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  • In late afternoon, three conscript soldiers  of the Polish army are dressed in brown uniforms eating ice cream cones in Plac Zamkowy, outside the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish army (Wojsko Polskie) is the name applied to the military forces of Poland. The name has been used since the early 19th century, although it can be used to refer to earlier formations as well. Polish Armed Forces consist of the Army (Wojsko Lądowe), Navy (Marynarka Wojenna) and Air Force (Siły Powietrzne) branches and are under the command of the Ministry of Defense (Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej). The combined Polish armed forces consist of 215,000 active duty personnel and in addition 450,000 reserves. The armed forces are made up of conscripts who serve for a period of 9 months, and professional soldiers.
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  • Two film crews record a USAF United States Air Force aviator, in training during week-long survival course held at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington, on 6th August 1995, in Spokane, Washington, USA. The course is aimed at highy-trained personnel conducting a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Held in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott OGrady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a heros Presidential welcome.
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  • Members of the British Royal Marines band march under a giant backdrop of Lord Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory during the Royal Tournament. Ranks of the musical soldiers appear from between large doors that are already closing behind their last rows. Above them is the huge mural depicting the famous sea battles at which Nelson and his fleet of warship navy were victorious such as Gibraltar; Quiberon; Saintes and Cape St. Vincent. The Royal Tournament was the World's largest military tattoo and pageant, held by the British Armed Forces annually between 1880 and 1999. The venue was originally the Royal Agricultural Hall and latterly the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. In its later years it also acted as a fundraising event for leading forces charities, such as The Royal British Legion.
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  • Media people setting up camera equipment in a designated area ring fences with crowd control barriers, in front of a large digital Flag of the United States on the side of the US Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.
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  • We see the head and shoulders of a man in military uniform who stands motionless beside the American flag.  he is at a graduation ceremony for United States Air Force pilots who have just passed a week-long survival courseheld at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. Its highy-trained personel conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Conducted, in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • With nearby streets blocked off, a convoy of heavy high-security vehicles carrying high-value assets is accompanied by an armed escort of police officers into the Lothbury entrance of the Bank of England, on 1st March 2021, in London, England.
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  • With nearby streets blocked off, a convoy of heavy high-security vehicles carrying high-value assets is accompanied by an armed escort of police officers into the Lothbury entrance of the Bank of England, on 1st March 2021, in London, England.
    city_security04-01-03-2021.jpg
  • With nearby streets blocked off, a convoy of heavy high-security vehicles carrying high-value assets is accompanied by an armed escort of police officers into the Lothbury entrance of the Bank of England, on 1st March 2021, in London, England.
    city_security03-01-03-2021.jpg
  • A married couple ready themselves for a formal Buckingham Palace garden party in after sunshine. The lady and man have been invited to take tea with and meet the Queen along with many hundreds more in London England. They are Mr and Mrs Johnson and he is a Flag officer junior rating serving in Britain's Royal Navy. His wife adjusts his Navy cap (denoting his ship's name) to make sure it's straightened and presentable for Her Majesty. It is a proud day for her husband and his spouse, when the achievements of his military career are recognized by his Sovereign. The Queens' garden parties are held ever summer, allowing ordinary men and women from diverse members of society the chance to walk the Palace grounds and meet others from all walks of life. Some may be from the armed services and others , merely known for their charitable work or individual merit.
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  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow01-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Two US Air Force crew stand below the nose of their F-16C fighter jet at the Farnborough Air Show, UK. Ready to talk to visitors wanting a guided tour of their high-performance jet fighter. The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a multirole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,500 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976. The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948.
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  • Displayed on a table at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, peaked caps of the former East German (DDR in German) border police are on sale in orderly rows for the sake of tourists to this German city. The border troops of the German Democratic Republic (Grenztruppen), were a military force of the GDR and the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany. The Border Troops numbered at their peak approximately 47,000 troops and other than the Soviet Union, no other Warsaw Pact country had such a large border guard force. In all, 1,065 persons were killed along the GDR's frontiers and coastline, often by the border guards. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • Standing with a recently-killed deer run-over on a nearby highway, members of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see Corbis image 42-18212808) pose by the gutted carcass of their animal in a forest near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. These tough-looking men host visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of escape and evasion instruction. Should they land in enemy territory for example, they will need all the skills learned here to survive possibly weeks in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is of paramount importance. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife. They wear camouflage uniforms, face paint to look vicious, threatening and heartless.
