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Aircraft Maintenance in War Zones

Images depict military aircraft maintenance activities, showing crews working on fighter-bombers. The mood is industrious, with depictions of machinery, tools, and personnel in military settings.

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Portrait with aircraft on the ground three lieutenants in front of the aircraft Phönixjagaren on the ore.

How U.S. Navy to Torpedo Planes Strike At Enemy.Wings of the U.S. Navy "Avenger" torpedo plane, used in attacking mechanism in a few seconds for quick storage on airplane carriers.The bay along the bottom of the fast and well-armored ship holds and aimed to strike an enemy ship below the waterline. February 15, 1947. (Photo by Interphoto News Pictures Inc).

British Prisoners of War at Rangoon, 1945 A group of former British prisoners of war shortly after their arrival at Mingladon airfield, Rangoon. Released prisoners from Malaya and Thailand were flown to Mingladon by Royal Air Force Dakota aircraft.

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Groundcrew examine a badly-damaged Lockheed Hudson Mark I, N7264 'QX-Q', of No. 224 Squadron RAF on its return to base at Wick, Caithness, from a sortie over Norway. N7264 was one of a battle flight of three Hudsons providing long-range fighter cover for Allied troops in Norway. While flying over Romsdal fjord in Andalsnes they were mistakenly fired on by HMS CURACOA. One Hudson was shot down and N7264 suffered severe damage to its wings and flaps, as well as two burst tyres. Despite this, Pilot Officer H O'Neill managed to bring his aircraft back to Wick where he made a safe touchdown.

War Office, Central Office of Information and American Second World War Official Collection

Lt. B.C. Auchincloss, Pilot Of The 350Th Fighter Squadron, 353Rd Fighter Group, Seated In The Cockpit Of His Republic P-47 "The New Yorker" At An Airbase In England.

Portrait with aircraft Portrait of military at aircraft island 4 Phönix Droont on the ore.

British Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945- Hawker Hurricane. Hurricane Mark IID, HW719, of No. 1 Specialised Low Attack Instructors School, on the ground at Milfield, Northumberland. This aircraft is fitted with two underwing 40mm Vickers anti-tank guns.

Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection. Singapore, Malaya. c. 1941-11. A line-up of RAAF Brewster Buffalo aircraft of 453 Squadron on Sembawang airfield.

Anefo photo collection. English-Australian 18th Squadron Australia B-25 Mitchell bombers airport. 1944. Australia

Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. Marshal of the RAF, Lord Trenchard (middle), accompanied by Air Vice Marshal P H L Playfair, Air Officer Commanding the Advanced Air Striking Force (far left), talks with the aircrew of a Fairey Battle during a tour of AASF Wings in France.

The Air Transport Auxiliary, 1939-1945. The first pilots of the ATA Womens' Section pilots walking past newly-completed De Havilland Tiger Moths awaiting delivery to their units at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. They are, (right to left): Miss Pauline Gower, Commandant of the Women's Section, Miss M Cunnison (partly obscured), Mrs Winifred Crossley, The Hon. Mrs Fairweather, Miss Mona Friedlander, Miss Joan Hughes, Mrs G Paterson and Miss Rosemary Rees.

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Armourers unload 250-lb GP bombs in front of a line of Fairey Swordfish Mark IIIs of No. 119 Squadron RAF, undergoing maintenance at B83/Knokke le Zoute, Belgium. The Squadron flew anti-shipping patrols, principally against German midget-submarines, in the North Sea and off the Durch coast

Coast Guard Anti-Submarine Patrol. This image depicts the pilots of the U.S. Coast Guard preparing to head for the North Atlantic to protect allied shipping.

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Pilots of No. 80 Squadron RAF gather in front of one of their Hawker Hurricane Mark Is at a landing ground in the Western Desert, during Operation CRUSADER. In the middle of the group, wearing a white flying overall and smoking a pipe, is Squadron Leader M M Stephens, who commanded the Squadron from November until 9 December 1941 when he was shot down and wounded. During CRUSADER, 80 Squadron acted in close support of the Army, their Hurricane fighters being fitted with bomb racks to carry four 40 lb GP bombs, as seen here. Their first effective sorties as fighter-bombers were conducted against enemy vehicles south of Bir el Baheira on 20 November.

