World War I Combat Scenes

Historical images capturing the realities of World War I, showcasing trenches, military maneuvers, and post-battle scenes with soldiers and equipment.

German Infantry Storm A Hill on Outskirts A Stalingrad -- This picture received in London today, Oct.9. Through a neutral source, shows, according to the Nazi censor-approved caption. German infantry capturing "Hill 102" - A strong point between the city itself and its industrial suburbs. This is one of the strong points in the fierce Stalingrad fighting which have changed hands daily - sometimes hourly. December 28, 1942. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

German Infantry Storm A Hill on Outskirts A Stalingrad -- This picture received in London today, Oct.9. Through a neutral source, shows, according to the Nazi censor-approved caption. German infantry capturing "Hill 102" - A strong point between the city itself and its industrial suburbs. This is one of the strong points in the fierce Stalingrad fighting which have changed hands daily - sometimes hourly. December 28, 1942. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

''Les Peripeties d'une Attaque; Le 1er aout 1916, entre Belloy et Estrees, au moment d'une attaque: dans un ravin pourvu d'abris, les reserves se tiennent pretes a sortir au premier signal', 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Melilla (Morocco), January 1922. A third company defending a position, where the casualties caused by the enemy can be seen, during the defense.

WW1 - Western Front - Behind the Ypres-Menin line in Belgium, October 1917. A dead horse lies amongst the ruins by the path which British troops move up and German prisoners move back post-battle. Date: October 1917

A photograph showing pipers from The Black Watch playing to troops to celebrate victory after the capture of Longueval during the Battle of the Somme. 2nd August 1916

The Belgian army carabinieri wearing their legendary leather top hats are defending a road. World War One, Belgium 19140101

French soldiers takeover a German trench position as enemy casualties lie covered with coats during world war one 1916

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Action Soekaboemi. Soldiers gather at a railroad wagon. July 21, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Sukabumi

The Battle of Amba Alagi, The Last Italian Stronghold in Eritrea.South African troops (in foreground) saluting when the Italian prisoners, who surrendered at Font Toselli, marched past them. June 28, 1941. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

07/31/1936. The Militiamen of the Uribe-Paire column Defending a position taken by the Nationals on the Teruel front.

World War I, American 'colored' troops of the 351st Field Artillery, 92nd Division, firing in maneuvers at Maidieres, Mousson, U.S. Signal Corps photograph, 1918

09/30/1913. Beating the Enemy. A Schneider battery cannoning the Cabileños of Beni Madan in Samia Ramel.

Great Soviet Winter Offensive 1943-44 -- Red Army tankborne troops are given the signal to advance and rush to their tanks. February 26, 1944. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Ambush to the company of an English regiment by the Germans, Flanders, Belgium, World War I, drawing by Fortunino Matania (1881-1963), L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 3, January 17, 1915.

Bloody Inch By Inch -- In the face of withering enemy fire, Fifth Division Marine invaders of Iwo Jima work their way up the slope from Red Beach One toward Suribachi Yama, completely hidden in the left background by the smoke of battle. March 16, 1945. (Photo by Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo).

04/26/1916. From yesterday's gymnastic festival in the King's regiment. Group of Soldiers who carried out a campaign tour.

A trench full of reserve infantry, Pas-de-Calais, France, winter, 1915. Artist: Unknown

World War I, The Battle of the Marne, French soldiers giving first aid to their wounded German opponants, 1918

Tobruk (North Africa). 1942. English soldiers captured by German forces near Tobruk are taken to a command post.

World War I 1914-1918: French soldiers in trench taken from Germans in woodland at Mesnil-les-Haut, France, reduced to skeletons trees by gunfire. From Le Flambeau, Paris, September 1915. Bombardment Destruction

The Hundred Days Offensive, August-november 1918

Battle Call For Tanks -- Russian infantrymen and tank crews rush to board troop-carrying tanks for an attack on a German strong point. This is one of a series of pictures taken by the same corps of Cameramen who produces March of Time's "One Day of War". March 7, 1943. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

08/31/1936. Militias and Soldiers, in a Machine Gun position, in full Combat.

''Epaves du combat; Blesses allemands au poste d'evacuation', 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

09/30/1921. Melilla. The Sebt Operation aspect of the open-air Hospital-ambulance during the Combat.

Colonial Office Collection Men of 'C' Company Nigerian Mounted Infantry in Vami Fort Cameroons.

Wounded awaiting rescue during the battle on May 22-25, 1917, near Case Bonetti, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 22, June 3, 1917.

Japan/USA: Marines of the 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division return from the hard fighting at Bloody Nose Ridge on Peleliu, Battle of Peleliu, September-November 1944

Soldiers in the trenches on sabotino, Italy 1915-18.

09/14/1937. The first advance of one of the Central Fronts, from where the Republican Soldiers Combated the Nationalists.

