Aerial Military Bases and Damage

Historical aerial views of military bases, showing bomb damage and infrastructure during conflicts, including airfields and strategic locations.

Aerial view of NDF Station , Signal stations, NDF Station. Photographs of the First Naval District

Soesterberg airbase, the American camp of the 32nd Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS).

Bombed Out Railroad Tracks And Bridges Throughout Northern Italy Makes Travel By Rail Impractical For The Fleeing Jerries. This Train Was Bombed By Republic P-47 Thunderbolts Of The 12Th Af, Which Left Some Of The Cars Derailed And Others Mere Skeletons.

5Th Air Force Headquarters (Motabu) Area Along North Route #1, West Side Of Okinawa. Rear Echelon Arrived The Later Part Of July. Landings Were Made Off The Lst Seen Lower Left, Foreground Of Picture. 1945.

Aerial view of NDF Station , Signal stations, NDF Station. Photographs of the First Naval District

Maisoncelle, France-Robot Plane installations before bombing by Flying ofrtresses and Liberators on 24 December 1943.

Two Landing Strips Were Built At Motabu Airstrip, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto; The Work Was Done By Men Of The 1113Th Hdq., Construction Group, The 822Nd, 842Nd, 183Rd & 1897Th Engineer Aviation Battalions. Construction Was Started On 1 July 1945 And On 6 Augu

This photo taken January 26, 1941 is perhaps the best operational photo of the war up-to-date. It was taken from 200' and shows the raider which was damaged by H.M.S. Berwick in December 1940 and was first seen from air photos in this Dry Dock on

Aerial view of the supply area at Quartermaster Depot #3, south of Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 8 June 1945.

Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the U.S. 9th AF bombing through complete cloud on instruments only, breached Germany's most important waterway, the Mittelland Canal, carrying war supplies between Berlin and the Ruhr. Running south from Emden the

Bomb Damaged Airfield, Gutersloh, Germany.

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

Aerial View ,. Photographs of the First Naval District

Aerial shot De Peel airbase

Aerial View ,. Photographs of the First Naval District

Bombing of Ciampino Airfield

Aerial view of Watertown Arsenal , Armories, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

This Low-Level Aerial Photo Shows A Destroyed Factory Section In The Tokyo Area As A Result Of B-29 Raids During The Five Months Of Concentrated Attacks On Key Cities Prior To Japan's Capitulation.

Aerial View Of A Bomb Damaged Railroad Yards At Aschaffenburg, Germany. 16 May 1945.

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. The model built for briefing the crews of No. 140 Wing, No. 2 Group, involved in the attack on the Gestapo Headquarters in Jutland, Denmark, housed in halls of residence at Aarhus University (arrowed), on 31 October 1944.

Bomb Damage In Otaka, Japan.

Aerial View ,. Photographs of the First Naval District

Project 20 - Operation Greenhouse (Enewetak) Test Activities. View from Easy Shot Tower Looking SE at Structures and Camps. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Aerial view of Veteran's Encampment at Gettysburg on the 75th Anniversary of the Battle - July 1938

Aerial airbase de peel.

Strange Warlike Patterns In The One-Time Fertile Fields Of France, And A Network Of Roads Cutting Across The Field Were Left By The Motorized Corps Of The American Armies Invading The French Beachhead. Vehicles Can Be Seen At Dispersal Points As Well As

Aerial view of the Italian Fleet which surrendered at Malta. 1943.

U.S. Rushes Puerto Rico Fortifications - Spending $30,000,000 - An aerial view of the site of the new Navy Air Base that is being rushed to completion here, near San Juan, at a cost of $10,000,000. Army and Navy bases now being constructed at Puerto Rico will cost $30,000,000 and are expected to be completed next spring. Puerto Ricko is being heavily for Tified because of its strategic location with respect to the Panama Canal and Europe. August 09, 1939. (Photo by Wide World Photo).

Aerial View ,. Photographs of the First Naval District

Tamashima Aircraft Plant, Japan Showing Bomb Damage.

Glider Reclamation - Scattered Over An Area Of 100 Square Miles And, At Times, In Almost Inaccessible Places, Cg-4A Gliders, Like Those Shown Here, Were Re-Grouped And Made Flyable By The 82Nd Service Group In Just Two Weeks After The Rees-Wesel Airborne

Maryland - Antietam Battle Field, Aerial Photograph.

Moulins, France -- This Aerial View Of Moulins Sub Depot Clearly Shows What A Group Of Determined Airmen Can Do To A Pile Of War-Torn Rubble.

Naval Ammunition Depot, Hingham, MA from west 10,000 ft. , Magazines Military buildings, Naval Ammunition Depot. Photographs of the First Naval District

In A Raid On 4 May 1944 On Mailly Le Camp, France, On A Military Camp And Training Area, 34 Out Of 47 Buildings At The North Site Were Totally Destroyed, And Out Of 114 Barracks, Many Were Damaged And 47 Were Destroyed.

Allied Landings At Yokosuka, Japanesean.

Naval Training Station , Naval yards & naval stations, Naval Training Station. Photographs of the First Naval District

Cg-4A Gliders Parked On The Field At Guidonia, Italy. British Horsa Gliders Can Be Seen In The Far Left. 23 Jan. 1945.

Bomb Damage To Marshalling Yards At Nuremburg, Germany.

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.

APA-59 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

Philippine Island - Camp Calvdio, Aerial Photograph.

