Tanks and Armoured Units

Images of various tanks and armored vehicles, highlighting historical military machinery and the evolution of armored warfare.

These Sherman tanks of Canada's First Army are now plunging into Germany. February 26, 1945. (Photo by Canadian W.I.B.).

"They Went That A Way!" - Not the horse cavalry of we old west, but sleek tanks of an Armoured training Unit. Chief Thomas K. Yallup of Toppenish, Washington and Chief of the Yakima Indian tribal council visits his son, Corporal Bill Yallup of an army armoured unit, for a closer look at the modern "Iron Horses" (M-48) tanks which have taken the place of the traditional steeds ridden by the warriors of the old west.Corporal Yallup was training at the Yakima firing centre when this picturewas taken. August 15, 1954. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit of the army commander S.H. Rail to Semarang. General S.H. Track (right) inspects a unit KNIL field artillery. July 1, 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

Australian Tanks - Tanks - War File. May 17, 1941.

These Sherman tanks of Canada's First Army are now plunging into Germany. February 26, 1945. (Photo by Canadian W.I.B.).

Tiger Tanks On Flatcars -- "Tiger Tanks are Transported back on Special Railroad Trucks during the German Retreat at the Eastern front," says the caption which accompanied this Picture from a Neutral Source Via London. January 26, 1944. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Exploration trip Bren-Carriers 2-10 R.I. Surakarta. Bren carrier drives from banana plantation. March 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Surakarta

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Action with tanks at Toba and surroundings. A recse m3 stuart tank (whose machine gun has been removed) passes the hole in the dyke road. March 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

An important event as this is the first destruction of a Russian 52 tonne tank. Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

NATO Tank Training Center Gives Instruction on Latest Tanks (NATO Tank School, Mailly). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

A Day With The Royal Tank Regiment -- As will be seen in these picture the Royal tank regiment is in hard training to give a good account of Itself. These pictures were taken somewhere in South England. The tanks deploying into line as they reach a ridge. September 17, 1940. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Winston Churchill during the Second World War Winston Churchill inspects a Cromwell Mk IV tank of No. 2 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion, Welsh Guards, at Pickering in Yorkshire, 31 March 1944. The tank is named 'Blenheim'. The tank was the mount of Major John Ogilvie Spencer, commanding No. 2 Squadron, and later killed in Belgium on 9 September 1944.

Russian Tank Under The Torch -- Workmen today started cutting up for scrap three T-34 Russian tanks captured from the communists in Korea. The scrap steel will be sent to blast furnaces to provide steel for new American weapons. The tanks and many other foreign weapons as well as large numbers of obsolete U. S. equipment are being cut up. The Russian tanks were originally brought to this country for study and examination by army ordinance. April 09, 1952. (Photo by AP Wirephoto)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Return to Fort van der Capellen and Fort De Kock (Anei-gorge). Genists lay shelves about beams. Helped by a Humber armored car with name "Roermond". December 29, 1948. Batusangkar, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

German invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939. Artist: Unknown

The Royal Air Force Regiment, 1942-1945. The OVERLORD DIVER Plan. An RAF Regiment light anti-aircraft gun team man their Bofors 40mm LAA gun in a rain-sodden emplacement in south-east England, as part of the 'Diver' gun belt established in Surrey and Kent to defend London from flying bombs.

Second World War. Front pictures. Soviet Union. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht, sitting on a tank

Youths of 22 Lands Convene in Dakar. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Army exercises West Germany. September 27, 1954. Germany

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC General Doorman in Soerabaja, 1st series. A stuart m2 tank. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

British troops and tanks deployed to Palestine to assist and protect British troops as they withdraw from Palestine. The troops are there to prevent and destroy any attacks on the departing British troops by Arab and Jewish agitators.

Two medium combat tanks of the RAM II type in a forest environment.

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Anefo photo collection. Royal Dutch Brigade Princess Irene training. Artillerists. 1944. Britain

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Recordings Armshirts Stuart Tanks Eskadron Fighting trucks KNIL. Stuart tank in action. 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. M3A1 Stuart tank "Argus" 3rd Eskadron Fighting trucks KNIL. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

With the British Troops in France -- French heavy tanks go into action. June 12, 1940. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Photograph showing a German infantryman inspecting a captured American heavy machine-gun vehicle, during the early stages of the 'Battle of the Bulge', December 1944. This American weapon could be used in both anti-aircraft and infantry support roles, although the three small swastikas painted on it suggest three destroyed Nazi planes. The 'Battle of the Bulge' was the last major Nazi offensive on the Western front during the Second World War and, though initially successful, resulted in ma

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Tegal. Tegal. The armored cars are struggling through the tank ogracht, which is closing the population. July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Tegal

British Tanks - Tanks War File. September 26, 1955.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC 1st Infantry Brigade (December 7 Division). Universal Carrier in action. July 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Soviet Warships Race Toward Petsamo -- Dropping anti-submarine depth bombs as they go, two Russian destroyers speed toward the enemy held Arctic port of Petsamo, naval base and nickel-shipping center which Finland ceded to Russia in the armistice of Sept. 19, 1944; The port, which the Germans refused to give up, was taken on Oct. 15, 1944, in amphibious operations by the forces of General K. I. Meretskov, commander of the Soviet Karelian Army supported by the Far Northern Red Fleet under Admiral A. C. Galovko. December 01, 1944. (Photo by U.S. Officer of War Information Picture).

