Aircraft Maintenance and Training

Historical scenes of pilots and ground crew working on aircraft, highlighting aircraft maintenance, training, and wartime activities.

Aircraft, Burma, India & Training
Aircraft, Burma, India & Training
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The Direction Finder Homer Table Is Shown, Operated By Lt. Samuel J. Freeman Of Tampa, Fla.; And Sgt. Martin Ekberg Of South Pasadena, Calif. This Set Up Gives Lost Pilots A Straight Course To Their Home Base.
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Lt. Sheldon K. Anderson, Sheridan Road, Kenosha, Wisconsin, A. U.S. Army 15th Air Force Mustang fighter pilot and flight leader holds up five fingers, one for each of the enemy aircraft that he shot down in the course of a five-minute encounter with
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Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL, FIELDTREATMENT War
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Sgt. Robert J. Moehrig, Aerial Photographer, Poses For Ground Photographer Before Boarding Plane For Mission. Panama.
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Men Of The 443Rd Signal Heavy Construction Battalion Are Preparing Rubber Covered Cables For The Terminal Box At The Western End Of The Line On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, July 1945. One Of The First Jobs Of The Battalion Was To Rebuild Former Japaneseanese Lines
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Capt. Don S. Gentile leaves the cockpit of his North American P-51 Mustang after knocking down his 21st enemy plane. Gentile, of 539 Wayne St., Piqua is 23 years of age. As of April 1st 1944 he had a record of 22 planes to his credit, and was running
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A Member Of The 390Th Bomb Group, Wearing His Fire-Fighting Suit, Is Prepared To Help Extinguish The Blaze Of A Burning Plane. England, 21 September 1943.
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Recalling That 'For Want Of A Nail A Kingdom Was Lost', S/Sgt. Kenneth D. Lee, Alliance, Neb., Decided To Help Alleviate A Critical Nail Shortage At His Air Service Command Depot In The United Kingdom, And Devised A Simple Magnetic Sweeper Which Recovered
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Cpl. Jane Luella Bond Of Chardon, Ohio, Models The Wac Full Field Dress. She Is Assigned To The Officers' Section Of Wing Personnel At An Air Base Somewhere In The Hawaiian Islands. 13 March 1944.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Brindejonc des Moulinais
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Grammar and Scots. "Pansey" Parkhill *****. August 20, 1929. (Photo by Daily Mirror)
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A Member Of Women'S Army Corps At Work. 8Th Air Force, England, 29 March 1944.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Hiking march in the Salatiga area. Mobile canteen "'t tiger" with two nurses from the Red Cross. July 1, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Salatiga
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Coast Guard Para-Rescuers Wage Endless Life-Saving War in Alaska Woods and Ice. "That's the Spot" as a Coast Guard rescue plane hovers over snow-covered Alaska woodland, Coast Guard Paratrooper Bruce Johnstone (left), of Ketchikan, Alaska, points out the spot where he believes a missing plane has crashed to Lt. Comdr. Joseph F. McCue (center), of Washington, D.C., and Ensign James P. Gwynn, of Red Bank, N.H., Coast Guard pilots. Johnstone is a member of a para-rescue squad which will bail out to care for crash victims and move them to safety. The rugged para-rescuers are trained and equipped to exist for days in the bleak expanse of ice, snow, and woods.
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Men Of The 401St Bomb Group Stand By At The Mobile Control Tower To Guide The Plane In To A Safe Landing. The Van Is The 'Deputy' Controller Of All The Ground And Air Traffic At This 8Th Air Force Base In England. 28 December 1943.
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FWS Cub after hitting Osprey in air. Subjects: Aviation; Aircraft; Personnel; Birds; Raptors; Alaska.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Disembarkation of 5-III R.I. to Palembang. Palembang: on Dec 30. Arrived in Palembang the SS. "Sloterdijk", with the KL on board. troops that come to pay off the kill. December 30, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Trip to Bermuda: arrival at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda, 12:55PM. White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) staff set up communications equipment for President John F. Kennedy's arrival in Bermuda from Palm Beach, Florida. Joseph W. Culbreth stands in center (wearing hat). Kindley Air Force Base, St. David's Island, Bermuda.
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Anefo photo collection. Mounting a bridge arch from the "water olobridge" in the bridge at Oosterbeek. October 1945. Oosterbeek
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Anefo photo collection. Army Army Anefo London series. Army 637 Recruit Issued Kit. Dutch army camp Wolverhampton. daily life camp. recuit equipped equipment .. August 1943. Britain
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Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo.
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New Springfield soldier holding rifle
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A blank S.O.S. message just prior to being attached to the leg of a homing pigeon used by the 376th Bomb Group, Ninth U.S. Air Force near Bengasi, Cirenaica, Libya, when the radio communication fails during combat missions. The birds are trained by
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Barrage, 1915, Egypt, by William Saunderson Cooper. Gift of Andrew Cooper, 2001.
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Woody Cook standing by X-14