B-17 and B-25 Bomber Repairs

Images of WWII bombers undergoing maintenance and repairs, including B-17s and B-25s, showcasing mechanical work and the impact of aerial attacks.

A Member Of The 439Th Troop Carrier Looks Over A Captured German Junkers Piggy Back Plane Junkers Ju 88 And Focke Wulf Fw 190 At An Air Base Somewhere In France. 4 May 1945.
A Member Of The 439Th Troop Carrier Looks Over A Captured German Junkers Piggy Back Plane Junkers Ju 88 And Focke Wulf Fw 190 At An Air Base Somewhere In France. 4 May 1945.
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Two Flares Dropped By B-17 Returning From Mission Indicate Wounded Aboard. Two Medical Crews Wait To Give First Aid To Men. 8Th Air Force.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,WRECKS War
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Major General George E. Stratemeyer Talks With Colonel Johnson, Major Moore, And Lt. Brown As They Inspect A Consolidated B-24 Liberator Of The 67Th Bomb Squadron, 44Th Bomb Group At An 8Th Air Force Base In England. 21 April 1943.
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"GROUNDED BOEING B-17 AFIRE"-An Engineer Aviation Fire Fighting Platoon puts out a fire on a Boeing B-17 Flying ofrtress at an 8th USAAF bomber station somewhere in England. The hazards of the job are obvious for these planes are always weighted
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An Air Force engine is loaded aboard a Curtiss C-46 cargo plaen at an airbase, Manila, Philippine Islands.
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Pvt. Louis Sidor, Cleveland, Ohio, And Pfc. James E. Merrell, Garry, Ohio, Of The Pack Artillery Reconnaissance, 3Rd Prov. Pack Battery In Italy, Hold The Poles Bearing The Message Cord And Message Bag For Air-Ground Message Pick Up, While The Plane Speed
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The Consolidated B-24 "Liberator," "Flying 8 Ball, Jr.", At An Airfield On Funafuti Island, Ellice Islands, April 1943.
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Two Officers Of The 364Th Fighter Group, 67Th Fighter Wing, Examine The Damaged Tail Section Of A Plane At The 8Th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England. 11 November 1944.
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A Crew Member Of The 379Th Bomb Group Who Was Injured During A Mission Over Europe Is Carried From The Boeing B-17 'Stump Jumper' To A Waiting Ambulance At An 8Th Air Force Base In England. June 1944.
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Glide Bomb Shackled To An External Rack Underneath The Wing Of The Boeing B-17 "The Wish Bone." 379Th Bomb Group, England. 8 June 1944.
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Pictured Against A Pall Of Smoke From A Burning Plane Are Two Douglas C-54S Of The Aaf Air Transport Command's Pacific Division. The Planes Are Preparing To Take-Off From Yontan Airstrip, Okinawa, With A Load Of Wounded.
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Deep In The Heart Of China, A Large Percentage Of P-51 Missions Were Aborting Due To Conditions Of The Fuel On Arrival At The Advanced Fighter Base. The Barrels Were Old, And Rusty On The Inside And There Were No Containers To Which The Gas Could Be Trans
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Lt. Colonel Thury In The Cockpit Of His Plane And Standing Beside Him On The Wing Is His Crew Chief. England - 19 April 1945.
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Battle damaged Boeing B-17...
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Ground crew technicians of the Bombardment Group, commanded by Col. Charles B. Westover of College Park, Ga., load up a Consolidated B-24 Liberator in England with supplies to be parachuted to British airborne troops fighting on the east bank of the
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Major Kenneth Gaskin Of Hollywood, California, Pictured With His Suggestion Of Moving The Rear View Mirror On A North American P-51 Mustang Forward And Parallel With The Canopy. It Was Found To Facilitate The Pilots' Rear Vision. 15Th Af, Italy.
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Planes 3 & 4 (later) in foreground, were damaged beyond repair. The scene of the explosion, which occurred as bombs were loaded in No. 1 is in right background.
