Historical rare military pictures.

[Maarkhoor]

WWII

Bullet hit a bullet..

 

[Maarkhoor]

@Dubious
Can you make this thread sticky?

Marilyn Monroe poses for soldiers, 1954. (Colorization by Dana Keller).

Soldiers during the Second World War, Easter 1944. (Colorization applied subsequently).

A flight simulator for pilots, 1942.

 

[Zhukov]

Nice Thread. Bullet vs Bullet was epic

 

[waqasmwi]

WWII: Sicilian farmer telling an American officer which way the Germans had gone. Near Troina. Italy. August 4-5, 1943. © Photo by Robert Capa © International Center of Photography | Magnum PhotosLicense

 

[ghazi52]

1940s: Two Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIc fighters are being worked on by the ground crew outside the Miranshah fort

1936: View of the march enroute to Razmak, Waziristan

1895: Elephant battery of heavy artillery at Campbellpur (later Attock)

 

[ghazi52]

The German 24th Panzer Division moving towards Stalingrad. August, 1942.

 

[ghazi52]

In 1945 Aerial view of Air Base Korangi Creek Karachi :

Unloading Planes Karachi In 1942:

 

[Army research]

2 British soldiers surrendering to a German paratrooper section ,

 

[ghazi52]

c. 1940s: WWII - Indian Muslim Soldiers of British Army Offering Prayer




1940s: Jeeps tow P-47 planes through the streets of Saddar Karachi during WWII.

 

[ghazi52]

100 years old - WW1 memorial on the bank of Indus at Attock in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is arguably one of the earliest WW1 memorials anywhere in the world.
On the outbreak of the First World War the 40th Pathan regiment was stationed in Hong Kong. It arrived in France on 2 April 1915, and within days, was on the frontlines. The 40th Pathans fought with great gallantry in the Second Battle of Ypres (Belgium), where they suffered 320 casualties on 26 April 1915 ("Ypres Day" for the regiment), and in the Battles of Aubers Ridge and Loos. A 25 ft tall stone memorial .303 inch rifle-cartridge was unveiled on the 4th anniversary of Ypres Day on the right bank of River Indus, by the wayside, on 26th April 1919. It became 5th Battalion (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment in 1922. In 1947, it was allocated to the Pakistan Army, where it continues to exist as 16th Battalion The Punjab Regiment of Pakistan Army.

"British soldiers from the Royal Sussex Regiment man a hilltop position, probably on the Khyber Front. Their unit was part of Brigadier-General Christian's 6th Brigade and engaged in operations against the Afridi's who had taken advantage of the 3rd Afghan War (1919) to launch attacks on British convoys. The soldiers' equipment includes several Mance heliographs. This instrument was a small mirror mounted on a tripod, that worked by reflecting sunlight in order to flash messages in Morse code.

 

[ghazi52]

1919: Motor Machine Guns Corps, Miranshah Waziristan, 3rd Anglo-Afghan war.

The Anglo-Indian army deployed two MMG Batteries to counter the revolt of the Waziristan tribesmen who intensified their fight during the war & played a pivotal role in Afghanistan's independence.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

WWII

Bullet hit a bullet..

I doubt the authenticity.

 

[ghazi52]

1. Sepoy Ali Haider VC, who won a Victoria Cross in WW2, photographed in 1995 with the woman who lived in a house near the spot where he won his medal in Italy in 1945. (Courtesy: PIFFer Officers' Mess Museum Collection, Abbottabad)

2. "One person can make a difference"
Original medals of Ali Haider on display at the Imperial War Museum, London (Part of Lord Ashcroft Collection)

 

[Maarkhoor]

Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

Another rare historically important military pictures..