Sgt. Elmer J. Pence Adds Another Miniature To Those On Side Of A Curtiss P-40 Of The 26Th Fighter Squadron, 51St Fighter Group. The Men Are, Left To Right: Maj. Edward M. Nollmeyer, Behind Wing; Lt. John M. Machin, Lt. Von C. Weller, Jr., Capt. William

At An 8Th Air Force Base In England Armorers Load Bombs On The Consolidated B-24 'Fords' Folly' On The 392Nd Bomb Group In Preparation For The Plane's 100Th Mission Over Enemy Territory. 6 June 1944.

Austrian plane crashed by Italian forces after the failed raid on the cities of Veneto region on March 27, 1916, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 15, April 9, 1916.

Artwork: "Starting the Engine of a Stuka" Artist: W. Fritz Junghans. Country: Unknown

A Pilot Of The 94Th Fighter Squadron, 1St Fighter Group, Stands Beside His Lockheed P-38 Lightning At An Air Base Somewhere In Italy.

Lieutenant S. Brainard and Lieutenant R. Godu prepare for a long flight in a Breguet aircraft at the Aviation Bombing School in Clermont, France on June 14, 1918. Private L. P. Goldshlag of the Signal Corps took this photograph. It was officially issued after being passed by the A.E.P. Censor on July 2, 1918.

Anefo photo collection. Visit Welter (Colonies) Kleffens (Foreign Affairs) Marine Installations Surabaya .. 10, 1941. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

DD-932 John Paul Jones , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

33Rd Fighter Squadron Members, 'Dig Out' A Curtiss P-40 From The Heavy Snows Which Fell At An Air Base Somewhere In Iceland. 3 February 1944.

Brig. Gen. B. D. Poulois, known as the "Eagle of the airmen," stands in front of his new pet, the Liberty Plane, at the Aviation Section, 1st Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France. This photograph was taken on July 28, 1918, by Corp. A. Lubatty and received on August 27, 1918. It is held by the A.E.F. Censor for official use only.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Ground staff load propaganda leaflets into Whitley N1386/DY-P of No 102 Squadron, 8 March 1940, in preparation for another raid over Germany. Though leaflet dropping was viewed of dubious value as a propaganda weapon, it provided useful experience of night flying over enemy territory.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Wreck a plane from the Marine Aviation Service. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Marine Lt. Col. Wallace M. Wessel and his plane captain conduct a systems check on an F-8 Crusader before taking off on a bombing mission to support ground forces during Operation Hickory near the demilitarized zone. The aircraft is armed with two 2,000 lb. bombs and rockets. Photograph taken on May 26, 1967, by GySgt Evans, 1st MAW Vietnam.

A 40Mm Ack-Ack Gun And Its Crew Is Prepared To Defend This Airfield On Sicily In The Event Of A Surprise Attack. July 1943. Note The Douglas C-47 On The Runway.

A French artist's impression of the legendary fighter of World War Two. Date: circa 1939

Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection. Squadron code MU on fuselage and white identification markings on wings and tail appear to identify this as a Hawker Hurricane of No. 60 Squadron RAF in the Southeast Asia theatre, possibly India or Burma. The man squatting in the middle with wristwatch exposed is Peter Gibson, a cousin of Guy, who moved to New Zealand after the war in 1957 and died 2005. He is survived by son Martin and daughter Angela (Low).

Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. Armourers carry 3-inch rocket projectiles to a North American Mustang Mark III of No. 260 Squadron RAF, parked in a dispersal at Cervia, Italy.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Airport. Ground crew stands by an aircraft. A man is on the wing. Left for a sailor of the Royal Navy. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. Dakota Mark IV, KN394 'M', of No. 187 Squadron RAF based at Merryfield, Somerset, taxies past a donkey train at Mauripur air terminal, Kiamari Town, Karachi, India. Mauripur was the first Indian staging post on the trooping flights between the United Kingdom and Poona undertaken by the Squadron from April 1945 to March 1946.

