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Ukrainian Soldiers get Resupplied in Donbass, August 2014

Taken on 2014-08-31

Ukrainian forces at the Donbass front unload supplies.

Source: ВО Свобода/Picasa

Uploaded by SamiGoat on 2014-09-04

French Mirage Aircraft Refuels Over Africa, En Route to Mali, 2013

Taken on 2013-02-02

A French Mirage 2000D n°649 "3-XY", 3th Flight, Fighter squadron 3/3 "Ardennes", prepares to refuel from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker over Africa on Feb. 2, 2013. Tanker crews from the 100th Air Refueling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, England, began conducting refueling missions in support of French operations in Mali from a deployed location in southwest Europe on Jan. 27. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Austin M. May).

Source: U.S. Airforce

Uploaded by SamiGoat on 2015-01-20

French Troops Arrive in Bamako to Re-take Northern Mali, 2013

Taken on 2013-01-18

French troops in Bamako as part of Opération Serval.

Source: Idrissa Fall/VOA

Uploaded by SamiGoat on 2015-01-20

Israeli Army Base in Southern Lebanon, 1986

Taken on 1986-06-30

IDF military post Shakuf El-Hardun – south Lebanon (1986). (Date Unknown)

Source: Oren1973/Wikipedia

Uploaded by SamiGoat on 2014-08-26

Ledo Road Along the Burma-China Border, World War II

Taken on 1944-12-01

"The Ledo Road (Hindi: लेडो रोड, Burmese: လီဒိုလမ်းမကြီး, Chinese: 中印公路) (from Ledo, Assam, India to Kunming, Yunnan, China) was built during World War II so that the Western Allies could supply the Chinese as an alternative to the Burma Road which had been cut by the Japanese in 1942. It was renamed the Stilwell Road (named after General Joseph Stilwell of the U.S. Army) in early 1945 at the suggestion of Chiang Kai-shek. It passes through the Burmese towns of Shingbwiyang, Myitkyina and Bhamo in Kachin state." 1944 or 1945, date unknown.

Source: National Museum of the US Air Force/Wikipedia

Uploaded by northway on 2014-09-07

Navajo Code Talkers, Saipan, Northern Marianas, June 1944

Taken on 1944-06-15

"Philip Johnston, a civil engineer for the city of Los Angeles, proposed the use of Navajo to the United States Marine Corps at the beginning of World War II. Johnston, a World War I veteran, was raised on the Navajo reservation as the son of a missionary to the Navajos, and was one of the few non-Navajos who spoke their language fluently. Because Navajo has a complex grammar, it is not nearly mutually intelligible enough with even its closest relatives within the Na-Dene family to provide meaningful information, and was at this time an unwritten language, Johnston saw Navajo as answering the military requirement for an undecipherable code." Date unknown.

Uploaded by northway on 2014-09-07

Air Supply Drop to American Troops, Myitkyina, Burma, 1944

Taken on 1944-06-01

"The fighting in the Burma Campaign in 1944 was among the most severe in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II. It took place along the borders between Burma and India, and Burma and China, and involved the British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces, against the forces of the Empire of Japan and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from the United Kingdom, British India and Africa." Date unknown.

Source: Imperial War Museums/Wikipedia

Uploaded by northway on 2014-09-07

Japanese Trucks Moving Towards Luoyang, Operation Ichi-Go, China, 1944

Taken on 1944-04-30

"Operation Ichi-Go (一号作戦 Ichi-gō Sakusen, lit. "Operation Number One") was a campaign of a series of major battles between the Imperial Japanese Army forces and the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, fought from April to December 1944. It consisted of three separate battles in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi." Exact date unknown.

Source: Yomiuri Shimbun/Wikipedia

Uploaded by northway on 2014-09-07

Japanese Troops Boarding "Tokyo Express" Boats Bound for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Late 1942

Taken on 1942-09-01

"The Tokyo Express was the name given by Allied forces to the use of Imperial Japanese Navy ships at night to deliver personnel, supplies, and equipment to Japanese forces operating in and around New Guinea and the Solomon Islands during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The operation involved loading personnel or supplies aboard fast warships (mainly destroyers), later submarines, and using the warships' speed to deliver the personnel or supplies to the desired location and return to the originating base all within one night so Allied aircraft could not intercept them by day."

Source: Wikipedia

Uploaded by northway on 2014-09-13

Paraguayan Military Train Headed to the Chaco War Front, 1930's

Taken on 1932-10-01

Train carrying Paraguayans to war. (Date Unknown) The Chaco War was fought between Paraguay and Bolivia over the disputed Gran Chaco region. During the war, both landlocked countries faced difficulties shipping arms and supplies through neighboring countries. Bolivia faced particular external trade problems, coupled with poor internal communications. Although Bolivia had lucrative mining income, and a larger better equipped army, a series of factors turned the tide, and Paraguay came to control most of the disputed zone by war's end.

Source: Latinamerican/Wikipedia

Uploaded by SamiGoat on 2014-09-10

Constructing telegraph lines, American Civil War, April 1864

Taken on 1864-04-01

Not long after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 President Abraham Lincoln ordered seventy-five thousand troops to assemble in Washington, D.C. On April 19, 1861, Harpers Ferry,Virginia (which was along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad) was captured by Confederate troops. Thus, Washington lost one of its only railroad and telegraphic communications route to the North. The only railroad and telegraph lines connecting the Northern states to Washington left were located in Maryland, a state whose loyalty to the Union was not trusted. The Telegraph Construction Corps were charged with the dangerous job of building telegraph lines in the field during battles. Consisting of about one hundred fifty men, the Telegraph Construction Corps set out in wagon trains to construct temporary lines. During a battle, one wagon was stationed at the starting point of the battle to act as a receiving station, while another wagon traveled into the field to be a sending station.

Source: Archives.gov

Uploaded by Matlindsay on 2014-12-12