Airborne Military Operations

Images depicting military personnel and aircraft in operational scenarios, including transport and prisoner evacuation during World War II.

The Radio Operator Of A Martin B-26 Marauder Of The 386Th Bomb Group Based In England Checks His Instruments Prior To A Take-Off Mission On 4 November 1943.

Entirely airborne throughout circuit, ATC transports both crew and equipment--6,000 pounds of it-- in one Curtiss C-46 as it hops about the world with its mechanics college. Here, crew leaves Africa for parts unknown--to the enemy. From front to rear

Men Of The 2Nd Service Group Wait Their Turn To Make Purchases At The Post Exchange, Camp Turner, Iceland. 5 October 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India &PHOTOGRAPHY,PROCESSING War

American And British Prisoners Of War Freed By Swift Allied Advanced Board A Douglas C-47 Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command Somewhere In Germany, Prior To Evacuation From Germany, 27 April 1945.

2nd Lt. C.G. Eyler, navigator, of 438 North College St., Carlisle, Penn.

The Radio Operator Of A Martin B-26 Marauder Of The 386Th Bomb Group Based In England Checks His Instruments Prior To A Take-Off Mission On 4 November 1943.

ARC-3 Aeolus , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Dental Clinic In The Dispensary Of The 375Th Troop Carrier Group, Sept. 1943 In New Guinea.

Cameras are taken along on all bombing missions of the 8th Air force and all bombing results are photographed (weather permitting), England.

Capt. Jesse Sabin, Ninth U.S. Air Force Combat Camera Unit at an air base near Bengasi, Cirenaica, Libya, checks his motion picture camera in the nose of a Consolidated B-24 "Liberator" bomber before leaving on a mission. Capt. Sabin's home is

Torpedo room.SB side at torpedo magazine seen aft.(SPT.61-65).Kockums AB (depicted name), shark (depicted name)

Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL, EVACUATION,Air War

Aircraft, Burma, India & Training

Capt. John V. Keck, Ordnance Officer At The Chelveston Air Base Designed And Constructed An Inexpensive Bomb, Using M-76, 500 Lb. Cluster Bomb Casing, To Facilitate And Improve The Accuracy Of Propaganda Leaflet Bombing. Shown Here Are Two Ordnance Men L

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Flight-Sergeant Albert Jeffrey, a wireless operator/air gunner aboard a Consolidated Liberator GR Mark IIIA of No. 224 Squadron RAF based at Beaulieu, Hampshire, stepping from the rear turret into the fuselage after a two-hour shift at the guns while escorting a North African convoy.

A waist gunner is shown at his position on a Consolidated B-24 somewhere in Egypt.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

Radio Operator, Cpl. Jack K. Gordon, At His Position In Communications Tent Of The 807Th Engineer Aviation Battalion. Cpl. Gordon Is From Hot Springs, Montana. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, 12 May 1945.

Flight Nurses Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command Tends To Wounded Aboard Glider At Remagen, Germany Prior To Take Off. 22 March 1945.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A view of the compass platform on board HMS RODNEY. The Officer of the Watch is on the left looking through a pair of binoculars whilst the Navigating Officer is giving instructions down a voice tube. On the right is the magnetic compass.

S/Sgt. Joseph H. Fulcher, San Antonio, Tex., is shown balancing the propeller of a Boeing B-17 Flying ofrtress. This is highly technical work and must be done in dustless, draftproof room. Minor flak and bullet holes in propeller are filled and each

Three men and machine , Armories, Ordnance industry, Military officers, Machinery, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Men Of The 381St Bomb Group Loading .50 Cal. Shells, 25 October 1943. England.

Italy - Inside Their Cozy Abode Which Boasts Hot And Cold Runnign Water, Sink, Poker Table, And Service Bar Are: Left To Right, Maj. Elmer D. Jones, Jr., Washington, D.C.; 1St Lt. Omar D. Blair, Los Angeles, Ca; And 1St Lt. John Hansen Williams, Los Angel

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,ARMAMENT War

Aboard the lighter an Air Service Command mechanic releases the cable from the ship's crane. It is good-bye and thanks, for the buggy ride.

Loading supplies on a plane in North Africa, to be flown to Russia. 1943.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Navy sets an example in readiness for gas attacks on board the destroyer HMS KELVIN in Plymouth Sound. A scene in the boiler room during gas exercises showing the men getting on with their job. During this gas drill that lasted three quarters of an hour all duties were carried out with gas masks.

