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  • The Delaware Regiment at the Battle of Long Island.
  • Battle of Lake Erie by William Henry Powell
  • Capturing the Tripolitan, 1 August 1801. From a drawing (circa 1878) by Captain William Bainbridge Hoff, U.S. Navy.
  • U.S. Marines searching for the Indians among the mangroves during the Seminole War.
  • Battle of Veracruz during the Mexican-American War
  • Officers of 139th Pennsylvania Infantry [photographed between 1861 and 1865]
  • Segregated company of US Soldiers (likely Buffalo Soldiers), Camp Wikoff, 1898 --during the Spanish-American War. National Archives and Records Administration
  • American troops guarding the bridge over the River Pasig, 13 August 1898.
  • US Marines with the captured flag of Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua in 1932. The Banana Wars were a series of occupations, police actions, and interventions involving the United States in Central America and the Caribbean.
  • American troops in Vladivostok parading before the building occupied by the staff of the Czecho-Slovaks. Japanese marines are standing at attention as they march by. Siberia, August 1918.
  • Gen Dwight D Eisenhower gives the order of the Day.
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Men of Battery B, 15th AAA Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, fire quadruple .50 caliber machine guns from an M-16 at Chinese Communist-held positions, as men of the 3rd Battalion, 32nd RCT, 7th Inf. Div., prepare to launch an attack north of Chae-jae, Korea. 
12 March 1951.
  • A U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter hovers above the ground near a Soviet ZU-23 anti-aircraft weapon prior to picking it up during
  • U.S. Navy Douglas R4D and U.S. Air Force C-47 aircraft unload at Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift.
  • Soldiers of Co. A, 3rd Bn., 502nd Inf. Regt., 101st Abn. Bde., take part in an urban warfare training exercise in an abandoned town during Operation Desert Shield.
  • Soldiers from C Co., 2-23 Inf., 4th Bde., 2nd Inf. Div., patrol a road near Zaginayah, Iraq, Feb. 26. The Crazy Horse Soldiers regularly patroled the area to ensure al-Qaeda in Iraq operatives did not setup a stronghold.
  • Senior Airman Michael McAffrey gives Afghan children bottles of water after completing a mission in Khanda Village in Laghman province, Afghanistan, June 18, 2011.
 

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