Explosives and War Damage

Images of remnants from military operations and conflicts, showcasing debris, unexploded ordnance, and bomb damage in Iraq and beyond.

A rock climber flakes out some rope next to a cliff face while climbing at night in Western Massachusetts.

050607-A-1566H-040. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Charlie Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041228-M-0036Y-134. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Passengers luggage and personal belongings lie inside hold of ferry Salem Express shipwreck, Red sea, Safaga, Egypt, Africa

The severely bomb damaged north side of the building in the Khobar Towers complex, with the bomb crater in the foreground. The explosion of a fuel truck set off by terrorists at 2:55 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 25, 1996, outside the northern fence of the Khobar Towers complex near King Abdul Aziz Air Base, killed 19 and injured over 260. The facility housed U.S. service members and served as the headquarters for the 4404th Wing (Provisional), Southwest Asia. Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH Base: Dhahran Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

040702-M-7514K-016. Base: Camp Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041117-M-2353F-033. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030519-M-5882G-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Hillah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Westerplatte, the location of the start of World War Two on September 1st 1939, Gdansk, Poland

A view of the remains of an Iraqi Su-22 aircraft in a hangar destroyed by Coalition bombing during Operation Desert Storm.. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Tallil Country: Iraq(IRQ)

A rock climber flakes out some rope next to a cliff face while climbing at night in Western Massachusetts.

040828-F-8946M-009. Base: Forward Operating Base Duke State: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Coalition military personnel inspect the remains of an Iraqi SU-22 aircraft in a hangar destroyed by Coalition bombing during Operation Desert Storm.. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Tallil Air Base State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq(IRQ)

030321-M-6270B-084. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qsar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030223-M-8539K-004. Base: Camp Matilda Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Marine Division

Rethymno city Greece Fortezza fortress armory cannons

A demonstration in ordnance disposal is conducted by French soldiers from the Military Instruction Advisory Detachment (IMAD) of the 5th Regiment International Army Overseas (RIAOM). The French detonated two rocket propelled grenade (RPG) rounds during the demonstration. The French are providing training for the Somalian police in Baidoa and Buurhakaba. Subject Operation/Series: UNOSOM II Base: Baidoa Country: Somalia (SOM)

Close up shot of three rockets rounds, partially buried in the snow, wiating for demolition at a site outside of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Close up shot of three rockets rounds, partially buried in the snow, wiating for demolition at a site outside of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

DF-ST-86-12094. Base: North Field State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Body parts are found outside the camp area during Operation GOLDEN MEDIC 2001. Reserve forces from all over the nation are participating in Golden Medic, a multi-unit, medical, field training exercise held at Parks Reserve Forces Training Area, Dublin, California, in which the Army transports simulated casualties from the frontline through various staging areas to a main tent in order to train personnel in medical procedures and evacuation methods. Subject Operation/Series: GOLDEN MEDIC 2001 Base: Camp Dublin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Remains of first world war weapons in a battlefield in Belgium. 2020

040618-F-5789F-006. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

ASENTAMIENTO DE JAIMAS DE BEDUINOS EN EL VALLE DE BETANIA - FOTO AÑOS 90. Location: EXTERIOR. BETANIA. ISRAEL.

041202-M-2353F-041. Base: Iraqi / Syrian Border State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070324-M-6412C-030. Complete Scene Caption: A terrain model depicting a tower, a body of water with a bridge, and two helicopters was found outside of a small building complex in the Zaidon area during Operation Zaidon II on March 23, 2007. Task Force 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines is conducting Operation Zaidon II in Zaidon, Iraq to clear the city of Anti Iraqi Forces and deny them further use of the area in the future. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar Province of Iraq to develop Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Samuel D. Corum) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: ZAIDON Base: Zaidon State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: RCT-6

September 23, 2005 - Spent .50-caliber machine gun shell casings sit inside wooden boxes after a training evolution at a firing range on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

060420-N-7586B-097. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQ FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030517-M-5972A-028. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Samwah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Old trenches and barbed wire at the Mount Lagazuoi fortification, built during the First World War, autonomous province of South Tirol

U.S. Marines (not shown) with 1st Marine Division, 1st Tank Battalion, Delta Company, perform routine maintenance checks on an MK-88 while aboard forward operating base Edinburgh, in Helmand province, Afghanistan on February 2, 2011. Delta Company will support the International Security Assistance Force throughout the area of operations.

