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Tanks on parade in London at the end of World War I, 1918

Tanks on parade in London at the end of World War I, 1918

Photographer: Thomas Frederick Scales .Tanks on parade in London at the end of World War I, 1918.Dry plate glass negative .Reference No. 1/2-014078-G.Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association Collect... More

Painting camouflage on a Tank, Flanders

Painting camouflage on a Tank, Flanders

The picture is taken from within a muddy yard. There is no particular background and so there is very little context to the picture. The back end of another tank is just visible to the left of the photograph. T... More

One of the new armoured cars, Flanders

One of the new armoured cars, Flanders

Nicknamed the 'mechanical monsters, this photograph shows a British tank flanked by infantry soldiers, mules and horses. World War I has a notorious reputation for being the conflict that introduced the modern ... More

Infantry passing one of the new armoured cars on their way to the front line

Infantry passing one of the new armoured cars on their way to the fron...

A tank pulling some sort of carriage, followed by a group of infantrymen. The strange, triangular-shaped canopy of netting on top of the tank is probably for camouflaging purposes...The soldiers in this photogr... More

Heavy armoured cars ready to go up 15/9/16

Heavy armoured cars ready to go up 15/9/16

Four tanks and their crews. Judging by the collection of fuel cans, holes in the ground, shovels, canvas sheets and the tent, it would appear that this is a tank camp. The combination of heat and fumes meant th... More

Front view of a tank coming out of action, Flanders

Front view of a tank coming out of action, Flanders

Front of a tank. According to the photograph's original caption it is returning from a battle. The caterpillar tracks are caked in mud from the battlefield. There are two viewing holes at the front of the tank ... More

King visits the men who man the tanks at the Front

King visits the men who man the tanks at the Front

King George V visiting tank crews at the Front, in France, during World War I. In the photograph, King George V is on the right of the leading group of officers, in military uniform. Haig appears to be in the f... More

One of the new armoured cars on the battlefield of 15th September

One of the new armoured cars on the battlefield of 15th September

Originally called 'armoured cars, 'land ships or 'land battleships' and driven by Royal Navy crews, this photograph shows a tank on the battlefield. In the background can be seen infantry soldiers and horses. I... More

Tanks passing dead Germans who were alive before the cavalry advanced a few minutes before the picture was taken

Tanks passing dead Germans who were alive before the cavalry advanced ...

This photograph suggests how hardened some soldiers must have become to the suffering that was around them every day in World War I. In this picture the bodies of German soldiers are clearly visible, but none o... More

Attack on Hindenburg line during World War I

Attack on Hindenburg line during World War I

With 'land battleships (tanks) in the background, this image shows infantry advancing during the attack on the famous Hindenburg Line. As the Hindenburg Line was finally overrun by the Allies in the autumn of 1... More

Washing down a Whippet tank, Flanders

Washing down a Whippet tank, Flanders

Whippet Tank being cleaned, France. A tank is parked in a concrete bay. This bay is edged with stones and gives way to rough grassland. A large riveted water tank, placed beside the bay and the pump which goes ... More

Tanks showing some of their antics during the King's visit to their Headquarters

Tanks showing some of their antics during the King's visit to their He...

British tanks on training manoeuvres, in France, during World War I. This photograph of an advancing tank dwarfing British troops, gives an idea of the scale of tanks, and the power they brought to the front li... More

British tank going forward to clear some undergrowth, Flanders

British tank going forward to clear some undergrowth, Flanders

A British tank moving across some undergrowth. The tank looks overwhelmed by the depth of the surrounding greenery. Tanks were effective at clearing away any obstacles before an advance, such as undergrowth and... More

One of our Tanks at Flers, Flanders

One of our Tanks at Flers, Flanders

A tank is surrounded by infantrymen at Flers in France. The manner in which the soldiers are gathered together around the tank and looking directly at the camera, suggests that this could be a staged photograph... More

Tanks attack on Thiepval, Flanders

Tanks attack on Thiepval, Flanders

Tank moving across a battlefield at Thiepval, France. The tank appears to be moving over the top of a trench. In the trench there is a group of soldiers carefully watching it, they are all wearing steel helmets... More

One of the tanks waiting to move forward

One of the tanks waiting to move forward

Fighting in Champagne. Troops with an Allied tank preparing to go into action, in France, during World War I. British and the French soldiers with one of the tanks that were at the cutting edge of new military ... More

Tank in action, Flanders during World War I

Tank in action, Flanders during World War I

A tank, with guns apparently firing, crossing a trench or shell-hole. The tank appears to be a Mark I type, nicknamed, 'Mother'. These were the first tanks used in action and were developed from a prototype dem... More