Officers Of S-2 (Intelligence) Attached To The 386Th Bomb Group At St. Trond, Belgium, Plan The Next Mission Against The Enemy In Europe On 7 May 1945.

Lynx Helicopter of the Marine Aviation Service / Technical Maintenance in the Kooy.

An Air Force member develops film in a French Potez-54 "Flying Laboratory" at a 90th Photographic Reconnaissance Wing base somewhere in North Africa.

Anefo photo collection. Navy Navy Anefo London series. Series: Dutch engine-timed boats MTB Britain. Telegraph player work. July 1944. Britain

Cpl Alfred Van Drake, Newark, N.J., and S/Sgt James E. Collins (right) of Chippewa Falls, Wisc., repair a camera at a Photo Recon Unit of the 9th AF in France.

Personnel Of The 2Nd Service Group, Air Transport Command, Vote By State Absentee Ballot At An Air Base Somewhere In Iceland. 5 October 1944.

Capt. Lewison, Dentist, And Cpl Harvey Fuerst, Assistant, Are Shown At The 389Th Air Service Group Dental Clinic, Kadena Airfield, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 20 September 1945.

Enlisted men's quarters 8th Air force, England.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War After a course at a Naval College Midshipman H R Nash, RCN, is at the periscope in a small gun turret during gunnery practice at Scapa Flow as he studies the theory and practice of seamanship. He is wearing anti flash gear.

Pfc. Lola G. Mccoy Of Renselver, Ind., Is Shown At Work On A Plotting Board In The Operations Room At A 9Th Bomber Command Base Near Colchester, England. 19 November 1943.

Members of the 90th Photographic Reconnaissance Wing study aerial film at an air base somewhere in North Africa. 24 December 1942.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The gunlayer looking through the sight of the director for HMS RODNEY's 16 inch guns.

Aircraft, Burma, India & Operations , Naga Headhunters War

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The bomb-aimer of a Short Sunderland Mark I of No. 10 Squadron RAAF sets his Mark IXA Course-setting Bombsight during a flight from Mount Batten, Devon.

Officer Of The Chinese Air Force Receives Link Trainer Instruction From U.S. Air Force Officer At Kunming Army Air Base, China, 20 March 1945. (1340Th Aaf Base Unit).

8th Air force, England-Very important is the bombardier on all bombing missions.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Operations War

Loading $ 20,000 worth of explosive into the forward port tube. March 08, 1941. (Photo by Department Der Marine In Ned-Indië).

Capt. Audubon Tyler, New Haven, Conn., Intelligence officer, inspects reconnaissance photo for enemy aircraft, gun emplacement and other strategic points. NORTH AFRICA.

The British Occupation of Java Men of 70 Air Dispatch Unit push supplies out of a Dakota aircraft of 31 Squadron, Royal Air Force, during the daily air drop over Tjianjoer near the city of Bandoeng. Due to ambushes and sabotage by Indonesian nationalists on the roads between Batavia and Bandoeng, the only secure supply route to the latter city was by air.

Realizing That Hydraulic Test Stands For Fighter Planes Are Frequently Awol Needed Most, M/Sgt. Victor R. Lawson, Cisco, Texas, Went On A Reconnaissance Mission Among Salvaged Materials And Spare Parts Chests At His 15Th Af Base In Italy And Came Up With

Aircraft, Burma, India &BOMBLOADING War

Wasbags in torpedo boat hunter Hr.Ms laundry A / B. Evertsen (D 802), January 1956.

Cpl. Geraldine Of Abilene, Texas, Attached To The 3Rd Bomb Division In England, Receives Reports On Aircraft Positions In The Plotting Room. 24 February 1944.

Forty-Inch Aerial Cameras -- Marked for photographing the atom bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, mounted over a newly-cut port in the bottom of a bomber. April 6, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC airport. Office. June 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

The Pilot Of A Douglas C-47 Of The 439Th Troop Carrier Group Signals That He Is Ready For The 'Take-Off' From An Air Base Somewhere In England. 29 May 1944.

Gunnery Instruction At The 401St Bomb Group Base Was Constant And Careful. S/Sgt. Brauer Operates The Shadowgraph, A Device To Project On A Screen, The Shadow Of An Aircraft Plastic Model. England, 25 October 1944.

