World War Artifacts and Fortifications

Images of historical military sites including trenches, artillery bunkers, and restored weapons from various conflicts.

USA, Maryland, Fort Washington, Fort Washington Park, first fortress built for the defense of Washington DC in 1809, cannon

Trenches from World War One at the Sanctuary Wood Museum Hill 62 at Zillebeke, Belgium, Europe

Denmark, Jutland, Frederikshavn, Bangsbo Fort, WW2-era former German artillery gun and bunker

Ireland, County Donegal, inishowen, Fort Dunree, restored red gun.

War Museum Peleliu, Republic of Palau, Pacific

A cannon on the battlefield at Yorktown, Virginia.

National Park Andersonville or Camp Sumter, a National Historic Site in Georgia, site of Confederate Civil War prison and cemetery tombstones for Yankee Union prisoners

A U.S. Air Force security forces specialist, assigned to the Ohio National Guards 180th Fighter Wing, stands clear of the opening to a tunnel after deploying a stun grenade during a less-lethal grenade qualification course at the Owens Community College Center for Emergency Preparedness, Aug. 6, 2022. The 180FW conducts realistic training in a variety of environments to ensure Airmen are trained for Domestic Operations around the state and in defense of the installation.

France, Pas de Calais, Vimy Ridge National Historic Site of Canada, WWI battleground and memorial to Canadian troops, tunnel interior.

High Power Illuminator Radar (HIPIR) is the tracking radar and "illuminated" the goal with a bundle of electromagnetic energy. The Radar is equipped with a Konin Shelter to protect against weather influences.3e group led weapons in Blomberg, West Germany.

USA, Maryland, Fort Washington, Fort Washington Park, first fortress built for the defense of Washington DC in 1809, cannon

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DA-SC-87-01687. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE 86 State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

France, Pas de Calais, Vimy Ridge National Historic Site of Canada, WWI battleground and memorial to Canadian troops, tunnel interior.

Cannons and American Air Force plane that landed in Albania in 1957 during the Cold War. Gjirokaster Castle. Republic of Albania.

German Batteries, Gold Beach, Longues-sur-Mer, near Arromanches, Calvados, Normandy, France German defences for Gold Beach, D-Day Landings, Normandy, France

The German Artillery Battery at Longues-sur-Mer, Longues-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, Europe

Denmark, Jutland, Frederikshavn, Bangsbo Fort, small coastal artillery gun

Gas chamber, Stammlager I, Concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz, Poland, Europe

Manl drawing water from his well, New Mexico farm October 1940.

EUROPE, Poland, Malopolska, Lublin Majdanek Concentration Camp Barbed wire and camp barracks

Cannon at Kings Bastion of Fortress Louisbourg Nat'l Historic Site, Nova Scotia, Canada

Rund um die Masurische Seenplatte - Hitlers Wolfsschanze ist heute ein Gedenkort an das missglückte Hitler-Attentat am 20. Juli 1944 und der polnische Staat hat die Museumspädagogik in die Hand genommen, auch um das Gelände zu entmystifizieren / Around the Masurian Lake District - Hitler s Wolf s Lair is now a memorial to the failed Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 and the Polish state has taken the Museum education into its own hands, also to demystify the site / *** Around the Masurian Lake District Hitler s Wolf s Lair is now a memorial to the failed Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 and the Polish state has taken the Museum education into its own hands, also to demystify the site Around the Masurian Lake Di

Boezinge, Belgium, 09/10/2017.Yorkshire Trenches, the preserved trenches, once ;ost and rediscovered and kept as a memorial.

AGUJEROS EXCAVADOS CERCA DEL YACIMIENTO DE CORRALES DE LA MOCHETA II .

A camouflaged radio compound provides multi-channel microwave communications for exercise Team Spirit '88. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '88 Base: Namsa Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Marine recruits run the obstacle course during basic training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. Base: Usmc Recruit Depot,Parris Island State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

World War Two Anti Tank rails, Kidwelly, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Cannon battery at Historic Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, South Carolina.

USA, Alaska, Kodiak. Eight-inch gun barrel from the WWII artillery at Miller Point in Fort Abercrombie.