040828-F-8946M-008. Base: Forward Operating Base Duke State: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Shown is an aerial view of the crash site of a T-43A jet aircraft located approximately 5 kilometers north of Dubrovik Airport, Croatia, during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR. The aircraft was carrying Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown, a Delegation of Executives from US Corporations, members of the press, and military personnel on board at the time of crash, which killed all on board. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Country: Croatia (HRV)

A close-up view of an Iraqi Scud missile after it was shot down by an intercepting Patriot missile during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

DF-ST-89-05304. Subject Operation/Series: READINESS CHALLENGE 87 Base: Eglin Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A U.S. Marine Throws a Bucket of Diesel Fuel onto a Trash Burn Pit Fire at a U.S. Marine Corps Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan's Helmand Province

060428-N-6901L-023. Base: Fob Taji State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DM-ST-86-08465. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Artillery shells litter the ground outside a bunker near Afgoi. The shells were discovered by members of the 511th Military Police Company searching for weapons during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Afgoi Country: Somalia (SOM)

U.S. Marines clear an area for an encampment using a backhoe. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

041228-M-0036Y-098. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Captured Iraqi ammunition magazines are displayed after US Marine Corps (USMC) 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC) Marines raided an El Fedayeen Headquarters location in Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Memorial to French naval officer Joseph René Bellot, who died on 18/8/1883 falling into the Wellington Channel, Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada

The 411th Chemical Company out of Edison, NJ is completing their Zero and Grounding Training on Range 18A on the Fort Dix Range Complex. (Photos taken by the Fort Dix TSC Training Support Center)

A view of wreckage washed ashore from the capsized Philippine destroyer DATU KALANTIAW (ex-USS BOOTH DE-170). The ammunition ship USS MOUNT HOOD (AE-29) is assisting in salvage and rescue operations for the destroyer. Base: Calayan Island Country: Philippines

051002-A-4339E-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 48TH BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM

041202-M-2353F-047. Base: Iraqi / Syrian Border State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041207-M-0036Y-008. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040328-M-5753Q-090. Base: Haqlaniyah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A Fijian firewalker demonstrates his determination during the closing ceremony festivities for Exercise Cartwheel at Blackrock Training Camp, Fiji, September 23, 2022. Exercise Cartwheel is a multilateral military-to-military training exercise with the U.S., Republic of Fiji Military, Australian, New Zealand, and British forces that builds expeditionary readiness and interoperability by increasing the capacity to face a crisis and contingencies by developing and stressing units at the highest training levels.

A hole and fin left from an inert GBU-58 Paveway II bomb off of an AT-6E Wolverine at Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida, May 11, 2022. The GBU-58 Paveway II is a 250-pound laser-guided bomb intended for light attack aircraft.

060214-A-5745M-013. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Falcon State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST ABN DIV

041228-M-0036Y-171. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

During the Far East Division Matches, Marines downrange take down their scores at the pistol range at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan. All score cards must be verified before leaving the pit area. The Far East Division Matches are held every year to determine who will be selected to go to the Marine Corps Championship. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Hansen State: Okinawa Country: Japan (JPN)

030406-M-3138H-027. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

AK-47 magazines and a bayonet (not for AK-47) acquired by US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from insurgents that attacked the police station in Al Kharma, Iraq, during Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the Al Anbar Province in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Base: Al Shahabi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040713-M-5505M-004. Base: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

German and Albanian soldiers conduct crowd riot control training in a culminating event known as Bronze Shield during Kosovo Force 33 (KFOR) at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) in Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 10, 2024. KFOR is a multinational training event to prepare NATO forces for their deployment to the Kosovo NATO Peacekeeping mission. JMRC trains leaders, staff, units up to brigade combat teams, and multinational partners to dominate in the conduct of unified land operations anywhere in the world, now and in the future. Army

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Inert artillery rounds litter Camp Wolfe

A simulated cratered mid repair during the Lobo Trident exercise in Hector Field, North Dakota March 30, 2023. Hector Field was set up as a simulated forward operating station in a friendly country in order to give Airmen a chance to practice wartime emergency operations and communications in a remote location.

050703-A-1906W-018. Subject Operation/Series: SWARMER Base: Samarra State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 4TH INFANTRY DIVISION

030407-M-3138H-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Chief Petty Officer Vandiver Assessment - 26-HK-341-6. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Overflight - 26-HK-388-155. Hurricane Katrina

Members of the 114th Civil Engineer Squadron fill a simulated crater in order to practice rapid runway repair operations during the Lobo Trident exercise in Hector Field, North Dakota March 30, 2023. Hector Field was set up as a simulated forward operating station in a friendly country in order to give Airmen a chance to practice wartime emergency operations and communications in a remote location.

