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Original color footage of German shells fired from the French coast targeting British coastal shipping near Dover circa 1941

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A member of the 131st Field Artillery Battalion loading a 105mm shell packed with D-ration chocolate bars for an infantry battalion cut off in the Belmont Sector, France, Oct 29 1944

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Motorcycle ambulances were used during World War I by the British, French, and Americans. At the time, the advantages of light weight, speed, and mobility over larger vehicles was cited as the motive for the use of motorcycles with sidecar in this role. See more here...

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Italian Arditi special forces soldier wearing Farina helmet and body armor.

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A Bishop 25-pdr self-propelled gun of 142nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery firing at night from a captured airfield near Grazzanise, Italy. 12 October 1943

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Allied troops in Tuscany, June 26-27, 1944. Free French (3e Algerian Tirailleurs Regiment + 3e Moroccan Spahis Regiment) advancing on the city of Sienna.

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They apparently have some facetious Germans opposite Givenchy now. One of them shouted across to the Welsh Regt. “Is there anyone there from Swansea?” Several answered “Yes”, whereupon he hurled a hand grenade across, with the remark – “Then you can divide that among you, you blighters.”

From the diary of Brigadier-General Cecil Lowther, 20/1/1915.

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Wounded British soldiers and German prisoners heading to the rear during the Battle of Bazentin Ridge (part of the battle of the Somme), 19 July 1916

Photo: Ernest Brooks

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A man demonstrates a steel cap, splinter goggles (vision is obtained through thin slits in goggles), and a steel dagger gauntlet, manufactured for the British military during World War I.

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British and Canadian soldiers prepare their defences - Arras, France, April 1917

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A British patrol makes its way through the village of St Mauvieu during Operation Epsom - June 1944

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A group of Japanese American soldiers in France, December 1944. Nisei soldier's caption: "Mule skinners. Charlie Co. were really in the hills. All supplies being brought up by mules went up to operate our radio and lead one of these critters. But halfway up I had the mule drag me. Lucky that my animal was tame enough not to mind."

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Soviet self-propelled guns SU-85 and a T-34 tank cross the Dniester near the city of Khotyn, Chernivtsi region, Ukrainian SSR. The photo shows German equipment: the Sd.Kfz.250 armored personnel carrier, the Sd.Kfz.9 half-track tractor. April 1944

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A Soviet flamethrower in the ruins of the STZ plant, Stalingrad. October 1942.

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Austro-Hungarian officers from the technical company of the k.u.k Infantry Regiment Nr. 32 on the Italian Front in 1918.

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Approaching an enemy patrol on the beach, Teikansaari, September 28, 1941.

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German MG08/15 water-cooled machine gun.