Photos Miscellaneous photos

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I found a photoset of historical photos and lifted a few military-related ones from various conflicts.

Genuine samarai

John M Browning

Stalingrad?

Looks like Japanese troops who were on the wrong end of a flamethrower.

Somewhere in Chechnya
Napalm in Viet Nam

 

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Navy chaplain Luis Padilla holds a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela in 1962.

 

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Navy chaplain Luis Padilla holds a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela in 1962.

A powerful image

 

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Two Vietnamese women soldiers wearing pith helmets displaying a Chinese man whose hands they tied together behind his back after they captured and took him prisoner in a battle against the Chinese PLA in the Sino-Vietnamese War, February-March 1979

 

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A unit of Prince De Wang's personal cavalry, 1935.

The Inner Mongolian Army, also sometimes called the Mengjiang National Army, referred to the Inner Mongolian military units in service of Imperial Japan and its puppet state of Mengjiang during the Second Sino-Japanese War, particularly those led by Prince Demchugdongrub (De Wang). It was primarily a force of cavalry units, which mostly consisted of ethnic Mongols, with some Han Chinese infantry formations.

 

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Chinese Communist Troops armed with Johnson M1941 Rifles, 1948

 

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Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division's 505th Infantry Regiment engaged in firefights with snipers in Detroit, Michigan, during the infamous Detroit riot (July 1967)

 

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Arab Legion soldier in East Jerusalem when it was under Jordanian control (1956)

 

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A soldier orders civilians to leave to leave the area, martin Luther King riots, Washington D.C , 1968

A US soldier and his bayonet in front of the capital building 1968

 

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A convoy of units from the 1st Marine Division heads from Camp Pendleton to Los Angeles on a highway in effort to quell the 1992 Los Angeles riots (May 1, 1992)

U.S. Marines in riot gear arrives in Compton at Alameda and Elm streets to patrol the area during the 1992 Los Angeles riots (May 3, 1992)

 

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A convoy of the 1st Marine Division members from Camp Pendelton moves up the Interstate 5 highway on their way to quell the 1992 Los Angeles riots (May 1, 1992)

 

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Nicaragua Civil War:
Pedro José 'Peché' Chamorro Argüello (Julito). Thursday, February 8, 1979 , died in the town of Las Mancuernas, Municipality of Tola, in the Department of Rivas, He belonged to the South Front Benjamín Zeledón Rodriguez (FSBZR), (Sandanistas).

"Julito" was with the companions "El Reverendo" and "Chilo" in the task of installing a minefield to counteract the advance of the EEBI and the national guard, when a mine he had laid exploded prematurely

 

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Khaddeur Ahmed, Algerian freedom fighter. Aged 75. Pic taken during the Algerian war

 

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A California National Guard soldier armed with an M3 Grease Gun while searching for snipers during the Watts riots of August 1965

 

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"Father Domingo Lorenzo with Man About to be Executed
(Original Caption) 1/17/1959-Matanzas, Cuba - In this Pulitzer prize winning photo, Corporal Jose Cipriano Rodriguez holds a crucifix as he kneels before Father Domingo Lorenzo here Jan.17th, a short while before Rodriguez was executed. He was found guilty of the deaths of two brothers in trial by a military tribunal. BPA2# 990. (Photo by A. Lopez/Bettmann/Corbis via Getty Images)"

 

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Vietnamese soldiers with RPD and B40 ( RPG 2 ) in Vietnam-Cambodian war-1982

 

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Sudan 1885.
Troops of the New South Wales Contingent in the desert. Some of the men are carrying Martini- Henry rifles and a 9 pounder RML Mk1 gun is behind the men sitting in the foreground. The trooper in the right foreground is posing with a heliograph.

AN ILLUSTRATED DRAWING OF THE FIGHT AT HASBEEN NEAR SOUAKIN DURING THE SUDAN CAMPAIGN OF 1885.

AN ILLUSTRATED DRAWING OF THE STORMING OF AN ENEMY STRONG POINT ON A HILLSIDE DURING THE SUDAN CAMPAIGN OF 1885.

A SUDAN WAR INCIDENT FROM A DRAWING BY R. CATON-WOODVILLE IN 1885 DURING THE SUDAN CAMPAIGN.

 

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A portrait of an old Ambon KNIL soldier. Netherlands Indies (Indonesia) 1948

 

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Royal Navy landing party in Tianjin, China, as part of the China Relief Expedition. The Boxer Rebellion, 1900

U.S. Marines in relief party in Peiping, China, during the Boxer Rebellion, 1900

Imperial Japanese Army infantrymen deployed to China to suppress the Boxer Rebellion, 1900

Imperial Japanese Army engineers taking part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China, 1900

 

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A British Army machine gun section that took part in the Chitral Relief Expedition (North West Frontier) of 1895 pose with their Maxim gun.