Military Operations and Bombing

Photographs of military operations, including bombing runs on sugar mills and the construction of air force bases during World War II.

These Are The Only Bombs And Bomb Dollies Found Around Atsugi Airdrome, Japanesean. 5 September 1945.

A Modern Paving Machine Is Used By These Members Of An Aviation Engineer Battalion While Constructing An Airfield In England. 826 Aviation Engineer Battalion. Eye, Northants, England. June 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

Surface Water Source Near American Military Government Hospital On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 June 1945.

Type of guns and carriages built at Watertown Arsenal during the Civil War , Armories, Ordnance industry, Arms & armament, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

A Wrecked North American B-25 Of The 310Th Bomb Group Is On A Semi-Trailer Ready To Be Hauled To The Salvage Depot In Berteaux, North Africa. 4 March 1943.

A general view of the service area of the 432nd Fighter Service Squadron. Shown in line awaiting repairs is the North American B-25 "Pretty Pat." 28 April 1945, Lingayen airstrip, Luzon Island, Philippine Islands.

Balikpapan Operation July 1-31, 1945-A 6 inch Japanese naval gun which was captured intact, about 200 yards off the Vassay Highway, 6 miles northeast of Balikpapan. The gun was still in good firing condition when taken. 9 July 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations,CONSTRUCTION,Air Fields War

Caterpiller On The Hydroponics Detachment #2, 7Th Fighter Command, Ploughing Furrows For Beds On Iwo Jima.

Bomb Damage To Railroad Yards, Munich, Germany.

Japaneseanese Soliders And Civilian Prisoners Of War Rolling And Stacking Gasoline Drums At A Supply Dump While Pvt. William E. Regan Of 170-01 91St Road, Woodhaven, Long Island, New York, Stands Guard. Saipan, Marianas Islands, 29 June 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India &CAPTUREDMATERIEL War

Members Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Dig A Drainage Ditch At Matching, England.

Group Of Japaneseanese Soldiers Shown At The Time Of Surrender At 1340Th Aaf Base Unit, Kunming, China, 27 August 1945.

Courseulles Sur Mer, France three miles west of Berniers, was heavily blasted. It lies at south of Mue river, has good landing sites which were used by British, who also made immediate use of its excellent highway which runs straight to Caen.

WAR ACTIVITIES-PACIFIC AREA

Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL, MEDICALBUILDINGS War

Four Days After The Japaneses Left The Nanning Airbase In China With Its Bomb Craters, Ditches And Landmines, The 14Th Af Aviation Engineers Had Rounded Up Close To A Thousand Coolies And By The End Of The Week The Ditches Were Filled And The Bomb Craters Neut

Armorers Loading Ammunition On A Consolidated B-24 Liberator In Preparation For Bombing Mission Over Maloelap Island, In The Marshall Island Group. December 1943, Namumea Island, Ellice Island.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,GLIDERS War

Anti-Aircraft Crew Man A 37 Mm. Gun On Makin Island, Gilbert Islands. Left To Right: Pfc. John Pellsoner Of St. Johnsville, New York; Pvt. Lawrence Townsend Of Hammond, New York; And Cpl. Jesse Cope, Eakly, Oklahoma, 1943.

Japaneseanese air raid shelter on the waterfront in the Balikpapan Refinery Area, Borneo, N.E.I., 7 July 1945. Balikpapan Operation, 1-31 July 1945.

May 1945 - This Is An Aerial View Of The Scene Of The American-Russian Linkup At Torgau, Germany. Picture Was Made From A 9Th Af Plane.

Heavy Rollers, Operated By Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Flatten The Surface Of A Runway Under Construction On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 16 May 1945.

Historical Monuments - Michigan. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

The south wall of the walled city of Intramuros in the heart of Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands, is shown being hit by U.S. artillery. Picture was made from advance observation post in the shambles of the Army and Navy Club from which the Japs

Salvaged Parts Of A Curtiss P-40 Are Loaded On Trucks To Be Transported To An Airfield Somewhere In Iceland For Re-Use. 26 August 1943.

Glider Reclamation -- Two Weeks Time Was All That The 82Nd Service Group, 9Th Troop Carrier Command Engineers Required To Place 60%%%%%%%% Of The 1300 Gliders In Flyable Condition After The Rees-Wesel Airborne Invasion. Shown Here Ready For Servicing Is A Group

Refugees, Freed From German Concentration Camps, Are Gathered Along A Rail Line Near Torgau, Germany, Awaiting The Linkup Of The American And Russian Forces.

Funeral Service At 1391St Aaf Base Unit, Santa Maria, Azores, 15 September 1945.