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Wreckage Of A Martin B-26 Marauder (A/C 627) Of The 386Th Bomb Group Which Was Shot Down At Its Base In Great Dunmow, Essex, England On 22 March 1944 By The Ju 88 Which Was Shot Down.
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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, With German Markings Was Found At A Luftwaffe Air Base At Gottingen Germany. The Fuselage Was Painted Olive Drab; Belly And Tail Yellow. All Guns Were Loaded. Nearby Were Wings Of Raf Mosquito, Marked With German Crosses.
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The donkey delivers mail for U.S. soldiers in Italy; the bomber delivers explosive to Axis Europe for the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces. Astride the steed is Cpl. George L. Teague, 416 S.W. 31st Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, mail clerk in a heavy
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Wounded troops enroute from Rosalie Airstrip to Neilson Field, being evacuated from the 409th Medical Collecting Company. Medical Technician and nurses are shown giving aid and treatment in flight. Litters are arranged three deep on both sides of the
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T/Sgt. Sam R. Digristina, Brooklyn, N.Y., propeller specialist shown removing propeller from damaged engine. ENGLAND.
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An American Pilot Inspects A Me-109 At Salsburg, Austria, Hitler's Field. A Focke-Wulf Fw-200, Huge Transport, Probably Hitler's Plane, Stands In The Background.
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FRANCE-"Red Hot Riding Hood," Consolidated B-24, bombed this French airfield on several occasions. Now the crew are finally able to see just what does happen when they drop their bomb load on a target. 1st Lt. Warren P. Allen, pilot (left) and S/Sgt
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FIELDS & INSTALLATIONS
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Lt. Col. John D. Landers, 24-year-old ace from Joshua, Texas, settles into the cockpit of his North American P-51 Mustang before taking off to lead the 78th Fighter Group over the Rhine Saturday 24 March 1945, to sweep the area, looking for German
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Maintenance Men Of The 2Nd Base Air Depot Check The Instruments On A Consolidated B-24 Prior To Take-Off From Their Base In Lancashire, England. 9 September 1944.
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Pfc. Charles Barnes (Left) And Cpl. Wilbur W. Fruauff (Right) Help Pvt. Paul Pennestri Get Into His Asbestos Fire Fighting Outfit. All Are Members Of The Base Crash Crew. 401St Bomb Group, 29 July 1944, England.
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Working Quickly And Efficiently With Up-To-Date Equipment, Fire-Fighters Of The U.S. 8Th Air Force Fight Hazardous Flames Which Enveloped A Crashed Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" And Threatened Other Aircraft Nearby. With Their Modern Equipment Fire Fight
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Men Of The 401St Bomb Group Examine Hole In Fuselage Of A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" - The Damage Was Caused By Flak Over Enemy-Held Territory. England, 30 November 1943.
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A wounded gunner is shown being carried away from his wrecked B-24 Liberator bomber of the 15th AF which was hit by flak over an enemy installation in southern France. Photo was taken just after the plane made a crash landing at its base in southern
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Consoldiated B-24 - England.
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With Maj. Gen. Doolittle's Strategic Air Force, North Africa-Maintenance crew works on engine of Lockheed P-38 which was hit by 2-20 mm. shells in a raid over Sicily.
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Marie Therese Picquent became the "Betsy Ross" of Normandy when she made dozens of French liberation flags the minute the Yanks arrived. Here she is shown with her little sister presenting one of the Tricolors to Col. Ray J. Stecker of Hazelton
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Dutch Guinea: parliamentary mission. Visit parliamentary mission Badé. August 1957. Guinea
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower...
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1St Lt. W.J. Hoelle (San Mateo, Calif.) Of The 49Th Squadron, 14Th Fighter Group At Youks Les Bains, Algeria Surveys Damage To His Lockheed P-38 Wing, Incurred When He Hit A Telephone Pole During A Low Level Strafing Mission. 31 December 1942.
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Again the P-47 is hauled aloft like an ungainly thing. But it will have its day. Air Service Command mechanics wait for it on the dock.
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One Douglas A-20 is already leaving the ground in a cloud of dust, while another stands with its engines whirring. Within a few minutes it too will take off, piloted by airman (left) at Commander's table. The flag is a Russian naval banner.