British Parachutists Arrive In Cyprus -- Men of the 16th British Parachute Brigade have their kit inspected on arrival at Cyprus.Nicosia... May 12th June nearly 3,000 men of the British 16th parachute Brigade, the largest single contingent of British ***** to arrive in Cyprus in peace time, arrived off ***** the aircraft carries Warrior and Triumph. ***** with the Islands recently augmented garrison ***** of British troops forces in Cyprus now stands ***** 10,000, the largest peace force over station *****. June 15, 1951.

Flers, France: September 24, 1916 British troops and a Mark I tank two days after the fall of Flers. The Battle of FlersÐCourcelette during the Somme Offensive was the first time tanks were used in warfare.

Anefo photo collection. WI West Indies / Anefo London series. Mixed Dutch Native Machine Connect Squads. Note Abundant Cactus Growth, Typical Scenery Curaçao Mixed Dutch Inland machine gun units. Note lush cactus growth, typical Curaçao. {1940-1945}. Curacao

US Participation in World War I, French Battlefields. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Purification actions around Medan. Medan-brostagi: Purification campaign in the Medan area. MANSHOGE BLOCKS - Dotted down through the TNI of the mountain slopes - block the patrol the road. While the genius applies spring charging, the smaller stone blocks are removed by the infantry. October 13, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Troops are streaming forward along every passable track by every means of available locomotion.... Japanese intend to hold Mandalay to the last.Still clinging desperately to part of historic Mandalay, Burma's second city and one time capital are Jap. remnants whose imminent defeat will be the culmination of a great strategic plan, the ending of the first half: The Jungle and Railway Corridor half of the liberation of all Burma. March 01, 1945. (Photo by British Official Picture).

A quiet morning in the British trenches showing officers during a lull in firing. Trench warfare defined World War I. Date: October 24th 1914

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 British soldiers collecting captured rifles of the Boer fighters.

U.S. Marines moving and passing through mud on their way to the front lines on Bougainville Island, November 1943

The Battle of the Somme, July-November 1916. Flies and maggots on dead German soldiers in a captured German trench. Near Ginchy. August 1916

French soldier in a trench in 1917 posing with the skull of a German soldier.QK6A8161 VOISIN/PHANIE World War I

Russian anti-aircraft gun, Battle of Stalingrad, c1942-c1943. Artist: Unknown

Battle of Alsen, Als, 29 June to 1 July 1864 between the Kingdoms of Denmark and Prussia, island in Denmark

Großenhain. Instrumentation of a fire position - Hus.-Regim. No. 18

Black and white photograph of the front during the winter of 1939-1940; German troops patrol a field.

One of the first regular Red Army units, before departing for war. 1918.

French Foreign Legion medical unit, prepare during the battle to take the town of Taza, in northern Morocco, which occupies the corridor between the Rif mountains and Middle Atlas mountains, 1914

'Showing civilians round the exhibition trenches on the outskirts of Berlin', 1915. Artist: Unknown.

'Le repli des troupes Francaises vers Salonique; un detachement d'arriere-garde sur la route de Kavadar a Demir-Kapou', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916".

German Prisoners in prisoners cage during World War I. Taken in Battle of Fricourt, France

Italian frontline trench past Loquizza, with an unexploded 305 mm bullet, Karst, Slovenia, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 47, November 19, 1916.

World War I. Italian machine gunners barring the Fassalte Road in Italy, official Italian war photograph, 1918

Red Troops In Action Of The Southern Front -- Russian infantrymen and machine gunners battle the foe on a sector of the Southern front, according to Moscow caption. In the center, a nurse aids a wounded Russian soldier. July 15, 1942. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Chinese Nationalist in Action -- Chinese Nationalist troops in vicinity of Suchow, Nov. 25, stand ready to attack Communist troops. They are sheltered in trenches taken from the Chinese Reds only a few hours before. Smoke at left center is rising from Communist lines. November 30, 1948. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Sandbagged Australian troop positions at the Battle of Gallipoli.

11/30/1916. In the Medinaceli palace. An aspect of the artistic and valuable birth that these days is exhibited to benefit the Red Cross.

Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) Italian patriot. Crowds cheering Garibaldi as he passed the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London, on his visit to Britain in 1864. Engraving.

US troops training during World War II in 1942

Jewish residents of Jucourica gathered before a church. Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

Out At Last! After being buried in the backyard of a house in London since 1941. this 3000lb German bomb was discovered when earth subsided 12 months ago. The occupant, Mrs. Hannah Hall refused to leave the house, even after she had been warned of the danger. Residents of nearby streets were evacuated during the removal of the bomb. February 1,1949. (Photo by Daily Mail Contract Picture).

09/30/1911. The Monarchist counterrevolution in Portugal. - conduction of conspirators imprisoned by forces of the republican army.