Some of the many stables where our tanks are housed

Some of the many stables where our tanks are housed

Sheds and the tanks they house, France. A long, open-fronted shed runs along the left side of the picture. It has a corrugated iron roof and supporting struts spaced to the width of the tank have been placed do... More

Canadians advancing on our right were assisted by Tanks

Canadians advancing on our right were assisted by Tanks

Collection of National Media Museum (Frank Hurley/Australian War Records Section ( http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/photography/ ) )..We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of Th... More

Reserves passing through the tracks near Guillemont Farm

Reserves passing through the tracks near Guillemont Farm

Collection of National Media Museum (Frank Hurley/Australian War Records Section ( http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/photography/ ) )..We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of Th... More

Many of the tanks put out of action were used as shelters for the wounded

Many of the tanks put out of action were used as shelters for the woun...

Collection of National Media Museum (Frank Hurley/Australian War Records Section ( http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/photography/ ) )..We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of Th... More

Fort Macleod's Anonymous, Southern Alberta, Canada

Fort Macleod's Anonymous, Southern Alberta, Canada

Soldiers standing by an armored vehicle at a railway station (UP IN SCORCE (SIC)? SARCEE?).November 1948.21/4 x 31/4 negative..This is one of 54 photos in the album “Fort Macleod’s Anonymous”. Most are shot in ... More

Elements of the 26th Division, 57th Cavalery Battalion,  Republic of Korea, load K-1 tanks onto rail cars at Camp Casey, Korea on March 24, 2006 in preparation for a field training exercise.  (U.S. Army photo by SGT. Christopher Kaufmann) (Released)

Elements of the 26th Division, 57th Cavalery Battalion, Republic of K...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE Base: Camp Casey Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR) Scene Camera Operator: SGT Christopher Kaufmann, USA Release St... More

Canadian Brigadier General (V.W. Odlum), machine gunner, reconnaissance tank (Whippet)

Canadian Brigadier General (V.W. Odlum), machine gunner, reconnaissanc...

Item is a photograph from an album of World War One-related photographs in the William Okell Holden Dodds fonds. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914 and was commanding office... More

German tank, Ramillies (sic) during World War I

German tank, Ramillies (sic) during World War I

Item is a photograph from an album of World War One-related photographs in the William Okell Holden Dodds fonds. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914 and was commanding office... More

5. Army Procession, George Street

5. Army Procession, George Street

The Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS), Australia's oldest historical organization founded in Sydney in 1901, promotes the study of Australian history.

Passchendaele, destroyed tank in graveyard

Passchendaele, destroyed tank in graveyard

Item is a photograph from an album of World War One-related photographs in the William Okell Holden Dodds fonds. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914 and was commanding office... More

Panzer III exploding 1942 - Australia in World War Two

Panzer III exploding 1942 - Australia in World War Two

A German Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf.L being blown up near El Alamein on 5 October 1942.

Churchill Tanks in Italy, July 1944 TR2019

Churchill Tanks in Italy, July 1944 TR2019

Churchill Tanks in Italy, July 1944 Churchill tanks of 'B' Squadron, 51st Royal Tank Regiment advancing across the Italian countryside.

Churchill tanks of 107th Regiment RAC (King's Own), 34th Tank Brigade, at the start of the Reichswald battle in Germany, 9 February 1945. B14422

Churchill tanks of 107th Regiment RAC (King's Own), 34th Tank Brigade,...

Churchill tanks of 107th Regiment RAC (King's Own), 34th Tank Brigade, at the start of the Reichswald battle in Germany, 9 February 1945. Churchill tanks of 107th Regiment RAC (King's Own), 34th Tank Brigade, a... More

Sherman tanks of 46th Royal Tank Regiment provide fire support for the Loyal Regiment at Anzio, Italy, 25 January 1944. NA11412

Sherman tanks of 46th Royal Tank Regiment provide fire support for the...

Sherman tanks of 46th Royal Tank Regiment provide fire support for the Loyal Regiment at Anzio, Italy, 25 January 1944. Sherman tanks of 46th Royal Tank Regiment fires in support of the Loyal Regiment at Anzio,... More

The British Army in Italy 1944 NA14974

The British Army in Italy 1944 NA14974

The British Army in Italy 1944 Ammunition is passed into the turret of a Churchill tank of 25th Tank Brigade during operations in support of 1st Canadian Division, 17 May 1944. This was the first time Churchill... More

The British Army in North Africa 1941 E6752

The British Army in North Africa 1941 E6752

The British Army in North Africa 1941 A Crusader tank passes a burning German PzKpfw IV tank, 27 November 1941.

The British Army in North Africa 1942 E12920

The British Army in North Africa 1942 E12920

The British Army in North Africa 1942 A Grant tank passes a burning German PzKpfw I tank, 6 June 1942.