Battery exercise with a 40L70 fire mouth. Waste the guns with the cyclists.

FRANCE-Men of a U.S. Army 9th Air force Service Command Ordnance Section built this baby tank from German, French, and American parts. The four-ton vehicle creeps behind hedgerows, dives into craters, or does an about-face with equal ease.

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

An M4A3 Sherman tank, armed with a 105 mm HOUWITSER, in the terrain.

Anefo photo collection. Exercises La Courtine, Hussars van Boreel take bath when spraying the car. July 8, 1959

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Tankmanoeuvres Batavia. Maneuvers Eskadron Fighting trucks KliL. November 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Test exercise of the army on rented terrain, two AMX vehicles for a farm. December 9, 1964

The Dutch army is practicing in La Courtine. Viewing by O.A. Commander 1st army corps Lgen. P. Gypsums of an Amx 13 for tests made available by the French army. Plaster at the far left. Pay attention! The above description is a generic series description based on the information stated by the army film and photo service. In the long term, this global description will be specified.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Madura. Madura: The Marines and Tjakras are landed on Madura. In Darma Tandjoeng shoots the Dutch tricolor. August 4, 1947. Indonesia, Madura, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC One-year anniversary of the armored troops in Bandoeng. Demonstrations Eskadron Fighting Carts Knil .. November 23, 1946. Bandung, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

World War I, French tanks (or chars d'assaults) moving up to the front, 1918, U.S. Signal Corps photograph

An LVTP-7 tracked landing vehicle moves inland during a beach assault taking place during Operation Ocean Venture '82. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '82 Base: Vieques Island State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Second World War. Panzer a brick construction during an exercise insert (probably in Holland)

U.S. Soldiers of 55th Armored Inf Bn, 22nd Tank Bn, 11th Armored Div, US Third Army, run through Smoke Filled Street, Wernberg, Germany, April 22, 1944

Anefo photo collection. Army exercises West Germany. September 27, 1954. Germany

Destroyed Soviet tank along the highway from Brest to Pruzana. Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

Anefo photo collection. Police action in Indonesia, a Sherman Tank of the Marines Corps leaves a landing vessel of the Royal Navy. December 30, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Tanks and Afvs of the British Army 1939-45 Cruiser tank Challenger (A30)

...Where Adolf met his death while directing his last battle against the invincible Russians. June 4, 1945. (Photo by Sovfoto).

The groups of guerrilas in the Philippines have been contributing invaluable aid to our fighting forces, such as roaming the streets looking for snipers and for Japs who have switched into civilian clothes. One of their prime functions is to give

Montablanch (Tarragona), January 1939. Spanish Civil War. National Army tanks occupying Montblanch.

Vintage Photograph. Tank maneuvers at Camp Drum in New York State.

The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist nations. The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and part of their wider strategy of containment. The North Vietnamese government viewed the war as a colonial war, fought initially against France, backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state. U.S. military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations spanned

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. RAF Regiment anti-aircraft crew manning their Bofors light anti-aircraft gun on Carpiquet airfield, near Caen, Normandy, after its capture on 9 July 1944.

The War In The East: Two And A Half Years Old And Still Going Strong! -- Chinese Tank ***** Made by Vickers-Armstrong in England, ***** the netting Camouflage System.General Chiang Kai-Shek Says China is Prepared to win the last and only decisive Battle of the war. That his country is stronger now than she was when the first short was fired two and a Half Years ago!. "Save The Guns" has been the Chinese Motto, whose tactics have been based on Inexhaurstible Manpower and Natural Topographical Advantages. April 22, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Inspector General Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard also visits the training grounds at Hohne during his working visit to 41 armored brigade. On the photo, a (exercise) wounded is made ready for drain by a jeep M38A1 Neck. On the right a Centurion MK 5 fighter tank.

The Tank Corps out on patrol in the famous Khyber Pass. August 1, 1939. (Photo by Kosmos Press Bureau (Australia) Pty. Ltd.).

