Archive photography
Period photographs of the vehicles and the people who lived and worked around them.
Period photographs with source and licence details.
The surviving Skeleton Tank prototype at the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen Proving Ground, photographed in 2007.
A British Gun Carrier Mark I transporting a 60-pounder field gun.
An early-production Renault FT 75 BS photographed in 1919.
Gun Carrier Mark I near Miraumont, France, August 1918.
A Sherman crew of C Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars rests and writes letters home beside their vehicle in Normandy, 10 June 1944.
The crew of a dust-covered vehicle from the 755th Tank Battalion rests in recently captured Monghidoro, Italy, 1 October 1944.
Men of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry rest beside a Sherman of 3rd Royal Tank Regiment during the Normandy campaign, probably a Sherman Firefly.
A U.S. Ninth Army tank crew rests in Rheindahlen, Germany, 27 February 1945.
Sherman crews eat a meal in the shade of Cairngorm, a Sherman tank of 116th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, between Taungtha and Meiktila, 15 March 1945.
Canadian crew of a Sherman tank south of Vaucelles near Caen during the Normandy fighting, June 1944.
Dmitry Lavrinenko's tank crew during a pause between fighting, autumn 1941.
A U.S. tank crew stands guard at Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin during the 1961 confrontation.
PFC Jose Ledoux-Garcia guards his M60A3 during Exercise REFORGER 85 in West Germany.
Men of the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment rest in a trench beside the ditched Mark IV tank “Hyacinth” near Ribecourt during the Battle of Cambrai, 20 November 1917.
A Cromwell crew of the 4th County of London Yeomanry prepares a meal in front of their vehicle in Normandy, 17 June 1944.
The crew of a Matilda II tank takes a brief break during the fighting near Tobruk, Libya, 28 November 1941.
War correspondent Ernie Pyle sits with a tank crew of the 191st Tank Battalion at the Anzio beachhead in 1944.
A Panzer III crew from the Das Reich division takes a break in front of the vehicle during the Battle of Kursk.
U.S. soldiers of the 33rd Tank Battalion calibrate the 90 mm gun on an M48 Patton at Coleman Kaserne, July 1956.
American and Soviet officers pose in front of a T-55 tank at a Soviet navy service school in Vladivostok during a 1990 port visit.
Members of the 11th Mechanized Infantry Detachment train around a Soviet-built T-62 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin.
Soviet tankmen raise a flag on a tank before departing for the front during the defence of Moscow, 31 December 1941.
Soviet tankmen study a map beside a T-34-76 while another crew loads ammunition on the Bryansk Front, September 1943.
Collective farmers from the Moscow suburbs hand over KV-1S tanks to Soviet servicemen, 1 December 1942.
The Ural Volunteer Tank Corps moves T-34 Model 1942 tanks toward the front from Sverdlovsk Oblast, 1942.
Lieutenant Lugovoy's Soviet T-34 crew poses together in October 1941.
Guards Lieutenant Vasily Sarafanov, commander of a T-34-85, photographed at Port Arthur in August 1945.
German soldiers sit and stand on a Tiger I of schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 during Operation Zitadelle, June 1943.
German crewmen carry out field repairs on a Panther on the southern Eastern Front, August 1944.
German panzer soldiers gather on and around a camouflaged Panther in France, June 1944.
German panzer soldiers ride on a Panzer IV in Russia, August 1943.
German Panzer IV crewmen pause with their vehicle in southern Russia, December 1943.
Lt J. Fathergill and his gunner load 75 mm ammunition into a Churchill tank in Normandy, 17 July 1944.
British Army mechanics change a Churchill tank engine with an Atherton jack at Mill Hill, London, 15 March 1942.
Churchill tanks of 9th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Brigade, advance toward Goch, Germany, 19 February 1945.
New Zealand soldiers recapture a Matilda tank in North Africa and take its German crew prisoner, 3 December 1941.