Days Gone By

Pvt. Clarence C. Ware gives a last second touch to Pvt. Charles R. Plaudo’s war-paint, England, 1944.

Source: National Archives and Records ADministration

This Chinese soldier, age 10, with heavy pack, was a member of an army division boarding a plane returning them to China, following the capture of Myitkyina airfield, Burma, under the allied command of US Major General Frank Merrill, 12 May 1944.

Maori Battalion survivors of action in Greece, performing a haka in Helwan, Egypt for the King of Greece, June 1941. From left to right, the four men in the foreground are John Manuel, Maaka White, Te Kooti Reihana, and Rangi Henderson.

Source: National Library of New Zealand

Frank Hurley, Soldiers of an Australian 4th Division field artillery brigade on a duckboard track passing through Chateau Wood, near Hooge in the Ypres salient, France, 29 October 1917.

Source: Collection Database of the Australian War Memorial

Soldiers looting shoes during the 1906 San Francisco fire, after the earthquake.

German infantry marching, June 1943.

Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)

Newly trained Chinese forces march to replace a division at the front, 1939.

Soviet soldiers celebrating the surrender of the German forces in Berlin, 2 May 1945.

Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)

Soviet troops in Harbin, China, 1945.

Two U.S. officers plant the American flag on Guam eight minutes after U.S. Marines and Army assault troops landed on Guam, July 20, 1944.

Source: Archival Research Catalog (ARC)