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A jeep and Sherman tanks of HQ 2nd Armoured Brigade on 10 October 1942. "The white line on the tank was being used as a guideline by the Camouflage Unit, who were called away before completing the painting of the Brigade's tanks."

📷 Lt. Derrick Knight / IWM (E 17898

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British Troops moving towards the front in Albion lorries near Joncourt on 9 October 1918, during the Battle of St. Quentin Canal, which was part of the Hundred Days Offensive.

📷 Lt. David McLellan / IWM (Q 9530)

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Meiktila Commandos board a German submarine off the north coast of Scotland during Exercise Strike Warrior 26.

📷 LPhot Hutchins / UK MOD © Crown copyright 2026

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Officers of the right half, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, aboard the troopship SS Lake Michigan on 6 October 1914. The officer looking towards the camera is Captain the Hon. D.A. Kinnaird, who was killed on 24 October 1914.

📸 Sergeant Christopher Pilkington / IWM (Q 57127)

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Private Evie Breakwell from 22 Multi Role Medical Regiment (MMR) swims across the cold waters of the River Towy during the river crossing scenario on Exercise Cambrian Patrol 2026 in the Brecon Beacons, Wales.

📷 CPL PAUL SQUIRES / UK MOD © Crown copyright 2026

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Churchill tanks of A and B Squadrons, 43rd Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, 33rd Brigade during manoeuvres in October 1942.

📷 IWM (TR 213)

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Royal Marines from the UK Commando Force conduct Vertical Assault training during Exercise LION PROTECTOR 26 in the Faroe Islands on 28 September 2026.

📷 LPhot Jaden Lovelady / UK MOD © Crown copyright 2026

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📷 Kazakhstan airborne troops during Exercise Cambrian Patrol 2024 / CPL SQUIRES / UK MOD © Crown copyright 2024

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Exercise Cambrian Patrol 2026 officially marks the largest version of the event since it began in 1959. Running from 2 October to 13 October 2026, the premier patrolling event has expanded significantly to handle growing demand from both UK units and international allies.

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Military Working Dogs on parade at Kendrew Barracks on Tuesday 29 September 2026. A new Military Working Dogs Headquarters and facilities at Kendrew Barracks were officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal on 29 September.

📷 Cpl Christian P Delice / © Crown copyright 2026

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Soldiers from a rifle platoon, 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, engaging targets outside the trenches during Exercise Steadfast Dart 25.

📷 Cpl Aaron J Stone / UK MOD © Crown copyright 2025

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On the night of 25-26 December 1776, George Washington and his forces crossed the Delaware River in preparation for a surprise attack against Colonel Johann Rall's Hessian brigade in Trenton on the 26th. The Hessians had arrived at Trenton to establish their winter quarters.

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Fokker F.XXIIs of No. 1 Air Observer and Navigation School getting loaded at Prestwick, Ayrshire. The aircraft were used to drop food supplies to army camps in southwest Scotland which were cut off by snow drifts during the severe winter of 1939-40.

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The Handley Page Victor strategic bomber made its first flight on 24 December 1952. Developed as part of the UK's V bomber force, the aircraft entered service with the Royal Air Force in April 1958. A total of 86 Victor bombers were built between 1952-1963. #ColdWar #OTD

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23 December 1745: Government highlanders commanded by Norman MacLeod of Dunvegan were defeated by a numerically superior Jacobite force led by Lord Lewis Gordon at Inverurie. Gordon's Jacobite force was predominantly lowlanders along with regular soldiers from the Royal Ecossais.

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M36 tank destroyers of the 703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division, moving forward through the fog to stem the German spearhead near Werbomont, Belgium, on 20 December 1944 during the German Ardennes Offensive. #MilitaryHistory #WW2

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Marines of Company D, 2nd Light Armored Infantry Battalion, stand guard with their LAV-25 light armoured vehicles outside a destroyed Panamanian Defense Force building during the first day of Operation Just Cause, 20 December 1989. #MilitaryHistory

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20 December 1745: The Earl of Loudoun dispatched a force of pro-Hanoverian highlanders from Inverness under Norman MacLeod of Dunvegan, George Munro of Culcairn, and James Grant of Grant to confront Lord Lewis Gordon and his Jacobite forces at Aberdeen.

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19 December 1777: The Continental Army under George Washington took up winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Up to 2,000 soldiers would die as a result of disease and malnutrition, but from Valley Forge emerged a well-trained and better-disciplined army. #MilitaryHistory

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Soldiers of Panzergrenadier-SS Kampfgruppe Hansen in a staged photo next to knocked-out American vehicles following clashes in Poteau, Belgium against Task Force Myers on 18 December 1944, during the German Ardennes Offensive.