Aerial Military Operations

Aerial footage depicting military air operations, including bombings and troop movements in various theaters of war throughout the 20th century.

Bombing of Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Group.
Bombing of Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Group.
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While Enroute To The Dropping Zone At The Air Warning Station On Mt. Atwell Is The Durmese Jungles, The Crew Of The Cargo Plane Kept Their Eyes Peeled For Any Sign Of Japaneseanese Troops Encamped In The Montainous Area, Commonly Referred To As The 'Hump'. Sig
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Bomb Damage Somewhere In France. 18 July 1944.
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DIE TOTENMULDE BEI VERTOJBA.31.8.17. Toughen out of stock.
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Four down. All ships are sunk after attack by Douglas A-20s at Manokwari, New Guinea on 9 June 1944. From 4 to 10 June 1944, at this port, 25 barges and luggers met a similar fate.
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Aircraft, Burma, India &Strafing &Combat War
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Port Activities, 29 Nov. 1945 Santa Maria Azores.
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Five Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress Crew Members Are Reported Held Captive By Aboriginal Lolo Tribesmen In The Rugged Mountain Of Western Szechwan Province In China. An Aaf C-47 Skymaster Flew From Shanghai To Chengtu To Investigate The Reports, And A
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Attack made by the forts at Jih island and the south-eastern head of Liukung island and the Chinese men-of-war upon the already captured Lukeutsuy forts on the E. coast of Wei-Hai-Wei, and the Japanese army on land. .
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15 -28 July 1897. The camp at the "Eagle's" landing site. Production of the pictures was made by Associate Professor John Hertzberg in 1930 in photography, Technical College.
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Civilian Conservation Corps - New Hampshire. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Fire Equipment - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Aerial View Of Tinian, Marianas Islands, Taken From A Consolidated B-24 Liberator Of The 864Th Bomb Squadron, 494Th Bomb Group On 22 November 1944.
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War 1914-1916. Russian castle trench at Grodno ..
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Berchtesgaden, Germany -- Despite Camouflage, The Bavarian Alp Residence Of Martin Dormann, Successor Of Rudolph Hess Who Flew To England, Was Bombed By The RAF During A Daylight Bombing Attack On 25 April 1945. Soldiers Of The 101St Airborne Division'S
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German Military Installations At Normandy Beach, France. Taken 22 June 1944.
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Nesting Grounds For Wideawake, Or Sooty Tern, Birds Which Make Ascension Island Their Home. Hundreds Of Thousands Of Them Persisted In Nesting At The End Of The Runway Of 'Wideawake Field,' Constituting A Hazard To Aircraft Operations. 8 June 1944.
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Original caption: "Los Coyotes. Gang at foot of secondary road just completed.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs
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Shipping And Harbor Installations At Civitavecchia, Near Rome, Italy, Were Completely Destroyed By Attacks Of The 12Th And 15Th Air Forces.
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General View Of Kassos Field, Iceland. 3 July 1943.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,GLIDERS War
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Heavy Smoke Rises During The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius On 23 March 1944. Italy.
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Runway And Revetmenrs Of Air Base Of The 5Th Army Air Force At Finchhafen, N.E. New Guinea, 18 December 1943. Filed: War Theatre #19 (Finchhafen, N.E. New Guinea) Aerials
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Lt. Colonel Jack Nickolas, A-2 15Th A.F. Views The Wreckage In The Marshalling Yards In Roverto, Italy.
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THE NEARNESS OF THE FOE: "Attacking below mast-head height, we loosed our bombs from less than fifty feet against all enemy merchantmen which were the objectives of this squadron." (From narrative report by Lieutenant Rix Rutland, 8th Attack
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A Martin B-26 Marauder, which normally attacks at levels from 10,000 to 13,000 feet, pictured during a low-level strafing attack against a factory at Montabaur, Germany, February 22, 1945. It was the first low-level attack by Martin B-26s in the
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Lockheed P-38 of the 1st...
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General View Of Kassos Field, Iceland. 3 July 1943.
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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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These Brilliant Streaks Of Light Were Caused By Allied Anti-Aircraft Fire, Reaching Out For Raiding Nazi Planes Over Bari, On The Adriatic Coast Of Italy. The Heavier, Wavy Streaks Were Caused By Flares From The German Craft. In Spite Of The Darkness Of
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A pall of smoke rises from the Bucharest, Roumania oil Refineries as heavy bombers of Mediterranean Allied Air Forces continue to hinder the flow of oil to the Hun Armies.
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Mayon Volcano Erupts - This Series Of Photographs, Taken From A Douglas C-47 Skymaster Of The Army Air Forces' 15Th Weather Squadron In The Philippines, Graphically Depicts The Recent Eruption Of Mount Mayon On Luzon Island Of The Philippines.
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Bomb damage in Manila, Philippine Islands, Feb. 1945. Looking towards Intramuras from Manila Hotel.
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This Japanese searchlight mounted on a truck was found in the mountains, 5 miles north of Padada Airstrip, Mindanao, in the Philippine Islands. 3 May 1945.
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Aerial View Of Inspection Of Republic P-47 'Thunderbolts', 318Th Fighter Bgroup, Bellows Field, Oahu, Hawaii. 15 May 1944.
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Gallipoli campaign Description: Gallipoli Location: Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire Date: 1915 army, armedforcesgeneral, operationsbattlesandcampaigns
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TWO VESSELS ABLAZE: From the tail camera of a Mitchell bomber flying at mast-height the blasting of two Japaneseanese merchantmen is brought into sharp focus. Scoring a direct hit on a 10,400-ton transport of the Hakone Maru class (24) the attacks have
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Bombing Bulldogs Blast Bridge -- The Bombing Bulldogs Of The Fourteenth Air Force, (China Based) Blew Up The Railroad Bridge At Do Cam In French Indo-China. Above Is The First Of Two Direct Hits Scored By The Keen-Eyed Bulldog Bombardiers.
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Army Airways Communications System Receiving Station Wurz. 21 November 1944, 2Nd Base Air Depot At Lancashire, England.
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The area of "Wilcze Szańc", the headquarters of Adolf Hitler - the remains of one of the bunkers; from a series of photographs to the article of Mirosław Azembski "In the field of death field of harvest", "Świat" 1953, No. 49, p. 20; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1953 (1953-00-00-1953-00-00);
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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.
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Two guns on the Hwang-Tooyai fort, on the N. W. Coast of Wei-Hai-Wei. .
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The wrecks of German supply ships sunk or left derelict at Narvik in Norway after the Royal Navy's attack on 13 April 1940. Narvik Harbour showing the wrecks of German supply ships sunk or left derelict after the raid of the Second Destroyer Flotilla on 13 April 1940, the second British naval action off Narvik.
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Aaf Men Reported Captives Of Lolo Tribesmen. Five Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress Crew Members Are Reported Held Captive By Aboriginal Lolo Tribesmen In The Rugged Mountain Of Western Szechwan Province In China. An Aaf C-47 Skymaster Flew From Shangha
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The ubiquitous bulldozer: a mechanical tool of peace becomes an important weapon during the Second World War. Date: 1944