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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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Battle of Gettysburg Panorama #1723

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Representing Pickett's Charge at 4 P.M., July 3rd, 1863: General Gibbon's Brigade Repelli...
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Battle of Gettysburg Panorama #1726

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Representing Pickett's Charge at 4 P.M., July 3rd, 1863: Death of Confederate General Arm...
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Grant's Assault on Vicksburg, McPherson's Corp in the Afternoon's Assault

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Description: A photograph of a scene from the panoramic painting "Grant's Assault on Vicksburg..."
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Surrender of Vicksburg, July 4th

Date: 07 04 1863
Description: The surrender of Confederate troops after the battle of Vicksburg. Watercolor by Private John Gaddis of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E.
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Lunette Batteries

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Description: A view of Lunette Batteries. Canons stand in a line and United States flags are lined up into the distance.
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Fort St. George

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Description: A view of two cannons on a battlefield at Fort St. George, in which a battle broke out on November, 23, 1780.
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Colonel Hans Heg Monument

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Description: Monument marking the place where Colonel Hans Heg was mortally wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga.
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Enemy Cannon

Date: 09 29 1943
Description: Robert Doyle seated on a Japanese cannon in Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Battle of Buna-Gona took place between November 16th, 1942...
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Aiming a Large Caliber Field Cannon

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Description: Aiming an Austrian large caliber field gun on the battlefield in Galicia.
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Austrian Heavy Mortar Ready for Firing

Date: 1915
Description: An Austrian 305mm heavy mortar in firing position in Galicia.
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Cleaning a Cannon Barrel

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Description: Turkish soldiers cleaning a cannon barrel on the front in Syria.
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Emplacing Artillery in Syria

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Description: Turkish gun crew practicing the emplacement of artillery into a firing position.
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"Enemy in Sight"

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Description: Turkish field gun and crew ready for firing somewhere in Syria.

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