Historical images on wikimedia commons i just really like, organised by the date the picture was taken.

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  1. ^ Major Allan Winge in front of the Swedish Brigade at the Whites victory parade in Helsinki, 16 May 1918.
  2. ^ United States gun crew of the Regimental Headquarters Company, 23rd Infantry, advancing on German positions, 1918.
  3. ^ Polish 7TP tanks in newly captured Zaolzie, 1938.
  4. ^ Finnish soldiers crossing the Finnish-Soviet border in July 1941.
  5. ^ Soldiers of the Finnish 45th Infantry Regiment crossing the Murmansk Railway, October 1941.
  6. ^ USS Arizona alight after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, December 1941.
  7. ^ United States infantrymen clearing out Japanese infiltrators on Bougainville in the cover of an M4 Sherman, March 1944.
  8. ^ Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau after arriving by train, May 1944.
  9. ^ Royal Marine Commandos attached to 3rd Infantry Division move inland from Sword Beach, 6 June 1944.
  10. ^ United States Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 1945.
  11. ^ United States marines watch on as F4U Corsairs provide close air support during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, December 1950.
  12. ^ Moshe Dayan next to commanders of the Paratrooper Battalion 890, 1955.
  13. ^ American tanks face off against Soviet tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, 1961.
  14. ^ A United States Marine of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines moving a suspected Viet Cong, 15 miles west of Da Nang Air Base, 1965.
  15. ^ A United States B-66 and four F-105 of the 20th TRS dropping bombs on North Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder, June 1966
  16. ^ Israeli soldiers of the 55th Paratroopers Brigade ready for a mission in Sinai during the Six-Day War in 1967.
  17. ^ Dutch soldiers repairing the damage from armoured vehicles as a West German Leopard 1 pass during the "King's Gambit" exercise in Germany, 1968.
  18. ^ A Luchs of the West German 36th Panzer brigades Scout platoon in Külsheim, 1978.
  19. ^ United States M60A1 Patton of the 8th Infantry Division in the village of Michelrieth, Germany during exercise Reforger '82, September 1982.
  20. ^ Soviet military parade celebrating the 66th anniversary of the October Revolution, November 1983.
  21. ^ Camouflaged West German Leopard 1A3 during exercise Reforger '83 in September 1983.
  22. ^ Leopards of the Dutch 41st Mechanized Brigade hosted in Seedorf, West Germany during Queen Beatrix's visit in 1986.
  23. ^ Lithuanian protesters in the Baltic Way, August 1989.
  24. ^ A German Luchs during a training in Vlasakkers, Netherlands,1997.
  25. ^ Ukrainian soldiers search Bulgarian Army trucks in Camp Lejeune during the Cooperative Osprey exercise in June 1998.