Historic Military Operations

Aerial and ground views of military activities including aircraft, soldiers repairing runways, and fuel operations. The mood is historical and operational, showcasing wartime efforts.

The Long Seige Of Brest, France, Destroyed Or Damaged Virtually Every Building And Military Installations In The City. 26 Sept 1944.

Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Wash Their Mess Kits In Large Pails Of Hot Water. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, May 1945.

Obstacles Placed On A Field In Loyettes, France By The Germans To Prevent Allied Airdrome Operations.

Scenes Of Wreckage At The Railroad Marshalling Yards, Weisbaden, Germany, After Bombers And Fighters Knocked The Vital Junction Out Of The War. 5 May 1945.

One of the chief worries confronting AAF Flying Fortress gunners, flying from bases somewhere in Italy, is that mud now splatters and covers almost everything on the Airplane. Shown above is the ball turret of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress of the

The railroad yard at Stommeln, Germany, after an attack by fighter-bombers of the 9th AF. Similar attacks by Republic P-47 Thunderbolts of the 9th three TAC serve to halt or delay rail-borne movements of supplies and reinforcements to enemy troops

Bomb Damage To Railroad Cars In The Ostiense Railroad Yards On The Outskirts Of Rome, Italy.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RECREATION War

Direct Hit On Freight Cars In The Marshalling Yards Of Vicenza, Italy. This Bomb Damage Was Done By The 15Th Air Force Bombers 10 May 1945.

A Heavy Truck, Driven By A Member Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Encounters Difficulty In Plowing Through Deep Mud On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 May 1945.

Work continues on this front-line landing strip in France while a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt takes off after refueling and rearming job by mechanics of the 9th Air force Service Command.

The Long Seige Of Brest, France, Destroyed Or Damaged Virtually Every Building And Military Installation In The City. 26 Sept 1944.

Section of the ordnance storage area, located at Salua, India of the XX Bomber Command.

Aerial View Of Bomb Damaged Flak Battery At Merseburg, Germany. 12 May 1945.

After The Bomb Craters Were Filled With Crushed Rock On Ville Coublay Airdrome, They Were Then Surfaced With Asphalt. France.

Aircraft, Burma, India &CAPTUREDMATERIEL War

Construction Of A Nissen Hut Of The 2Nd Air Base Group At Patterson Field, Iceland, 8 June 1942.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

When a Japanese airplane bombed the adjacent ammunition dump on Dulag beach, this radar equipment was damaged by fragments of the explosion. Leyte, Philippine Islands, 2 November 1944.

A Captured Japanese Bulldozer Is Put Into Workable Condition By Two Gis Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.

North American P-51 "Mustangs" are assembled by men of the 36th Air Depot Group at Maison Blanch, Algeria. 10 April 1944.

At Stade, Near Hanburg, Us 8Th Air force Heavy Bombers Dropped Concentration Of Bombs On Nazi Airfield And Installations There 31 Dec. 44. Bursts May Be Observed Covering Hangars.

Heavy Equipment Rolls Off One Of The Lst (Landing Ship Tanks) During Landing Operations F The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion At Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto On The Night Of 3 May 1945.

Italy - Ancient Italians Built Their Cities On The Peaks Of The Appennines For Easy Defense. The Germans Stretched Their Gothic Line Across The Same Peaks. The 5Th And 8Th Armies Had Chased Them Off Peaks South Of Rome. The Gothic Line Was Broken In Th

Aircraft, Burma, India &Troops & PARATroops,MEIKTILA War

"Rover Joe" -- A Gound-Air Tactical Method Used By Mediterranean Allied Air Forces To Coordinate Fighter-Bombers And Infantry Action In The Mountain Approaches. "Rover Joes" (Usually Former Pilots) Spot Enemy Targets And By Radio, Relay Locations To Maaf

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

Here 9th Air Force Aviation Engineers have made their homes from parts of gliders "washed up" after landing equipment, men and supplies in liberated sections of France.

Bomb Damage To Repairs Shop At Brenner Pass, Mantova, Italy. 10 May 1945.

Men Drag A Wrecked Vultee L-5 Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron To Higher Ground In Order To Salvage Useable Parts Of The Plane. Three Days Of Heavy Rain Turned The Small Stream Running Thru The Area Into A Lake. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 1945.

Son Cemetery where American soldiers are buried in Arnheim, Holland.