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker Poses At The Door Of A Boeing B-17 During His Visit To The 305Th Bomb Group Base In England. 26 July 1943.

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Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945- Supermarine Spitfire. Spitfire Mark IIB, P8348 NS-Y British and Friends Ex Japan, of No. 52 Operational Training Unit, on the ground at Aston Down, Gloucestershire. P8348 was later converted to a Mark VB

Red airmen, Mustang pilot talk things over in front of a North American P-51 Mustang, 325 Fighter Group, circa 1945

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Airport. Pilot Is in cockpit. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Historical exhibition of means of transport organized by the Italian Touring Club on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of its foundation. 1954

Australians Pound Mandalay: One of the many R.A.F. Liberators which took part in the heaviest raid of the South East Asia war, on Mandalay on January 13, takes off from a Bengal airfield. Australians predominated in the Liberator crews which took part in probably the heaviest raid yet made in the South-East Asia Command, on Mandalay on 13 January. The concentrated attack was aimed at facilitating the Fourteenth Army's drive from Shwebo toward Mandalay, and aircraft which took part included Ameri

Pilots of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF with one of their Hawker Hurricanes, October 1940. A group of pilots of No 303 Polish Fighter Squadron RAF walking toward the camera from a Hawker Hurricane after, purportedly, returning from a fighter sortie. Left to right, in the front row are; Pilot Officer Mirosaw Feri, Flight Lieutenant John A Kent (Commander of 'A' Flight), Flying Officer Bogdan Grzeszczak, Pilot Officer Jerzy Radomski, Pilot Officer Witold okuciewski, Pilot Officer Bogusaw Mierzwa (obscured by okuciewski), Flying Officer Zdzisaw Henneberg, Sergeant Jan Rogowski and Sergeant Eugeniusz Szaposznikow. In the centre, to the rear of this group, wearing helmet and goggles is Flying Officer Jan Zumbach.

A North American B-25 Of The 11Th Air Force At Alexai Point Air Base On Attu, Aleutian Islands, Takes Off Against A Background Of Snow-Covered Mountains. 1943.

Royal Air Force- France 1939-1940. Ground crew servicing the starboard engine of a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV of No. 139 Squadron RAF, covered with camouflage netting and snow, at Betheniville.

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Curtiss Tomahawks Mark IIBs of No. 112 Squadron RAF at LG 102 in the Sidi Heneish area, Egypt. In the foreground is AN218 'B' 'Menace', flown by Flying Officer N Bowker who had shot down a Savoia Marchetti SM79 in it on 14 September 1941. The second aircraft is AK461 'A', which was destroyed in combat over Sidi Rezegh on 25 November 1941. This photograph constituted the first public appearance of 112 Squadron's famous 'Sharkmouth' insignia, when published in October 1941.

World War I 1914-1918: A British Vickers biplane that had crashed near Lille, France, being examined by Germans, 1917. Military, Aircraft, Aviation

The Boeing "Flying Fortress" "Gremlin"S Delite" Of The 381St Bomb Group Stationed At An 8Th Air Force Base Near Ridgewell, Essex County, England, 5 December 1943.

U.S. Forces Occupy Strategic Islands in South Pacific -- U.S. Marine raiders study the remains of a Japanese Zero fighter plane they discovered on one of the Russell Islands, when U.S. Forces occupied this strategic outpost 30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal in the Solomons several weeks ago. The plane crashed while attempting to reach its base after being hit by American gunfire. The American forces approached the Russells expecting a fight, but the Japanese had evacuated them and the occupation was completed without opposition. July 19, 1943.

Bomb Damage Salaumau - War File. February 27, 1942.

