A selection of photographs of soldiers from various war zones and conflicts, I tried to credit photographers and give details where possible.
“Universal Soldier” taken by photographer Tim Page during the Vietnam War.
British soldier hands a bottle of water to a local child on a routine patrol of the area surrounding Kandahar Air Field. Photographer: John Collins.
US Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz cries as he learns that the body bag, next to him in the medical evacuation helicopter contains the body of his friend killed by friendly fire. Iraq/Kuwait, 1991 Photographer: David C. Turnley Iraq/Kuwait, 1991.
Russian Soldier Plays an Abandoned Piano in Chechnya, 1994.
US marine with a kitten on his head, World War 2.
Emotional photo taken in the Haktong-ni area of South Korea by photographer Al Chung on August 28th 1950; the photo shows grief-stricken American infantryman being comforted by a comrade. The details about his grief were a matter of debate. Some said he just learnt his best friend had been killed, while some say it was on account of his replacement as a radio operator being killed.
Vietnam, during a patrol marine Joe J. Treffin holds a baby. The soldier and the child look and study each other with curiosity in a village near Da Nang, 1967. Photographer Martyn Green.
War in Chechnya 1995, Russian intelligence service commandos, the morning after an attack, six dead and eighteen wounded. Photographer. Eric Bouvet
Soldier carries his comrade during the battle of the Somme, world war 1, 1916. Relatives believe the soldier was William Holland of Stoke-on-Trent.
Shell shocked soldier, battle for Hue, Vietnam. Photogrpaher: Don McCullin.
U.S. Army soldier comforts a dead child fatally wounded in a car bomb blast in Mosul, 360 km northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, 2005. Photo: Michael Yon.
Desert Soldier, Niger – A soldier of the Tuareg Rebel Army in the area of Temet, close to Algeria border. Photographor: Sergio Pessolano.
A soldier asleep in a trench, World War 1.
Peter Leibing’s famous picture of the East German soldier Conrad Schumann jumping over the Berlin Wall. Leibing’s photograph of the 19-year-old East German border guard throwing away his rifle as he hurled over barbed wire on his way into West Berlin was taken on August 15, 1961, two days after East Germany sealed off its border.
A soldier of the French foreign legion wearing a skeleton mask in Mali fighting Islamic militants, stands next to an armored vehicle in a street in Niono on January 20-2013. Photographer Issouf-Sanogo.
An American soldier and a wounded infant in Saipan during World War II in 1944. Photographer: Eugene Smith.
Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela. Photographer: Héctor Rondón Lovera.
An unidentified U.S. Army soldier wears a hand lettered “War Is Hell” slogan on his helmet, June 18, 1965, during the Vietnam War. He was with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Battalion on defense duty at Phouc Vinh airstrip in South Vietnam. Photographer: Horst Faas
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