Union Cemetery at Marye's Heights at the Fredericksburg Civil War battlefield in Virginia, USA; Marye's Heights, Virginia, United States of America

Vaudherland, France trenched with small bags , 1914-1915 - Devastated zones, North and East of France - Jean Brunhes, Auguste Léon and Georges Chevalier - (December 1914 -April 1915) (French - Vaudherland , France Tranchées avec petits sacs). Forehead, trenches, First World War, France, near Visherland, trenched with small bags

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Bravo Battery, Field Artillery Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment conduct a platoon live fire exercise at the 7th Army Training Commands Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Oct. 27, 2022. 2nd Cavalry Regiment provides V Corps with a lethal and agile force capable of rapid deployment throughout the European theater in order to assure allies, deter adversaries, and when ordered, defend the NATO alliance.

Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Tourists examine barbed wire fences

Guam, USA Territory. Japanese cannons at Fort Santa Aqueda on hill overlooking Hagatna capital city

Cannon old, historic gun

Historic site of The Battle of Blood River, near Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Tank locks of the west wall tank locks of the west wall, Tank Barrier

Camp Dubois near present-day Wood River, Illinois, fort for Lewis and Clark before departure along Mississippi River & Missouri Confluence.

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Stresow Memorial, documentation centre for the forced relocations during "Operation Vermin", "Aktion Ungeziefer", in 1952, Stresow, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

The main hall of the Military Museum of the Chinese Peoples Revolution with a DF-1 ballistic missile in the centre, surrounded by aircraft and tank exhibits, Fengsheng, Beijing, China.

Kharkov 1942. Ideal reconstructed section of an observation post and command of troops with tower and anti-bombardment protection inside the fortification.

Gestapo Memorial Memorial States to a Gestapo prison in the Marstall in Weimar Thuringia

South America, Chile, Fuerte Bulnes cannons look across Straits of Magellan

Entrance to a bunker from the second World War, Atlantic Wall 1942, Bunker Museum Zoutelande, Walcheren, Zeeland, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe

Security with a barbed wire fence

Denmark, Langeland, Bagenkop, Langelandsfort Cold War Museum, Cold war artifacts at former NATO base, Danish submarine, exterior

Asia, China, Shaanxi Province, Xian, Terracotta Army (Warriors) at the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum Site Museum

Denmark, Jutland, Hantsholm, WW2-era former German 38cm, 15 inch naval artillery canon, gun mounting ring

Ireland, Limerick. Agricultural agitation. Riots in the streets. A section of Royal Scots Grays cavalry charging Land League protesters, who were stoning the police on October 17, 1881. Engraving. La Ilustracion Española y Americana, 1881.

DF-ST-87-07478. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '86 Base: March Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A young man in the bunker in the basement at the Fort des Capucins a rocky islet located in the Atlantic Ocean at the foot of the cliff in the town of Roscanvel on the Crozon peninsula in France

Concrete entryways leads to pre-positioning caves used to store U.S. Marine Corps equipment. Country: Norway (NOR)

Exhibit at National Park Andersonville or Camp Sumter, Site of Confederate Civil War prison and cemetery for Yankee Union prisoners

Italy, Trentino Alto Adige, Adamello Brenta NAtural Park, Cresta Croce Mountain, Cannon, Gun Used Italians During World War I

Shown is an overview of water bladders from the water tower at Marine Expeditionary Camp-Pohang (MEC-P), Pohang, South Korea, Oct. 11, 1998. Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE '98KOREA CD Base: Marine Expeditionary, Pohang Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Vietnam, DMZ Area. Quang Tri Province, Khe Sanh, Former Khe Sanh US Combat Base, museum, exterior display of US artillery

Ukraine. Sevastopol. Monument to the Defense of Sevastopol in the Second World War. 1941-1942. Detail.

Aids to Navigation Team - Dulac, Louisiana - 26-HK-343-2. Hurricane Katrina

Aerial view of Dover Patrol Memorial in St. Margaret's at Cliffe, Dover, England, United Kingdom.

France, Pas de Calais, Wizernes-Helfaut, La Coupole, WWII German V2 rocket bunker, interior.

The control strip 6, meter, K6, on the border of the GDR. The control strip 6, meter, K6, on the border of the GDR.

Xi'An, China - 26 November 2025: View of the Terracotta Army soldiers standing stoically amidst the excavated earth, their ancient clay forms emerging from the depths of history.