All that remains of a Consolidated B-24 "Liberator" of the 340th Bomb Group, after a Nazi aerial attack on an airfield at Corsica. 1944.

Gisors, France-Ten 500 lb. bombs and fancy strafing by P-47s did the job on this German troop train.

Protest "Blue-Jay" Rollers at work on the strip. September 7, 1951. (Photo by U.S. Army Photograph).

Bomb Damage In The Marshalling Yards At Trento, Italy. 9 May 1945.

Mechanics Tune Up A Wright R-3350 Engine, Used By The B-29 At The Guam Air Depot, Where Marianas-Based Superfortresses Are Kept In Tiptop Shape For Their Long Runs To Tokyo. Airfield Where Planes Are Parked Is Shown In The Background.

Service Personnel Of Lt. Colonel Leo C. Moon'S 404Th Fighter Bomber Gorup Of The 9Th Af Accustomed To Working Under Handicaps At Advanced Airstrips, Now Enjoy The Best Of Facilities, Thanks To The German Retreat. Photo Shows P-47 Thunderbolts Undergoing

Bomb Damage To Marshalling Yards At Miramas, France.

All that is left of a Junkers 52 troop carrier after Allied airmen bombed the administrative building and airdrome of an Axis position in Libya.

View in Water Battery, James River, Virginia Ready to fire. Civil War Photograph Collection . Artillery (Weaponry), Union, Virginia, James River, 1860-1870, Batteries (Weaponry), Virginia, James River, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, Virginia, James River, 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, Union, Virginia, James River, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Union, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Union.

The Control Tower At Kadena Airfield Is Operated Part Time By Army Air Force And Part Time By Marine Air Force. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, 7 July 1945.

Members Of The Photo Section, 163Rd Liaison Squadron, 10Th Army, Eating Chow After Setting Up Sleeping Quarters For The Night. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.

On 18 April 1942, Airmen Of The Us Army Air Forces, Led By Lt. Colonel James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle, Carried The Battle Of The Pacific To The Heart Of The Japaneseanese Empire With A Surprising And Daring Raid On Military Targets At Tokyo, Tokohama, Yokosuka, Na

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations,CONSTRUCTION,BUILDINGS War

Men of the 1876th Eng. Aviation Battalion at work repairing a bomb damaged bridge somewhere in the Philippine Islands. 25 June 1945.

How blast effect of big bombs manhandled cars is evident in this scene in Ostiense Yards, Italy.

Curtiss P-40 "Warhawks" of the 49th Fighter Group peeel off over their base at Port Moresby, New Guinea.

Shown is a Japaneseanese portable searchlight mounted on a truck. 8 November 1945. Rabaul, New Britain.

Supply trucks towing heavy guns roll in a steady stream on this road in Southern France toward Allied troops who have landed in Southern France on "D" Day as part of operation uppercut.

This Picture Of A Consolidated B-24 Liberator Bomber, Taken As It Crash Landed At A 15Th Aaf Base In Italy, Was Snapped By Sgt. Joseph Leclair Of Lewiston, Mo., Photographer With The Group Photo Lab. The Figure Shrouded By The Dust Of The Still Moving Pl

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Consolidated B-24 Liberators over flooded Dutch countryside on way to Airborne Army 18 Sept 44.

There is nothing much left of this rail yard at Chalon, France, after fighter-bombers of Mediterranean Allied air forces swooped down to strafe supply trains, warehouses, and enemy troops. Boxes of supplies can be seen strewn around the vicinity

Members of the 886th Operation Co., Chemical Warfare Service (attached to the 42nd Bomb Group) prepare a North American B-25 for smoke screen tests at Palawan, Philippine Islands, in preparation for the invasion of Tarakan, 30 April 1945.

Radio transmitter shack at Poltava Airbase, a shuttle mission base in Russia. 10 April 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Troops &Paratroops

Looking Down The Muzzle Of A "Buzz Bomb Buster" That Was Stopped By Neither Snow Nor Cold.

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

Operations Building At Lushien, China, 20 June 1945. (1340Th Aaf Base Unit.)

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.

Admiralty Islands-Making getaway, after dropping 1,000-pound bombs, North American B-25 flies at 150-200 feet due to trees at angle of approach and exit.

Bomb Damage To The Marshalling Yards At Florence, Italy. These Yards Were Wrecked During Bombing By The 42Nd Bomb Wing On 26 September 1944.

Mobile Control Tower-Signal Trailer Directs A Boeing B-17 Of The 379Th Bomb Group To A Safe Landing At An 8Th Air Force Base In England. 7 February 1944.

A Cg-4A Glider Is About To Leave The Ground In Tow Of A Douglas C-47 Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command, During A Snatch Pickup At A Glider Marshalling Area In Wesel, Germany. 17 April 1945.

Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.

A Freight Car And Contents Strafed By Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Pilots Of Colonel Ray J. Stecker'S "Hell Hawk" Group Are Inspected By The Pilots During A Tour Of The Rail Yard At Wabern, Germany, After Its Capture By Us Ground Forces. Left To Right: Capt

Photo Laboratory of the 23rd Photo Squadron in North Africa. 2 October 1943.

Demolished Hangars And Planes At Marignane Airfield In Marseilles, France. 11 Oct 44.

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

Three Members Of The 14Th Air Force Look Out Over A Small Body Of Water Near The Rest Camp Established For Men Who Show Marked War Weariness. The Life At The Camp Is An Easy One - Fishing, Hunting, Relaxation, No Discipline And The Finest Food Procurable

Part Of Their Training Was Taken In The States, So These Mechanics Of The First Brazilian Fighter Squadron Serving In Italy Are Thoroughly Familiar With That All American Product -- The Jeep.

AMS-76 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Anefo photo collection. Reconstruction Drenthe. Emmer compasscum moorweide. November 19, 1947. Drenthe, Emmer compasscum

Soldiers Fighting Fire after Two Transports have a Head-on Collision.

"Rover Joe" --A Ground-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

A Vultee L-5 Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron Takes Off From Runway On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. This Squadron Is Attached To The 10Th Army. 1945.

Railroad Yard At Toulon, France After Attacks By The 12Th And 15Th Air Forces.

Bomb Damage To Marshalling Yards At Miramas, France.

Marine Engineers Scrape And Roll Airfield No. 1 Mount Suribachi In Background.

Arrival Of Chinese 94Th Army At Shanghai, China On 7 September 1945.

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

Capt. John V. Keck, Ordnance Officer At The Chelveston Air Base Designed And Constructed An Inexpensive Bomb, Using M-76, 500 Lb. Cluster Bomb Casing, To Facilitate And Improve The Accuracy Of Propaganda Leaflet Bombing. Shown Here Are Two Ordnance Men P

First Tactical Air Force Aviation Engineers find building airstrips is only one of their assignments-they have to broom-massage them on occasion, too. Somewhere in France, these veterans cheerfully team up to make it possible for the pilots of this

Bomb Damage To Enemy Gun Installations Somewhere In Southern France.

BUILDING B-29 BASES IN CHINA by USAAF aviation engineers and native laborers. Landing strips were constructed on rice fields and paddies, bought from Chinese farmers. Then the farmers themselves and neighboring townspeople pitched in to do the work.

N. Z. Expeditionary Force, pillow fighting. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914, Mediterranean Sea, by Major John Rose.

Capt. Sandy Sanford of New York and an Italian custodian on the burned and rusted deck of the former Italian liner Countes.

Chinese refugees flow from city to city under the protection of the U.S. Army 14th Air force. Mother's dead beside the way, so little sister cooks for the family.

Anefo photo collection. Second Day Menten process in Amsterdam; Photo of the Podhorodic house from which witnesses have seen ments. 11 May 1977. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Members Of The 925Th Engineer Regiment, 9Th Engineer Command, Survey An Airfield Somewhere In Germany. This Was The First Operation Field East Of The Rhine.

Final check and count is made by officers as truck prepares to leave area.-ENGLAND

Wreckage Of A Boeing B-17 (A/C 30863) Which Crashed Near A 353Rd Fighter Group Base In England. 5 November 1943.

In close air-ground cooperation, it is necessary to have a radio jeep near the target to contact the planes and direct them to the vital spot. In this photo, a SBD light bomber is buzzing the JASCO jeep while ground personnel talks with the pilot

Gasoline drums are hauled to Alexai Point Airbase from Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands. 5 October 1943.

Hurricane 'Betsy' - Puerto Rico - 8/12/1956 , Hurricanes, Automobiles, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Lockheed P-38 of the 1st Fighter Group wrecked by a runway collision with another Lockheed P-38 at Biskra, North Africa. 15 January 1943.

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.

Up Goes The Stars And Stripes As The 401St Bomb Group Takes Over The Former Raf Base At Deenethorpe, England On 20 December 1943.

Members of the 41st Division looking over Japaneseanese Zero which was wrecked on the Old Japanese Air Strip, Buna, Papua, New Guinea by bombing. 11 March 1943.

DDE-445 Fletcher , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Target Of Fifth Air Force Low-Level Attack Is Sendai Town In Southwest Kyushu, Ferry Terminal To Honshu Seen As Rail Yards Begin To Burn During Strafing Runs Just Before Japanese Capitulation. Note The Smoke Rising Among The Railway Cars, Left. Visible

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