalion of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in the Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam, on November 18, 1965, during a fierce battle that had been raging for days. Units of the division were battling to hold their lines against what was estimated to be a regiment of North Vietnamese soldiers. Bodies of the slain soldiers were carried to this clearing with their gear to await evacuation by helicopter.
Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, in March of 1965.
1969 Vietnam 5-12th Infantry Sniper. God Bless our Vets!
A trooper of the U.S. 1st cavalry division aims a flamethrower at the mouth of cave in An Lao Valley in South Vietnam, on April 14, 1967, after the Viet Cong group hiding in it were warned to emerge.
Flag-draped coffins of eight American Servicemen killed in attacks on U.S. military installations in South Vietnam, on February 7, are placed in transport plane at Saigon, February 9, 1965, for return flight to the United States. Funeral services were held at the Saigon Airport with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor and Vietnamese officials attending.
