Photos Military Art

[morris]

Painting of an Air America Bell 205 helicopter engaging two Vietnam People’s Air Force Antonov An-2 biplanes dropping 120 mm mortar rounds on Lima Site 85, Laos,12 January 1968

 

[uktabber]

I believe this is the only time in the Vietnam war that a helo is credited with shooting down an aircraft to btw!!

 

[morris]

 

[morris]

The Battle of Velestino 1897, between the Greek and Ottoman armies at Velestino in Thessaly, as part of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.

 

[morris]

The Massacre of an British expedition in Benin.
A small armed British force under the command of Lieutenant James Phillips was sent to Benin then an independent kingdom to demand an end to the collection of customs duties from British traders. The force was ambushed on the road from Gwato to Benin City and all but two men were killed.
The attack led to a much larger force being sent in reprisal. Benin was conquered and incorporated into the British colony of Nigeria.

 

[BravoZulu]

Philippine Army Air Corps Boeing P-26 Peashooter engaging an Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Hobby Crafts Artwork "WWII Philippine P26")

 

[morris]

"Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas" etching and aquatint by Otto Dix,1924

 

[morris]

Fisherman sculpture made from Stgw 57 Swiss assault rifles - retirement gift 1993 from W + F Bern, exhibited in the military museum.

 

[morris]

Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863

"The inventor of this boat, a man named Hunley, can be seen; also a sentinel. This boat, it was at first thought would be very effective; twice it went out on its mission of destruction, but on both occasions returned with all the crew dead. After this had happened the second time, someone painted on it the word 'coffin.' There was just room enough in it for eight men, one in front of the other, with no possibility of anyone sitting straight. The third time it started out, it never came back, nor was anything ever heard from it, but as one of the United States men-of-war in the harbor (USS Housatonic) was sunk at about the same time, the supposition was that they both went to the bottom together. Other objects to be seen in the picture are, Sullivan's Island, and a Dispatch boat." – Conrad Wise Chapman, 1898

 

[BravoZulu]

HMS Duke of York searching for KMS Scharnhorst
This view portrays HMS Duke of York, flagship of Adm. Fraser, at sea off the North Cape of Norway searching for the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst who she will meet and sink in the evening of this day. She is under the command of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. December 1943
https://www.jamesaflood.com/hms-duke-of-york/

 

[BravoZulu]

HMS King George V underway by Paul Wright
https://battleshippaintings.com/

Taranto Harbour, Swordfish from ‘Illustrious’ Cripple the Italian Fleet, 11 November 1940
by Charles David Cobb
https://artuk.org/discover/artists/cobb-charles-david-19212014

 

[BravoZulu]

"Tomcat Into the Night" by Morgan Ian Wilbur; 2002
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/art/artists/morgan-ian-wilbur-.html

 

[morris]

Scythian archers shooting with the Scythian bow, Kerch (ancient Panticapeum), Crimea, 4th century BC. The Scythians were skilled archers, and their style of archery influenced that of the Persians and subsequently other nations, including the Greeks

Scythian comb from Solokha, early 4th century BC

Battle between the Scythians and the Slavs (Viktor Vasnetsov, 1881)

 

[BravoZulu]

2nd Battalion 5th Gurkha Rifles at Ahnai Tangi, North-West Frontier, India, 14 January 1920. Oil on canvas by Frederick Roe (1864-1947),

Piper George Findlater, The Gordon Highlanders, winning the Victoria Cross at Dargai, 1897
Oil on canvas by Edward Matthew Hale (1852-1924), 1898.

 

[BravoZulu]

"Approaching the Gate to Destiny" by William S. Phillips ( giclée on canvas )
The mission would not only be a dangerous for the Doolittle Raiders, but it was also a major strategic gamble for the United States Navy. With only four carriers in the Pacific Ocean, 50% of that force were committed to the Tokyo Raid - the USS Hornet, from which the 16 bombers were launched and sailing from Hawaii, the USS Enterprise, as a protective escort.

Little of that was apparent as the Hornet and the other ships of Task Force 18 emerged from the fog and into the sunlight on the morning of April 2, 1942. 5000-miles beyond the Golden Gate lay the hostile shores of Japan. A cover story of the Hornet ferrying bombers to Hawaii had been circulated. Thousands had the opportunity to watch the carrier and the other ships depart with little idea of the Task Force’s true destination.

Doolittle had the Navy load sixteen B-25’s aboard the USS Hornet. His intention was to launch one when they were off the California coast as proof to his men that it could be done. The other fifteen would be used in the attack on Japan. The Navy’s takeoff training supervisor, Lt. Henry Miller, had such unflagging confidence in the ability of the planes to safely leave the deck of the ship that he convinced Doolittle and Captain Mitscher to save the extra plane for the raid itself.

 

[morris]

A painting of Attila riding a pale horse, by French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)

Huns in battle with the Alans, 1870s engraving after a drawing by Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805-1880).
The Alans, an Iranian people who lived north and east of the Black Sea, were Europe's first line of defence against the Asiatic Huns. They were dislocated and settled throughout the Roman Empire.

 

[Volk01]

not sure if it qualifies as art but it's nice and i dont know where else to post it.



also remembered this drawing

Su-34 art via @fighterbomber

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[morris]

General James M. Gavin

 

[morris]

The Welcoming Committee

 

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Fisherman sculpture made from Stgw 57 Swiss assault rifles - retirement gift 1993 from W + F Bern, exhibited in the military museum.

The sculpture's feet are made from Stgw 57 buttstocks, but the fishing rod is made from the barrel of a Stgw 90/SIG550.