Aerial Bombing Operations

Dramatic aerial photographs depicting bombing missions over strategic targets during World War II, illustrating military operations and destruction.

Pointe Du Hoe Cliffs In France Before Bombardment Show As Almost Vertical Walls. Photo Taken In 1943 Marks Enemy Gun Positions.

Bombing Hollandia.

North American B-25 Mitchells Of The 310Th Bomb Group, Bombed The Modena North Rail Bridge, Which Was An Important Link On The Rail Line Between The Terminius At Verona-Modena, Where It Joined With The Main Bologna-Milan Line. The Five-Span Steel Bridge

Douglas C-47s of the 375th Troop Carrier Group parked on the airstrip at Saidor, New Guinea. 11 January 1944.

Captured Nazi Plane Found On Airdrome At Villacoublay, France. 1 September 1944.

Bomb Damage, Eschwege, Germany.

Pointe Du Hoe Cliffs In France Before Bombardment Show As Almost Vertical Walls. Photo Taken In 1943 Marks Enemy Gun Positions.

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A View Of Camp Patterson, 2Nd Air Base Group In Iceland. 1 July 1942.

Two gliders of the 52nd Troop Carrier Wing prepare to land beside the runway on Ponte Olivo Airfield, Sicily. These gliders participated in the maneuvers over Sicily in 1943.

A Consolidated B-24 of the 394th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group "Bomber Barons," prepares to take-off on a mission from an air base on the Admiralty Islands. 27 March 1944.

Wreckage Of A Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" Of The 479Th Fighter Group Which Crashed At A 353Rd Fighter Group Base In England On 9 June 1944.

Radar And Gun Emplacements At Ploesti, Rumania.

Parabombs dropped on Corregidor by Douglas A-20s blow up gun positions and keep the Japs under cover just before arrival of troop planes on invasion day.

Aerial View Of The 410Th Bomb Group Base At Station A-68 In France.

Heavy gun emplacements of the enemy near Hyeres, East of Toulon, France were plastered by medium and fighter bombers of the Tactical Air Force, clearing the way for Allied troops who landed on the Southern coast on "D" day of operations uppercut.

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This Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Stella" Which Crash Landed In A Field In Nr. Bournemouth, Hants, England, Is Being Repaired By Members Of The Mobile Repair Unit Of The 8Th Air Force Service Command. 28 April 1943.

A Portion Of The Network Of Taxiways And Dispersal Areas To Accomadate B-29 Superfortresses On Guam. Ground Facilities Needed For These Huge Bombers Require Remodeling The Contours Of Thousands Of Acres. From The Landing Of The Aviation Engineers On The

Parade And Review Of The 410Th Bomb Group At Station A-68 In France. 12 May 1945.

Salvaged Parts In The 'Boneyard' Of The 2Nd Base Air Depot, Lancashire, England. 2 September 1943.

Warazup Airstrip, 319Th Troop Carrier Squadron, 1St Air Commando Group, Burma. June 1945.

Panorama Of Installations At Meeks Field, Iceland. 2Nd Service Group, 3 August 1944.

This Reconnaissance Photograph Taken On July 22, 1945 Shows Planes In Revetments, And The Painted Camouflage On A Section Of A Runway At White Cloud Airfield, Canton, China.

Aerial View Of Cub Airstrip #13. There Were Approximately 20 Cub Airstrips Throughout Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 163Rd Liaison Squadron, Newly Arrived From The States, Operated Here. 9 July 1945.

Native workers in the area help camouflage a revetment at an Air Base hewn out of the dense jungle.

OVER THE NETHERLANDS--Supplies are dropped from Consolidated B-24s to the paratroopers fighting near Best, Holland, 18 September 1944.

Road Construction Of The 2Nd Air Base Group Patterson Field, Iceland. 15 June 1942.

Speckled with American parachutes, the landscape tells its own story. Hidden by 12-foot-high pit grass along the Markham River, American paratroopers are springing into action to cut Japaneses off as Australians close in from the east. Here is the

Douglas C-47S And Cg-4 Gliders Lined Up At A 9Th Troop Carrier Command Base Somewhere In France. 17 March 1945.