Japanese troops landing at Chinnampo, Russo-Japanese War, 1904. Artist: Unknown

Canadians Fighting at Courcellette on the Somme during World War I

03/31/1915. The English in War. An advance party shooting the enemy from a road near Ypres.

Franco's Troops Enter Santander -- The ***** Enthusiasm as the Spanish Rebel forces and their Italian Black arrow Legonaries Marched into Santander. Pretty girls are lining the route and Cheering the triumphal entry. August 30, 1937. (Photo by Keystone).

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection A British soldier describing points of interest in Winchester to an American soldier, view from St Giles Hill.

01/31/1916. The War in the Balkans. Montenegrin Soldiers Loading Grenades on the Shores of Lake Scutari.

RICHARD BURTON in THE DESERT RATS (1953), directed by ROBERT WISE.

05/31/1960. Instruction of Spanish Soldiers in the Pentomic and armored division of Madrid.

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Mounted Infantry at rest.

09/30/1936. A break to replenish strength before continuing to attack.

The Kuomintang troops captured Beijing in June 1928 / Anonymous / Photograph / 1928/ State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow / History

11/30/1917. On the Western Front. French soldiers fighting in an advanced trench.

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War Colonel Templer and men of the balloon section in front of a horse and cart used for transporting equipment. In the background is a steam powered traction engine.

General Cogny Congratulates the defenders of the Gia-Loc fortress (48 miles East of *****) for their heroic fight against *****. February 5, 1954.

British Troops (1914-1918 War) - Great War (1914-18). August 05, 1948.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Patrol in Samarinda area and Reportage Sanga-Sanga (Borneo). A bivouac of a killing unit. A fire is fired while a soldier with bayonet holds on gun waiting. April 9, 1948. Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Dutch East Indies, Samarinda

American soldiers looking at a dead German pilot and his wrecked aircraft near Gela, Sicily on 12 July 1943

10/31/1916. On the Western Front. English soldiers removing a cannon taken from the enemy from its position.

The United States -- "One Mighty Fortress Of Democracy". Once there, the crews quickly unlimber the anti-aircraft guns and set them into firing position. July 02, 1942.

Canadian machine gunners at Vimy Ridge World war one; April 1917

11/30/1915. Germans in France. German Soldiers occupied by the French digging Graves to the rear of the battle line.

Photograph of Nazi Prisoners of War Carrying Wounded ComradesCaptured in the Battle for France, Nazi prisoners of war carry wounded comrades to beach areas where landing craft speed them out to ships in the English Channel for treatment by Allied doctors and corpsmen.

Photograph of French soldiers pulling out the body of a German from the trench in Eastern France. Dated 1916

World War Two: British Scottish, soldiers eave a bunker within the Maginot Line, France 1940

Throbbing activity on a beach north-west of Lae where an hour earlier there was no sign of war. Men, jeeps and trucks are moving forward in the trail of the Australians who were forcing their way inland. September 10, 1943. (Photo by Commonwealth Department Of Information Photo).

Korean War. Motorcycle troops of the Korean People's Army heading for the front.

FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918). French army crosses the river Isere on improvised gateways under enemy fire (August 1917, France).

''Une Nouvelle Phase; Troupes en reserve, au cours de notre attaque du 20 juillet 1916, en arriere de la ferme d'Hem-Montacu, que l'on distingue au fond, a gauche', 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

US Participation in World War I, French Battlefields. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

An illustration showing the French infantry charging into the woods to capture a German artillery piece. The event took place near Champagne. One German officer can be seen firing a Luger pistol. Date: 1916

Security Precautions In Cyprus -- A Platoon of the Royal Scots - recently sent to the island as re-inforcements - ready for action as a riot squad at the town of Polis above the British-owned copper mines there.Air from Cyprus today shows some of the precautions which are being taken by British troops in readiness for any possible trouble during the 24-hour strike which has been called today by Greek-Cypriots in protest against the United Nations refusal to discuss the Cyprus problem. September 29, 1955.

The battle for Westerplatte. Armed German soldiers are shown marching the remaining Polish soldiers (prisoners of war), after the surrendering of Westerplatte in 1939.

Respirator Parade for British Soldiers. A daily drill made necessary by German use of poison gas. Western Front 1915. Black and white photograph

A scene in France showing members of the First-Aid Nurses' Corps bringing relief to a sufferer in the trenches. Date: 1915

The party congress of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) triggered protests against neo-Nazism, fascism and war on 08.12.1979 in Ketsch, Germany, Europe

08/31/1921. Melilla. The current campaign 1. General Cavalcanti (X) Witnessing the interrogation of a Moorish prisoner. 2. The lieutenant colonel chief of the Regulars of Ceuta Mr. Gonzalez Tablas (X) Giving Orders to His Officers.

Col. Gordon S. Seagrave's Hospital Unit treats American, Chinese and Japanese wounded at Myitkyina aerodrome. July 24, 1944. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).

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