Military Transportation Operations

Images depicting military transportation activities during World War II, highlighting trucks, aircraft, and engineering units in various operations.

Bombs in the roundhouse are worse than a bull in a china cup.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

Bombs in the roundhouse are worse than a bull in a china cup.

Gi'S Unload Douglas C-47S On An Airstrip At Cape Gloucester, New Britain. 6 February 1944.

A Member Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Moves A Sheeps-Foot Roller To Area Where Airstrip Will Be Constructed. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. May 1945.

Shell Island refueling base was of little value to the Japs after the AAF destroyed a warehouse, six storage tanks and other facilities during air attacks in this area. Philippine Islands, May 1945.

Air Evacuation at Base D, Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea, December 1942.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War

A General View Of Taxi Strip Under Construction By Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 May 1945.

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

Hard standing No. 3 taken from junction of Nos. 3 & 4, Garbutt Field, Townsville, Australia. 13 December 1943.

Soldiers Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion And Civilians Fill In Bomb Craters At An Airfield In St. Trond, Belgium. 22 Sept. 1944 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion.

Under the supervision of American soldiers, Sicilian civilians unload 75 Howitzer ammunition and stack it at a supply dump near Gela, Sicily. July 1943.

Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the 15th AAF lined up at Lyons with bombs and gas which they flew up to Lyons from Italy.

Men of the 11th Air Force stationed near Amchitca, Aleutian Islands, roll barrels of fuel up a hill for storage. 12 October 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,WRECKS War

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RESCUE War

Airborne infantrymen load Troop Carrier plane.

The line moves forward as men scurry up a ridge to forward positions in the face of heavy Jap fighting. They are taking up a small mortar in an effort to flush the Japs on the other side of the ridge. The battle for Fort Stotsenburg and hills beyond

French civilian workers repair a bomb crater on a former Luftwaffe airfield now serving as a base for Martin B-26 Marauders of the 9th Air Force. By using the former German bases in France, the medium bombers are now able to fly more missions.

CONTINUED ALLIED BOMBING AT BABO--General Kenney's Fifth Air Force North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers continue to blast the Japanese air base at Babo, Dutch New Guinea. In the background, bombs burst on the hangars, workshops and living

North Africa-A 9th U.S. Air Force convoy stops to "brew up" and rest a few minutes before continuing on to a landing ground newly captured from the retreating Germans and Italians.

Damage To Enemy Airplanes On The Bad Abling Airdrome, Germany, May 1945.

BELGIUM-Sweating them off: Crew chiefs of a 9th Air force Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadron tensely watch their aircraft take to the air on a mission in close support of American ground forces. 404th Fighter Group.

Xx Bomber Command Personnel Examine The Remains Of Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" (A/C 42-24582), 40Th Bomb Group At Chakulia, India, That Was Demolished As A Result Of An Accident That Occured When Bombs Were Being Unloaded, 14 January 1945.

Ships carrying supplies for the 11th Air Force are unloaded at Constantine Harbor in Amchitka, Aleutian Islands. 10 October 1943.

The muddy condition of airfields in England is no picnic for the maintenance crews of the 8th AF.

Algiers, Algeria-Chow line.

Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya- Allied convoy moving forward on the heels of the enemy on a desert track near Tripoli.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,GLIDERS War

General View Of The 443Rd Engineer Aviation Battalion's Supply And Camp Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. April 1945.

Mechanics Repairing A North American P-51 Mustang In Front Of Bomb Damaged Hangars At An Airfield In Ober Olm Germany. This Field Was Quickly Converted To Allied Use After Its Capture From The Germans. 17 April 1945.

General View Of Gis Of 41St Bomb Group Relaxing Shortly After Their Arrival At Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.

Fido Method Of Dispelling Fog At Airfield In England.

Anefo photo collection. Anti-aircraft guns HR. Ms. Jan van Brakel. Crew clean weapon. 1944. United America

Scrub Typhus patients are loaded on a LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) to be transferred to the hospital ship lying off the coast of Mar Strip near Cape Sansapor on the Dutch New Guinea mainland. 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

The 807Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Water Point Was About 50 Yards From Kaden Strip B On Okinaway, Ryukyu Retto. The Water Was Pumped From A Creek About A Quarter Of A Mile Away To A Sprinkling Trailer Pulled By A 6X6 Truck. The Sprinkler Was Used To

Douglas A-20 Havocs Of The 410Th Bomb Group Parked Along The Airstrip At A 9Th Air Force Base In France.

