Military History Pictorials
epub |eng | 2011-11-17 | Author:Martin Windrow

Casablanca, probably 4 September 1907: the funeral of Maj Provost, CO of VI/ 1st RE, one of eight men killed the previous day at Tahaddert. For the ceremony the soldiers ...
( Category: Military Technology July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Petersson, Lennarth [Petersson, Lennarth]

Profile & Deck Plan Belaying Plan Channels Shrouds Toprope Topmast Shrouds Forestay Backstay Bowsprit Guys Jib Outhaul & Inhaul Jib Halliard Lower yard Sling Topsail Yard Halliard Lifts Cluelines & ...
( Category: Models July 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-28 | Author:Massimiliano Afiero & Ramiro Bujeiro

SS-Hstuf Jonas Lie, commander of the new Polizei-Kompanie, photographed with Reichsführer-SS Himmler at the Legion’s rear holding camp at Mitau, Latvia during summer 1942. Note that Lie does not wear ...
( Category: World War II July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-21 | Author:Benjamin Lai

Tai’erzhuang 14 March–8 April 1938 BACKGROUND TO BATTLE By December 1937, the Japanese capture of Beijing and Tianjin had been complemented by success on the Shanghai–Nanjing front, culminating in the ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon Rottman

ERECTING A TREADWAY BRIDGE Here, US Army combat engineers construct an M2 treadway floating bridge from the near to the far bank of a German river, which is flowing from ...
( Category: World War II July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-26 | Author:David Campbell & Steve Noon

Siberian skirmishers move through Liaoyang, arriving to reinforce Kuropatkin’s army. Note the rolled packs and papaha sheepskin hats (the locally made versions being known as the Manchzhurka) as well as ...
( Category: Japan July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-14 | Author:Robert C. Jones

Several miscalculations were made that helped lead to the disaster of Streight’s Raid, most prominent being an overestimation of the number of Union sympathizers in northern Alabama. While Streight did ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials July 1,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Gordon L. Rottman

The left-hand man carries the M1928 haversack without the bedding roll. This group of riflemen from the same squad, photographed in the Ardennes, demonstrate the extent of individual preference allowed. ...
( Category: World War II July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Eric Hammel

Lieutenant Colonel Merritt “Red Mike” Edson, the legendary commanding officer of the 1st Raider Battalion at Tulagi and Edson’s Ridge. (Official USMC Photo) The critical value of the T-shaped ridge ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alejandro de Quesada

This photograph of a marine (Seesoldat) in peacetime service dress shows the black leather Jäger-style shako dressed for parade with an enveloping black horsehair plume; the raised oval cockade in ...
( Category: World War I June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Mads Gilbert

The anaesthesia gives him some rest for a short while. The little boy is terrified. We must anaesthetise him. ‘We should anaesthetise them both to secure their airways and control ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:David Campbell

A Finnish soldier examines a Soviet sniping rifle, most likely captured in one of the battles around Suomussalmi and the Raate Road, 13 February 1940. The rifle, a 7.62mm Mosin-Nagant ...
( Category: World War II June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Gilbert, Ed; Gilbert, Catherine

Most militiamen functioned as mounted infantry, but some were equipped as dragoons and better equipped to fight as cavalry. This militia dragoon has a locally-made sword and helmet, but is ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony J Bryant

The nature and style of the armour worn by warriors of the Yayoi Period is unclear. It is likely that it was a variation on that found in the kôfun ...
( Category: Japan June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-25 | Author:Dave McComb

Squadrons 53–56 joined the Fifth Fleet for Operation Forager against the Mariana Islands, which commenced on June 13 with the bombardment of Saipan. Vice Admiral Turner landed on the 15th; ...
( Category: World War II June 29,2020 )