Aerial Bombing Campaigns

Historical aerial views of bombing campaigns during WWII, revealing the impact on industrial and military targets.

SMOKE COVERS HAMM--Beneath this fountain of smoke, lies the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, about 25 miles south of Munster, attacked by Liberators and Fortresses of U.S. 8th AAF on 25 April 44. Reportedly able to handle 10,000 freight cars a
SMOKE COVERS HAMM--Beneath this fountain of smoke, lies the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, about 25 miles south of Munster, attacked by Liberators and Fortresses of U.S. 8th AAF on 25 April 44. Reportedly able to handle 10,000 freight cars a
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Astra Romana Refinery-This shot gives a vivid idea of how low the Consolidated B-24s flew in bombing the Ploesti Fields. The plane is over the Astra Romana refinery.
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WAR ACTIVITIES-The Buna front showing the type of thick jungle pierced by Australian-manned American-made tanks. Gen. MacArthur's use of tanks in the jungle against the Japaneseanese was a surprise maneuver which greatly assisted the Allied ground troops
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Martin B-26 "Marauder" Damage caused to gun implacements by 20 mm shell.
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Anefo photo collection. Demonstration launch postket. Demonstration launch postket on the Larense Heide C.Q. Crailose Heide .. December 15, 1945. Laren (Noord-Holland)
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War
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Against A Background Of Vapor Trails Etched By Preceding Heavy Bombers And Their Guardians - The Fighter Escort - Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses Of The 452Nd Bomb Group Are Headed For Their Target, Gablingen, Germany. 16 March 1944. Taken By S/Sgt. Georg
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AE-22 Mauna Kea , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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Bomb Damage To The Romana Americana Oil Refinery At Ploesti, Rumania. It Is The Third Largest In Rumania And Was The Most Bombed.
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It may now be revealed that priority supplies have been dropped by parachutes. This mission assigned to the Ninth Air Force Troop Carrier Command is another important job of this Command's versatility. Pictured are parachutes just released by a IX
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A chemical mine fuse that the Nips used to mine our air strips and roads at Lahug, Cebu, Philippine Islands. April 1945.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RESCUE War
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A high percentage of I.B.'s was dropped over Ludwigshafen, Germany. (30 Dec 43).
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The cloud of smoke has grown until it obscures almost all of the Nazi plane. Only its right wing and wheel are still clear, as the 8th AAF fighter follows it down. France.
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Disaster on the Dunes the Huns blow up the last bridge and isolate our hard-pressed battalions, Realistic Travels, 1914 - 1918 stereograph cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print projectiles, explosives, etc.
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Routing of a 12-ship Japanese navy task force in the Sulu Sea October 26, 1944, by the Fightin' 13th AAF Liberators was notable in several ways. Not the least was this photograph produced after the battle, which showed a Yamato class battleship
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Berniers Sur Mer, France is two miles west of St. Aubin, was also hit by 8th Air Force to soften defenses. It is a poor landing spot because of rocky ledges near shore which are a harzard at low tide. Enemy pockets resisted in this area until D+13.
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Art.Sect Repro of magazines.Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Bomb bursts from Northwest...
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Four ball-bearing plants are under this pall of smoke at Schweinfurt, 65 miles east of Frankfurt as U.S. 8th AF heavy bombers attacked on 21 July 44. Concentrations were dropped on the Kugelfischer works, VKF manufacturers for Hitler's war machines.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RECREATION War
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Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Oblique aerial photograph showing parachutes and containers lying on a dropping zone in Belgium, following a supply drop to members of the Belgian resistance forces north of Brussels by aircraft of Bomber Command.
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Napoleon
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The Straggler Invites Attack. Country: UK Artist: Flight Printed By: Jordison & Co., Ltd.. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters
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Naval Ammunition Depot 1941-42 , Military depots, Naval Ammunition Depot. Photographs of the First Naval District
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5 pound blast comparison , Ordnance industry, Armories, Blasting. Records of U.S. Army Operational