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General
James Birdseye McPherson by Barr & Young, restored by
Adam Cuerden Samuel Smith, African-American Union soldier
Castle Bravo "Shrimp" device
Kenje Ogata , one of five documented
Nisei to serve in the
United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Billy Bowlegs (Holatta Micco, "Alligator Chief")
A Royal Air Force
Panavia Tornado "Aerial View of
Edinburgh " by
Alfred Buckham , prominently featuring
Edinburgh Castle F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft
Diagram of the 2008
South Ossetia War Troops from
3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines in Afghanistan
Marines from
4th Battalion, 14th Marines operate the 155mm M198 howitzer
USS Benfold fires its five-inch 54-caliber MK45 gun
Indonesian general
Abdul Harris Nasution (1918-2000)
Swiss soldiers dispatching a message by
carrier pigeon during World War I
"After the war a medal and maybe a job", political cartoon from 1914
Alexander Roslin 's
King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers Assembling
B-25 bombers at North American Aviation
The
Alhambra , a Moorish fortress and palace in Spain
Journée du Poilu . 25 et 26 décembre 1915Les dernières cartouches
Senior American military officials of World War II
[[F/A-18C Hornet[[ launching from the
USS Kitty Hawk Animated naval gun turret, based on a British 15 inch turret Mark 1
Footage of US
Apache helicopter shooting Iraqis
Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child near Aleppo in during the
Armenian Genocide Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia after the
Atlanta Campaign Aircraft carrier
USS Franklin attacked during World War II
Australian infantry wearing
Small Box Respirators , 1917
Australian military encampment, 1918
Interior of the
Neue Wache in Berlin
B-2 Spirit over the Pacific Ocean
Experimental tracked gear on a
B-36 Peacemaker AV-8B Harrier II from VMA-231 landing in 2003
An attack on Beijing Castle during the
Boxer Rebellion Wounded coming ashore at Balaklava during the
Crimean War Facsimile of the
Bixby letter Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1 Koruna note. The protectorate was created by the Nazi regime in 1939, and this note was created by taking a Czechloslovak note then stamping over it.
U.S. pilots in action during World War I
Map of 1775 military installations in Boston
Confederate general
Braxton Bragg USS Niagara raised for the centennial of the
Battle of Lake Erie "Britain Needs You at Once" - World War I recruitment poster
British Army infantryman (front) at
Modern equipment of the British Army Abraham Lincoln 's private secretary and biographer
John Hay Thirteen
C-17 Globemaster III aircraft fly over the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia
James Gillray 's caricature of William Pitt and Napoleon carving up the world
Canadian victory bond poster in English
US Civil War general
Charles Griffin The Custer Fight (1903), by Charles Marion Russell
General
Charles Pomeroy Stone with his daughter Hettie
Soldiers of the
Cheshire Regiment in a trench during the
Battle of the Somme Chinese soldier, age 10, following the
capture of Myitkyina airfield , Burma
Confederate dead behind the stone wall of
Marye's Heights , Fredericksburg
$50
Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Slaves in a cotton field
Alternate $50
Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing
Justice , Agriculture and Industry, and
George Washington $100
Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Allegory of
Justice ,
Minerva , and Hudson River Railroad vignette
$100
Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing
Ceres or
Minerva and railroad vignette
$500
Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing
Ceres , cattle, and train vignette
Aerial photograph of Soviet
MRMB site in Cuba U.S. Twelfth Army position map,
6 June 1944 A Chinese soldier, killed by Marines of the
1st Marine Division in Korea
Defsevaart in
Rotterdam , one of the many parts of Rotterdam destroyed in
World War II
Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during the initial landings at
Leyte Mark Satin counseling draft dodgers
U.S. Marine Corps
Drill instructor
Duck and Cover, a
US civil defense film
African-American soldiers of the
Union Army , American Civil War, 1864
"England expects that every man will do his duty", signal sent by
HMS Victory at the
Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
Crash landing on the
USS Enterprise while en route to attack Makin Island
Ernest Hemingway in Red Cross uniform during World War I
Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters during the
Euromaidan riots , 2014 (pt. 1)
Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters (pt. 2)
A Chechen man prays during the
Battle for Grozny F-111 performing a dump-and-burn fuel dump
F-16 jet in flight over Iraq
A F-16 jet in flight for the Solo Display Team
FA-18 automated aerial refueling