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FRANCE-Battle activities during battle for Falaise Gap on 20 August 44 when Argentan was taken by the British, Falaise by the Canadians and Trun by the Poles. Picture shows destruction wrought by Air support of the 2d and 9th Tactical Air Forces and

Dagua Airdrome, New Guinea

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate fortifications built on the site where Cornwallis delivered up his sword. Shown is a Dahlgren 11-inch smooth-bore naval gun. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

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Fort Pulaski, Georgia. Distant view showing the effect of the fire from the assault batteries. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

"Chemical Warfare Service personnel work at the 155mm shell filling plant at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. The photograph was taken on August 20, 1918, and the plant has the symbol 60106 A. The image is part of a collection documenting American military activities during World War One."

Enemy on Kiska.

North American B-25'S On Line At A Base In Chittagong, India. 1St Air Commando Group, 23 January, 1945.

Biscari airfield is littered withwrecks, including the two-motored plane in foreground. In the background is a large demolished hangar, from 5-9 July 49 heavy and 212 medium bomber sorties were directed at this airfield.

501S:345G (4Mii8K) - Members Of The Allied Forces Gathering Up Suppllies Dropped By Parachute After Occupation Of Landing Strip At Hollandia, New Guinea. (26 April 1944).

Aerial View Of The Bomb Damaged Railroad Yards At Hildensheim, Germany. 10 May 1945.

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

One Of The Camouflaged Buildings Belonging To The 10Th Army Headquarters, Okinawa Island. The Headquarters Tents Are Camouflaged By A Spun Glass Net Which Is Painted To Blend With The Terrain Colors And Spread Out Over The Tents To Eliminate Wall Shadows

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United States Post Cemetery on Amchitka island in the Aleutians.

Kuma class cruiser taking...

View of a new airstrip at Saidor, New Guinea. 8 February 1944.

How Bombs, Rockets And Strafing Guns Of First Tac Air Force'S Medium And Fighter-Bombers Helped Pave The Way For The Armies Advancing Across The Upper Rhine Is Revealed By German .305 Mm Gun Which Was Knocked Out By A Single Bomb That Caught It Alongside

Dozens of heavy bombs float lazily down on Japaneseanese installations at Lae, New Guinea. Spots in middle right of picture, and in upper left, show still more bombs, which will explode a few feet above the ground, or on contact with terrific and

Message Being Dropped From Planes By Parachutes. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.

On The West Coast Of Okinawa, Just North Of The Ruins Of Naha City, The 874Th And 1906Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Started To Cut An Airfield Out Of The Hilly Terrain For The 7Th Air Force. The Sub-Case Had Been Graded And Dump Trucks Were Bringing In

Glider Reclamation - The Gliders Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command Pictured Here Were Just A Few Of Those Used In The Invasion Of Southern Holland In Sept. 1944. These Gliders Will Be Reclaimed And Repaired By Skilled Engineers For Future Use By The 9Th Tr

Bomb Damage To A Pill-Box Area Near Maisy, France. 30 June 1944.

A Class At The 8Th Army Air Force Gunnery Schhol Using Water-Cooled .50 Caliber Guns. All Positions Are Firing 'On Sleeve'. Cornwall, England, 11 August 1943.

The accuracy of U.S. bombing is evidenced by this photo of parachute bombs falling direcly on a Japaneseanese anti-aircraft gun emplacement in the Wewak area of New Guinea. This picture was made while Mitchells of the U.S. Fifth Air Force were on a

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Temporary Quarters Of The 13Th Air Cargo Re-Supply Squadron Set Up On The South Side Of Kadena Airfield On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. The Air Transport Command Handled The Difficult Job Of Passengers And Cargo To Go By Air For The Tokyo Occupation. More Tha

FRANCE-Dicing missions along the entire French Riviera revealed amazing differences in the strength of shore defenses, and influenced the choice of landing points accordingly. Shown here is a beach studded with concrete pyramids, with barbed wire

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United States Reserve Cemetery, Fort Richardson, Alaska.

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 493Rd Bomb Group, Being Guided To A Safe Landing By A Mobile Control Van At An Airbase In England, 22 January 1945.

This scene of near-total destruction is in Uligan Harbor on the north coast of New Guinea. The sunken barges are Japanese vessels, which were trying to land supplies to their forces when B-25 Mitchell medium bombers of the U.S. Army 5th Air Force struck.

Evacuation of Port Royal, Virginia, May 30, 1864. Civil War Photograph Collection , The war for the Union, photographic war history, No. 2492, Original glass negative no.: LC-B811-2492. Troop movements, Union, Virginia, Port Royal, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles.

