Construction Equipment on Okinawa

Heavy machinery and equipment used by the 1878th Engineer Aviation Battalion on an Okinawa airstrip, with a backdrop of war-torn landscapes.

General View Of The Salvage Area Where Men Of The 340Th Bomb Group Overhaul And Repair The North American B-25S That Were Damaged By Ashes And Cinders During The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius On 23 March 1944.
General View Of The Salvage Area Where Men Of The 340Th Bomb Group Overhaul And Repair The North American B-25S That Were Damaged By Ashes And Cinders During The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius On 23 March 1944.
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This Ammunition Truck Was Blasted Off The Road To Rome (Italy) By Planes Of Major Gen. John K. Cannon'S Tactical Air Force During "Operation Strangle".
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When the lumber comes out the other end of the portable Corinth Model sawmill, set up by 8th Engineer Squadron attached to First Cavalry Division on Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, it is sorted and stacked and according to size and is ready for
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Enemy on Kiska.
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Bomb Damage To Pilotless Flying Bomb Launching Site, Pas De Calais, France. 7 October 1944.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CEMETERIES War
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Men Of The 833Rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Work On The Construction Of French Drains At Raydon Airdrome, England.
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AIRBORNE TROOPS ENTERING GLIDER. ... Troops of the Glider Field Artillery Battalion, enter a glider at Oujda Airdrome for invasion maneuvers. Invasion training under direction of 5th Army, commanding by Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark. Oujda, Morocco
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How Bombs, Rockets And Strafing Guns Of The 1St Tactical Air Force Medium And Fighter Bombers Helped Pave The Way For The Armies Advancing Across The Upper Rhine Is Revealed By This Photo Showing An American Airman Inspecting The Handiwork Of His Airborne Mates In
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Chemical Warfare Service In Action At The 91St Bomb Group Base At Bassingbourne, England. 20 November 1943.
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Hurricane 'Betsy' - Puerto Rico - 8/12/1956 , Hurricanes, Automobiles, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations,MISCELLANEOUS War
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The Tail Of This German Fighter Was Literally 'Chewed Off' By Strafing Thunder Bombers Of The 12Th Aaf. Five Days After The 7Th Army Captured This Field, The Thunderbombers Were Operating From It, Strafing Fleeing Huns North Of Lyons. Should Be Republi
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Control tower at an airstrip at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. 6 February 1944.
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Men putting strips of marston mat together for construction of runway at an 11th Air Force base near Amchitca, Aleutian Islands. 12 October 1943.
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16' howitzer railway mount model E , Artillery Weaponry, Howitzers. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Anti - Aircraft gun firing
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Wewak Airdrome, Northeast...
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Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.
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A game of ping pong is in progress at the Red Cross Recreational Center in the 23rd Field Hospital area, San Fernando, Cebu, Philippine Islands. 12 August 1945.
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Armourers of No. 326 Wing RAF unpack and prepare 250-lb GP bombs prior to loading them onto bomb trolleys, at Souk el Khemis ('Kings Cross'), Tunisia, during the final Allied offensives in North Africa.
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Installations of the 43rd Bomb Group at an airbase at Nadzab, New Guinea. 25 May 1944.
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A Consolidated B-24 Libertor Of The 11Th Bomb Group Takes Off From Airstrip On Guam, Marianas Islands, As Sgt. Marvin Hollinger Of Lancaster, Pa., Climbs A Palm Tree To String His Communication Line. January 1945.
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Men Of An Engineer Aviation Battalion Build A B-29 Airstrip At Kandena Airfield On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 1945.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War
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FRANCE-Sept 44-This picture shows the result of perfect bomb-sighting. The bomb hit the bridge squarely
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Headquarters 13th Air Force, Radio Transmitter shack west of Tananan, Leyte, Philippine Islands. 1945.
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Highway Bridge At Rovereto, Italy Damaged By Bombs From The 15Th Af 9Th May 1945.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Exercise amphibious landing operations troops come to land In the dunes there are other militarities with a weapon on their focused. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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A Member Of The 2Nd Service Group Examines The Wreckage Of A German Junkers 88 Downed In Combat Somewhere In Iceland. 8 November 1942.
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Red Cross Service Club At An Advanced Boeing B-29 Base In China. Facilities For Recreation And Refreshments Are Most Welcome To Xx Bomber Command Crews Returning From Bombing Mission.
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Very High Frequency Direction Finder Scr-634 Radio Installation Of The 4Th Army Airways Communications System Wing At Chanyi China. November 1944.
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Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.
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The North American P-51 (A/C 44-14279) Of The 364Th Fighter Group, 67Th Fighter Wing, Crashed At Its 8Th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England. 26 November 1944.
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China....Pilots Of The 26Th Fighter Squadron, 51St Fighter Group, Sun Themselves Outside The Alert Shack At A 14Th Air Force Base. In The Background Are Curtiss P-40S.
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Yesterday there was nothing to report. Severe sandstorms prevented air operations over the battle area. Occasionally these words appear in communiques from the Middle East. The picture shows why. Sand blown across the desert by bitter winds cuts
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During the evacuation of Finnish refugees, autumn 1944.
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Three Ninth Air Force soldiers with a little time to spare replenish their stock of fire wood. Left to right, the photo shows, Cpl Michael Davlik, Cleveland, Ohio; Sgt George L. Cruchfield, Springfield, Ala.; and S/Sgt Bert Hanlon, Beverly, Mass.
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General view of 54th Evacuation Hospital somewhere in the Philippine Islands. 1876th Eng. Aviation Battalion, 26 May 1945.
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Small sticks were used as camouflage for the valve battery of the Lutong tank farm. This battery is inshore from the pump station. Part of the pipe lines (camouflaged to appear as a bridge across the river) can be seen in the photo. 14 July 1945.
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Army Stoves - Gettysburg
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Aircraft, Burma, India & Operations , Naga Headhunters War
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Sioux in Flaxfield
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Kuma class cruiser taking...
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A Respite From Bombing - Crew Members Of The 303Rd Bomb Group Play Softball. England. 22 April 1943.
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Martial law on Colorado border stops migratory laborers 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Army Aeroplane Over Camp, Mineola
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Part Of Scs-51 Localizer Glide Path System Radar Installation Of The 4Th Army Airways Communications System Wing At Kwanghan, China. November 1944.
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Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations,CONSTRUCTION,Air Fields War
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Native village taken over by Negro Troops.
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A General View Of A Portion Of The 4Th Air Depot Project Camp, Mount Louisa, Townsville, Australia. 1 December 1942.
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Forfeited guns
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Jeeps pass a caravan of United States airmen mounted on camels below the Sphinx and ancient Pyramids to conclude a week-end leave in Cairo, Egypt. 13 December 1942.
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Royal New Zealand Airforce display, Rongotai, Wellington, 4 June 1938, Wellington, by Roland Searle.