Military History Collection
We are in the process of building our Military History Collection, selecting some of the most iconic images from World War 1, World War 2, and other earlier conflicts and have a number of prints available from our online shop.
We hope you enjoy our work and please contact us if you have any specific requests.
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Aerial Graflex camera in action, circa 1917-18One of the main uses of aircraft during World War 1 was to carry out reconnaissance over enemy lines. In this image we can see the aviator using a Graflex camera.
Photographer unknown, original image from the US National Archives, colourised by Touch The Past.
Photographer unknown, original image from the US National Archives, colourised by Touch The Past.

Abandoned Boy, 1945Original photographer Toni Frissell, "“I was told he had come back from playing and found his house a shambles—his mother, father and brother dead under the rubble…he was looking up at the sky, his face an expression of both confusion and defiance. The defiance made him look like a young Winston Churchill."

British and American combined Chiefs of Staff at the Quebec Conference, September, 1944.G.C. Marshall, Admiral W.D. Leahy, Roosevelt, Churchill, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooks, Field Marshal Sir John Dill; (standing) Maj. Gen. Hollis, Gen. Sir Hasting Ismay, Admiral E.J. King, Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, H.H. Arnold, Admiral Sir A.B. Cunningham

Fox Green Landing, Omaha Beach, 1944A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company A, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two-thirds of Company E became casualties.