Historic Military Aviation Events

Black and white footage of military and historical aircraft, featuring airmen, airport scenes, and significant meetings from 1928 to 1948.

1948 American planes drop food to German children in Berlin after WWII.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Avro Lancaster B Mark I, R5626 'OL-E', of No. 83 Squadron RAF taking off for Bremen, Germany, on the third 'Thousand-Bomber' raid, from Scampton, Lincolnshire.

The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U. S. and other anti-communist nations. The U. S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and part of their wider strategy of containment. The North Vietnamese government viewed the war as a colonial war, fought initially against France, backed by the U. S. , and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U. S. puppet state. U. S. military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U. S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U. S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U. S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations

Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard visits As an Inspector General of the Royal Netherlands Air Force the Leeuwarden airbase. Here the prince is in a Gloster Meteor as a duo passenger for half an hour of shooting exercise above the Vliehors. The kite for in the cockpit is Major Kite S.K. Aertsen, Commander of 324 Squadron.

Grumman U.S. Navy Torpedo Bomber, The Avenger, In-Flight, USA, Office of War Information, 1940's

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Pankelan at Krawrang. A cargo plane flies over. March 13, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Krawang, Dutch East Indies

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