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Consolidated B-24 Liberators drop supplies in Holland, 18 Sept 44.

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Douglas C-47S & Curtiss C-46 'Commandoes' Parked Along Taxiway At 1338Th Air Force Base Unit, Yannanyi, China. 24 May 1945.

Partial view of Gasmata, Japanese-held base on the south coast of New Britain, showing the bomb scarred runway (U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS PHOTO).

Men Attached To The Heavy Equipment School Level Off A Runway At Cerignola, Italy. July 1944.

Army Airways Communications System Area Of The Air Transport Command On Ascension Island. 5 October 1945.

The Partially Destroyed Bologna West Road Bridge, Hit By North American B-25S Of The 321St Bomb Group On April 17 1945 Was Repaired By Allied Engineers And Then Used By Fast-Moving Troop And Supply Convoys, Pressing The Germans Back Up Into Northern Italy

Ala, Italy, Before Bombing. One Of Four Electric Power Transformers On Brenner Route Between Verona And Trento, It Was Primary Objective 6 Nov. 1944, During 12Th Interdiction Campaign.

The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" 'Hell'S Belles' (A/C No. 230157) Of The 91St Bomb Group Overshot The Runway While Landing At Its Base In Bassingbourne, England On 28 July 1943.

A Gas Storage Area At A B-29 Forward Base In China. These Are Empty 50-Gallon Drums Which Accumulated During Raids On Japaneseanese Territory, When Getting Fuel To Continue Operations Imposed A Logistical Problem Of Considerable Magnitude. Because Of Inadequ

P-51 Fighter Escort For 14Th Air Force C-47 Over China. 24 July 1945.

Bomb Craters Appear On The Old Japaneseanese Bomber Strip At Aitape, Dutch New Guinea, Where Construction Has Been Started By The 7Th Australian Mobile Works Squadron, Royal Army Air Forces. 4 May 1944.

Members Of The 381St Bomb Group, Use A Pneumatic Pillow To Hoist Wing Section Into Position Of A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. England, 1 August 1943.

Radio receiver station at Poltava Airbase, a shuttle mission base in Russia. 2 January 1945.

While smoke screens build up, paratroopers drop form low-flying Douglas C-47 airplanes one each side, along the column of C-47s and about 1,000 ft. above them, comes the close-cover fighter support, which for the entire attack totaled 146 planes.

An aerial mosaic showing the country through which the Australians are now fighting their way up the north coast of New Guinea above Finschhafen. After capturing Kanomi and the enemy positions on Blucher Point, the Aussies are now advancing up the

Marine Corps landing craft hitting the beach during the Vietnam War. This photograph captures a moment during August 1965, showcasing the military activities of the 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam. The image is credited by the Department of Defense and belongs to the US Marine Corps.

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Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

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Aerial view of Middleburg Island, off the coast of Dutch New Guinea, shortly after the 836th Aviation Engineers started to work on the airstrip. August 1944.

Signal Corpsmen Erect Communications Lines At Makin, Gilbert Islands.

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Members Of The 833Rd Engineers Aviation Battalion Lay British Type Landing Mat During Construction Of An Airfield At Christchurch, England.

Aerial View Of Control Tower Of The 381St Bomb Group At 8Th Air Force Station 167, Ridgewell, Essex County, England.

Durand Airdrome looking Northwest along runway near Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea. 27 November 1942.

General View Of The Air Transport Command Living Quarters And Other Buildings On Ascension Island. 5 October 1945.

Aerial view of Alexai Point Airbase, Attu, Aleutian Islands, taken 30 September 1943. Altitude, 4,000 feet.

North American B-25 Mitchells Bombing Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain.

An Aerial View Of The Airfield At Niedermendig, Germany, While Being Reconstructed By Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion.

Operation Huts At Reykjavik Airfield, Iceland. 16 January 1943.

Japaneseanese runway scene with damaged Japanese planes. Top to bottom: Planes in back unidentified; "Helen" on fire; four "Tony's"; gas truck and wrecked "Helen"; and four "Oscars."

Personnel Of The 2Nd Service Group, Air Transport Command, March In Review During Ceremony At An Air Base Somewhere In Iceland. 10 August 1944.

German Military Installations At Normandy Beach, France. Taken 22 June 1944.

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

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