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  • Standing with a bloodied knife and hand is an instructor of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see also Corbis image 42-18212808) who has butchered a deer near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. The man teaches escape and evasion techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife.
    usaf_survival001-06-08-1995_1_1.jpg
  • British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy recruitment office in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy recruitment office in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Looking skyward is a USAF pilot learning how to vector in a potential helicopter rescue as part of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see also Corbis image 42-18212808) Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. The man has been taught to use a special escape and evasion (E &E) techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the crewman has let off a red smoke canister to mark his location for the friendly aircraft to see.
    usaf_survival002-06-08-1995_1_1.jpg
  • The Monday morning following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th we see members of the National Guard wearing dust masks standing beneath the high columns of the Federal Hall, located at 26 Wall Street in New York City. It was the first capitol of the United States of America and the site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789. It is also the place where the United States Bill of Rights was passed. To celebrate the near-return to financial normality, New Yorkers' spirit was proved intact by the hanging of US flags from buildings. Days after the historical events, security was prominent at all nationally symbolic institutions and buildings. As a show of force, it was also a clear deterrent for would-be criminals when New Yorkers felt vulnerable to further attack.
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  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Royal Navy armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
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  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Guards armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
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  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Guards armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
    20130417thatcher funeral armed force...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Guards armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
    20130417thatcher funeral armed force...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Marines armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
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  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Marines armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
    20130417thatcher funeral armed force...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Guards armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
    20130417thatcher funeral armed force...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Guards armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
    20130417thatcher funeral armed force...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Guards armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
    20130417thatcher funeral armed force...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the RAF armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
    20130417thatcher funeral armed force...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the Guards armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
    20130417thatcher funeral armed force...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Members of the RAF armed forces parade past St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral procession.
    20130417thatcher funeral armed force...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Metropolitan armed police on duty outside St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral. Security was high with various layer of the armed forces and emergency services all on hand.
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  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Metropolitan armed police on duty outside St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral. Security was high with various layer of the armed forces and emergency services all on hand.
    20130417thatcher funeral police secu...jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
    russian_wustrow03-16-06_1990.jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Metropolitan police on duty outside St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral. Security was high with various layer of the armed forces and emergency services all on hand.
    20130417thatcher funeral police secu...jpg
  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Metropolitan police on duty outside St Clement Danes Church prior to the funeral. Security was high with various layer of the armed forces and emergency services all on hand.
    20130417thatcher funeral police secu...jpg
  • A guardsman of an unknown regiment, stands on ceremonial duty in the Mall during celebrations of the Queen's official Golden Jubilee in June 2002. The soldier in resplendent red tunic and the controversial bearskin is an iconic emblem of Britain's armed forces during official events. But the officer may be a Grenadier or a Welsh Guard who share similar uniforms and perform similar duties in London. We see over his shoulder on which his regimental insignia is and also where the bayonet of his weapon is fixed and dangerously sharp. He is a sergeant major and therefore responsible for other soldiers' rank and files. The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. The Grenadier Guards celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2006.
    grenadier_guards03-03-06-2002_1.jpg
  • A guardsman of an unknown regiment, stands on ceremonial duty in the Mall during celebrations of the Queen's official Golden Jubilee in June 2002. The soldier in resplendent red tunic and the controversial bearskin is an iconic emblem of Britain's armed forces during official events. But the officer may be a Grenadier or a Welsh Guard who share similar uniforms and perform similar duties in London. We see his chinstrap in polished gold leaf and his rank insignia on his epaulette as he stands silent, checking other soldier ranks. The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. The Grenadier Guards celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2006.
    grenadier_guards02-03-06-2002_1.jpg
  • Two army officers from Ecuador admire an air-to-ground PARS 3 LR missile at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. The two men (the man on the right's name badge says M Pazmino), admire the sleek design of the missile called PARS 3 LR in German but known as TRIGAT-LR (Third Generation AntiTank, Long Range) and AC 3G in the French military, the missile is a high-precision 'fire-and-forget' weapon system for engaging mobile and stationary targets equipped with the latest generation of armour protection, such as tanks, field fortresses, bunkers and other high-value targets. The system can launch up to four salvos in eight seconds. <br />
The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
    paris_air_show085-20-06-2007.jpg
  • A young child is surrounded by adults as they visit the trade stand of an unnamed manufacturer of a smart bomb that occupies a prominent space at their stand at the Farnborough air show - an expo for the aviation and defence industries. A primitive plastic chain protects the million Pound armament from visitors touching although the bomb will be a non-operational model. A TV screen demonstrates the deadly nature of the guided munition that are typically mounted under the wings of fighter jets - in the days before pilotless drone aircraft.
