Afghan guerillas have lunch next to a Soviet helicopter after it was shot down in Nuristan, Afghanistan

Lest we forget

Fort Vaux

IRA propaganda

A young soldier from the South Vietnamese Popular Forces stands guard duty.

Photo taken: 1968

Viet Cong soldiers captured by U.S Marines outside of Don Ha 1968

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Those pictures are awesome, thanks for sharing them

Dick move, but it was certainly the pragmatic option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WARonsfUOvw

Weary looking Soviet soldiers ride atop their armoured personnel carriers as they were travelling on a highway in Kabul heading for the Soviet border in 1988

Afghan Jazail flintlocks, these were actually used against the soviets to a very limited extent during the first year of the conflict

Muslim rebels inspect a captured Soviet APC after fighting with the Afghan government near Asmar, Afghanistan on December 27 1979, three days after the Soviet invasion

2nd Lt. Carl Conn looks on as a civilian bus leaves the road in order to by-pass holes dug by the Viet Cong.

Photo taken: January 1963

MAAG advisors after receiving medals for valor at the battle of Ap Bac on 2nd January 1963.

Photo taken: MAAG Compound, Cholon, Saigon. 25th January 1963

Major General Louis B. Robertshaw introduces Governor John Love (Colorado) to a group of Marine Corps pilots at the DaNang Air Base.

Photo taken: May 1967

A.B. Grantham, a Marine who was shot in the chest in 1968

Ba Cut in Ca Tho Military Court in 1956 , leader of the religious movement the Hòa Hao, which had fought against the Viet Minh, Vietnamese National Army and Cao dai movement throughout the war

A U.S propaganda leaflet urges Viet Cong to defect using the Chieu Hoi program

U.S president Dwight D. Eisenhower and secretary of state John Foster Dulles meets with South Vietnamese President, Ngo dinh Diem in Washington D.C 8 May 1957

Brinks Hotel, Saigon after a bombing by the Viet Cong 24 December 1964. Two American officers were killed

Americans fighting for Rhodesia during the bush war i will post a few more photos in a couple days from my friends Instagram

https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-pompeii-idUSKBN2900D3

Got a late Christmas present today, couldn't be happier!

oh damn that's awesome, that a real bounty poster?

https://www.livehistoryindia.com/cover-story/2020/09/18/nanda-devi-nuclear-device

oof

@Meryl.140.15 yo

Like I was saying

They treated the Chinese and Irish like Shit

i missed your message :\

Chechen militants who supposedly had contact with US intellegance in Azerbaijan (claimed by Vladimir Putin)

A Russian man who was born in Grozny sat beside a destroyed Russian tank, drinking a shot of Vodka in memory of the crew that died inside it

The loss during the Battle of Verdun is hard to comprehend the large scale of destruction to both land mass and life. It is said that from the start of the battle to the end that every minute a soldier would die usually by Artillery fire or rifle fire. The body’s of the fallen soldiers would become their resting place for many years as they were a constant reminder to their comrades and fellow soldiers of what gruesome fate awaits them.

The men that fought during the long grim battle would called The Battle of Verdun the “ meat grinder “ as the mud and destroyed wasteland would ultimately be their grave in which they lived in day upon day, Night upon Night.

Approximately seventy percent of the 800,000 casualties at Verdun were caused by artillery. During their opening bombardment, the Germans launched two million shells. Compared to other engagements at that time, this became the largest and longest artillery bombardment yet seen.In fact, at the time of war, the two sides eventually fired between 40 and 60 million shells. Rumbles from the barrages were heard as far as 100 miles away, and soldiers described certain hills as being so heavily bombed that they gushed fire like volcanoes. Men were nearly disintegrated by the showers of artillery and thousands of bodies were unrecognizable. Those lucky enough to survive were often left with severe shell shock. “You eat beside the dead”, two French soldiers wrote, “you drink beside the dead, you relieve yourself beside the dead, and you sleep beside the dead”.

You run this channel lol

You are history

this picture was taken in fort de vaux

As the German troops pushed forward closer as they took Fleury-devant-Douaumont and Fort Souville they were now within two miles of the City of Verdun.

However to the French’s advantage in July the Germans had to halt advancement as they were to hold back and provide troops, ammunition and artillery to prepare for the Battle of the Somme which would become the bloodiest of the War.From 23 June to 17 August, Fleury changed hands sixteen times and a German attack on Fort Souville failed. The offensive was reduced further but to keep French troops in the RFV, away from the Somme, ruses were used to disguise the change. In September and December, French counter-offensives recaptured much ground on the east bank and recovered Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux.