Troops and Operations in WWII

Historic black-and-white images depicting military personnel and operations during World War II, including aircraft, troop movements, and medical logistics.

Whole blood being loaded aboard a Douglas C-47 going to the front. These planes carry blood and supplies to the front and bring the wounded back.
Whole blood being loaded aboard a Douglas C-47 going to the front. These planes carry blood and supplies to the front and bring the wounded back.
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Antenna Assembly For Vhf Fighter-Control And Homer Station Set Up Of The 364Th Fighter Group, 67 Fighter Wing At 8Th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England. 2 March 1945.
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Members Of The Chinese American Composite Wing Participate In An On-The-Spot Recording Made By The Cbi Recording Unit At Kweilin, China, In April 1944. Second From Right Is Colonel Irving Branch, Commanding Officer Fo The Cacw; On The Extreme Right Is Th
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Riggers Of Parachute Battalion In Training In England Pack Parachutes Under The Direction Of Master Riggers.
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Portable Antenna Assembly For Vhf Fighter-Control Radio Set Up Of The 364Th Fighter Group, 67 Fighter Wing At 8Th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England. 19 May 1945.
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Crew Members Of The 458Th Bomb Group Are Briefed Before Taking Off From Their English Base To Participate In Bombing Mission Over Enemy Territory In Europe. 26 February 1945.
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Chaplain Saying Benediction For Gunners Of The 303Rd Bomb Group. England, 8 October 1943.
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Photograph of Cesar Romero Dancing for Fellow Coast Guardsmen.
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NATO Airbase in France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Pre-Invasion Conference Aboard Coast Guard Combat Cutter. Aboard a Coast Guard combat cutter which spearheaded the attack on Southern France, Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry (left), USN, discusses final invasion tactics with Maj. Gen. John W. O'Daniel. Close Army, Navy, and Coast Guard cooperation marked the entire operation. Admiral Lowry resides in Cresco, Iowa, while General O'Daniel's home is in Washington, D.C.
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Huachuca jam - 372nd musicians , Soldiers, Military bands, United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 372nd. Jack Miller Collection
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Once Every Four Or Five Months, Men Of The 14Th Air Force In China, Stage A Show Under The Auspices Of Special Services. Before The Show, Make-Up Must Be Applied To The Men Who Are To Play The Feminine Leads In The Skit. A Chinese Soldier Stands By As T
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,EQUIPMENT War
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Pfc. John Fiederowicz, A Pneumatic Drill Operator With The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Drills Hole For Dynamite Charge At Coral Quarry On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. Pfc. Fiederowicz Is From 184 Sheldon St., Hartford, Connecticut. 17 May 1945.
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Of The Hundreds Of Airmen Who Have Visited The Ishikawa Exhibit, Located Near The Daily Okinawan Newspaper Plant, A Principal Attraction For Them Has Been These Sidewalk Watercolor Artists Who Prefer Outdoor Scenes For Their Creative Efforts. The Object
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1St Lt. James A. Long Of Rockwood, Tennessee (Center) Instructs 1St Lt. Frederick B. Farrell Of Caledonia, Ny., Left, And Lt. Roy A. Burton Of Kansas City, Missr., On Procedures Of Night Landing. They Are Being Instructed On The Drem Lighting Table. Bov
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Lt. Lawrence Townsend, A B-17 Pilot, Brought Back His Wings, Lt. Bar And Assortment Of Nazi Souvenirs Pinned To His Wool Knit Headgear. Townsend Was Captured After Being Shot Down By Flak During A Bombing Run Over St. Lo On 25 July 1944.
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Coast Guardsman Talks it Over With Prisoners. Somewhere in the Mediterranean, Coast Guardsman Earl Sauter talks to a wistful pair of your German prisoners aboard a Coast Guard manned transport enroute to a North African port. The Germans were captured in the fighting around Salerno. Coast Guardsman Sauter is a Chief Pharmacist's Mate. His home is at 1543A South Seventh Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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France--The surveyors set to work, staking out guide lines for the heavy equipment operators to follow. PFC Robert L. McGregor, 23, of Riverdale, Utah, sights through an engineer's transit while T/Sgt. Joseph Palermo, 29, of Valley Stream
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Personnel show light signal.
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Capt. Green Jungle Rescue 19 March To 4 April 1945. A Pt-19 On A Search And Rescue Mission Which Crashed Three Minutes Flying Time From Shingbwiyang Air Field, Burma. Before The Injured Pilot (Capt. James L. Green) Could Be Evacuated From The Hillside Int
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Fruit Salad Out of Paper Cups. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen as they eat fruit salad out of paper cups aboard the Coast Guard cutter Campbell after it engaged six German submarines.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RECREATION War
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Flight Nurses Being Trained On Bivouac Area At Oahu, Hawaii, For Work In The Jungles. 21 May 1944.