German surrender in Berlin, 1945
Filipino casualties on the first day of
Philippine-American War 1918 Navy Enlistment Poster
First
JATO -assisted flight
Confederate position map of the
First Battle of Manassas , 1861
Woodcut of the
Russo-Japanese War by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Fort Baker at San Francisco Bay
"The
[Franco-Prussian] War : Defence of Paris-Students Going to Man the Fortifications"
Deutsche Mark note issued by the allies after
World War II in the newly-divided
West Germany Robert Fulton's
submarine design A
Weimar Republic Rentenmark repurposed by the Soviets for use in the newly-divided
East Germany Astronaut
Elliot See during water egress training for the
Gemini 5 program
A sixteenth century Spanish
grant of arms Schematic representation of a gun-type
nuclear weapon German airplane brought down in the Forest of Argonne by American machine gunners, France
Harry R. Hopps '
World War I American recruitment poster
Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock , Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies
Re-enactment of the
Rotterdam Blitz Hitler and Mussolini, June 1940
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
HMCS St. John's (FFH 340) in
Gdynia harbor, Poland
Idi Amin , ruler of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Caricature by Edmund S. Valtman
British Gunners in Action at the Front
LCVP disembarking troops at
Omaha Beach on D-Day
Iowa class battleship main battery turret
World War I British recruitment poster, showing a
Zeppelin USAF bombing in Italy during
Operation Strangle Ivan Goremykin , Prime Minister of Russia during
World War I The
Ivy Mike nuclear weapon test
The Emperor
Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
A
Japanese archer with targets
Suicude of two Imperial Japanese Marines
American War Savings Stamps poster during World War I, 1918
The German
SMS Kaiserin Augusta in New York, 1895
Trains under attack during the
Korean War Leeds Castle in Kent, England
Photograph of Confederate General
Robert E. Lee by
Levin C. Handy Military execution of the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination
Lockheed Martin
F-22 Raptor Lowering the flag on
Zuikaku , 1944
Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot
A simplified schematic diagram of an
M1 Abrams tank
An
M777 Light Towed Howitzer in service with the 10th Mountain Division in support of
Operation Enduring Freedom in Charkh District, Logar Province, Afghanistan.
Ottoman machine gun corps at the
Tel el Sheria Gaza line , 1917
Marine private at Da Nang, Vietnam
Original design for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Transvaal War: General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed United States Navy Admiral
Michael Mullen Charles Minard's chart of Napoleon's 1812
Russian campaign Caricature of Napoleon's exile to
Elba Sunrise, Inverness Copse by
Paul Nash
Human research subject in a wind tunnel, 1946
National Fund for the Welsh Troops
Binoculars on the signal bridge of the
USS Harry S. Truman World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden from the Japanese invasion of what is now Indonesia: 1 cent
Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the
Normandy invasion beaches "The Situation Room", where Obama, Biden, Clinton, and others were awaiting updates on Osama bin Laden during the mission to kill him
Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, ca.1892-95. Hand-colored glass slide
Test Baker,
Operation Crossroads at Bikini atoll, 1946
A
SAI KZ IV , registration OY-DIZ, the only SAI KZ IV built and used before the end of World War II.
United States President (and former Brigadier-General)
Benjamin Harrison LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system test
"Andes near Alparmarca, Peru: Sketched from an Elevation of 16,000 Feet" by Alfred Agate,
United States Exploring Expedition Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines : 1000 pesos (1945). Note the rapid scaling up in values over time
Portrait of Herman William Daendels,
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and Divisional General under
Napoleon President
Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the USA
The cover of Puck from April 6, 1901
Video of the Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima
Recruitment poster for the
Australian Red Cross , 1914-1918
Poppies placed in the
Roll of Honour at the
Australian War Memorial Robert McGee, scalped as a child by Sioux Chief
Little Turtle Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of
Lager Nordhausen , a
Gestapo concentration camp.
Sultan
Mehmed VI , last sultan of the
Ottoman Empire US World War I recruitment poster
Depiction of sixteenth century cannon placements
Paul Fildes , British Navy microbiologist who worked at the
Royal Naval Hospital Haslar and
Porton Down View of the 2014 excavation of a
Spanish Civil War mass grave at
Estépar , with 26 republicans killed by the fascists.
