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.

Sign Made From Bombs At 10Th Air Force Headquarters, Burma, 31 March 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

Members Of The 14Th Air Force Stand In Formation In Front Of A Line Of Curtiss P-40's During A Presentation Ceremony At An Air Base In China.

Over four hundred planes of...

Members Of The 834Th Engineer Aviaiton Battalion Clean Debris From The Streets Of Bombed Furth, Germany.

General View Of Cub Field #7 On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RECREATION War

Major Gen. Charles T. Myers Presents Awards To Men Of The 439Th Troop Carrier Group During A Ceremony At An Air Base Somewhere In France. 18 October 1944.

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

The dope and fabric shop of the 27th Air Depot, at Port Moresby Air Depot, New Guinea. 1943.

Officer'S Shower Of The 35Th Fighter Group, Headquarters, And The 35Th Fighter Control Squadron At Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea, March 1943.

CONSTRUCTION OF A CHINESE AIRFIELD: The same method of construction is used by the women as the men in this project, except that one layer of rock is sufficient to build the parking lot.

Afbq Nov. 14Th -- Blasting Railway Centre Near Brenner Pass -- Large Columns Of Smoke Rising From The Railway Yards At Bolzano, Italy, Near The Brenner Pass, After A Raid By Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses Of The 15Th Army Air Force On November 10Th. Hits

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

General Andre, CG of Constantine Area (French), salutes unknown American soldiers.

Parachutes and personal equipment supply of the 547th Night Fighter Squadron employed a government paid Filipino checker. This bamboo frame supporting the tent is typical of the buildings in this area built expressively for this squadron. Lingayen

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,ARMAMENT War

The Inniskilling Fusiliers, stationed in China, are ordered back to Europe to die on the western front : a scene in transit at Tientsin (now Tianjin) dockside as troops move equipment from the train to the ship (the start of the gangplank can be seen on the right of the photograph). Date: circa 1914

Tournapull Of The 854Th Eab Dumping Coral Sand For The Base Of The #3 Taxiway For Futema B-29 Strip. After The Coral Is Dumped By This Earthmover, A Bulldozer Grades It Over The Clay Earth Sub-Base. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, 7 August 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Ceremonies& Decorations, Awards, War

Cpl. Michael Guyton, Armament Worker, Had Plenty Of Exercise During The Summer Of 1944, When 401St Bomb Group Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses"Were Helping Rain Bombs On Germany. Here, He Adjusts Fuses On One Of The Bombs Meant For Hitler's Europe. Englan

Sunken Ships And Demolished Buildings Are The Results Of Allied Bombing Raids On Shipping And Harbor Installations At Civitavecchia Near Rome, Italy.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Damaged. July 1954

Wreckage And Bombing Pattern Of The Rosenheim Marshalling Yards In Germany, Bombed By The 15Th Af Bombers.

War game - Range finding on the "Washington"

A RETRIEVER amphibious tractor, also known as LVTRI, is shown removing the engine of another amphibious tractor near Marble Mountain in Vietnam. This image captures the activity taking place at the home of the 3rd AnTrac Battalion, under III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), during the Vietnam War. The photograph was taken by Casselli, a defense department photographer, and the negative number is 31-8-1060-60.

Capt. D.M. Van Ornum, 11th Bomber Command is the only man on the island with a motor scooter. He is at home on the scooter as much as he is in a B-24.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War The gondola of army airship Beta II, on the ground with a group of army handlers. This photograph gives a clear view of the arrangement of the twin, four bladed, propellers.

A North American B-25 Under Its Protective Covering Of Camouflage Nets Near Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea. Nets Are Hung From Trees Around Planes. 27 November 1942.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

1000-Lb Bombs In The Foreground Of This Side View Of The Nose Of A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Are Viewed By Both French Civilians And Gis Beneath Paris' Blue Skies, At The Outdoor Exposition Displaying Aircraft And Equipment Used In The Eto, Beneath Th

Tanks are all set to go into the city of Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Infantrymen have taken cover behind their tanks for protections against sniper and machine gun fire. Ahead of the trucks are the tanks, all set to go in. Our men are

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

CONSTRUCTION OF A CHINESE AIRFIELD: Like ants, the Chinese climb up and down the side of this hill, carrying mud to the top of the revetment.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Transportation War

Colonel Duncan Inspects Men Of The 353Rd Fighter Group At An Airbase In England On 22 June 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Enlisted Men Transfer Gasoline From Drums Into Fuel Trucks At An Airfield Somewhere In Germany. 20 April 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Ceremonies& Decorations,MISCELLANEOUS War

Algiers, Algeria-Men in fox hole.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Members Of The Advanced Echelon Armourers Detachment Put A 500 Lb. Demolition Bomb Upon The Angle Iron Of A Bomb Trailer. The Bomb Will Be Dragged Up The Angle Iron To A Forward Position. China.

Camouflage Of A Republic P-47 'Thunderbolt' Near St. Lo, France. 31 July 1944.

