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Military Photographs: Finding Images in the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress

Sample Images

This selection of images indicates the variety of military photographs in the Prints & Photographs Division collections and available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

Ladybird Johnson standing beside Vietnam War nurses Julie Klebaum and Catherine Chilling.

Marion S. Trikosko, photographer. Mrs. LBJ w/ army nurses who served in Vietnam [Julie Klebaum and Catherine Chilling]. 1965. US News & World Report Mazagine Photograph Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Two South Korean soldiers squatting down and putting a mine into a hole in the ground.

South Korean soldiers of the 1st Division, I Corps, prepare and lay an antitank mine somewhere in Korea during the Korean conflict. 1950. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division

British soldier seated on mound covered by fur, tent in the background.

Roger Fenton, photographer. Captain Cuninghame, 42nd Regiment. 1855. Fenton Crimean War Photographs. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

US Army officer seated at table looking at paper while wearing headset. A woman is seated next to him also wearing headset.

Toni Frissell, photographer. Maj. T.H. Wickwire, 3rd, of Pelham, N.Y., and Staff Sgt. Dorothy Clark of Esterly St., East Jordan, Mich., at communications table. 1945. Toni Frissell Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

A row of US soldiers kneeling and aming rifles with an officer standing behind them.

Strohmeyer & Wyman, publisher. Philippine Islands: A regiment of sure shots - the fighting 20th Kansas repelling an attack. 1899. Stereograph Cards. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

US Army soldiers standing next to US flag draped casket in front of seated spectators inside of a . A minister is reading from a book, President Harding is seated next to him.

Memorial ceremony for World War I war dead. 1921. Bain Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Photograph shows members of the 332nd, from left to right: Robert W. Williams, Ottumwa, IA, Class 44-E; (leather cap) William H. Holloman, III, St. Louis, Mo., Class 44-?; (cloth cap) Ronald W. Reeves, Washington, D.C., Class 44-G; (leather cap) Christopher W. Newman, St. Louis, MO, Class 43-I; (flight cap) Walter M. Downs, New Orleans, LA, Class 43-B. (Source: Photographer's notes and Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group pilots.)

Toni Frissell. Members of the 332nd Fighter Group attending a briefing in Ramitelli, Italy, March, 1945. Toni Frissell Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Woman working in a factor on airplane engines.

Alfred T. Palmer, photographer. Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif. 1942. Office of War Information Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

US soldiers and South Vietnamese soldiers huddled together.

Pepper Martin, photographer. Jungle sweep and quiet penetration of another hamlet. US News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.