041202-M-2583M-025. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041228-M-0036Y-124. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

970217-F-8748C-017. Complete Scene Caption: Shown is a close-up of a deteriorating portion of the runway at Roberts International Airport, located outside of Monrovia, Liberia. The gravel could be a hazard for aircraft landing at the airport. The runway is two miles long and is being used by United States Air Force C-130E Hercules aircraft from the 86th Air Wing out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany, for Operation ASSURED LIFT. ASSURED LIFT is a Joint Task Force (JTF) operation to provide airlift and other logistical support to West African states that are deploying more than 600 troops to Liberia as part of the region's ongoing peacekeeping mission. Most of the inbound West African forces will come from the country of Mali, with the Ivory Coast and Ghana also expected to contribute troops. Subject Operation/Series: ASSURED LIFT Base: Roberts International Airport Country: Liberia (LBR)

DF-SC-85-13617. Base: Eglin Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030211-F-6809H-070. Base: Barksdale Air Force Base State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Krizevici Tunnel entrance. US Army soldiers of the 82nd Engineer Battalion, Engineer Brigade, 1ST Infantry Division (Mechanized), Baumberg, Germany, Camp Dobol, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the 754th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Camp Bedrock, BIH, get ready to open the tunnel to go in and inspect for a weapon storage site or a mass grave site. Nothing was found. Operation JOINT GUARD, 18 September 1997. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Krizevici Tunnel Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

050713-A-6108G-609. Base: Erbil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico, where he joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for meetings, tours, flights, inspections

041118-M-2353F-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Unterharzer Waldhof

030407-M-0175R-204. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DF-ST-90-00558. Base: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030729-A-7751W-009. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - TURRET HOMECOMING USS MONITOR

030409-M-9106S-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

Trutnov/Trautenau, Czech bunker/ mid 1930s

Barbed wire lies on the pier after being retrieved by a multinational explosives ordnance disposal (EOD) team during a sweep of the harbor area in an effort to locate mines left by retreating Iraqi forces. The U.S. Army barge CHATEAU-THIERRY, in the foreground, at left, and the Army logistic support vessel LT. GEN. WILLIAM B. BUNKER (LSV-4), are docked at the pier. A Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter stands on the pier in the background. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD/STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Wall of Revolutionary War Soldiers' Quarters, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

050715-A-6108G-222. Base: Shiele State: Dahuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DF-ST-87-12763. Subject Operation/Series: KINDLE LIBERTY '86 Base: Miguel De La Borda Country: Panama (PAN)

030404-M-4779G-042. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030225-F-1798W-013. Subject Operation/Series: COPE TIGER 2003 Base: Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base Country: Thailand (THA)

NEW YORK (Nov. 6, 2012) Seabees assigned to Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 202, stationed out of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, watch as two bulldozers remove from Hurricane Sandy during relief efforts in Highlands, N.J. CBMU-202 is operating under the U.S. Northern Command Defense Support of Civil Authorities mission, working closely with civil authorities and the Federal Emergency Management Agency following the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy.

U.S. Marines with 3rd Landing Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, operate a Medium Crawler Tractor to clear overgrown vegetation on a range during exercise Winter Workhorse, at Central Training Area, Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 5, 2022. Winter Workhorse is an annual exercise for CLR-3 to train to carry out mission essential tasks in forward-deployed, austere environments.

U.S. Army Spc. Alejandro Anguiano, an amored vehicle crewmember with the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, climbs about the drivers hatch of an armored vehicle during the vehicle issue portion of the Sullivan Cup at Fort Benning, Ga., April 26, 2022. The Sullivan Cup is a biennial competition that tests the best tank crews from the Armor Branch, the U.S. Marine Corps and international partners.

The Utah Air National Guard Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron was tasked to execute an Emergency detonation of several depleted uranium rounds that had been compromised on June 23, 2022 at Tooele Army Depot, UT.

SOUTHERN SHORSURAK, Afghanistan Marines from Company L, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, uncovered an improvised explosive device cache in an abandoned compound east of their newly established observation post in Southern Shorsurak, Helmand province, Afghanistan, during Operation New Dawn, June 20, 2010. The Marines found two directional fragmentation improvised explosive devices weighing 35 pounds each, 15 feet of detonation cord and 15 pounds of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. Operation New Dawn is a joint operation between Marine Corps units and the Afghanistan National Army to disrupt enemy forces, which have been using the sparsely populated region between Marjah and Nawa as a safe haven.

030824-F-6701P-009. Subject Operation/Series: JTF LIBERIA Base: Dakar Country: Senegal (SEN)

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, engage enemy pop up targets during a live-fire exercise as part of DEFENDER-Europe 22 at Oberlausitz Training Area, Germany, May 24, 2022. DEFENDER-Europe 22 is a series of U.S. Army Europe and Africa multinational training exercises within U.S. European Commands Large Global Scale Exercise construct taking place in Eastern Europe. DEFENDER-Europe 22 demonstrates U.S. Army Europe and Africas ability to conduct large scale ground combat operations across multiple theaters in support of NATO and the National Defense Strategy.

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 2/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, clear spent shell casings before a deck shoot aboard USS New Orleans (LPD 18) in the Sea of Japan, Sept. 10, 2022. The Combat Marksmanship Program is designed to sustain a units lethality. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific Region.

Soldiers from America's First Corps and subordinate units, such as 11th Airborne Division and 25th Infantry Division, compete in the I Corps Marksmanship Competition at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, Feb. 23- March 1, 2024. The I Corps Marksmanship Competition is an annual competition where I Corps and subordinate units compete for the opportunity to be named the best marksman. Army

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