Images

A photograph showing a British pursuit tank about to land at Gold Beach the day after D-day 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing British Commando troops landing on the Normandy beaches (Gold Beach here) during D-Day 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph taken in March 1944 showing a gun emplacement, part of Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall defences along the coastline of occupied northern Europe. The defences were built in preparation for the Allied landings which came on D-Day...

A photograph showing troops of the 1st US Infantry Division, 5th US Corps attacking Omaha beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)

Buffalo Hunt Under the Wolf-Skin Mask by artist George Catlin, c. 1832. The painting depicts the practice of the Plains Indians, prior to the arrival of the horse, in which they would disguise themselves as wolves by wearing wolf hides to...

Baron Friederich von Steuben drills Continental soldiers at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778. By Edwin Austin Abbey, sometime before 1911.

A modern replica of the log huts that the Continental soldiers at Valley Forge lived in; most huts housed twelve soldiers at a time. Photo by Wikipedia user Dr. Blazer, May 2018.

North American bison on the Woolaroc Wildlife Preserve, Oklahoma, USA. The Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve includes 3,700 acres of land and provides a home for many different kinds of wildlife, including the bison.

Cheyenne beaded hide shirt (buckskin shirt) on display at the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve, Oklahoma. Photograph by Wolfgang Sauber.

"Balanced Rock" in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. This is the sort of boulder, perhaps, featured in The Turning Stones, one of the Wihio tales of the Cheyenne nation.