The British Army in North Africa 1942 E9768

The British Army in North Africa 1942 E9768

The British Army in North Africa 1942 Valentine tanks training in the Western Desert, 27 March 1942.

The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 B9151

The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 B9151

The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 A Cromwell tank raises a cloud of dust as it advances through a village, 14 August 1944.

The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 B9231

The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 B9231

The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 A Cromwell tank of 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured Division, driving through Vassy, 15th August 1944. 11th Armoured was making good progress at this t... More

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H11654

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H11654

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 Tanks assembled at Biggin Hill in Kent for inspection by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Peter Fraser, 11 July 1941. In the foreground is a Matilda III CS, arme... More

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H16226

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H16226

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 Valentine tanks 'under fire' during a training exercise, 20 December 1941.

The British Army in Tunisia 1943 NA2321

The British Army in Tunisia 1943 NA2321

Deutsch: Die Britische Armee in Tunisien 1943 Ein "Sherman Panzer" passiert eine zerstörte "Panzerabwehrkanone" (kurz: PaK) vom Typ "8,8-cm-PaK 36", 23. April 1943. English: The British Army in Tunisia 1943 She... More

The British Occupation of Java SE5664

The British Occupation of Java SE5664

The British Occupation of Java Gun fire from British Stuart light tanks start fires in the railway marshalling yards at Surabaya (Soerabaja) during fighting with Indonesian nationalists.

Israeli Tanks in Sinai - Flickr - The Central Intelligence Agency

Israeli Tanks in Sinai - Flickr - The Central Intelligence Agency

Israeli tanks move through the Sinai during the Arab-Israeli War - © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS. From the booklet "President Nixon and the Role of Intelligence in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War." For more in... More

Churchill Crocodile 01 - A tank is on fire in a field

Churchill Crocodile 01 - A tank is on fire in a field

IWM caption : A Churchill tank fitted with a Crocodile flamethrower in action. This flamethrower could produce a jet of flame exceeding 150 yards in length

Egyptian Armor - Egypt - A black and white photo of a group of tanks

Egyptian Armor - Egypt - A black and white photo of a group of tanks

Egyptian tanks on the move in the Sinai desert, during the Yom Kippur War.

17 pounder Achilles firing Germany Oct 1944 IWM B 10773

17 pounder Achilles firing Germany Oct 1944 IWM B 10773

IWM caption : An Achilles tank destroyer of 75th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, 11th Armoured Division, fires its 17-pdr gun at pillboxes on the German frontier.

Crusadertankandgermantank, World War II photo

Crusadertankandgermantank, World War II photo

British Crusader tank passes a burning German Panzer IV tank during Operation Crusader Deutsch: Ein britischer Panzer vom Type Crusader passiert einen brennenden deutschen Panzer Typ IV während der Operation ... More

United States Marines - USMC-100127-M-2697B-002

United States Marines - USMC-100127-M-2697B-002

A Kuwaiti tank fires its 120mm howitzer at a military range here Jan. 27 during a bilateral training exercise conducted by Kuwaitis and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The MEU’s ground combat element emplo... More

United States Marines - USMC-13937
Copperhead and tank

Copperhead and tank

A Copperhead laser-guided anti-tank missile fired from a towed M198 155 mm Howitzer approaches a target tank.

Milan anti-tank missile striking a target

Milan anti-tank missile striking a target

Medium shot of an explosion created by a missile fired from a German Milan anti-tank weapon striking a target during a small arms training course held at Mubarak Military City in Egypt during Exercise BRIGHT STAR 01/02.

M48 tank as a target tank (1981)

M48 tank as a target tank (1981)

A sequence of three photos showing the impact of an extended-range anti-armor munition warhead on an Army M-46 full-tracked combat tank target. The left photo shows the warhead seconds before impact. The self-... More

AGM-65 M-48 pre impact

AGM-65 M-48 pre impact

AGM-65 moments before impacting on an M-48 tank.

AGM-65 M-48 post impact

AGM-65 M-48 post impact

AGM-65 impacting on an Iranian M-48 tank.

FV432 passes a burning Iraqi 9P133 "Malyutka"

FV432 passes a burning Iraqi 9P133 "Malyutka"

The tires of an Iraqi BRDM-2 amphibious scout car continue to burn as an FV432 armored personnel carrier of the 7th Brigade Royal Scots, 1st United Kingdom Armored Division, advances east into Kuwait from sout... More

Public domain photograph related to Korean War, 1950-1953, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph related to Korean War, 1950-1953, free to use...

Public domain photograph of a tank, military armed vehicle, construction vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description