War Infrastructure and Logistics

Photos focusing on wartime logistics, including bridges, aircraft, and military structures, illustrating the impacts of conflict on infrastructure.

Transients' barracks at Gura Airport, Gura, Eritrea. June 1943.
Transients' barracks at Gura Airport, Gura, Eritrea. June 1943.
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Algiers, Algeria-Twisted remains of a German JU 88 that was shot down over Algiers on the night of 26 March 1942. A medium bomber, it carried a crew of four. The plane and three of the crew were fished out of the harbor. Body of the fourth member
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A close view of a four-motored bomber's nose showing the score board of bombing raids. This particular Consolidated B-24 started its career by raids over Japaneseanese held territory, and made fourteen such raids as indicated by the bombs marked with the
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Boeing B-17 Bomber Crew Lost In Artic Sixty-Six Days, When "Flying Fortress" Ferried By An Air Transport Command Crew Crashed On The Greenland Ice Cap, November 9, 1942. Left To Right: Staff Sergeant Don T. Tetly; Lt. Harry E. Spencer; And Captain Armand
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Radio Operator In Control Tower At Accra Air Base, Accra, Gold Coast, Africa. April 1943.
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Engineering Section Of The 13Th Air Force Based On Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 11 April 1944.
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Camouflaged tent area at advanced air headquarters in Tunisia. 30 March 1943.
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Kuma class cruiser taking...
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Lt. Colonel Frank W. Gillespie, Commanding Officer At Roberts Field.
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Camouflaged Hangar. Wideawake Field, Ascension Islands. June 1943.
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The Temperature Dropped Sharply As The Uso Troupe Headed By Pat O'Brian And Jinx Falkenberg Flew Over The Himalaya To Entertain The Gi'S In China. Here Jinx Snuggles Into A Fur-Lined Flight Jacket And Covers The 'Cover Girl'S' Profile With An Unsightly O
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USMC and Vietnamese buildings and bunkers during the Vietnam War. This photograph, taken in 1967, shows a patio leading to the servants quarters inside the Citadel in Hue, Vietnam. The image is part of the Defense Department's collection and was captured by SSgt R. E. Wilson.
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Shot of the smoke being spread on the Bellows Field line, New Guinea by Republic P-47.
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Planes and installations at Hollandia Airdrome, Dutch New Guinea, are hit by parachute bombs dropped by planes of the 345th Bomb Group, 498th Bomb Squadron on 3 April 1944.
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Gun tube transfer trailer , Armories, Ordnance industry, Arms & armament, Carts & wagons, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Lt. Henry H. Morgan of St. Paul, Minn., Tactical Reconnaissance Controller. FRANCE.
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China - Capt. H. Lee Meadows, 26 Of 517 1/2 Lenox Ave., Daytona Beach, Florida, Receives The Oak Leaf Cluster To The Distinguished Flying Cross. Lt. Colonel John C. Habeck, Commander Officer Of Meadows' 'Assam Dragon' Squadron, 'Flying Horse' Group, 14Th
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Major Robert B. Westbrook Chats With Major General Hubert R. Harmon After Receiving The Distinguished Service Cross At The 13Th Air Force Base On Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 5 May 1944.
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For Meritorious Service In Connection With Operations Against The Enemy, Major General C.L. Chennault, Commanding General Of The 14Th Af Awards The Bronze Star To Colonel Rudolph Fink, 'Flying Tigers' A-4 Officer, During A Brief Ceremony At The Headquarte
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A NINTH AIR FORCE BOMBER STATION, England--Roaring in at a low altitude this Douglas A-20 Havoc of the Ninth Air Force is shown blasting enemy supply lines on the Cherbourg peninsula. These hard hitting light bombers are playing a great part in
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Bomb Damage In Northern Italy Caused By Bombs From 15Th Af Bombers. 12 May 1945.
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Colonel Grant O. Williams, Left, Signal Officer, 1St U.S. Army, Awards The Air Medal To Capt. Frederick A. Campbell, Right, Of Tampa, Fla.
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Two Officers Demonstrating The Use Of G-Suits. England - 7 December 1944.
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Recently U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators attacked Japaneseanese Installations in the Dutch Celebes. Direct hits were scored on two Japanese cruisers and one cargo vessel, and oil fires started which were visible for more than 70 miles. This spectacular
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Col Grant O. Williams, Left, Signal Officer, 1St U.S. Army, Awards The Air Medal To S/Sgt. Keete L. Mills, Right, Of Lima, Ohio.
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Three members of the U.S. Air Forces who were marooned for 10 months on New Britain in the midst of Japaneseanese held territory were recently rescued together with an Australian Volunteer Rifleman they met in the jungle. They were first discovered by a
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A-1 Awards And Decorations Section Of The 13Th Air Force Based On Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 12 April 1944.
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Recreation Hall At Maiduguri Field, Nigeria, Africa. June 1943.
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Aircraft, Burma, India &MISCELLANEOUS War
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Air Force Personnel Line Up For Shots At Wideawake Field, Ascension Island. May 1943.
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A North American B-25, while on a mission over Northern Italy on 26 May 44, had one of its vertical stabilizers shot off by flak. The pilot brought his plane back to Corsica, intending to try and land it at his home base. However, rather than risk a
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Bomb Damage To The Rail And Communication Center Of Saarbrucken, Germany. Damage Was Caused By Bombing Of The 9Th Af.
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Trucks Loaded With Transients Leaving Operations Building For Camp, Accra Air Base, Accra Gold Coast, Africa. May 1943.
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Chemical Warfare Section Of The 13Th Air Force Based On Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 12 April 1944.
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16th CCU. Photographer, Lt. H.G. Johnson, of Van Nuys, Calif., filming the evacuation. Nanning, China.
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Staff Officers Of The 13Th Air Depot Group At Tontouta Airbase In Noumea, New Caledonia. 22 February 1943.
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Closeup Of Cockpit Of 'Bukabomb' Showing Stick And Instruments. Japanesean, Sept. 1945.
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Soldiers of the Flying Tigers in out-of-the-way bases in China refuse to do without their daily shower. Wooden buckets are equipped with condensed milk cans, artfully peppered with small holes. A piece of old inner tube fits over can
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Capt. Joseph Woodson, Chaplain With The 389Th Air Service Group, Conducts Protestant Services At Machinato Air Base, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, 23 September 1945. The Chaplain's Assistant Is Cpl. Olson.
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Before -- One Formation Of First Tacaf B-26S Was Assigned To Bomb These Defenses In Siegfried Line Near Zweibrucken, Germany.
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Decoration Of Tokyo Flyers By Madame Chiang Kai Shek At Chungking, China, June 29, 1942. Madame Chiang Kai Shek, Colonel John A. Hilger, Capt. Henery A. Potter, Capt. Edgar E. Mcelroy.
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T/5 Joseph R. Rambin, Carmi, Ill., And T/5 William Ates, Holt, Fla., Members Of Parachute Battalion In Training In England Fold Parachutes.
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16Mm Photo Projector At The General Staff Aerial Photo Processing Lab Of The 65Th Fighter Wing, Saffron-Walden, Essex, England.
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Japaneseanese Visual Display Board Which Was Used To Detect Position Of Attacking Planes. 13 December 1945. (Sc No Wpa-45-63394).
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