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Man Demonstrating The Use Of His G-Suit. England - 10 Aug. 1944.
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Bombing of Japanese shipping in Hong Kong Harbor, China, by North American B-25's.
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Aerial Photographer And Vultee L-5 Pilot Of The 163Rd Liaison Squandron, 10Th Army, Making Last Minute Check Over Map Of Southern Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.
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Japanese Hangar Storing "Bukabomb" With 5Th Air Force Officer Standing Along Side To Show Comparative Size. Japanesean, Sept. 1945.
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The King And Queen Of England Pause To Admire A Consolidated B-24 Liberator On A Tour Of Inspection Of An American Bomber Station In England. On The Left Is Brig. Gen. Hayward Hansell, Cg Of The 1St Combat Bomber Wing At Bassingbourne, England. May 1943
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An inspection tour of Payne Field, Egypt by the cadets from the Royal Egyptian Military Academy on 8 November 1944. This is the first time that such an inspection has taken place at an American installation for the Egyptian cadets.
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General Kraus, a German officer of the Afrika Korps, was captured during the North African campaign in 1943.
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S/Sgt. Richard R. Boot, A Left Gunner On A Boeing B-29, And A Chinese Guard Warm Themselves Over A Small Oil Fire Before Take-Off Time For The 9 December 1944 Mission. Sgt. Boot Is From Denver, Colorado. China, 20Th Bomber Command.
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Lt. Stewart Sitting On The Wing Of His Plane, The 'Ticket Home'. England. 14 September 1944.
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Lt. Holloway Sitting On The Wing Of His Plane The 'Sniffles'. England 26 July 1944.
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Base Flight Section, 303Rd Bomb Group, England. 23 April 1945.
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Stormtruppe Flame Wearer, Vladimir Wolinsky
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The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Aw Come On" Of The 401St Bomb Group At An 8Th Air Force Base In England, 23 September 1944.
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An Oxygen Trailer Used At An Airbase In England. 7 July 1944.
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Glider Reclamation -- Battered (G-4A) Glider Shown Somewhere In Germany, Is Mute Evidence Of The Less Fortunate Landings During The Rees-Wesel Airborne Invasion. Two Weeks Time Was All That The Engineers Of The 82Nd Service Group, 9Th Troop Carrier Comma
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The Official Designation For The Troop-Ferrying Operations Now Being Carried On Between Istres-Le Tube Airport, Near Marseilles, And Casablanca In North Africa, Is The 'Green Project'. It Is Being Conducted By Two Heavy Bombardment Groups Under The Super
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9Th Aviation Engineers Are Reconstructing Old Luftwaffe Bases And Building New Airfield In Record Time.
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All Personnel, Including Cooks, Clerks And Medics, Of A 9Th Air Force Martin B-26 Marauder Group Lend A Hand To Clear Snow Off Hardstands And Runways. Note The First Aid Cross On Helmet Of Medic, Second From Left. France.
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Philippine Island - Sultan of Sulu; Bontocs and Bogobos, Aerial Photograph.
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Photograph of Coast Guardsman with Dog on Patrol at Lambert-St. Louis Field. In the shadow of a navy plane a Coast Guardsman and his four-footed, ever-alert companion, maintain a silent vigil. Twenty-five specially-trained, fierce dogs and their Coast Guard handlers, patrol the U.S. Naval Air Station, Lambert-St. Louis Field for trespassers.
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Illescas (Toledo). March 1916. An airplane accident. Position in which the airplane piloted by the aviator Mr. Uriburu (x) and the photographer Mr. Marín remained when it was forced to land in Illescas as a result of an engine failure. The airmen were miraculously unharmed.
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Used gasoline belly tanks were discarded in the 13th AF until two chemical warfare technicians tried converting them to firebombs. The experiments worked and the home-made "bombs" were dropped by "Jungle Air Force" Liberators with devastating results
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Vintage Photograph. The Big Four of the Army's guided missiles.
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Crash of 15-J-34, Brunswick, Maine. Administrative History of the First Naval District in World War II