Vintage soldier photos

The Battle of the Scheldt was a series of military operations by the Canadian 1st Army, led by Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds. The battle took place in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands during World War II from October 2 to November 8, 1944.[1] By September 1944, it had become urgent for the Allies to clear both banks of the Scheldt estuary in order to open the port of Antwerp to Allied shipping, thus easing logistical burdens in their supply lines stretching hundreds of miles…

WW 1, when African American US Army Soldiers were given to the French as replacements & they fought under the French Flag. The Harlem Hellcats came home heavily decorated.

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A lot of the soldiers wrote graffiti on their helmets with inscriptions of their attitudes about where they were and why they were there. ...

Last week we posted a story about a photo of a handsome 1950s soldier that was capturing the hearts of women all over the internet—and many of you wrote in to share images of your own handsome relatives who served our country.