On board Hr.Ms. Rotterdam (D 818) (1957-1981), a submarine booth of the Friesland class, during the so-called cross journey with nobility breasts. An extensive travelogue can be read in the Jaarboek Koninklijke Marine (km) 1964 from page 431. Bingo evening on board.

Control Room Of The 98Th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, Battery D, A 90Mm Anti-Aircraft Battery Located At Naha Airfield On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. Position Of The Enemy Plane Was Sent To Control Room By Radio From Aaa Controller At Fighter Control Ce

Crews Sabotage Italian Ships Here - Two Coast Guard officers Inspect damage to cylinder heads of the 6,100-Ton S.S. Alberto's motors believed to have been done by the Italian crew. Twenty Five Coast Guardsmen and customs agents took over Five Italian ships here today following Orders by the government to put all Italian merchant ships in U.S. Territorial watersunder protective custody to safeguard American. March 30, 1941. (Photo by ACME).

Edward G. Robinson Visits Officers' Club Of The 381St Bomb Group At 8Th Air Force Station 167, England, 5 July 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India & Operations , Naga Headhunters War

Sub Lieutenant K C J Robinson, at the controls of an X-Craft midget submarine in Rothesay Bay, Scotland, December 1944. Sub Lieutenant K C J Robinson, RNVR, of Crosby, Liverpool, a Commanding Officer in an X-craft at the Hydroplane controls whilst sailing in Rothesay Bay.

***** the midget Japanese submarine ***** The pictures illustrate the Japanese ***** worked. Above: This was unable to stand upright in ***** to look through ***** December 21, 1942.

Weeping Survivor Aided -- Mrs.Josephine Darrow,one of survivors of Pan-American World Airline Pacific ocean crash landing yesterday, is helped down gangplank of rescue ship here today, weeping over loss of her husband, David, a Tacoma, Wash, banker, one of four killed in the ditching. At right is Capt. Herman S.Joslayn, Pilot of downed plane. Other man unidentified. There were 19 survivors. March 27, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Sailors hauling out a torpedo from the stores of the depot ship HMS TYNE, to be loaded on to the destroyer HMS PENN, April 1942. Hauling out a torpedo from the stores of the depot ship HMS TYNE to be loaded on to the destroyer PENN.

Operation 'Alert' 1954 , Communication, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

When fighter planes of Maj. Gen Chennault's U.S. Army 14th Air force (Flying Tigers) recently shot down this Japaneseanese photo-reconnaissance airplane of the Dinah type, they found this snarling tiger painted almost life-size on the tail

Cuts are filled in with crude rubber, pressed into the tire by Sgt. Victor C. Amell, Schenectady, N.Y. Of the unit personnel, only Capt. Parsons and one enlisted man had worked with rubber in civilian life. Parsonswas formerly with General Tire and

Mobile Crew Training Unit Of The 391St Bomb Group, England, 6 June 1944.

Thanksgiving Day Exercises for men of the 2nd Service Group at an airfield somewhere in Iceland. 26 November 1942

Deepest pentration into German-occupied Europe made by long-range fighter planes of the U.S. Army 8th Air force is plotted on this map table, with WACS engaged in charting the course to and from the target area. This quartet enlisted in the WACS

Excursion from the staff from the Martial History section to Breda. Visit to the Royal Military Academy.

Rapid Communications Are A Prime Necessity To A Modern Army. Telephone Calls To And From Headquarters Of The 12Th Air Force In Italy Are Efficiently Handled By (Front To Rear) Pvt. Gladys Duncan Of Haddonfield, Nj; Pvt. Adelbertine M. Adams Of Summit, Nj

Members Of The 2Nd Army Airways Communication Wing At Work In The Radio Receiving Station At Habbaniya, Iraq.

An Air Force Officer Points Out 'Target Of The Day' To Members Of The 92Nd Bomb Group During A Briefing At An Airbase Somewhere In England. 21 April 1945.

Dunkley 5159 -- Motor Number 100 ready to be put back in the rebuilt chessie. Watching the lilting process are S/Sgt D. Longlay, Reme, S/Sgt. D. Vince, Reme; WOII R.O. Bridges, RAEME, and S/Sgt. S.V. Philips, RAEME; In right foreground are Brigadier R.H. Batten, Commanding Administration BCFK-BCOF and Lt. Col. L. Jones Raeme. In right background are Major E.W. ***** REME and Lt. Col. H.B. *****, AQMG, HQ, BCFK.A fine example of true Commonwealth enterprise engaging the full resources of both BCFK (British Commonwealth Forces, Korea Bass Workshops and BOOF vehicles for the Korean war effort. January 21, 1952.

