U.S. Army in Action Downloads

U.S. Army Center of Military History

U.S. Army in Action
Backgrounds (Wallpapers) and Screensavers

The U.S. Army in Action paintings depict American soldiers from the Revolutionary War through to the Korea War. To make such collections more widely known and available to the Army and the public, CMH has posted the works on its website (www.army.mil/cmh-pg). The sixteen prints from the print set have been converted into screensavers and wallpaper (bitmap) images for Windows-based computers.

Backgrounds:

The Wallpaper files have been formatted for three major screen resoultions (640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768). After "right-clicking" on the appropriate link for your monitor resolution you will be given the option to save the file to the hard drive of your computer. After saving it, the user can select their background images through the 'Display' options in Control Panel, or by right-clicking on their desktop and selecting 'Properties' option. Depending on the location that you have saved the file to, you can select the U.S. Army in Action images by using the "Browse" option in the 'Display Properties' window to change to the specified directories.

~Click on Painting Title for Print Caption~

Merry Christmas, 1776 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768	The Road to Fallen Timbers 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768
The Battle of Chippewa 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768	"Remember Your Regiment" 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768
First at Vicksburg 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768	Good Marksmanship and Guts! 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768
Gatlings to the Assault 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768	"I'll Try, Sir!" 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768
Knocking out the Moros 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768	"Hell Fighters! Le's Go!" 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768
"The Rock of the Marne" 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768	Remagen Bridgehead 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768
"Follow Me!" 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768	Go for Broke 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768
"Cuidado! — Take Care Bushmasters!" 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768	Breakthrough at Chipyong-Ni 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768

Screensavers:

The Screensaver files include all 16 paintings and have been formatted for three major screen resolutions (640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768), with two versions being offered for each -- one with and one without an added sound file. The version with the added sound file, music performed by The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, takes between 14-16MB of hard drive space (depending on the selected resolution) when installed, versus the version with no sound which installs in about 2-4 MB of space. All screensaver files are provided as self-extracting ".exe" files (with the sound versions being identified with a "-s" in the filename). After "right-clicking" on the appropriate link for your monitor resolution you will be given the opportunity to save the file to the hard drive of your computer. After saving the files simply double click on them and the files will copy to any machine running the Windows operating system and set themselves as the default screensaver.

640 x 480 Resolution:

Without Sound 1.8MB

With Sound 14MB

800 x 600 Resolution:

Without Sound 2.6MB

With Sound 14.7MB

1024 x 768 Resolution:

Without Sound 3.7MB

With Sound 15.8MB

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Last updated 8 July 2009