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USA: A gust of win drags the new recruits across the tarmac. INCREDIBLE colour photos from the Second World War show stoic student pilots getting to g...

USA: These rare colour pictures were taken by the Office of War Information in 1942. Colour film was available but expensive and considered 'vulgar' b...

USA: Recruits struggle to rein in a billowing parachute. INCREDIBLE colour photos from the Second World War show stoic student pilots getting to grip...

USA: INCREDIBLE colour photos from the Second World War show stoic student pilots getting to grips with their parachutes as they prepare to go to war...

C. G. Mannerheim 1919. Kuva reprottu Museovirastossa 2. joulukuuta 1987 LEHTIKUVA / REPRO MATTI BJ?RKMAN

C. G. Mannerheim 1919. Kuva reprottu Museovirastossa 2. joulukuuta 1987 LEHTIKUVA / MATTI BJ?RKMAN

C. G. Mannerheim 1919. Kuva reprottu Museovirastossa 2. joulukuuta 1987 LEHTIKUVA / MATTI BJ?RKMAN

C. G. Mannerheim Kuva reprottu Museovirastossa 2. joulukuuta 1987 LEHTIKUVA / MATTI BJ?RKMAN

PACIFIC: With his hands in the air, the first of 20 Japanese emerges from a cave on Iwo Jima, on April 5, 1945. The group had been hiding for several...

UK: A tragic photo portraying a dead Highlander. "There was little dignity for kilted solders in death," said author Greenshields. REMARKABLE photos s...

PACIFIC: The Battle of Okinawa in April-June 1945. US Marines in cover while a Bazooka operator looks for a target. THE HORROR of the conflict in the...

PACIFIC: A knocked out Japanese tank smoulders. THE HORROR of the conflict in the Pacific Theatre during the Second World War has been brought to life...

PACIFIC: Tanks on Okinawa work with the 96th Infantry Division on 1 April 1945. The battle was gruseome but paved the way for an allied vistory in the...

UK: Soldiers of the Gordon Highlanders putting on rubber thigh boots, Bazentin-le-Petit, November 1916. Kilt wearing soldiers did praise the item's pr...

PACIFIC: Battle-Weary Marine: Relieved from the front lines after twelve days of battling the enemy on Okinawa is Marine Private First Class Harry Kiz...

PACIFIC: African American Marines, attached to the Third Ammunition Company, take time out from supplying ammunition to the front line on Saipan. Ridi...

PACIFIC: U.S. troops hold a Japanese flag captured in July 1944 during the Battle of Saipan. On June 15, 1944, U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the...

PACIFIC: American soldiers along with rescued Japanese child in Saipan, July 1944. In the photo - the baby, allegedly found by soldiers of the 27th di...

PACIFIC: Burial of Private First Class Mike Fenton, Okinawa, May 1945. Fenton was killed in a Japanese counterattack. Bereaved friends, officers and m...

UK: Comrades. Men of 9th Royal Scots. REMARKABLE photos show the brutal reality of life in the trenches of World War One for Highland soldiers, renown...

UK: During the Battle of the Somme, a piper of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders pipes men back from the front after the attack on Longueval, 14 July 1916....

UK: A soldier of the Royal Engineers collecting the identity disc from the wrist of a Highlander killed by a shell on the edge of a water filled crate...

UK: Gordon Highlanders preparing barbed wire entanglements north of Arras, 24 April, 1917. REMARKABLE photos show the brutal reality of life in the tr...

UK: Soldiers of 8th Black Watch practice a bayonet attack at Bordon Camp, 1915. REMARKABLE photos show the brutal reality of life in the trenches of W...

UK: Men of the Black Watch celebrating New Year???s Day in the hutments at Henencourt, 1917. Those Bloody Kilts explores the thory that Highlanders ha...

UK: A Lucky man. South African Scottish troops carrying a wounded German on a stretcher during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, 21 September 1917....

UK: Men of the 16th Battalion C.E.F. (Canadian Scottish) moving up to the front line, 27 September 1918. REMARKABLE photos show the brutal reality of...

PACIFIC: USS TENNESSEE bombards Okinawa with her enormous guns, as ervous troops are carried to the invasion beaches. THE HORROR of the conflict in th...

PACIFIC: : Injured U.S. Marines being treated at an aid station on Iwo Jima, 1945. THE HORROR of the conflict in the Pacific Theatre during the Second...

PACIFIC: Injured prisoners surrounded by American Troops. THE HORROR of the conflict in the Pacific Theatre during the Second World War has been broug...

PACIFIC: July 1944: Troops and vehicles en route for the invasion of Cape Sansapor, New Guinea. THE HORROR of the conflict in the Pacific Theatre dur...

PACIFIC: A California National Guardsman methodically sweeps for mines in front of heavily damaged tanks. THE HORROR of the conflict in the Pacific T...

PACIFIC: A Japanese tank and soldiers. Honour-bound, many Japanese soldiers would rather fight to the death than surrender. THE HORROR of the conflic...

PACIFIC: A flaming f6f-3 plane crashes onto USS Enterprise. Miraculously, the pilot Ensign Byron Johnson, escapes without significant injury. Note the...

PACIFIC: Flamethrower troops engulf the hillside with flames. THE HORROR of the conflict in the Pacific Theatre during the Second World War has been b...

USA: The Marine Glider project was quietly scrapped in summer 1943, a yera after these striking photos were captured. STUNNING colour photos from the...

USA: A number of two-seat gliders manned by US Marines soaring over Parris Island in South Carolina. STUNNING colour photos from the Second World War...

USA: Trainee pilots listen intently to their briefing. STUNNING colour photos from the Second World War capture US Marines training to fly in lightwei...

USA: Ultimately, the gliders were unsuitable for jungle or atoll fighting, the heartlands of the Marines battles in the Second World War. STUNNING col...

USA: Mainatiang a cool composure whilst in the cockpit. The 'power plane' which drags the gliders along can be seen in the background. STUNNING colour...

USA: Getting ready for liftoff. Over 15,000 men died whilst training to fly various types of aircraft across the USA throughtout the war years. STUNNI...

USA: The tow ropes pulling the gliders along are clearly visible in this incredible shot. STUNNING colour photos from the Second World War capture US...

USA: US Marines conclude their military training in 1942. Many of these men would go on to fight in the Pacific Theatre in horrendous conditions. STUN...

USA: A Marine glider in training at Page Field, Parris Island. The Marine's glider project was ultimately doomed as the vehicles were not fit for purp...

USA: A trainee glider pilot examines his machine pre-lift off. STUNNING colour photos from the Second World War capture US Marines training to fly in...

USA: A Marine lieutenant by the power plane which tows the training gliders. These propoganda shots were taken by the US Office of War Information. ST...

USA: A somehwat pensive pilot fiddles nervously with the joystick before launch. STUNNING colour photos from the Second World War capture US Marines t...

USA: Hoorah. A nervous looking marine watches a fellow recruit launch. STUNNING colour photos from the Second World War capture US Marines training t...

USA: The Gliders were capable of delivering two men, as opposed to the 24 that other assault gliders could hold. STUNNING colour photos from the Secon...

In two handout images, a widely known image of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, left, that appears on his books, compared with the one that has gone vi...