Historical events Archive
The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific
A sergeant drills civilian members of the Womens Home Defence Corp in the use of rifles during the Battle of Britain
A US Army chaplain evacuating a Vietnamese woman from a heavily shelled area during the Tet Offensive, February 1968.
Mike Farmer of Atlantic City, crouches low to avoid sniper fire during operation ‘Yorktown’.
During the Battle of Stalingrad, a Red Army machine gunner deploys inside a ruined building with his DP-27 machine gun. After the initial phase in the summer of 1942, …
Braving Japanese sniper fire, Lt. Col. Richard P. Ross, Jr., commander of 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, places on American flag on a parapet of Shuri castle on May 29, …
American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville Fighting Joe Hooker and Robert E. Lee
American soldiers comfort a little girl and her puppy after the invasion of Normandy. Colleville-sur-Mer, 1944.
November 11, 1918: Armistice Day celebrations on Wall Street in front of New York City’s Federal Hall, the site of George Washington’s first inauguration.
March 13,1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.