Commons:Military-related image resources

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Please upload more free images to the commons. Photos taken by U.S. military personnel are in the public domain. See Upload from a US federal government source and Commons:Copyright tags#United States. Add links below to sources for free images from all nations.

• Defense.gov page - Multimedia. Imagery. U.S. Department of Defense.
• USMC.mil page - History Division. United States Marine Corps.
• Navy.mil page - Online Library of Selected Images. Naval Historical Center. Photo gallery. U.S. Department of the Navy.
• AF.mil page - Photos. U.S. Air Force.
• Army.mil page. Media Front Page. United States Army.
• Flickr: The U.S. Army's photostream. See profile.
• DVIDS - Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. See the reply to the FAQ question, "Is DVIDS run by the military?" Part of the reply: "The Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) is provided as a public service operated by Third Army/U.S. Army Central (ARCENT) on behalf of the Department of the Army in support of all branches of the U.S. military and its Coalition partners serving in the U.S. Forces Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility." See also the Flickr archive.
• Flickr. Non-official images from military personnel oftentimes cover a much broader range of military-related (and other) topics than images from official military sources. Some Flickr sources with free image licenses:
  • nukeit1's photostream. Iraq War and more.

Inactive pages

• DefenseImagery.mil - as of 2023
• [1]. High-resolution images from the U.S. federal government. Signal Corps photographs of American military activity. Creating organizations: Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.

Image licenses and upload forms

For images provided by U.S. military see: Commons:Copyright tags#United States, and the upload form for images titled, "from a US federal government source".