Photos The Cold War

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Czechoslovak People's Army T-55 tank with infantry training 1960s

 

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t is 1961 and President John .F Kennedy visited Fort Bragg with members of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division during a tour of this facility with Cold War tensions at all time high.
During his term in office he also blockaded Soviet ships carrying ICBMs bound for Cuba during the Missile crisis next year and then was assassinated in Dallas.

 

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1963. Swiss soldiers armed with the Sturmgewehr 57/SIG SG 510 rifle.

 

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Some Warsaw Pact pics.

 

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Korea during the Cold War.

 

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West Germany. 1 September 1988. A Deutsches Heer Reservist from 1st Platoon, 2nd Company, 942nd Battalion, demonstrates the features of the MG3 GPMG to members of the USAF's 2750th Security Police Squadron during Exercise Creek Warrior '88.

 

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4 October 1962. Finnish troops with a 55 S 55 recoilless anti-tank weapon.

 

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Iwo Jima, Japan. 5 May 1982. USMC LVTP-7 tracked landing vehicles line the beach at the foot of Mount Suribachi during a 31st Marine Amphibious Unit exercise. Photo by Corporal D. C. Davis USMC.

 

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Korea.

 

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