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World War II Aircraft and Bases

Images depict remnants of military aircraft, anti-aircraft radar stations, and troop carrier operations from World War II, showcasing historic military installations and maneuvers.

Remains Of A Republic P-47 (A/C 42703) Of The 353Rd Fighter Group Are Scattered Among Fuel Drums And Other Supplies At An 8Th Air Force Base In England. 17 August 1943.

Bomb Damaged Nazi Aircraft At A Captured Airbase In France. This Base Is Now Being Used By The 410Th Bomb Group.

Panorama of the 27th Air Depot Group hangar and repair area at the Port Moresby Air Depot, Papua, New Guinea. 3 October 1943.

Just A Few Miles Behind The Front Lines In Normandy, France, Men Of The 9Th Air Force Aviation Engineers Constructed Emergency Landing Strips Within A Few Days From The Capture Of Enemy-Held Areas. Here, Men Use A Crane For Loading "Hessian Mat" Onto A T

Chaplain Capt. Alvin E. Hauser Holding Services On The Galapagos Islands.

Scenes of wreckage at the railroad marshalling yards, Weisbaden, Germany, after bombers and fighters knocked the vital junction out of the war. 5 May 1945.

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap Canal. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

View Of Nagasaki Industrial Valley Looking Toward Factory Training School On Hill West Of Urakami River - Taken From Medical School - Showing Devastation From Atomic Bomb.

Lord Trenchard, Father Of The Raf, Chats With American Officers During An Inspection Tour Of The 386Th Bomb Group Base At Great Dunmow, Essex, England On 12 May 1944.

Curtiss P-40S Lined Up On The Fighter Strip At Dobodura, New Guinea. 7 April 1943.

Bomb damage to gun in the Ostiense Railroad Yards on the outskirts of Rome, Italy.

Men Of The 835Th Aviation Engineers Battalion At Work Clearing Snow From The Runway At Biferno Airfield, Italy. December 1944.

Bingen Marshalling Yards In Shambles -- The Remains Of Germany'S Ruinous Aggressiveness Are Seen In All Parts Of The Country Which Sought More Territory. Strategic Bombing By Us 8Th Air force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses And Consolidated B-24 Liberators Left T

Bomb damage to the Ostiense railroad yards on the outskirts of Rome, Italy.

American Officers And Enlisted Men Who Were Members Of The Summer Detachment Board A Special Train On The Siding At Poltava Airbase, One Of The Shuttle Bombing Bases In Russia, 15 October 1944.

A Martin B-26 Maraduer Of The 386Th Bomb Group Which Crashed At Its Base In Great Dunmow, Essex, England On 8 April 1944.

DDE-861 Harwood , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

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

1St Lt. D.A. Mcgovern, Buffalo, N.Y., Usaf, Member Of The Newsreel Pool, Stands At Exact Spot Where The Atomic Bomb Dropped At Nagasaki, Japan. This Spot Is Now Called "Zero". In The Distant Background May Be Seen The Urakami Cathedral. 8 September 194

So fast have Uncle Sam's troops been advancing on the continent that medical detachments have been herd pressed to keep up with them. After a recent break-through in the East a hurry-up call was sent out for more equipment of all kinds. The Air

"Little Bertha" which bombed Amiens

Members Of The 833Rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Supervises French Natives Who Are Laying Pierced Plank During The Construction Of An Airfield At Air Force Station A-72, Peronne, France. 1945.

The main building of the Prison Compound at Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippine Islands, is shown as it is hit by a barrage of high calibre guns fired by firmly entrenched Japanese in the down-town Manila sector. The reign of terror inflicted on the

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

ENGLAND-An Ordnance crew loading a trailer with two thousand pound bombs for a trip to Hitler-land in a B-24. (Kodachrome #2385-A)

Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion at a railway yard, Syria, 20th century. The French Foreign Legion was established in 1831 as an elite unit of foreign volunteers. The Legion's primary function in the 19th and early 20th century was the expansion and protection of France's overseas territories. Syria was governed by France between the two World Wars under the terms of a League of Nations mandate. The artist is unknown.

Armorers remove the gun barrel from a .50 cal gun in the top turret of a Douglas A-20, parked on Clark Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 9 August 1945.

The Crew Of The Crash Tender 'Joyce' At A Boeing B-17 Station Somewhere In England. 12 December 1942.

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.

Located at Mud Avenue and Fog Boulevard on one of Major General Hoyt Vandenberg's 9th Air Force fighter-bomber bases in France, is one of the most comfortable "Shackteaus" yet designed by American soldiers in their attempts to remodel Western

Hundreds Of 5-Gallon Jerry Tanks, Filled With Precious High Octane Are Piled High At 490 Qm Depot, 9Th Troop Carrier Command Somewhere In France. 3 March 1945.

A Weekly Progress Photograph Of The Hydroponics Garden On Ascension Island. 5 March 1945.

Operation 'Alert' - Boston Regional Office - 1954 , Fire fighters, Fire engines, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Camp Scenes, 1915-1916, Egypt, by William Saunderson Cooper. Gift of Andrew Cooper, 2001.

Sgt. Clifford D. Kleinhans, 1625 West 219Th Street, Torrance, California, Riding Horse Back To Check Communications Lines. 318Th Fighter Group, Ie Shima, Ryukyu Retto.