The Trench of Death, WWI defense made of sandbags along the river IJzer, Yzer at Diksmuide, Dixmude, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe

Rusted tank at Khe Sanh, Vietnam

Team members prepare to work with a simulated battlefield casualty in the remains processing shelter during the civil engineering/services competition Readiness Challenge '90. Subject Operation/Series: READINESS CHALLENGE '90 Base: Hurlburt Field State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Trench, Hartmannswillerkopf, national monument of World War I, Wattwiller, Vosges, Alsace, France, Europe

Two Air Force security policemen climb through the windows of a "terrorist-held" building during a mock attack on the position. They are participating in anti-terrorist training being conducted by the 1ST Marine Brigade School. Base: Bellows Air Force Station, Oahu State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A British military cemetery for those who fell at the Battle of Helpmekaar during the Anglo Boer War1899-1902. kwaZulu-Natal. South Africa

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Airmen with multiple Air National Guard security forces units learn to build an Arctic 10-person tent Jan. 19, 2023, as part of a 16-day Cold-Weather Operations Course led by the Air Force at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than 50 Airmen are participating in the training from across the Air Force. Besides learning about using these tents in a cold-weather environment, the Airmen also learned about building improvised cold-weather shelters, survival techniques, cold-weather uniform wear, and more. Fort McCoy has a long history of supporting cold-weather training. Eighty years prior to this training, in January 1943, the installation hosted winter training for the Army's 76th Division prior to the Division deploying to Europe to fight in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

The historical reconstruction of ancient weapons

New Mexico, Fort Union National Monument. Established In 1851 As A Guardian And Protector Of The Santa Fe Trail

Xi'An, China - 26 November 2025: View of the Terracotta Army stands in silent formation, their ancient clay forms casting long shadows in the dim light.

rifle of the Spanish civil war in Ca s Amitger of Punta de Amer, location of the battle of mallorca, Son Servera, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

The bastion of Essaouira with its medieval bronze cannons, Morocco

Old artillery guns at Fort de Soto Florida Fort de Soto museum housing old artillery and military guns and cannons used in Spanish American war Copyright: xZoonar.com/StevexHeapx 6157817

Changing of the Guard in the Fortress . Changing of the Guard

Recruits leap onto a wooden wall on the obstacle course during basic training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. Base: Usmc Recruit Depot,Parris Island State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Soldiers of The Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China, near the mausoleum of Shi Huangdi near Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

10/08/2008. Alcantara. Caceres. The convent of San Benito. Headquarters of the military-knight order of Alcántara.Photo: Chema Barroso.

Dodengang, Boyau de la Mort, Trench of Death, First World War One trenches along the river IJzer, Diksmuide, Belgium, Europe

Border fortification with column path, perforated plate path, K6, control strip, evidence strip, raked, uncovered field of vision and firing and border fence, tank traps, Spanish horsemen, wall, observation tower of the GDR border troops

Terracotta Warriors, Xian, Shaanxi province, China

Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo Island, Luganville. WW2 B-17 Bomber Wreck by Million Dollar Point

Medium shot, camouflage netting covered forward defensive fighting position of the 89th Airlift Wing Security Forces Squadron, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, at Fort A.P. Hill during Crisis Look 00-03. Subject Operation/Series: CRISIS LOOK 00-03 Base: Fort A. P. Hill State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Lamb Down Military Badge, The badge of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces cut on a steep slope just by the A36, at the top of Lamb down, Wiltshire. Aerial image of South (Southern) England, UK.

Hulks of the U.S. Air Force in Canada

050710-A-6108G-447. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Xi'An, China - 26 November 2025: View of the Terracotta Army's silent ranks, an earth-toned legion frozen in time, emerging from the dusty trenches with remarkable detail and muted grandeur.

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Terracotta Army warriors buried in Emperor tomb outside Xian China Detail of the pottery terracotta army warriors and soldiers found outside Xi an China Copyright: xZoonar.com/StevexHeapx 12911403

MIM-23 HAWK air target rockets.

Poland state museum in Auschwitz, Concentration camp Auschwitz Poland

Descendants of Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy, the man whom Fort McCoy, Wis., is named after, visit the Fort McCoy Commemorative Area on July 8, 2022, during a special visit to the post by the McCoy family. The McCoy descendants visited to learn more about their familys military history with the installation.

In December, the Federal Ministry of Defence decided that the new Logistics Battalion 471 would be stationed in the municipality of Bernsdorf in the district of Bautzen. Remnants of the former anti-aircraft missile regiment 31 of the National People's Army on the site. Air Defence Missile Regiment 31 of the National People's Army, Bernsdorf, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Preserved First World War One battlefield showing bomb craters near Douaumont, Lorraine, Battle of Verdun, France, Europe

Infantry men figures in Pit 1 at Qin Museum, exhibition halls of Terracotta Warriors, Xian, China

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