T/5 William H. Lockridge Of St. Petersburg, Fla., Operates A Steroptic Machine Used In Making Aerial Maps At An Airbase Somewhere Near London, England. 23 November 1943.

Operations Desk Of The 303Rd Bomb Group. England, 27 February 1945.

Navigators Get An Operational Test On Their First Day Of Specialized Work At The Combat Crew Replacement Center Of The 8Th Air Force In England And The Results Usually Shock Them Into Intense Study And Practice. In This Dr Trainer Room, The Navigator Sol

In this photograph, inventor Levi W. Lombard of Mattapan, Boston, is seen demonstrating his new war weapon during World War One. This machine gun, also called a centifugal gun, is claimed to possess the highest firing power ever achieved at 33,000 shots per minute. The ammunition is fed through a cup-like attachment on the left and emitted through a slot on the top of the receiver.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Maintenance,MISCELLANEOUS War

US military personnel at work in Vietnam preparing communications equipment. Photographed on August 30, 1967, in IIIMAF Vietnam. The individuals in the photo are SSgt J. Harlan and SSgt. Walt Cooper from Tucson, Arizona, and Pfe Terry Hines from Peoria, Illinois. This photo was taken by the Defense Department and is part of their archive.

The Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945 Anti-Submarine Weapons: A Mk VII depth charge being loaded onto a Mk IV depth charge thrower on board HMS DIANTHUS.

Army Life Brightens In Catterick Camp -- Trooper D. Dudlow presses his civvies before walking out after parade hours. Started 25 years ago in a sea of mud the Army Camp at Catterick, Yorks, to-day covers 38 square miles and is the home of 24, 000 men. For the new era in the Army, Major Gen. R.T.O. Carey, Catterick Sub-District Commander aims at the removal of all petty restrictions. October 11, 1946. (Photo by Topical Press).

***** instruction in the job they have selected. December 28, 1953.

At A Usaaf Turret School At Kirkham, Lancs, England, Potential Aerial Gunners Learn The Mechanics Of A Sperry Retractable Turret During A 'Gas' Attack. 8 July 1943.

V 5743. Thule (depicted name)

Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADAR War

British and Indian Troops Learn Civilian Trades in Burma British students at the Services Arts and Technical Organisation (SATO) Open Polytechnic in Rangoon, receive instruction on a mechanics course at a workshop of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME).

Armorers Of The 91St Bomb Group Load 1,000 Lb. Bombs On The New External Bomb Rack, Under The Wing Of A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" At The 91St Bomb Group Base In Basinbourne, England. 14 September 1943.

Airborne troops place special 105 mm gun in glider. NORTH AFRICA.

Troops Of The 439Th Troop Carrier Group Being Briefed Prior To Departure From An Air Base Somewhere In England. 6 September 1944.

FRANCE-With all the regular installations in ruins and the runways full of bomb craters, the Air Force men had to start from scratch. Aviation Engineers fixed the runways, and the ground crews started building with what materials they could find

The annual 3-day party (assaut) recurring at the Royal Institute for the Marine (Kim) in Den Helder. The Kim is thoroughly renovated and sawn, dimmed and painted.

Wounded British And Indian Soldiers Being Carried On To A Dakota Aircraft At A Forward Airfield In Italy, For Evacuation To Base Hospitals. Raf And British Army Medical Orderlies Are Seen Helping The Wounded Onto The Plane.

An Officer Of The 91St Bomb Group Explains The Mechanism Of An Incendiary Cluster Bomb To Lt. General James H. Doolittle, Mr. Edward Stettinius, Under Secretary Of State; And Lt. General Carl Spaatz During An Inspection Tour Of The 91St Bomb Group Base At

Colonel Young And Crew Of The 439Th Troop Carrier Group Study Their Target Map Aboard A Cargo Plane Prior To Taking Off From An Airbase Somewhere In England. 29 May 1944.

Major General George R. Grunert, Department Commander and Brig. General George F. Moore, Harbor Defense Commander, inspect gas proof, bomb proof plotting room at corregidor, Ft. Mills Corregidro. March 18, 1942. (Photo by Signal Corps, U.S. Army).

Exhibit , Ordnance industry, Armories, Exhibitions, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Experimental stress analysis of corrugated missile sheet , Ordnance industry, Armories, Machinery, Ordnance testing, Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center U.S.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

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