Fede e valore | Faith and valor
Colorfully rendered scenes of deadly entanglement in the Great War, brought to you by Big Tobacco.
A French soldier in Rwanda, 1994. (via)
“Street-fighting in Capua: On the River Volturno, Italy, October 1943”. Watercolor by Julius Stafford-Baker.
Northern Ireland, 1969: “2nd Lieutenant Robin Martin and Rifleman Andy Walker of 1st Royal Green Jackets man a barbed wire street barricade in Belfast during the Battalion’s first tour of duty in Northern Ireland. The tour lasted from 20 August - 18 December 1969.” (Imperial War Museum)
Soldier in Berlin, undated photo by Paul Schutzer for Life Magazine.
A Marine rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 7, on the shooting range at Forward Operating Base Sabit Qadam. Sangin, Afghanistan. October 22, 2012.
A fighter throws a hand grenade at loyalist soldiers with machine guns. Burgos, Spain. September 12, 1936. (The Atlantic)
World War I-era poster for Liberty bonds.
(NCDC)
Vintage First World War recruitment poster by Fred V. Owen. Ink with crayon shading, North Carolina, 1918.
(NCDC)
Red Army sappers cross through barbed wire barriers near Leningrad during the Second World War. (Library of Congress)
![Poster by Malaquías Montoya and Jaime Valadez: “El Diez y Seis de Septiembre el Dia de la Independencia el Dia de Resistencia; 12 de Septiembre Domingo 6pm; Center for the Performing Arts 255 Almaden Blvd. San Jose, Califas” [UC Santa Barbara, Special Collections]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3t8eeFpqJ1qigaa4o1_500.jpg)
Poster by Malaquías Montoya and Jaime Valadez: “El Diez y Seis de Septiembre el Dia de la Independencia el Dia de Resistencia; 12 de Septiembre Domingo 6pm; Center for the Performing Arts 255 Almaden Blvd. San Jose, Califas” [UC Santa Barbara, Special Collections]
A frame from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979)
Training at Annapolis. May 17, 2011.
(via secret-country)
From the book Merc: American Soldiers of Fortune by Jay Mallin and Robert K. Brown.