Aerial View ,. Photographs of the First Naval District

USA: Pearl Harbor, on the southern coastline of the Hawaiian island Oahu, aerial photograph looking southwest, 30 October 1941

N.A.S. Squantum, MA from South 3000 ft. , Air bases. Photographs of the First Naval District

Orient Heights , Construction, Express highways, Orient Heights. Photographs of the First Naval District

INVASION PREPARATION somewhere in England during training for the ofrth-coming invasion. In the foreground are crated gliders, in the center of the photo are uncrated fuselages, and above, nearer the top of the photo, are completely assembled glider

Atomic Bomb Damage In Nagasaki, Japan.

Naval Training Station and Naval Hospital, Newport, RI , Naval hospitals, Military education, Educational facilities. Photographs of the First Naval District

St. Corneille Cemetary Where American Soliders Are Buried In Lemane, France.

Street barrier Flitsch from the way to Fort Hermann. On 2.5.1916. .

Here Is An Aerial Picture Of The 1St American Airfield In France. Constructed In Four Days By Aviation Engineers Of The Ix Engineer Command, The Site Is Near St. Pierre Du Mont. It Was Occupied By The First Squadron Of Fighter Planes For A U.S. 9Th Air

Bomb Damage, Speyer, Germany.

Us Military Cemetary At Marzanello Nuovo, Italy. The First American Soldier Was Buried Here 6 Nov. 1943.

Aerial View ,. Photographs of the First Naval District

Panama Canal Zone - Camp Gaillard, Aerial Photograph.

Low-level attack on Tengchung, China by North American B-25 Mitchells on July 29, 1944 show effective air cooperation with the Chinese troops.

Construction Progress at Hingham Ammunition depot-annex , Magazines Military buildings, Naval Ammunition Depot. Photographs of the First Naval District

Here is the Viterbo, Italy, railway yard after a recent raid by bombers of the 12th AAF. The yards are an important link in the German communication line north of Rome.

N.A.S. Squantum, MA from North 10000 ft. , Air bases. Photographs of the First Naval District

Landing Fields - Philippines - Naga, Aerial Photograph.

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.

Orient Heights , Construction, Express highways, Orient Heights. Photographs of the First Naval District

Paratroopers land on Corregidor after the Fifth Air Force had battered it.

Champignuel Cemetary Where American Soliders Are Buried East Of Epernay, France.

St. Juan Cemetary Where American Soliders Are Buried In France.

Bomb Damage To The Marshalling Yards At Florence, Italy. These Yards Were Wrecked During Bombing By The 42Nd Bomb Wing On 26 September 1944.

Naval Mine and Net Depot, Melville, Rhode Island, Newport, Rhode Island. Administrative History of the First Naval District in World War II

Old Naval Air Station 1918 , Air bases, Naval Air Station. Photographs of the First Naval District

Knatchbull M (capt the Hon) Collection View of Sedd el Bahr and the S. S. River Clyde taken from the air, June 1915.

Orient Heights , Construction, Express highways, Orient Heights. Photographs of the First Naval District

Lone Mosquito "Shoots" Damage At Gnome Rhone Factory, Limoges. Picture made from a Mosquito of R.A.F. which made a daring low-level reconnaissance flight shows:- Complete destruction of many buildings and severe blast damage caused by 12,000lb bombs at the Gnome and Rhone Aero-engine works, Limoges. April 1, 1944. (Photo by British Official Air Ministry Photo).

British Lifeline -- Though British have routed most of their shipping around the southern tip of Africa for many months, the Suez Canal, seen in the above air view, would be a major objective in a Hitler drive on British positions in the Mediterranean. The artery is under virtually constant bombing attacks by the axis. September 19, 1941. (Photo by ACME).

Aerial airbase de peel.

United States Miliary Cemetery Near Hochfelden, France.

NAAF , Air bases. Photographs of the First Naval District

Construction Progress at Naval Blimp Base Weymouth , Air bases, Naval Blimp Base. Photographs of the First Naval District

Naval Fuel Depot, Melville, RI-view from west 3000 ft , Military depots, U.S. Naval Fuel Depot. Photographs of the First Naval District

Aerial airbase de peel.

Navy Yard Annex , Naval yards & naval stations, Navy Yard Annex. Photographs of the First Naval District

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Member of the 1876th Engineer Aviation Battalion placing caps during the repair of the Paranague Bridge somewhere in the Philippine Islands.

Norwood Airport , Airports. Photographs of the First Naval District

Aerial View Of The Parachute Loft And School Building Area About 500 Yards Off The Flight Line To The West At 8Th Air Force Station 167, England. 381St Bomb Group.

Aerial View Of The Bomb Damaged Railroad Yards At Gottingen, Germany. 12 May 1945.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Aerial photography of AB Bofors Nobelkrut.

Aircraft, NEW GUINEA,CEMETERIES War

San Diego, California, April 27, 1928A squadron of VT-2B biplanes flying in perfect formation over North Island during recent aerial maneuvers by the U. S. Naval Air Station at San Diego.

Bomb Damage At Rennes, France. 12 Augut 1944.

Junee. February 27, 1942.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC airbases. Sorido Airstrip Biak. Five Mitchell B-25 bombers of the 18th Squadron on an airport. April 1947. Biak, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, New Guinea

Landing Fields - Philippines - Del Monte, Aerial Photograph.

War album 106, picture 32465.

FRANCE-Varicolored parachutes swing earthward, dropped from the bomb bays of the 8th Air Force Heavy bombers that have let down over the French countryside dropping vital supplies and weapons to the French Maquis.

Aerial view of Gettysburg Battlefield, 1936

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Aerial view , Armories, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

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