A silver Martin B-26 Marauder of the 1st Tactical Air Force flies over the railyards in Florence while this portion of the famous Italian city was still in the hands of the enemy, to inspect the damage done to the yards when the Marauders smashed at

Playing an important role in severing the German supply lines, USAAF bombers have blasted many railway and road bridges in Italy. This low-oblique reconnaissance picture shows the highway and railway bridges near Giulianova on the east coast of Italy

Emergency fuel tanks of the 64th Air Service Group are towed out to the line at the Lacag Air Strip on Luzon, Philippine Islands. 20 May 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India & Operations , Naga Headhunters War

Bell P-39 Parked In A Revetment Of The 2Nd Air Base Group At An Airfield In Iceland. 30 March 1942.

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

Bomb Damage To Railroad Viaduct At Laval, France. 18 August 1944.

T-15 And Sled At Comanche Bay Weather Station, Greenland. 10 Oct 44.

Headquarters Area Of The 7Th Air Force On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, Including Tents Housing Quartermaster, Personnel, Offices And Aircraft & Equipment Units. 21 August 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations,MISCELLANEOUS War

Low Altitude Reconnaissance Photograph Of Aschersleben, Germany.

9Th Air Force Bomb Damage At Coutances, France. 1 August 1944.

Bombing of Hollandia.

North American B-25 Mitchells Of The 12Th Af Get Last Minute Check Before Taking Off To Attack Enemy Target.

In August 1944 This Area In Guam Was Wilderness Except For A Japanese Fighter Strip. A Year Later It Had Become Harmon Field.

M/Sgt. Theodore C. Collins Of Stuart, Florida, Reads 'Yank' Magazine As He Relaxes Aboard A Ship Which Is Transporting His Unit - The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion - To Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 30 April 1945.

The Japanese 21" controlled torpedo. Usual procedure of the 21" was as follows: Torpedos were stored in shelter; placed on rails launched into sea; wooden super-structure visible on torpedo was tied on with rope; dropped axe on ropes binding

Bomb Damage Of Airfield At Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Showing Nine Dornier Do 335'S In Foreground.

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.

Anti-Aircraft Gun Emplacement At Karachi, India.

Mirador and machine gun of the French army in a German prison camp during World War I.

Camp area of the 836th Aviation Engineer group on Middleburg Island, off the coast of Dutch New Guinea. August 1944.

Aerial View Of The Railroad Yards At Oschersleben, Germany. 10 May 1945.

Soldiers at an 8th Fighter Command base in England "queu up" to buy U.S. WarBonds to help finance a $6,000,000 "Victory Squadron" of fighter planes to be purchased entirely by personnel of the 8th Air force. ofrming an inverted V-ofr-Victory, the

Kuma class cruiser taking...

England - 500 Lb Gp Anm 64 Bomb.

The Natural Arch Of A Cactus Frames This View Of A Caterpillar Tractor Dragging A 'Pan' Which Is Clearing The Surface Soil From Area Where A Huge Coral Pit Will Be Dug On Ie Shima, Ryukyu Retto. 30 April 1945.

A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 303Rd Bomb Group, Parked In A Dispersal Area. England, 13 March 1944.

Europe - Burning P-47 In Background Was Caught In Its Own Bomb Burst After Smashing Enemy-Held Tracks, 22 Nov. 1944.

Ruins Among The Business Area Of Yokohama, Japan, Resulting From The Bombings Of The Might 7Th Air Force Boeing B-29 "Superfortresses"'. 11 September 1945.

Redeployment - Fighter Planes - Republic P-47 Thunderbolts On The Carrier Deck At Liverpool, England.

Using gasoline jelly bombs against congested warehouse district at Balikpapan, east coast of Borneo, North American B-25 Mitchells of "Jungle Air Force" fly low over target. Warehouse in center of picture spouts dense clouds of black smoke as flames

Received Italy.Wurminen and artillery ammunition 29.1.18. .

When this tank exploded the top was blown 100 feet to the rear. A probable direct hit can be seen in the side of the tank. Seria, New Guinea, N.E.I., 5 July 1945.

Aerial View Of The Bomb Damaged Synthetic Oil Plant At Lutzkendorf, Germany. 12 May 1945.

Bomb Damage In The German Army Hq, Caused By Bombs From 367Th Fighter Bomb Group.

