US Army Training, Sanskeid Range, Iceland, 20th June 1943 Gun crew prepares to fire a 37mm sub-caliber mounted on a 75mm field howitzer during range practice by the 19th and 21st FA.
Night-time photographs of American troops opening fire on a Viet Cong sniper who had been firing on a U.S. Army camp by James Speed Hensinger
Wreckage of the C-141 Starlifter destroyed by the Green Ramp disaster, 1994 The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 mid-air collision and subsequent ground collision at Pope Air Force Base (Pope AFB), North Carolina that killed twenty-four members of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division preparing for an airborne operation. It was the worst peacetime loss of life suffered by the Division since the end of World War II.
Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, 1944 The 101st Airborne Division—the "Screaming Eagles"—is a U.S. Army modular light infantry division trained for air assault operations. During World War II, it was renowned for its role in Operation Overlord—the D-Day landings starting 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France—, Operation Market Garden, the liberation of the Netherlands and action during the Battle of the Bulge around the city of Bastogne, Belgium. During the Vietnam War, the 101st Airborne Division fought in several major campaigns and battles including the fight for Hamburger Hill in May 1969.
U.S. Army troops wade ashore during the D-Day Normandy landings on June 6, 1944
"DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE - Enlist U.S. Army", 1917 This is a World War I propaganda poster for enlistment in the US Army. A dribbling, mustachioed ape wielding a club bearing the German word "kultur" and wearing a pickelhaube helmet with the word "militarism" is walking onto the shore of America while holding a half-naked woman in his grasp (possibly meant to depict Liberty). This is a US version of an earlier British poster with the same image.