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Aerial Bombing Missions in World War II

Vintage images of B-17 bombers during WWII missions, showcasing bombing runs over strategic targets in Europe.

Emden Attack of 27/9/43.
Emden Attack of 27/9/43.
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Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Film still from gun camera footage, showing cannon and machine gun fire from a Supermarine Spitfire striking a Focke Wulf Fw 190, during a dogfight over Ghent, Belgium, just prior to the German pilot baling out and his aircraft diving to earth.
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. C. Nederlands Front - Meidagen '40. Repro's telex messages and newspaper pages. German paratroopers jump from junkers JU54 transport aircraft. May 1940. The Netherlands
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DD-711 Eugene A. Greene , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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An air-to-air right side view of an F-4J Phantom II aircraft from Fighter Squadron 161 (VF-161) escorting a Soviet I1-38 May reconnaissance and anti-submarine aircraft. The Phantom is assigned aboard the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41). Country: Unknown
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Four A-6E Intruder aircraft of Marine Attack Squadron 121 (VMA(AW)-121) form up for a rendezvous with elements of Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1) on a strike training mission. Base: Naval Air Station, Fallon State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Another Malta Convoy Gets Through - The sky filled with the berets of anti-aircraft shells as the convoy steams on to Malta.An Admiralty statement on August 14 stated that supplies and reinforcements had beached the Fortress of Malta Despite very heavy enemy concentrations Designed to pervert their passage, the convoy took them through. The official photographer who took these photographs was of board H.M.S. Manchester when she was sunk. He was transferred to a destroyer with his camera still intact. November 07, 1942. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Halifax Bomber Squadron Raids Italy. - Halifax bombers made their first operational flight in ***** of 1941. Since then they have been on ***** Number of raids, and have paid special ***** to Cologne, Dusseldorf and Bremen. Lately they ***** taken part in some of the big raids of Italy ***** Halifax bomber and crew make their seventh ***** Italy. Halifax bombers gaining height in the failing light ***** for a raid on Italy. March 29, 1943. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Vintage Photograph. US Air Force Thunderbirds in precision acrobatic flight team. Frame 2
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Exercise drops of stocks by plane. Cargo to triple parachute. November 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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NINTH AIR force HEADQUARTERS, EUROPEAN THEATRE OF OPERATIONS, An A-20 Havoc light bomber of the 9th AF is shown laying a smokescreen low over the water of the English Channel during exercises simulating European invasion.
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How Jets Refuel on Atlantic Flight -- A B-29 tanker plane with a fuel hose trailing out behind it is abut to make contact with an F-84 jet fighter in practicing the refueling operation being used on today's London-to-New York flight by two single-engine jets. Te jet plane here is one of the two making the flight. In the operation, the jet pilot rams a small boom extending from his wing into the funnel-shaped nozzle at the end of the tanker's hose. September 22, 1950. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Air battles at 500 miles an hour: possibilities of the new jet- and rocket-propelled aircraft. A pictorial outline of some problems likely to face pilots, with some possible tactics which may be employed. Date: 1944
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A KC-130 Hercules aircraft refuels an F-4 Phantom II aircraft, right, and an A-6 Intruder aircraft in flight. Base: Marine Corps Base, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Return from Padang. Exploring aircraft in the air. December 21, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Moluccas Islands , War Files. May 14, 1945. (Photo by Department of Air).
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Parafrag Bombs Score Direct Hit -- Two parafrag bombs head straight for a well camouflaged Jap Sally plane which went up in smoke a few seconds after this picture was taken, during a low-level bombing attack on Old Namlea airport on Boeroe Island near Celebes in the Dutch East Indies by the U.S. Army fifth Air Force. April 10, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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***** Beneath The Flag of The Rising Sun.***** of burning Chapei, while in the right ***** the flag of the rising sun flies over the *****. This scene was pictured during ***** of Shanghai in early February, and was taken ***** roof of the building which served as headquarters ***** naval landing forces. April 12, 1932. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)
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V-2 Soars In Flight -- A 46 - foot, 14-ton remade German V-2 rocket just after it was fired in a flight test today which saw it go an estimated 75 miles above the earth and land in the New Mexico desert 39 miles from its launching platform at the army's proving grounds here. A German rocket of the type fired at Britain late in the lost war. May 10, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Fleet - Reviews - Maneuver - British Navy. October 05, 1938. (Photo by Paul Popper).
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North American B-25 Mitchells Of The 12Th Af Fly Over The Brenner Pass To Look For And Destroy A Narrow Rail Bridge Which Feeds Supplies To German Troops In Italy. 12Th Af Bombers Have Been Steadily Pounding The Brenner Line And All Supply Routes In Nort
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Winged invaders of Crete: details of troop-carrying gliders during the Second World War. German gliders and the JU52 Sky Tug; landing technique. Date: 1941
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555C Hawker Hart Bomber - Planes & Hawker Hornet. May 21, 1934. (Photo by Central Press Photos Ltd.).
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GHOST TRACKS:--ofrtresses of the Eighth Air force penetrating deep into skies over enemy occupied territory shown leaving tell tale condensation trails in their wake. Although these vapor etchings may satisfy the esthetic sense, they are usually
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1950s TRAINING SOLDIERS PARACHUTING ONTO NAVAL BASE FIELD
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Atom bomb burst over Nagasaki, Japan on 9 August 1945. Two planes of the 509th Composite Group, part of the 313th Wing of the 20th Air force, participated in this mission; one to carry the bomb, the other to act as escort.
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An Avro Lancaster of No. 514 Squadron RAF over the target during a Bomber Command attack on oil storage tanks at Bec d'Ambes in the Garonne estuary, 4 August 1944. Vertical aerial photograph taken during a daylight attack on an oil storage depot at Bec d'Ambes situated in the Garonne estuary at the confluence of the Rivers Garonne and Dordogne, France. An Avro Lancaster of No. 514 Squadron RAF flies over the target area while dense clouds of smoke rise as bombs burst among the oil storage tanks.
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Anefo photo collection. Series about the Limburg families Smedts and Poels from Horst who shot about 300 Allied pilots during the Second World War (above the Netherlands) in the farm "the black slice" helped to bring over border to Belgium. Four American aircraft circling over "The black slice" where they reject a wreath and pamphlets in honor of the brave people of America. August 15, 1945. America, Horst
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The aerial gunpower of Britain, France and Germany: the armament of the bombers and fighters now in action. Machine gun versus 'canon': a chart showing armaments of Allied and enemy aircraft -- British fighters having always defeated the German bombers over our coasts, without losing a single plane. Date: 1940
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Elsevier photo collection. Three-day exercise territorial defense in the west of the Netherlands north of Amsterdam, by three battaljons infantry, a company Belgian parachutists of the Parachuts School in Diest, a Squadron Gloster Meteors, and a squadron spitfires ds falling from the Belgian paratroopers. Cows kjiken. October 16, 1951
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Canadian servicemen of this war watch one of their Mosquitos as it flies past the Canadian War memorial at Vimy Ridge erected in honour of those Canadians who fell in World War I. January 01, 1945. (Photo by Canadian W.I.B.).
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Black and white photograph of German Air Force flying over Austria after entering the country on 11 March 1928, the beginning of Anschluss.
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DA-SN-85-13055. Country: Unknown