As Soon As Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses"Of The 91St Bomb Group Land At Their Home Base After A Raid On Enemy Installations Somewhere In Europe, Ordnance Crews, Who Are 'Sweating' Them Out, Will Re-Load Them With Bombs For Another Mission To Be Flown The

Right In The Middle - Three Men Of A 10Th Air Force Headquarters Stand Guard In Their Compound In Kunming, China While Chinese National Army Soldiers And Yunnan Province Troops Clash Nearby. In This Picture, Left To Right, Are: Sgt. Harold H. Hadley, Rou

GREECE-British paratroopers landing on an airfield near Athens. Note Greeks running to greet them. They were brought in by planes of the 51st Troop Carrier Wing, USAAF, veterans of every show in the Mediterranean theater and the Burma fighting. After

Target shooting contest, 1911, maker unknown.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Ceremonies& Decorations, MEMORIALSERVICES War

Living Quarters Of The 2Nd Air Base Group At An Airfield Somewhere In Iceland. 1 June 1942.

Toul-Rosiere Air Base Dedicated. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

German prisoners...

Here a Curtiss P-40 is being serviced by Sgts. Bloom, Dull, Yaranov and Baker while a Chinese soldier stands guard.

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.

Ammunition Ship Explodes In Harbor Of Bari, Italy - Amidst The Billowing Clouds Of Smoke, Firemen Pour Water On The Wreckage Caused By An Exploding Ammunition Ship. At The Right, Can Be Seen Part Of The Ship. April 9 1945.

Thirty-five thousand attended funeral services for 17 citizens of Clamart, France, killed in the Liberation of Paris, and five American pilots shot down over Clamart. Photo shows flower decked graves of some of the dead.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RELIGION War

Short Form of French 120 gun

Caption: A group of American soldiers working diligently at a maintenance Forward Operating Zone (FOZO) during the Vietnam War. They are seen inspecting and repairing military vehicles, ensuring their reliability and functionality in support of military operations in the region.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

With nearly a foot of snow covering the field, snow plows get a real workout. Here, one of the plows throws up a plume of snow from a runway on this forward fighter-bomber base of the 1st TAC AF in the early hours of the dawn. FRANCE

Bombs for Germany-Plenty of these are available and will be dropped in ever-increasing numbers on our enemies.

Bayonet practice, British training

Plenty of daylight shows through the roof of this one-time hangar at Castel Benito Airdrome, Tripolitania, Libya, after bombing and strafing by the U.S. Army Air Force prior to the Allied march into Tripoli. February 1943.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Flag with an image of a mortar with the text 'Better 10 in the air .... Then 1 in the course. " 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Field Hdqrts. American Ambulance near Verdun

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command This crashed Halifax III at Full Sutton in early January 1945 was the centrepiece of a posed sequence illustrating the work of WAAF nursing orderlies. Corporal Dennett and Aircraftwoman Agnes Hall, both aged 23, attend to an 'injured' crew member as other ground personnel pose by the pilot's escape hatch.

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

Team Work, 1909, by Fred Brockett.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Maintenance,MISCELLANEOUS War

A large gun in the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-3197. Forts & fortifications, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, Cannons, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Virginia, Petersburg, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Virginia, Petersburg, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865.

They Call This Tent 'Left Behind' At This 15Th Af Base Because The Boys In It Decided Against Building A Villa Like The Others, And Resigned Themselves To Face The Italian Weather. Note The Home Made Weather Vane, And The Turret On Top Of The Tent.

Aircraft, Burma, India &RECREATION War

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

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Tunisia-Allied Air Forces have attacked the Axis in the Mareth offensive with greater intensity than before the battle of El Alamein. The full power of the famous desert shuttle service was once again been turned on Rommel's forces in Southern

Gun turret assemblies used for training purposes at an Air Force combat replacement center in northern Ireland. 8 October 1943.

On AMIRAL AUBE

Army kitchen - digital file from original | Library of Congress

Several bombs lie on top of sandbags, external fuel tank piles in background.. Several bombs lie on top of sandbags, external fuel tank piles in background..

Exterior view of Mediterranean Air Transport Service, British, Snack Bar at Gibraltar. 2 October 1943.

Weather control tower at the Third AirTask Force Headquarters. Entire structure was built before sawmill was in operation. New Guinea, January 1944.

China - Gasoline truck waits to refuel a Lockheed F5 of the 21st Photo Squadron, as camera repairmen complete work. In background are ruins of headquarters from which Japaneses were driven by Flying Tigers.

Bombing of the Compressor Plant at Seria, New Guinea, N.E.I., 5 July 1945.

A Homing Pigeon Returns To A Sergeant In The Signal Corps. The Pigeons Proved Themselves Invaluable And In Several Cases Have Actually Saved Lives Of Bomber Crews Forced Down On The Way To Home Base. China, 21 November 1944.

Air Force Officers enjoy their lunch in a garden at the Officers' Rest Leave Home-Auckland, New Zealand.

The artillery practice on the Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Feth-i Bülend / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

ITALY-Some wing tank crates, a few nails, a little paint and a lot of ingenuity built an attractive stage that increased interest in the entertainment.

Control tower at Clark Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 10 August 1945.

Bull-dozers push the lava cinders from the streets of Cercola, Italy. The "black snowfall" was caused by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. March 1944.

South Korean personnel assisting U.S. Air Force personnel in constructing an airfield, somewhere in Korea.

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

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Prof. dr. Romme visits Surabaya. Visit to the front. Romme runs with his company about a provisional walkway. 2 February 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

Surrounded By Heavy Rubber Tires, Two Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion 'Take A Break'. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, May 1945.

'Four aces' of 372nd football team , Soldiers, Football players, United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 372nd. Jack Miller Collection

Signal corp in action , Military personnel, Signals, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

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