Aircraft and Supply Missions

Footage of aircraft preparing for missions, loading supplies and troops, highlighting logistics in military operations.

1942 - Soldiers first learn in classrooms about gunnery with the U.S. Navy during WWII.

Refueling A B-29.

Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Armourers, Leading Aircraftman R E Atkins of Ealing, London, (left) and Corporal F Wheeler of Orpington, Kent, arm a Bristol Beaufighter TF Mark X of No. 328 Wing RAF with 3-inch rocket projectiles at Alghero, Sardinia.

Formation Of Boeing B-17S Of The 8Th Air Force In Flight Over England.

FRANCE-Sgt. Max Sallar, 47 East Chestnut Street, Yakima, Washington, pours oil into a tank on a Northrop P-61 Night Fighterof the 9th Air force, somewhere on the continent, as T/Sgt. C.I. Seale (left) of 2258 Avenda Altura, San Diego, Caliofrnia

Nose section of maritime patrol slope Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (1961-1982).

Formation Of Boeing B-17S Of The 8Th Air Force In Flight Over England.

'How the Torpedo is dropped from the air' Date: P

Mrs. Bonney. November 25, 1937.

Saigon, Vietnam: 1966 Airmen loading ammunition into one of the three 7.62mm cannons that are mounted on the side of an Air Force Douglas AC-47 Dragon ship. The cannons fire up to 18,000 rounds per minute, and the flares, flames and red phosphorus coming from the gunship were so awesome that the Viet Cong callled them Dragon Ships.

Lockheed P-38 model. Underslung elongated fuselage with tail.

Wounded U.S. Marines, ROK troops, and British Royal Marines are evacuated from Chosin Reservoir. They survived five days and nights of battle with Chinese to return fifteen miles to Hagaru-ri from besieged Yudam-Ni from Nov. 28 -Dec. 3, 1950. Korean War, 1950-53. (BSLOC_2014_11_86)

Fleet Air Arm Series, on Board HMS Victorious. September 1942. A pilot getting into an aircraft.

Cattle grazing amongst Junkers Ju 88 bombers awaiting disposal at Flensburg airfield in Germany, 2 August 1945 Cattle grazing amongst Junkers Ju.88 aircraft at Flensburg airfield where the machines await disposal.

An advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) after its launch from an F-14A Tomcat aircraft, near the Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC), Point Mugu, California. Country: Unknown

First Hospital Plane Home From Malaya -- First patient off the air ambulance Pte. C.F. Cuff, of Goole, Yorkshire. He was brought from Egypt.The first Service casualties sent to Britain from Malaya and the near East by air landed at Lyneham, Wiltshire yesterday. As the hospital plane came to rest an electric hoist edged up to it to unload ten stretcher cases among the 29 men and three women patients. September 19, 1950. (Photo by Paul Popper Ltd.)

Framed By The Wing Of A Sister Plane, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses Of The 381St Bomb Group Drone Steadily On Toward The Target - An Enemy Installation In Europe.

DN-SN-87-03240. Base: Naval Air Station, Pensacola State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Royal Air Force Training Command, 1939-1941. A Link trainer, modified to represent a training aircraft, in use by a pupil pilot, who is steering the trainer on headings transmitted to him by the sergeant instructor. Note the painted scenery on the facing wall.

Pacific Ocean: June 21, 1943 A Douglas SBD "Dauntless" dive bomber balanced on its nose after crash landing on an aircraft carrier flight deck during WWII.

Artwork: "Ramming-Last Ditch Air Defense", Artist: Chuck Barnes. US Air Force Art Collection. Country: Unknown

"Sea Bird" Seeks Pacific Enemies. A U.S. Coast Guard "Sea Bird" patrols Pacific waters on the alert for any sign of enemy activity or other hazards to navigation. Depth charges are tucked beneath the wings of the plane, based at a Coast Guard air station, ready for use.

Mi-24/Hind-E helicopter with tube-launched anti-tank guided missiles. Country: Unknown

Royal Air Force- Operations by the Photographic Reconnaissance Units, 1939-1945. Instrument workers line up aerial cameras at Benson, Oxfordshire, before installing them in a De Havilland Mosquito PR Mark IX: (left to right) two Type F.24 (14-inch lens) vertical cameras, one F.24 (14-inch lens) oblique camera, two Type F.52 (36-inch lens) 'split pair' vertical cameras.

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