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Military Visits and Operations 1940s

Historical military visits showcasing armed forces interacting at airfields in Indonesia and operations involving reconnaissance and support activities.

North American P-51 Mustang Under The Tail Of A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Brest, France, circa 1945
North American P-51 Mustang Under The Tail Of A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Brest, France, circa 1945
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DF-SN-85-12591. Base: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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DN-SN-85-03332. Base: Naval Air Station, Long Beach State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit Prince Bernhard Chapel to Surabaya. Visit to Surabaya. On the airport. March 26, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya
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X-15 Pilots, Left to Right: Air Force pilot William J. "Pete" Knight, Air Force Major Robert A. Rushworth, Air Force Captain Joseph H. Engle, NASA pilot Milton O. Thompson, NASA pilot Bill Dana, and NASA pilot John B. "Jack" McKay.
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U.S. Army soldiers are airlifted to Osan by the Flying Tiger Airlines for participation in the Joint CHIEF of STAFF Exercise Team Spirit '81. A soldier arrives on crutches to take part in the exercise. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '81 Base: Osan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)
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Aerial view of three F-4 Phantom aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 333 (VMFA-333). Base: Naval Air Station, Cubi Point State: Luzon Country: Philippines (PHL)
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DF-SN-86-09500. Base: Marietta State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Airbases in France, Information Tour. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Air Force Javelin Rocket on Launcher (USAF JV-1) Wallops Model D4-78 L59-5144 First AFSWC Javelin sounding rocket ready for flight test, July 7, 1959. Photograph published in A New Dimension Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years by Joseph Shortal. A NASA publication. Page 704.
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Two DAF YA328 artillery tractors pass the downlet point with O.A. H.M. Koningin Juliana and Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard during the Parade in Ede on the occasion of Liberation Day.
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Two flight deck crew members inspect an A-6E Intruder aircraft aboard the aircraft carrier JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) during FLEET EX 1-90. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
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Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. Departure from a Dutch delegation with the SkyMaster (DC-4, 313) from the Dutch government from Schiphol to Indonesia. 13 February 1946. The Netherlands, Noord-Holland, Schiphol
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White House, arrival of President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ). President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson (both in center) speak with Secret Service agent, Rufus Youngblood, upon arrival on the South Lawn from Dallas, Texas, via Andrews Air Force Base. Those exiting United States Army helicopter include: Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Special Assistant to the President for National Security, McGeorge Bundy; White House Secret Service agent, Floyd Boring. White House, Washington, D.C.
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Pallets of US Army tents are offloaded from Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft at Capodichino Airport. The tents will provide temporary shelter for the victims of a major earthquake on 23 November. Base: Naples Country: Italy (ITA)
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A view of damage caused to two F-4 Phantom II aircraft that were parked on the port side flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41)when it collided with the Panamanian freighter CACTUS. Base: Naval Station, Subic Bay State: Luzon Country: Philippines (PHL)
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Air Force members, wearing chemical warfare gear, decontaminate a fighter aircraft during base defense training, part of exercise Team Spirit '81. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '81 Base: Kunsan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)
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Briefcase abroad. . . Your Helicopter Is Waiting Sir. - There's no struggling through traffic jams to office and back for Mr. Dick Fairey, 39-year-old general manager of the Fairey Aviation Company.As he sips his last cup of breakfast coffee each morning, Mr. Fairey's butler Godfrey announces: "Your helicopter is waiting, sir."And Mr. Fairey - who lost both legs by frostbite in wartime after spending six days in a lefeboat - walks out into the back garden of his home at Pinkneys Green, near Maidenhead, and climbs into the "driver's seat" of his machine. His briefcase is handed to him.And off he whirls over his house. You can see the shadow of his helicopter on his lawn in yesterday morning's sunshine.A motorlist leaving at the same time would take 50 minutes to get to his office at Hayes, Middlesex. Yesterday, Mr. Fairey was there in eight minutes. April 26, 1955.
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Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. Soldiers of the Pioneer Corps laying prefabricated bitumised strips (PBS) for a new runway at B10/Plumetot, Normandy, as a Hawker Typhoon of No. 198 Squadron RAF takes off on the airstrip.
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Equipment is offloaded from a C-130 Hercules aircraft at Point Salines Airfield during the multiservice, multinational Operation URGENT FURY. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)
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Anefo photo collection. Parachuting at Ilsy (Ypenburg). August 14, 1951. The Hague, Ypenburg, South Holland
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Project 23 - Redwing (Enewetak/Bikini) Test Activities. Decontamination monitor locating & marking spots of radioactivity on men. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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DF-SN-86-12366. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: West Germany (FRG)
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. Leading Aircraftmen R Finney and W Jones rolling a 250-lb GP bomb for loading onto Hawker Hurricane Mark IIC 'Hellzapoppin' of No. 11 Squadron RAF, at Sinthe, Burma.
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DN-SN-85-06345. Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Country: Indian Ocean (IOC)
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Lost H-bomb recovered off Palomares, Spain. It was lost when a American B-52 carrying 4 H-bombs broke up over the Mediterranean near Palomares. April 8, 1966.
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Princess Juliana (later queen of the Netherlands); makes a visit via a KLM flight to the colony of Suriname 1942
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Vintage Photograph. Army guard with police dog on air base.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival General S.H. Track on Kemajoran (24 August 1946). Head of army contacts a.j.e. Van Berckelaer with woman and daughter. August 24, 1946. Indonesia, Kemajoran, Dutch East Indies
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Sound measurement with a decibel meter at various airbases. A Lockheed T-33a in the background.
