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Credit: commons:User:Zscout370
The Medal of Honor flag presented to those who have been bestowed the US decoration of the same name.


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Credit: NASA
SR-71B was the trainer version of the SR-71. Notice the dual cockpit to allow the instructor to fly the airplane.


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Credit: White House Photo by Paul Morse

Presidents Bush and Fox board Marine One to visit Toledo, Ohio.


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Credit: The Pentagon

World map of divided by regional Unified Commands.


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Credit: User:Maio

SEALs in from the water.


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Credit: Nilington

Grave marker of Medal of Honor recipient Jimmie W. Monteith at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.


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Credit: commons:User:Finlay McWalter

Map of federal lands in southern Nevada.


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Credit: af.mil

Air Force One flying over Mount Rushmore.


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Credit: Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III, Air Force Link

Capt. Christopher Stricklin ejects from the USAF Thunderbirds aircraft before it impacted the ground at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho.


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Credit: U.S. Naval Historical Center, User:Taak

USS Akron (ZRS-4) flying over the southern end of Manhattan Island, New York City, circa 1931-1933.


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Credit: SSgt Jeffrey Allen, TORCH e-zine

F-15D from the 325th Fighter Wing based at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida releasing flares.


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Credit: Navy.mil

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Eleven (EODMU-11) members perform a static jump from the ramp of a C-130.


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Credit: Tech. Sgt. Sean Mateo White, User:Fir0002

Six F-16 Fighting Falcons with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team fly in delta formation in front of the Empire State Building.


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Credit: Master Sgt. Michael Ammons, User:Alvinrune

First Lt. Charles Schuck fires an AIM-7 Sparrow medium range air-to-air missile from an F-15 Eagle.


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Credit: defenselink.mil, User:Neutrality

The sun sets over a set of "Big Eyes" binoculars on the signal bridge of the USS Harry S. Truman.


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Credit: The National Archives, User:Cryptic

Da Nang, Vietnam...A young Marine private waits on the beach during the Marine landing.


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Credit: Robert F. Sargent, User:Hephaestos

A LCVP from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division on the morning of June 6, 1944 (D-Day) at Omaha Beach.


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Credit: Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Day, defenselink.mil

A shell casing flies out with a trail of smoke as U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Freise fires an M-4 rifle during a firing exercise.


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Credit: US Army Space & Missile Defense Command

LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system being tested at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.


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Credit: The National Archives, commons:User:W.wolny

The battleship USS Pennsylvania leads USS Colorado, USS Louisville, USS Portland, and USS Columbia into Lingayen Gulf before the landing on Luzon, Philippines in January 1945.


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Credit: Navy.mil, User:Durin

Newly commissioned officers celebrate their new positions by throwing their midshipmen covers into the air as part of the U.S. Naval Academy class of 2005 graduation and commissioning ceremony.


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Credit: PHAN J. Alan Elliott, Defense Visual Information

USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of nine 16"/50 and six 5"/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil.


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Credit: Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Jonathan Chandler, commons:User:Oxam Hartog
An F/A-18C Hornet, assigned to VFA-192, launches from the flight deck of the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk.


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Credit: af.mil
A B-1B Lancer soaring over the Pacific Ocean.


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Credit: [1], User:Maclyn611
30mm Rounds for the GAU-8 Avenger.


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Credit: Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker, af.mil

"Glacier Girl," a P-38 Lightning dug out from 268 feet of ice in eastern Greenland in 1992.


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Credit: Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III, af.mil

A B-2 Spirit soars after a refueling mission over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, May 30, 2006.


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Credit: Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Felix Garza Jr, navy.mil

The Arleigh Burke class destroyer, Benfold fires its five-inch 54-caliber MK45 gun during training operations off the coast of California.


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Credit: Palmer, Alfred T., [2]

Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.


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Credit: commons:User:Tobyw87

Douglas MacArthur signs the formal surrender of Japanese forces on the USS Missouri, 1945-09-02.


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Credit: DoD

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) M-198 155mm Howitzer gun crew of 4th Battalion, 14th Marines, Mike Battery, Gun 4, Camp Fallujah, Iraq.


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Credit: DoD

Senior American military officials of World War II. Seated are (from left to right) Gens. William H. Simpson, George S. Patton, Carl A. Spaatz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney H. Hodges, and Leonard T. Gerow; standing are (from left to right) Gens. Ralph F. Stearley, Hoyt Vandenberg, Walter Bedell Smith, Otto P. Weyland, and Richard E. Nugent.


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Credit: United States Coast Guard, Naval Historical Center

Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the operation, June, 1944.


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Credit: Capt. Andrew J. Russell, NARA

Confederate dead behind the stone wall of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Va., killed during the Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1863.


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Credit: defenselink.mil

Crash landing of an F6F Hellcat on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise while enroute to attack Makin Island.


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Credit: U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Visual Information Center (DVIC). Image ID HD-SN-99-02844

U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville (one of the Solomon Islands) in World War II. Japanese forces tried infiltrating the U.S. lines at night; at dawn. In this picture, infantrymen are advancing in the cover of an M4 Sherman tank.


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Credit: army.mil, Cpl. James L. Yarboro.

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alonzo Gonzales with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, walks through an alley during an operation to capture suspected Anti-Coalition Forces in the vicinity of Methar Lam, Afghanistan.


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Credit: unknown photographer
The original US Brig Niagara raised for the centennial of the Battle of Lake Erie.


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Credit: PHC Albert Bullock, US Navy
Aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) attacked during World War II, March 19, 1945.


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Credit: United States Navy
The forward magazine of the destroyer USS Shaw explodes as a result of combat damage during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.


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Credit: Library of Congress
Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo robes, Ft. Keogh, Montana, 1890.


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Credit: archives.gov, 2d Lt. Jacob Harris
Infantrymen of the 255th Infantry Regiment move down a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hun after a recent raid by the 63rd Division.


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Credit: Library of Congress, Alfred Palmer
An M3 Lee tank on training exercises, Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942.


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Credit: army.mil
U.S. forces target rail cars south of Wonsan, North Korea.


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Credit: U.S. Army Signal Corps
Gen. Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte, Philippine Islands, October 1944.


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