Vintage photograph. Units of a tank battalion move down the road to support infantrymen attempting to rout Communist positions on a hill in Korea

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Exploration trip Bren-Carriers 2-10 R.I. Surakarta. A Bren carrier on a road with boulders. March 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Surakarta

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

World War One was to have a devastating impact on Russia. When World War One started in August 1914, Russia responded by patriotically rallying around Nicholas II. Military disasters at the Masurian Lakes and Tannenburg greatly weakened the Russian Army in the initial phases of the war. The growing influence of Gregory Rasputin over the Romanovs did a great deal to damage the royal family and by the end of the spring of 1917, the Romanovs, who had ruled Russia for just over 300 years, were no longer in charge of a Russia that had been taken over by Kerensky and the Provisional Government. By the end of 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin had taken power in the major cities of Russia and introduced communist rule in those areas it controlled. The transition in Russia over the space of four years was remarkable - the fall of an autocracy and the establishment of the worlds first communist government.

"A Soviet Tank". August 06, 1953.

Glen Davis. January 01, 1940.

Bren Gun Carriers in Australia. January 27, 1941.

The British Army in Burma 1945 Bren gun carriers with men of the 2nd Division near Pyingyaing, between Kalewa and Shwebo, January 1945.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Environment Tjikempek, Telaga Sari. Grains and mud in the running work of the Universal Carrier. December 10, 1947. Cikempek, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

A RAM II, medium combat tank, on a practice location.

An M-110A2 8-inch self-propelled howitzer of Btry. T, 5th Bn., 5th Marine Regt., 1ST Marine Div., stands beneath camouflage netting in a Marine base camp during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Anefo photo collection. Vogelsang (West Germany). Army exercises 32nd regiment. Centurion tanks in action. October 10, 1956. Germany, Vogelsang

Second World War. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht and tanks in pain of a flue gas cartridge during an exercise insert (probably in Holland)

Two fire teams from Co. A,1ST Bn., 8th Marines, debark an LVTP-7 tracked landing vehicle and assault a hill during Operation CAX-1-2-82. Subject Operation/Series: CAX-1-2-82 Base: Mcagcc, Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Be largest Army, Maneuvers ever held in this Country. Forces representing the enemy launched an invasion on a wide front in this Country. The home forces of the British Army Etc., Then started a great fight to annihilate the Germans who had landed and advanced into the country. In this case the German army etc., was represented by other divisions of the British Army. Thousands of tanks, Armoured cars and troops took part in this Manoeuvre over miles of country for many days and hights without sleep, and at times many large battles took place in our large towns. December 1, 1941. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited.).

Three soldiers on a howitzer, 8 inch Self-Propelled Howitzer, US Military

Operation Barbarossa: Broken Russian flamethrower tank KhT-26 (OT-26) destroyed during German invasion of Russia in 1941.

Tanks and Afvs of the British Army 1939-45 Carrier Bren, No 2, Mk I

Armical on the occasion of Liberation Day in the Vlasakkers in Amersfoort.

Marines Survey Damage to Peleliu Airfield -- Three U.S. Marines survey the damage to enemy installations on the airfield on Pelelieu Island in the Palau Group, wrought by pre-invasion Naval and aerial bombardment, as they take up a position in their tank against a background of Jap planes and a manager. September 25, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

North Africa, November 1941. World War II. German forces, in the desert, going out to meet the British columns.

An LVTC-7 tracked command vehicle from the 8th Marines advances up a ramp after crossing a river during an exercise. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Engineers of 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion crouching behind Matilda Tank of "C" Squadron, 2/9th Australian Armored Regiment moving up to Sykes Feature to support troops already in action but weakened owing to casualties. May 06, 1945. (Photo by Australian War Memorial Canberra, A.C.T.).

James River, Virginia Another Confederate gun emplacement at Howlett House, Trent's Reach. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Forts & fortifications, United States, Virginia, James River.

A photograph of a British tank advancing to destroy German machine gun positions. Tanks were first introduced into battle on the 15th September 1916 when a D1 tank was guided into action by Captain H. W. Mortimore at Delville Wood. Date: 1st December 1917

A Matilda II tank of the 7th Royal Tank Regiment in the Western Desert, 19 December 1940.

M-113 armored personnel carriers stand by as Vietnamese refugees evacuate the village of My Tho, during the Tet Offensive. 1968.

Belgium War. March 28, 1918.

The crew of an LAV-AT light armored vehicle, anti-tank deploys the tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided (TOW) missile launcher during a capabilities exercise (CAPEX). The vehicle is also armed with an M-60 series 7.62mm machine gun. Subject Operation/Series: CAPABILITIES EXERCISE (CAPEX) Base: Mcas, Cherry Point State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Photograph showing a French 155-mm gun, used by the German army to shell Allied shipping, captured by British troops and being towed by a Sherman tank, Italy, 1944. The snow and mud of winter warfare in Italy is well captured in this image. Date: 1944

The British Army in Burma 1945 Priest 105mm self-propelled gun in action, 7 March 1945

Four hussars in an M4A3 Sherman tank, armed with a 105 mm HOUWITSER.

09/11/1939. Polish soldiers in their trenches, shooting at German troops.

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