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  • London Wednesday 17th April 2013. The funeral of former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Officer in the RAF measures the distance between guards with a yard stick prior to the funeral procession.
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  • Soldiers from the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery dressed up in Christmas jumpers and outfits seen out for a traditional Christmas Eve horse ride on December 24, 2018 through south east London, leaving their barracks in Woolwich and riding across Blackheath to Morden House Park in Greenwich, London, UK.
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  • Soldiers from the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery dressed up in Christmas jumpers and outfits seen out for a traditional Christmas Eve horse ride on December 24, 2018 through south east London, leaving their barracks in Woolwich and riding across Blackheath to Morden House Park in Greenwich, London, UK.
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  • Soldiers from the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery dressed up in Christmas jumpers and outfits seen out for a traditional Christmas Eve horse ride on December 24, 2018 through south east London, leaving their barracks in Woolwich and riding across Blackheath to Morden House Park in Greenwich, London, UK.
    20181224_Kings_Troop_Christmas_VF_05.jpg
  • Soldiers from the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery dressed up in Christmas jumpers and outfits seen out for a traditional Christmas Eve horse ride on December 24, 2018 through south east London, leaving their barracks in Woolwich and riding across Blackheath to Morden House Park in Greenwich, London, UK.
    20181224_Kings_Troop_Christmas_VF_03.jpg
  • The Red Devils Army parachute display team during the Suffolk Show at the Suffolk Show Ground on the 29th May 2019 in Ipswich in the United Kingdom. The Suffolk Show is an annual show that takes place in Trinity Park, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. It is organised by the Suffolk Agricultural Association.
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  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
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  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
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  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0324.jpg
  • Female police offices as motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0267.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0264.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0238.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0120.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0139.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0106.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0052.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0047.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0042.jpg
  • Up on the top deck, we see a lone sailor brushing off the grubby surfaces of parked F/A-18C Hornets and S-3 Vikings on the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-fly zone at an unknown location in the Persian Gulf. Stacked together in tight formation to fit them all together during a daytime break in operations, the man bends into his task during the hottest time of day. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the
    uss_truman_deck-08-05-2000_1.jpg
  • Marching guardsmen before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
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  • A guardsman stands to attention before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
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  • A guardsman stands to attention before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
    thatcher_funeral09-17-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Guardsman, one black, march into position before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege.
    thatcher_funeral06-17-04-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
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  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle12-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • A camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
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  • Lying in undergrowth with a photographer shooting pictures, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF.
    sniper_rifle03-06-03-2008 _1_1_1.jpg
  • A serving soldier in civilian suit but wearing a red beret of the Royal Military Police (RMP), looks poignantly down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance19-07-11-2009.jpg
  • A serving soldier in civilian suit but wearing a red beret of the Royal Military Police (RMP), looks poignantly down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance18-07-11-2009.jpg
  • From a height looking down on markers that symbolise war dead, one face of a young serviceman smiles from the other hundreds of crosses and poppies which mark some named but other anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance09-07-11-2009.jpg
  • From a height looking down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance03-07-11-2009.jpg
  • A soldier from the British Royal Artillery guards a 12ft Fire Shadow missile on manufacturer MBDA's trade stand at the Farnborough airshow, ready to show visiting guests to this exhibit the merits of its use and design. The so-called lurker bomb is designed to loiter above a battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets and also able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute’s notice. . The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948. The show is usually attended by more than 1,300 exhibitors and 150,000 trade visitors.
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  • Pikemen before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's ancient financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century. This is the pageant's 800th birthday and the 250 year-old horse-drawn guided State Coach will be pulled through the medieval streets with the newly-elected Mayor along with 7,000 others. This first took place in 1215 making it the oldest and longest civil procession in the world which survived both Bubonic plague and the Blitz.
    lord_mayors_show28-14-11-2015_1.jpg
  • Pikemen before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's ancient financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century. This is the pageant's 800th birthday and the 250 year-old horse-drawn guided State Coach will be pulled through the medieval streets with the newly-elected Mayor along with 7,000 others. This first took place in 1215 making it the oldest and longest civil procession in the world which survived both Bubonic plague and the Blitz.