On 27 Feb 1945 North American B-25 Mitchells Wrecked Four Steel Bridges On The Coastal Line Which Has Been Used By The Japaneses For Hauling Supplies From The Malay States, Indo-China And The Rich East Indies. This Single-Track Line Up The Coast Connects With

On 4 March 1944, A Former R.A.F. Base Was Presented To The Aaf, And Occupied By The 391St Bomb Group, England.

Italian prisoners in foreground of airfield waiting to be evacuated.

Partial view of tank farm at Lutong, Borneo, N.E.I. 14 July 1945.

Service Group Hangar Of The 410Th Bomb Group At 9Th Air Force Base In England. 16 September 1944.

Photographic fieldwork with a camera with a focal length of 3 m,; probably Haidenschaft, Isonzo front; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 5.

DD-748 Hubbard , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Re - Readying Operations Begin -- When U.S. Air Force F - 51 Mustangs of the veteran 18th Fighter Bomber Wing return from a combat strike on Communist targets in North Korea, they form into "follow-the-leader" row as shown above for efficiency in reloading of ammunition and rearming operations. The refueling truck is busy in the front, as crews load. 50 caliber ammunition into wing compartments of the Mustang at right. Soon rocket and bomb carrying trailers will thread their way through the lines of fighter - bombers. loading the high velocity missiles as they pass each plane. Napalm tanks are seen in the foreground. By this system, the Mustangs are readied for another combat strike in an average elapsed time of about seven minutes. September 17, 1951. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Photo).

Water Tank Of A Mobile Photographic Unit. Italy.

First Army Photo Of The Bombing Of Hawaii, 7 Dec 41. Wrecked B-17 At Bellows Field, T.H. Plane Made Forced Landing While Being Attacked. Filed - War Theatre # 22 (Hawaiian Islands) - Bombing.

A Caravan Traffic Control Trailer Of The 381St Bomb Group At 8Th Air Force Station 167 In England, 6 October 1944.

CONSTRUCTION OF A CHINESE AIRFIELD: A sharp lookout for enemy planes is constantly maintained. Here Lt. John Wiler, Army Air forces, stands on a Chinese burial mound which is used as an observation post. In China, even the dead help

One Of The Duties Of The 925Th Engineer Regiment, 9Th Engineer Command, Is To Keep Runways Clear For Operational Use. Here, A Snow Plough Removes The Snow From A Cub Strip Somewhere In Belgium. 12 January 1945.

"C" Co., 1876th Eng. Aviation Battalion repair a bomb damaged bridge somewhere in the Philippine Islands, 18 July 1945.

First Army Photos Of The Bombing Of Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. Burned Gasoline Truck At Bellows Field, Hawaii.

Tent Area Of The 2Nd Army Airways Communication Wing Control At An Air Base At Teheran, Iran.

Members Of The 434Th Engineering Detachment Pick Up Landing Mats With Landing Mat Hooks At Newbury Race Course, Berks, England. 24 August 1943.

Admiralty Islands-The lugger blows up as bomb lands amidship, penetrates the hull and explodes just below and to starboard.

Air Transport Command Chapel, Station #14, Somewhere In Iceland. 2Nd Service Group, 25 July 1944.

A view of the control tower at Tobera Airstrip. Note: Japanese on horseback riding by. This runway was completely demolished and was being "claimed" by the jungle. 1 November 1945, Rabaul, New Britain.

Maintenance Men Of The 92Nd Bomb Group Repair Propellers Of A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. England. 23 December 1944.

Nurses of an Evacuation Hospital Unit of the 9th Air Force on duty near the front lines in France, take cover in a slit trench during a mock daylight raid in this area.

British Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles 1939-45 Infantry Tank Mk II Matilda (A12). Initial production type.

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Tanks , Tanks Military science. Photographs of the First Naval District

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

Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL,MISCELLANEOUS War

Operation 'Alert' - Boston Regional Office - 1954 , Fire fighters, Fire engines, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Caption: "American Battery of 155 MM Howitzers firing at retreating German columns from the ruins of the captured town of Varennes during the American advance in the Argonne. Photograph taken by Signal Corps, U.S.A. on an unknown date. Released by A.E.F. Censor."

Russian women, Archangel

280 MM gun Atomic Annie , Armories, Ordnance industry, Artillery Weaponry, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

WINTER VS. BOMBER-Dawn at U.S. Army 8th Air force bomber bases finds many such picturesque scenes as this. Here a B-17 Flying ofrtress is seen under a blanket of snow that has fallen during the night. The serenity of the scene is not for long, ofr

Interior view of Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina City in the distance. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-3122. Artillery (Weaponry), South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, South Carolina, Charleston, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, South Carolina, Charleston.

West Point Cadet Camp

Aerial View Of A Bomb Damaged Railroad Yards At Aschaffenburg, Germany. 16 May 1945.

Construction Of An Airfield By Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion At St. Laurent, France.

Damage in the Marshalling Yards at Vipiteno, Italy, bombed by the 15th Air Force bombers.

Funeral ceremonies in European Cemetery, Oshogbo, Nigeria, showing a portion of Guard of Honor furtnished by R.A.F., April 12, 1942 near Ikogosi, Nigeria.

Graves of 36 Dutch soldiers on the pleat of Tanggok at Pusan. Ereveld in Pusan. Overview of the Dutch course, representing 36 killed

United States Holtz Bay Cemetery #1 on Attu in the Aleutian Islands.

The landing gear, dropped by a glider participating in the 52nd Troop carrier Wing maneuvers in 1943, landed on Comiso Airfield in Sicily. Both the gear and the parachute are in good condition.

Paratrooper training, Fort Bragg, N. C. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

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