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Mark XI aerial torpedoes being taken out on trolleys towards a Bristol Beaufort Mark I, L4516 'OA-W', of No. 22 Squadron RAF at North Coates, Lincolnshire. Shortly after this photograph was taken, L4516 was destroyed when it stalled after a night take-off from North Coates and hit the ground near Marshfield, detonating the mine it was carrying.

RAF Bomber Command Mosquito Mk IVs of No. 105 Squadron at Marham, December 1942.

The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Little Moe" Of The 401St Bomb Group At An 8Th Air Force Base In England, 6 May 1944.

Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. Repatriation at Kemajoran airport of Batavia. November 1945. Bandung, Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Kemajoran, Dutch East Indies

America can thank Lt. Russell D. Stump for getting rid of the Nazi plane shown in picture three.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command A Northrop N-3PB floatplane of the Norwegian-manned No 330 Squadron, here being used to transport a seriously ill woman to hospital in Reykjavik in Iceland, May 1942.

Squadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck, commanding No. 257 Squadron, in the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane at Martelsham Heath, November 1940. Squadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck, commanding No. 257 Squadron, in the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane at Martelsham Heath, November 1940.

Blasted armor couple on Chiusaforte. .

Portrait. F 5's first manager Captain Arvid Flory motif: Portrait. F 5's first manager Captain Arvid Flory in flying suit in front of aircraft island 1 Thumbselisa 1930. Framed photo.

Artwork: "Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders". Artist: Stank Stokes (COPYRIGHTED, US AIR FORCE ART COLLECTION). Country: Unknown

Capt. C.C. Wyllie

Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Vickers Wellington B Mark ICs, formerly of No. 15 Operational Training Unit, parked at North Front, Gibraltar, while staging through the Mediterranean to join operational units in Egypt. BB459 'K' (right) went to No. 108 Squadron RAF at Fayid, while Z8960 'P' (left) joined 70 Squadron RAF at LG 104/Qotafiyah II.

Norway After Liberation, 1945 Pilot Officer J C A Rodgers from Blandford in Dorset with one of the Norwegian children that greeted the arrival of the Royal Air Force in Oslo after the flying in of supplies to British airborne forces in Norway.

'French Fighter Squadron Aerodrome', 1918, (1926).Artist: Francois Flameng

The Air Transport Auxiliary, 1939-1945. Pauline Gower (far left), Commandant of the Women's Section of the ATA, stands with eight other founding female ATA pilots at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, by newly-completed De Havilland Tiger Moths awaiting delivery to their units. The other pilots are; (left to right), Mrs Winifred Crossley, Miss Margaret Cunnison, The Hon. Mrs Margaret Fairweather, Mona Friedlander, Miss Joan Hughes, Mrs G Paterson, Miss Rosemary Rees and Mrs Marion Wilberforce.

German prisoners working to repair a damaged American plane between Very and Cheppy, France. Sergeant A.C. Duff photographed the scene on 3rd October 1918. This image, numbered 23687, was not intended for publication and was only to be used for official purposes.

Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. Flying Officer E J 'Cobber' Kain of No. 73 Squadron RAF, standing by his Hawker Hurricane Mark I 'Paddy III' at Rouvres, shortly after becoming the first Allied air 'ace' of the Second World War.

Britain's New "Spitfire". 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters

The Royal Air Force in Tunisia, Spring 1943 An Advanced Servicing Unit dismantles Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX, EN459 'ZX-1', of the Polish Fighting Team, attached to No 145 Squadron, RAF in Tunisia. The aircraft was damaged on 6 April 1943 when, after shooting down a Messerschmitt Bf 109, it was attacked by another Bf 109 and hit in the engine. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Eugeniusz Horbaczewski, was able to glide in to Gabes for a forced landing.

The Consolidated B-24 "Liberator," "Pistol Packin Mamma", At An Airfield On Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, July 1944.

Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring an illustration of a British plane with the pilot shooting a revolver mid-flight. The Illustrated War News was produced by the Illustrated London News and was dedicated solely to covering all aspects of the conflict. Its first issue was produced on 12 August 1914. Date: 1914

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