    lord_mayors_show30-14-11-2015_1.jpg
  • Pikemen before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's ancient financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century. This is the pageant's 800th birthday and the 250 year-old horse-drawn guided State Coach will be pulled through the medieval streets with the newly-elected Mayor along with 7,000 others. This first took place in 1215 making it the oldest and longest civil procession in the world which survived both Bubonic plague and the Blitz.
    lord_mayors_show31-14-11-2015_1.jpg
  • Mounted troops before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's ancient financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century. This is the pageant's 800th birthday and the 250 year-old horse-drawn guided State Coach will be pulled through the medieval streets with the newly-elected Mayor along with 7,000 others. This first took place in 1215 making it the oldest and longest civil procession in the world which survived both Bubonic plague and the Blitz.
    lord_mayors_show27-14-11-2015_1.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • For their daily river washing ritual, young Nepali boys bathe in the river Seti Gandaki in a valley side near the British Gurkha Regiments army camp at Pokhara during their recruitment selection held ever year, 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. <br />
After a gruelling series of physical tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_selection04-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoes a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. Carrying 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko basket for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_selection01-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Elite ceremonial soldiers called Evzones or Proedriki Froura (Presidential Guard), parade on Acropolis Hill, Athens. This special contingent of the light infantry unit are on duty at the Acropolis during the national holiday of 'No Day,’ celebrating the day when Mussolini was denied a marching route through Greece in 1941. The Acropolis was once the centre of classical Greek culture which the world has inherited for its laws and philosophical thinking. Mounted above the Athenian city within fortified 60m high walls, its history is a World Heritage Site, important because of its “universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex." The establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world.
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  • Up on the top deck of a US Navy aircraft carrier, parked F/A-18C Hornets and S-3 Vikings on the USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-fly zone at an unknown location in the Persian Gulf. Stacked together in tight formation to fit them all together during a daytime break in operations, the man bends into his task during the hottest time of day. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims.
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  • In mid-day heat of the arid Arizona desert sit the remains of a Boeing airliner and a US Navy fighter jet and engines stacked  at the storage facility at Davis Monthan, Tucson. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners and military aircraft are decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Soldiers from the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery dressed up in Christmas jumpers and outfits seen out for a traditional Christmas Eve horse ride on December 24, 2018 through south east London, leaving their barracks in Woolwich and riding across Blackheath to Morden House Park in Greenwich, London, UK.
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  • Soldiers from the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery dressed up in Christmas jumpers and outfits seen out for a traditional Christmas Eve horse ride on December 24, 2018 through south east London, leaving their barracks in Woolwich and riding across Blackheath to Morden House Park in Greenwich, London, UK.
    20181224_Kings_Troop_Christmas_VF_04.jpg
  • Soldiers from the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery dressed up in Christmas jumpers and outfits seen out for a traditional Christmas Eve horse ride on December 24, 2018 through south east London, leaving their barracks in Woolwich and riding across Blackheath to Morden House Park in Greenwich, London, UK.
    20181224_Kings_Troop_Christmas_VF_02.jpg
  • Soldiers from the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery dressed up in Christmas jumpers and outfits seen out for a traditional Christmas Eve horse ride on December 24, 2018 through south east London, leaving their barracks in Woolwich and riding across Blackheath to Morden House Park in Greenwich, London, UK.
    20181224_Kings_Troop_Christmas_VF_01.jpg
  • Two members from the Red Devils Army parachute display team at the Suffolk Show at the Suffolk Show Ground on the 29th May 2019 in Ipswich in the United Kingdom. The Suffolk Show is an annual show that takes place in Trinity Park, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. It is organised by the Suffolk Agricultural Association.
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  • The Red Devils Army parachute display team during the Suffolk Show at the Suffolk Show Ground on the 29th May 2019 in Ipswich in the United Kingdom. The Suffolk Show is an annual show that takes place in Trinity Park, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. It is organised by the Suffolk Agricultural Association.
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  • The Red Devils Army parachute display team during the Suffolk Show at the Suffolk Show Ground on the 29th May 2019 in Ipswich in the United Kingdom. The Suffolk Show is an annual show that takes place in Trinity Park, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. It is organised by the Suffolk Agricultural Association.
    SuffolkShow2019-2579.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0333.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0295.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0290.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0262.jpg
  • Skinhead protester as motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0243.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0203.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0198.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0147.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0063.jpg
  • Motorcyclists gather outside Westminster protesting against the Bloody Sunday prosecution of Soldier F on April 12, 2019. A former British soldier faces murder charges of two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
    SoldierF-12-4-19-0050.jpg
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