Gallery of Military Photos, Posters & Documents

Welcome to the Olive-Drab.com Gallery of Military Photos, Posters & Documents, an outstanding collection of military photos from World War II to the present, plus wartime posters, field and technical manuals, and many other interesting items.

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17 Sep 1944 Thousands of Allied planes begin airborne assault on Holland, Operation Market Garden.
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Gallery of Military Photos, Posters & Documents

This collection was developed during years of sourcing photos and other items for the Olive-Drab.com website. It includes both well known images -- like the Iwo Jima flag raising -- along with many rare and extremely interesting items. The poster collection gathers many fine examples of war time recruiting, bond sales, and propaganda posters for your review. Documents such as Field Manuals and Technical Manuals as well as interesting items of militaria are included.

This page is a Category listing. Choose the category you are interested in from the list below, then click on it to see an array of thumbnail images of the items in that category. A randomly selected example is at the top of this page.

Military Vehicle Photos

Find additional photos and hi-res versions of military wheeled vehicles, armor and other tracked vehicles, and artillery at the Olive-Drab Military Mashup:

US 5th Army soldiers guard a road in the area of Salerno, Italy, circa 22 September 1943. British Eighth Army troops advancing from the south met the US force at this point.

An Armored Cavalry unit halts with their Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle (ACAV -- modified M113 APC) in Herringbone Formation, Vietnam.

Radio equipped armored car, Rock Island Arsenal, IL, 1931.

Pettibone Wheeled Crane is unloaded from USS PORTLAND (LSD 37), in support of construction exercise ATLAS RAIL, a Seabee project to repair a flood-damaged railroad, Feb 1990

Convoy of the 1333rd AAF Base Unit, Air Transport Command, uses the Ledo Road through Burma to resupply China, 1 June 1945. This was the first ATC convoy to utilize the road. CCKW trucks, jeeps, 3/4-ton WC.

708th Amphibian Tank Bn. crew with their LVT(A)(4), equipped with the turret and 75mm howitzer of the M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage.

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