Bell P-39s parked on the flooded runway at Longview, Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands. Note bomb truck in center.

Living Quarters For Personnel Of The 372Th Bomb Squadron, 92Nd Bomb Group, At An Airbase Somewhere In France. 10 August 1945.

"Somewhere in France"--A Republic P-47 "Thunderbolt" lands at an airstrip somewhere in Normandy, to be refueled by Ninth Air Service Command mechanics before taking off again to cover ground operation on the everwidening beachhead.

The convoy, transporting units of the 836th Engineer Group, 374th Fighter Group and the 18th Fighter Group ground personnel, carried heavy construction equipment and supplies for the construction of airstrips on Middleburg Island and Cape Sansapor on

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC tour through West Java through the hussars of Boreel (reproduction). Krawang: The reserve eskadron armored cars of the Hussars van Boreel's regiment makes a fourteen-day exploration by West Java a scene is built up. March 13, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

A Sunken Submarine Beached Alongside A Destroyed Oil Drum Storage Area At Oshima, Japan.

Officers And Enlisted Men Of The 40Th Bomb Group In China Work Together To Get Finished The Job Of Transporting Empty Gasoline Drums.

7Th Air Force Personnel Look Over Remains Of Lockhead P-38 "Lightning" At A Base Somewhere In The Pacific. Usable Parts Are Salvaged For Use In Other Planes.

Patients on these horizontal bars may not have perfect balance when they get their GI shoes into the air, but it is good exercise during their convalescence at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. This is one of the many means of recreation inaugurated in

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,ARMAMENT War

Aircraft, Burma, India &Troops &Paratroops

Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADAR War

This Wrecked Japaneseanese Plane (Val), Shows Why There Was No Resistance Given The 14Th Af, While Supporting The Chinese Ground Forces.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War

The best laid plans of 13th AAF soldiers frequently go awry in their fight against the weather, their biggest enemy nest to the Japs. This sergeant washed his shirt and hung it on a tent rope to dry overnight. The rains turned it into a dripping mess

Gasoline Storage Area At An Airfield Somewhere In Germany. 20 April 1945.

Rugged and determined paratroopers listen to the words of their jump-master before they board a Douglas C-47 Transport of the Troop Carrier Air Division of the Twelfth Air Force that will be taking them to their dropping zones in Southern France.

4-2 Mortar Crew Fired More Tham 2000 Rounds Of Mortar On Japanese Positions Along Sayre Highway Three Miles South Of Maraway On Luzon. To Facilitate Precision Bombing, Smoke Shells Were Fired To Air Airman In Spotting The Target. Philippine Islands. 9 M

Presentation Of Medals To Personnel Of The 303Rd Bomb Group At An Airbase Somewhere In England. 4 June 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India &PERSONALWELFARE War

Men Who Direct Take-Offs And Landings Of Planes Stand On The Cat Walk Of The 2Nd Air Base Group Control Tower At Camp Patterson In Iceland. 4 June 1942.

Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Lay Wire Matting During The Construction Of An Airfield At St. Pierre Du Mont, Normandy, France.

American soldiers found a wrecked Italian seaplane inside a bombed-out hangar when they landed at Palermo, Sicily. July 1943.

Arrival of Negro family in the lines. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Heavy equipment of the IX Engineer Command, operated by men of the Engineer Aviation Battalion, battles the mud at the bases built in Germany for use of 9th Air Force fighter-bombers. This is a view typical of many such operations that will bring 9th

An Officer Of The 379Th Bomb Group Leads A Group Of English Children In Outdoor Games At An 'Kiddies Party' At An 8Th Air Force Base In England On 2 October 1943. One Of The Group'S Boeing B-17S Is Parked In The Background.

