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Launching Rockets During Battle of Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima.
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CH-34A Helicoper

Date: 1963
Description: A photograph by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle of several Sikorsky CH-34A helicopters taken somewhere in South Vietnam. Because these heavy lifting...
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World War II Foxhole at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Three dogs near a sandbagged foxhole during the battle of Iwo Jima. A marine is near another dog behind the foxhole. Wooden boxes in the foreground have wr...
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View Across the Tennessee River

Date: 1864
Description: View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa...
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Soldiers and Howitzer near Brest

Date: 09 10 1944
Description: Soldiers with a 105mm Howitzer near Brest, France. Camouflage netting is over their heads. Names, (left to right) are Private First Class Thomas Greatorex ...
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Destroyed Bridge in the Carpathian Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers standing by a downed railroad bridge in the Carpathian Mountains. The bridge was blown up by the retreating Russians in the vicinity of t...
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Destroyed Bridge in the Carpathian Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: View of groups of Austrian soldiers, some standing at the base, some standing on an undamaged section, of a bridge destroyed by the Russians near the Dukla...
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Austrian Soldiers on Walkway on Side of Cliff

Date: 1915
Description: View looking up at Austrian soldiers standing on a wooden walkway with a metal railing attached to the side of a cliff above a lake in South Tyrol.
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Walkway Along a Mountain

Date: 1915
Description: View across water towards Austrian soldiers building a walkway along the side of a mountain above a lake in South Tyrol. There is also a dog on the walkway...
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Reconnaissance Patrol

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian reconnaissance patrol against Italian troops on the southwest battlefront in South Tyrol.
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Austrian Supply Column

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian troops and supply wagons resting in the vicinity of the Uzsok Pass.
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Resting Troops Near Uzsok Pass

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Description: Austrian troops resting in the vicinity of Uzsok Pass.
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Firing Line

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Major General Ignatz Verdross

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Description: Major General Ignatz Verdross, leaning on an unexploded Italian shell, is surrounded by his officers on the southern battlefront.
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Cable Car System

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Description: Cable car system for bringing up supplies and munitions on the battlefront in Tirol.
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The Highest Battlefield in Europe

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Description: Austrian Alpine soldiers passing through barbed wire entanglements on the highest battlefield in Europe — 3400 meters.
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Tirolian Battlefront

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Description: A narrow passage on the Tirolian battlefront.
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Troops at Rest

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Description: Troops resting on the southwestern battlefront in front of a column with the inscription: "1898" and "Acouedottu Di Riva."
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Tiroler Landesschuetzen

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Description: Tiroler Landesschuetzen (territorial troops from the Province of Tyrol) passing through a barricade in the mountains in preparation for a nighttime patrol...
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Soldiers Fortifying a Battleground

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Description: Soliders are fortifying the banks of a river with barbed wire.

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