Our Forgotten Wars

Spanish soldiers. Morocco ,1957.

News from home. 1958.

Spanish recoilless rifle, Morocco, 1957.

Spanish marines landing off the coast of the Western Sahara desert during the Ifni war. Many were still equipped with weapons and gear(notice the helmets) given by Nazi Germany during the Spanish Civil War. The war would last 8 months and Spain would retain its western territory until the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975

Mercenaries from 5th commando in Katanga. 5th Commando was formed with former SA and Rhodesian soldiers, commanded by Mike Hoare.

Swedish UN soldiers armed with sub-machine guns on one of the access roads to the city of Niemba in November 1961.

Belgian paratroopers at Stanleyville aerodrome shortly after an operation.

Members of 5 Commando and a Daimler Ferret in the Congo during the Congo Crisis

Fairey Fireflies aboard H.M.S. Theseus during the Korean War

Infantry soldiers from the Colombian Volunteer Battalion unload from trucks at the 4th Battalion Command Post.

A Colombian Naval Frigate before departing for Korea, November 1, 1951.

French naval elements patrol the Bassac River near Can Tho. Each boat is armed with an Oerlikon 20mm cannon. (1952)

Major Zoran Radosavljević, 204th Interceptor Wing of the Yugoslavian Air Force, shot down by NATO fighters on March 26th of 1999. 

Croatian HOS members pose with a destroyed Serbian tank.

A man carries both his M53 Sarac and three loaves of bread, Sarajevo 1994.

Slovenian soldier paints the new insignia of the Slovenian Army on the front armor of a T-55.

An HVO rocket artillery truck opens fire during Operation Storm, 1995.