Bomb Damage In Yokohama, Japan.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,WRECKS War

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

Easter On Okinawa - Easter Sunday, 1946, In Sharp Contrast To Easter 1945, Thousands Of American Troops Attending Services Similar To This, Held April 1St, In Memorial To The Men Who Died Last Esater As The Invasion Started And Later During The Battle Of

Crash Crews Salvage Useable Parts From A Consolidated B-24 'Liberator' Which Crashed At Poltava Airbase, A Shuttle Mission Base In Russia. 12 January 1945.

Lt. Lim D. Wee, 3434 Michigan Ave., Detroit Mich, A Chinese-American Officer Of The 14Th Af Engineers, Shown Here Giving Instructions On The Naning Airfield In China, To About A Thousand Coolies Who Helped Repair The Airfield After The Japaneses Vacated It.

Used by members of the 376th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force stationed near Bengasi, Cirenaica, Libya, this weird, but fast-moving contraption was built by Cpl. C.E. Allen of Perryton, Texas and S/Sgt. Kenneth Hope of St. Petersburg, Fla. The ingredients

American Red Cross "doughnuteer" serves men on the flight-line on Solenzara, Corsica.

Wreckage Of A German Plane That Was Shot Down By American Anti-Aircraft Gunners. Anzio Area, Italy, 29 April 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL, EVACUATION,Air War

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Salatiga. Holiday II-2 R.V.A .. Skill rit Artillery tractors. October 8, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Salatiga

The 831St Engineering Company At Work At An Army Air Force Station In England. 27 July 1944.

Kuma class cruiser taking...

Original caption: "Cabazon crew". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

With some of the P-51 Mustang fighters just about to set their wheels down on their English based station and still other returning ships circling the field, the boys in the mobile flying control van stand by to guide the planes in to a safe landing.

Behind this get up is Sgt. Wm. H. Malone, Jr. of Dallas, Texas stackig sulphur trioxide bombs.

Officers Mess And Kitchen Tents In The 7Th Air Force Headquarters Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 August 1945.

Across the Pateros River from Fort William McKinley lies the town of Pateros, about ten miles from Manila. Army visitors cross the temporary bamboo bridge to visit during the town's fiesta celebrating the first anniversary of liberation by the

Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Construct A Landing Strip At Buchschwabach, Germany, With "Hessian Mat" Used For Surfacing. The Mat, A Tar-Paper-Like Composition, Is Laid By Trucks Loaded With 200-Foot Rolls. A 50%%%%%%%% Overlap Is Maintained An

Lockheed P-38 Airplanes on line in New Guinea.

Presentation Ceremony For Member Of The 94Th Fighter Squadron, 1St Fighter Gorup, At An Airfield Somewhere In Italy.

Italian reconnaissance seaplanes, CANP 2-201, are pictured in various stages of construction when they were captured by allied forces at Palermo, Sicily. 11 November 1943.

Old Glory And The Flag Of Free China Go Up At The American Airbase In Nanning, China After Its Re-Occupation By The 14Th Af. Sgt. Edward F. Rossler, Left, 2908 Vaughn St., Cincinnati, Ohio, Hoists The American Flag While A Local Chinese Interpreter Raises

Shattered Remains Of A Section Of Bron Airfield, Lyon, France, After Allied Bombings.

On 2 August 1944 A Tremendous Explosion Rocked The Village Of Remy, France, When Four Us 8Th Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightnings Of The 364Th Fighter Group Strafed A Munitions And Troop Train Which Had Pulled Into A Switching Track In The Village. The Sec

German prisoners surrendering at Beaugency, France, after the 9th Air Force destroyed all avenues of communications escape or reinforcements, 17 September 1944.

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.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War

Fuel Dump At A Boeing B-29 Base In China.

View Of The Area From 'Tower' Showing A Consolidated B-24 As It Returned From 'Strike' On Japanesean, Badly Damaged By Flak, Results Were: 1 Dead, 1 Dying From Crash Landing, 3 Moderately Injured. Dead And Wounded Were Removed From Plane And Taken To The 381S

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.

381St Bomb Group Pay Call At 8Th Air Force Station 167, England, 1 September 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADIO War

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

Transport location in the section of the fourth K.U.K. Army.

Gis Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron, 10Th Army, Standing In Line For Chow At Mess Hall On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.

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