This Section Of The Cruiser 'Marseilles', Sunk At Its Dock By Mediterranean Allied Air Forces Daylight Bombing, Shows Part Of A Two Gun Deck Turret And Some Torpedo Tubes With Their 'Little Fish' Still In Them.

Use Of Native Labor Was Kept At A Minimum In The Construction Of Air Fields On Okinawa. Reports From Men At The Field Stated That Women Eager To Work And Trucks Bringing Them To The Construction Area Were Constantly Filled. Shown Here Are Some Of The Wo

A German convoy, including American tanks & half-tracks captured during the counter-offensive, attempting a withdrawal to Houffalize was caught in the center of Noville, Belgium by 9th AF fighter-bombers and ground artillery, with results shown

Exterior storage of 240 mm gun , Armories, Storage facilities, Arms & armament, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Hanau, Germany, After Bombing Attack By 9Th Af.

Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia. No. B510, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Yorktown.

France - 9Th Af Bombers Delete Another Track, Near Valognes, Which Brought Supplies And Men To The Front Lines Of The Fleeing German Armies.

Some of the destruction caused by the 11 Aug 44 bombing attack on the coast defense position south of Hyeres, France. Photo shows old French underground fortification of masonry construction.

Members of the 1876th Eng. Aviation Battalion smooth and pack the dirt during construction of a new airstrip somewhere in the Philippine Islands. 25 June 1945.

Twin Fixed 50 Caliber Machine Guns Of Jap Plane May Be Seen Mounted Directly Behind Pilot. A Flexable Machine Gun May Also Be Fired From Rear Cockpit. Palawan Island, P. I. Aircraft Is A Kawasaki 45 Kai ('Nick') Fighter.

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. A Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX, based in the United Kingdom, landing at to refuel at B3/Sainte Croix-sur-Mer, Normandy.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Troops & PARATroops,MEIKTILA War

Radio Station and transmitting antennae of the 2nd Army Airways Wing at Mellaha, Tripolitania, Libya, 14 May 1945.

Gi's Watch Explosion Of Ammunition Dump On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. The Explosions Occurred Around 9:00 Am And Continued Until 10:00 Pm On The Same Day.

Balikpapan Operation July 1-31, 1945-Here is shown the General Repair Ship for refinery equipment in Balikpapan refinery area, after its destruction by bombs. 7 July 1945.

These 8th Air Force Boeing B-17s on Poltava Airfield, Ukraine, Russia, having just completed their first shuttle-bombing msision from England, were destroyed on the ground in a perfectly timed and well executed attack by the German Air Force on the

American soldiers spraying sides of streams and checking for isolated pools that might breed that deadly malaria mosquito. They are following the work of native laborers. Corsica.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Cpl. James A. Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio, Repairs The Propeller Of The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Stella", Which Crash Landed In A Field At Nr. Bournemouth, Hants, England. Cpl. Taylor Is A Member Of The Mobile Repair Unit Of The 8Th Air Force Service C

Air Corps Supply Buildings, Santa Maria, Azores. 20 July 1945.

A Stone Quarry On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, Is Operated By Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion.

A thick mat of grass and branches covered the top of the drum loading station at the Lutong tank farm, making detection from the air more difficult. 13 July 1945.

RUMANIA-This German smoke pot was one of the many that the Germans used in an unsuccessful effort to stem the might of the 15th AF heavy bomber attack on the Ploesti Oil Refinery targets. Many times, the fort and the Liberators had to bomb through

WELCOME HOME.Old Glory proudly waves in her gallant soldiers of the air, as the formations of Boeing B-17s of the 8th AAF circle their home field uponn the completion of another historic operation. The nissen hut, familiar to the boys of the Britain

Railroad battery before Petersburg. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-1171. Soldiers, Union, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, Batteries (Weaponry), Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, Railroad artillery, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, Virginia, Petersburg, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, Virginia, Petersburg, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Union, Virginia, Petersburg, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865.

Men'S Quarters In Background And At Right Are Remains Of Goering'S House, After The Bombing By The 15Th Af Bombers In Berghof, Germany.

General view of an airfield at Palermo, Sicily. 2 October 1943.

Baguio, Luzon Island, Philippine Islands-Baguio, General Hospital. Three bombs fell in line here, one hit and two near misses. Craters were 20x12 feet. 28 April 1945.

AMS-138 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Pedro Miguel/Locks - Smoke Screen Tests, Aerial Photograph.

Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADAR War

U.S. plane damaged during...

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