Francis B. Spinola , Brigadier General for the Union in the American Civil War, and Congressman from New York
The [Franco-Prussian] War: Fall of Strasbourg - Departure of French Prisoners
Su-27 from Russian Knights aerobatic team on landing
A Sukhoi
Su-30 of the
Russian Air Force inflight over Russia in June 2010
The
Sumela Monastery , seized during the Russian occupation of Trabazon in
World War I , and abandoned in the postwar population exchanges between Greece and Turkey.
A synagogue in New York City remained on
D-Day
Allied tanks advance in Langres, France, during
World War I Qianlong Emperor of China in ceremonial armour on horseback
USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor Winch parts on the wreck of the
SS Thistlegorm Triple Portrait of Cardinal de Richlieu
The
Lion Tower in Tripoli, an example of 15th-century Lebanese architecture, photographed shortly after 1900
Australian Army recruitment poster from World War I
Ottoman
heliograph crew at Huj during World War I, 1917
Ottoman/Turkish trenches on the shores of the Dead Sea, 1917
Captain Edward M. Thomas of the Tuskeegee Airmen
Tuskegee airmen in Italy, 1945
F-22A Raptors
Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox$1
Hawaii overprint note from World War II, meant to identify Hawaiian currency in the case of a successful Japanese invasion, so that it could be declared worthless.
$5 Hawaii overprint note
$10 Hawaii overprint note
$20 Hawaii overprint note
$1 banknote from the
North Africa series , from World War II. The yellow markings are for letting them be declared worthless should large amounts be captured by Axis forces.
$5 banknote from the North Africa series.
$10 banknote from the North Africa series.
US$500 note from 1880 showing Union General
Joseph K. Mansfield Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing
José Martí Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing
Máximo Gómez Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing
Antonio Maceo Grajales Certified proof of Cuban fifty silver peso note, showing
Calixto García Certified proof of Cuban one-hundred silver peso note, showing
Francisco Vicente Aguilera U.S. Army soldiers on
Bougainville USS Annapolis in the Arctic
The
USS Bunker Hill hit by kamikazes during the
Battle of Okinawa USS Essex in heavy seas, 1960
USS Iowa firing a full broadside
USS Oregon in dry dock, September 1898
USS Pennsylvania entering Lingayen Gulf
USS Shaw exploding at Pearl Harbor
Soviet frigate "Bezzavetniy" intentionally collids with
USS Yorktown American
M8 Greyhound armored car in Paris, August 1944
Schematic diagram of a
V-2 rocket design
A boy killed and set on fire by a V-2 rocket attack in Belgium on November 27, 1944
Vice Admiral
John Duncan Bulkeley of the United States Navy
Vertical replenishment
An infantryman is lowered into a tunnel during
Operation Oregon Waldenburg , Germany, 1945
Diagram of a warship from the
1728 Cyclopaedia Ratification of the
Peace of Münster "An Available Candidate: The One Qualification for a Whig President"
Only the Navy Can Stop This
The Chickahominy - Sumner 's Upper Bridge : 1862 watercolour by William McIlvaine.
Visit of
Queen Victoria to the newly-refurbished
HMS Resolute .
The print version of "Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of
McPhersonville "
The original sketch of "
Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville"
SM U-21 sinking the
Linda Blanche , a painting by
Willy Stöwer , the Kaiser's favourite naval painter.
Aftermath of the
Wounded Knee Massacre , January 1891
Wrecked German ammunition train, destroyed by shell fire, World War I
The
X-10 Graphite Reactor which created the material for the first nuclear bombs.
Japanese battleship Yamato in her final configuration on April 7, 1945.
World War I poster urging
Yiddish speakers to support the war effort
Featured sounds are considered to be
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69 featured sounds within the scope of the project.
Featured portals are considered to be
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5 featured portals within the scope
A-Class articles , while not as rigorously reviewed as featured articles, are nevertheless considered to provide a well-written and complete treatment of the topic; they pass through a
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683 A-Class articles within the scope of the project.
A-Class lists , while not as rigorously reviewed as featured lists, are nevertheless considered to provide a well-written and complete treatment of the topic; they pass through a
review process within the project before being selected. Currently, there are
40 A-Class lists within the scope of the project.