Archive for the ‘Images’ Category
Bell X-1A
On Dec. 12, 1953, Maj. Chuck Yeager piloted the Bell X-1A to Mach 2.44 (1650 mph), setting a speed record.
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: Chuck Yeager, US Air Force
Lt. Vraciu’s ‘Turkey Shoot’
June 19, 1944: Despite a malfunctioning engine, Navy Lt. Alexander Vraciu shot down six Japanese "Judy" bombers in eight minutes, while using only 360 rounds of ammunition. Vraciu would shoot down 19 enemy planes (plus 21 on the ground), becoming the Navy's fourth-leading ace of World War II.
In: Images · Tagged with: US Navy, World War II
Photo of Marine about to earn a Medal of Honor
First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, USMC, leads the 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach, as the second assault wave lands, 15 September 1950. Wooden scaling ladders are in use to facilitate disembarkation from the LCVP that brought these men to the shore. Lt. Lopez was killed in action within a few minutes, while assaulting a North Korean bunker. (USMC photo)
1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez would earn the Medal of Honor – posthumously – within minutes of this photograph. Read his citation here.
Man of war
OKINAWA, JAPAN - Jun 01, 1945: Dirt-smeared soldier Terry Moore stopping for a cigarette break during the fight for Okinawa. (Photo: Carl Mydans/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Terry Moore was the subject of Time magazine’s story, “24 Hours with Infantryman Terry Moore,” written by W. Eugne Smith. Moore was a Private First Class with Fox Company, 184th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division.
In: Images · Tagged with: US Army, World War II
C-27J Spartan
C-27J, the Air Force's new multipurpose cargo aircraft
Walking the beat
U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Lane Edward Morrow, of Susanville, CA, of 3rd Platoon, Kilo Company, 3/4 Marines, walks during an early morning guard shift at a vehicle checkpoint near Patrol Base 302, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. The Marines living in austere conditions at PB302 exchange fire regularly with Taliban who attack from multiple positions. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
In: Images, Military · Tagged with: Afghanistan, US Marine Corps, War on Terror
Light it up
Pfcs. Greg Zecher and Nicholas Roberts, machine gunners with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, illuminate the night sky by firing tracer rounds and then reloading their weapons during Exercise Clear, Hold, Build 3 on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Sept. 21, 2011. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Reece Lodder / RELEASED)
The two-day evolution — part of the Enhanced Mojave Viper training exercise — enabled “America’s Battalion” to improve its capabilities as the ground combat element of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The exercise is their final pre-deployment training event before deploying to Afghanistan’s Helmand province next month to support Operation Enduring Freedom. Zecher, 19, is from Jacksonville, Fla. Roberts, 20, is from Erie, Pa.
In: Images, Military · Tagged with: US Marine Corps
Komm rüber!
Defecting East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann leaps over a barbed wire barricade at the Bernauer Street sector into West Berlin on Aug. 15, 1961 (Photo by Peter Leibing)
Schumann was guarding the “Berlin Wall” (at the time it was only a barbed-wire barricade) during it’s construction at the corner of Ruppiner Straße (street) and Bernauer Straße. As West Berliners shouted “Komm rüber!” (come over), the soldier lept the barbed wire where he ran to a waiting West German police car that took him to safety.
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: Cold War
“Heavenly Herd” River Crossing
Paratroopers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, South Vietnam, Sept. 25, 1965. ( AP / Henri Huet)
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: 173rd Airborne Brigade, Vietnam War
Crawling through the rice paddy
Private First Class Lacey Skinner of Birmingham, Ala., crawls through the mud of a rice paddy in January of 1966, avoiding heavy Viet Cong fire near An Thi in South Vietnam, as troops of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division fight a fierce 24-hour battle along the central coast. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
In: Images, Military History · Tagged with: Vietnam War
