Gas-masked men of the British Machine Gun Corps with a Vickers machine gun during the first battle of the Somme, 1916. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)
An Airbus A400M military aircraft lands at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Schoenefeld, south of Berlin, Germany, June 1, 2016. The Aerospace Exhibition at Schoenefeld Airport near Berlin takes place from June 1 till 4. (Photo by Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
(L-R) American actress Joey King, English actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson and American actor Brian Tyree Henry attend the “Bullet Train” Photocall at The Corinthia Hotel on July 20, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Recruits who earned a place in the Motivation Platoon struggle through water and muck on their way to becoming a Marine or going into some other line of work, October 7, 1971. (Photo by Eddie Adams/AP Photo)
These Arab recruits line up in a barracks square in the British Mandate of Palestine, on December 28, 1940, for their first drill under a British solider. Some 6,000 Palestinian Arabs signed up with the British Army during the course of World War II. (AP Photo)
An Iraqi soldier stands guard as a pipeline burns in the background after an explosion 30 kilometers (20 miles) northeast of Tikrit, Iraq, Monday, February 11, 2008. (Photo by Bassem Daham/AP Photo)
General Maurice Gamelin, General Officer commanding the French Armies, is on a four day visit to England. He went to the staff college at Minley and is seen inspecting an anti-tank gun at Aldershot, on June 7, 1939. (Photo by AP Photo)