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Air Force soldier stands up while eating in the open in Manila, Philippine Islands-May 1945. No tables or seats of any kind were available for this organization.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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FRONT LINE BATH TUB WITH SHOWERS. .. While some prefer tea, these 9th AF, Fighter-Bomber pilots freshen up with a communal shower rigged up for their benefit at a point near their camp just behind the front lines in France. Note schedule
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Last Wing Mission Of The 500Th Bomb Group. Unlike The Wild Celebration In The States And On Some Other Pacific Islands, Peace Came Quietly To The Men Of The 500Th Bomb Group. Saipan, Marianas Islands, 16 August 1945.
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Interior View Of Ward In The 29Th Portable Surgical Hospital Located Near Yontan Airstrip, Which Is Under Operational Control Of The 5Th Air Force. This Unit Can Transport Enough Equipment To Operate For 30 Days In 11 Douglas C-47 "Skytrains", Leaving A
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Aerial Gunners Crowd Around The Confirmed Combat Claims List Posted On A Wall In The New Combat Crew Library At A "Flying Fortress" Station In Framlingham, England. The Library Was Desgined To Serve As A Source Of Information Of All Kinds To The Combat C
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Sgt. Marion Gilbert of Knoxville, Tennessee, a member of the 91st Bomb Group at Bassingbourne, England, is shown with is prize-winning solid model of a B-17G "Flying ofrtress." This model, 28 inches long with a 38 inch wingspread, complete with chin
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Anefo photo collection. 3rd day Four-day Nijmegen (plasmill). July 23, 1953. Nijmegen
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The British Reoccupation of Burma Lieutenant Hyuga, camp interpreter and one of the Japanese officer prisoners of war held at Insein near Rangoon, receives his orders for the day from camp commandant Captain A C Jenkins. Held at the camp were seventeen generals, three colonels, three lieutenant colonels, five majors, three captains, five lieutenants, twenty three other ranks and one naval captain. A number of these men were suspected war criminals.
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DN-SN-85-11036. Base: USS Constellation (CV 64)
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J. Miller, L. Gray, N. Walters, R. Campbell , Miller, Jack, 1924-1948. Jack Miller Collection
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ENGLAND-"Flying Crusader" has been lucky in having just one injured crewman, who had a piece of flak in the shoulder. "Pop" Donovan, puts a place of chewing gum in flak hole near waist window, a pet superstition.
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Britain Supplies US Army Store- Americans in Britain, 1943 Corporal H E Hatfield (left, of Route 2 Foxworth, Mississippi) inspects the socks and boots of Staff Sergeant Robert Gillespie (right, of 313 Hellier Street, Pikeville, Kentucky) in a warehouse at an American Army Store, somewhere in Britain. S/Sgt Gillespie is lifting his foot in the air to show off the British socks and re-built boots he is wearing. The socks arrive in huge bales, like the ones on which the men are leaning, and his American boots have been repaired and re-built by British firms. Both items come under the reverse lend-lease or Reciprocal Aid agreement.
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Elsevier photo collection. Camp Desold Garden Doorn, 1300 Marines recurring days. marines seen camp demonstrations American weapons. foreground Marines flame thrower demonstrated attack, Bazooka lies statement. August 22, 1951. Doorn
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RECREATION War
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1St Lt. Jack C. Fisher, Jr., A Bombardier With The 323Rd Bomb Squadron, 91St Bomb Group, Is Visited By Colonel Grow, 8Th Air Force Surgeon, At The 2Nd Evacuation Hospital At Diddington, England. Lt. Fisher Was Badly Wounded During A Mission By Cannon Fir
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Injured Paratrooper Shows Pictures of Benefactors. Aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport off Southern France, Army paratrooper Odis P. Powell (left) of Seaside, Calif., who broke his leg in the landing there, shows Navy pharmacist's mate first class Nelson E. Hood, Jr., of Rock Hill, S.C., pictures he made of the French couple who carried him to their farmhouse and cared for him till Army medics arrived.
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North Africa-North American B-25 damaged by anti-aircraft fire.
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Six photos showing the imperturbability of British citizens when faced with German bombings: 'You might as well try to shake the nerve of a mountain as of this population' wrote Mr E.C. Bentley on August 19th. August 1940
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RESCUE War
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Vintage photograph. close up of statues at james gordon bennett memorial
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Sign of camp headquarters at replacement cantonment of coast artillery. San Diego, California 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Diego, California , San Diego County
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A volunteer of the Red Cross Motor corps, at the loading of the Gripsholm, painting the destination on boxes of clothing, food and other supplies for prisoners of war in Japan and the Far East.
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U.S. Army Field Ration K Units, Breakfast, Supper and Dinner Units to be used in emergencies and continuous combat only, Subsistence research laboratory, U.S. Army Quartermaster Depot, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Howard R. Hollem, U.S. Office of War Information/U.S. Farm Security Administration, March 1943