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Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Crew members of a Vickers Wellington Mark III of the Sea Rescue Flight, based at LG 'X' (also known as LG 206/Abu Sueir North), Egypt, at their stations by the beam gun positions of the aircraft during a search. The crewman on the left is using an Aldis signalling lamp to communicate with a ship.
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Arrival ceremony for Joío Goulart, President of Brazil, 10:00AM. President John F. Kennedy and President of Brazil Joío Goulart leave the reviewing platform during arrival ceremonies for President Goulart at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. Those walking with the group at left include: Naval Aide to the President Commander Tazewell Shepard, Jr., Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy, President Goulart, Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke, Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs Francisco Clementino San Tiago Dantas, U.S. State Department Interpreter José de Seabra, Ambassador of Brazil Roberto de Oliveira Campos, Air Force Aide to the President Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh, Military Aide to the President General Chester V. Clifton, Brazilian Senator Antônio de Barros Carvalho, United States Ambassador to Brazil Lincoln Gordon, and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay. White House Secret Service agent Gerald A. Jerry Behn (center left) w
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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
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Two members of the connection service working with a transmission receiver of the type 19 set MK I. The man left has a signal key on his knee. With this one could come to Russia through the short wave. These devices were delivered by the USA at the end of the Second World War through the Leen- and Lease Act. On these sets also stood text in Russian and Chinese.
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Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.
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Anefo photo collection. unknown . KLM commander L. A. Brugman Commandorevlieger with director of escape production A. Bach. March 12, 1957
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Coast Guardsmen following evacuation. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen in Hawaii who were evacuated from the French Frigate SHOALS due to Hurricane Dot.
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GDR, Berlin, 22. 12. 1989, opening of the Brandenburg Gate (at the Brandenburg Gate the Wall is opened), European flag, German flag
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WASPs at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. WASPs at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. Original Captions: "WASPS Mrs. Alice L. Riss, Mrs. G.C. Scales, Miss Dolores E. Meuer, and Miss Edith C. Keene, walk between line up of basic trainers at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas."
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Weekend in Newport, Rhode Island: Arrival at Quonset Naval Air Station. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy exit their plane as they arrive at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island. Governor John A. Notte, Jr. of Rhode Island and a military officer greet President Kennedy while others observe. Following the First Lady on the stairs are Naval Aide to the President Tazewell Shepard, Jr., Secret Service Agent Gerald Jerry Behn, and others.
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DF-SN-85-13568. Base: Nellis Air Force Base State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Puerto Rican National Guardsmen move away from a C-130 Hercules aircraft upon their arrival to take part in during Operation Ocean Venture '82. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '82 Base: Saint Croix State: Virgin Islands (VI) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Drs. W.K. Hoekzema, State Secretary for Defense looks at the Kooy in a hangar at MarineLiegkamp de Kooy, where the torpedoes are hung on the underside of the Lynx helicopters.
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Members of the 82nd Airborne Division gather their gear and prepare to move out during the multiservice, multinational Operation URGENT FURY. A C-141B Starlifter aircraft from the 63rd Military Airlift Wing (MAW) lands on the runway at Point Salines Airfield. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)
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Anefo photo collection. Arrival Lord Prince Prisoner from Indonesia. November 13, 1954. Indonesia
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President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan, along with staff members are welcomed by a group of officers to the Pacific Missile Test Center. Base: Naval Air Station, Point Mugu State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Arrival ceremony for Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea, 11:00AM. Arrival ceremonies for President of Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré. Left to right (in foreground): Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor (greeting President Touré); U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn; U.S. Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (in back, partially hidden); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; President Touré; President John F. Kennedy (back to camera); U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (partially hidden on edge of frame). Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.
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Exhibit of arms , Ordnance industry, Armories, Arms & armament, Exhibitions, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Key West, Florida: 1962 Onlookers gather on George Smathers Beach in Key West, Florida to see the Army''s Hawk anti-aircraft missiles positioned there during Cuban Missile Crisis.
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DM-SN-88-09674. Base: Marine Corps Air Station El Toro State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Inspection tour of NASA installations: Huntsville Alabama, Redstone Army Airfield and George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, 9:35AM. President John F. Kennedy tours the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Director of the MSFC, Dr. Wernher von Braun, walks left of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Associate Administrator of NASA, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Paul Nitze; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Secretary of the Air Fo
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Trip to Maine Massachusetts: Maine, Orono, Address at the University of MaineOrono, 11:00AM. President John F. Kennedy arrives aboard a United States Army helicopter at the University of Maine at Orono; President of the University of Maine, Dr. Lloyd H. Elliott, escorts President Kennedy to Alumni Memorial Athletic Field. Also pictured: Military Aide to the President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, Lawrence O Brien; White House Secret Service agent, Bill Duncan. Orono, Maine.
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Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. A member of the parliamentary committee speaks with Hamid II Alkadri (left), the Sultan of Pontianak, during a stopover in Cairo on the way to Jakarta. March 1946. Cairo, Egypt
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A view of the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine HENRY M. JACKSON (SSBN-730) during the ship's launching ceremony. Base: Croton State: Connecticut (CT) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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DN-SN-86-00075. Base: Bremerton State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Presentation of the National Security Medal to Allen Dulles, 11:00AM. President John F. Kennedy arrives via United States Army helicopter at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to present the National Security Medal to Allen W. Dulles, retiring director of the CIA. President Kennedy walks across a grassy area and is accompanied by Naval Aide to the President Captain Tazewell Shepard (walking just behind the President).