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Depictions of military aircraft like the P-38 and B-17, featuring pilots and ground crew, showcasing wartime aviation in various settings.

China-Camera repairmen install full magazine on a Lockheed F-5 "Frantic", the F-5 which flew the long-range mission over Yawata, Japanesean. It was flown over 100 combat mission and has a total time in the air of more than 650 hours.

Lt. Colonel Chickering Of The 367Th Fighter Group, Poses Beside His Lockheed P-38 'Gung Ho' At An Air Base In Belgium. 3 January 1945.

Engineer Chief T/Sgt. Thomas Mccourry Of Burnsville, N.C. And An Ordance Man Put Detonator In The Opening Of "Fire Bomb", An 165 Gallon Auxiliary Fuel Tank Which Has Been Secured On The Bomb Rack Of A Republic P-47 Of The 333Rd Fighter Squadron, 318Th Fig

Ground Crew Work On Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 525Th Bomb Squadron, 379Th Bomb Group At An 8Th Air Force Base In England. 2 March 1944.

China-Camera repairmen install full magazine on a Lockheed F-5 "Frantic", the F-5 which flew the long-range mission over Yawata, Japanesean. It was flown over 100 combat mission and has a total time in the air of more than 650 hours.

Major Aycock, Commanding Officer Of The 324Th Bomb Sq., 91St Bomb Group, 8Th Air Force, Poses Beside The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" 'Desparate Journey'. England, 14 April 1943.

Mechanics Of The 333Rd Fighter Squadron, 318Th Fighter Group, Force 'Gel Gas' (A Mixture Of Gasoline Or Diesel Oil And Naplam) Into 165 Gallon Auxiliary Fuel Tank Which Has Been Secured Onto The Bomb Rack Of A Republic P-47. Each P-47 Carried Two Of Thes

Navigator And Pilot Of The 458Th Bomb Group Consolidated B-24 'Bomb-Ah-Dear' Check The Battle Folder Before Take-Off From Their English Base.

Maintenance Crew Of The 445Th Bomb Group Work In Engine Of A Consolidated B-24 Based In England.

Col. Leland G. Fiegel, 29, of Rochester, Minn., commander of the oldest Consolidated B-24 Liberator unit in Britain, looks after his boys. Flying in a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt alongside old time friend, Col. Hubert P. Zempke, commander of the

Capt. R.C. Mitchell Of Lincoln, Nebraska, A Lockheed P-38 Reconnaissance Pilot, Is Shown At His Base At Mount Farm, England. He Is A Member Of The 7Th Photo Group. 1 July 1943.

Captain J.N. Poindexter, Pilot Of The 352Nd Fighter Squadron, 353Rd Fighter Group, Seated In The Cockpit Of His Republic P-47 At An Airbase In England.

Left: A Mosquito of No. 87 Squadron unloads after the day's operation. The magazine containing the film is rushed from the camera delivered to the photographers section for immediate processing. Dust is a big hazard in handling the film. July 14, 1950.

Lt. T.B. O'Bannon Of Germantown, Penn., A Lockheed P-38 Reconnaissance Pilot, Is Shown At His Base At Mount Farm, England. He Is A Member Of The 7Th Photo Group. 1 July 1943.

2Nd Lt. G.R. Mcmoody Of Coldwater, Michigan, Pilot With The 79Th Fighter Group Based At Capodichino, Italy, Examines The Damaged Done To His Plane When He Was Jumped By 2 Fw-190S While Patroling The Beachhead.

Boeing B-17F "Flying ofrtress" with tail gunners compartment torn off by falling bomb.

Cpl. Charles W. Lusk, Kinderhook, N.Y., Ground Crew Member, Washing Down The Boeing B-17 'You Never Know', At An Air Base Somewhere In England.

Sgt. Albin Narlock of Miwaukee, Wisc., cleans the guns of a Boeing B-17, assisted by two Russian soldiers.

A Pilot Of The 94Th Fighter Squadron, 1St Fighter Group, On His Lockheed P-38 Lightning At An Air Base Somewhere In Italy.

Maj. Macewen Of Group Operations Looks Out Of A Window As Planes Of The 79Th Fighter Group Return To Their Home Base At Capodichino, Italy After A Mission.

Cpl. Ronnie Vaughan, ofrmer farmer from Long Beach, Calif., works on a Liberator engine.

Major General Claire L. Chennault And An American Red Cross Girl Chat Together In Front Of A North American P-51 "Mustang" At A 14Th Air Force Base Somewhere In China. 22 December 1944.

Ready to board their plane, the Boeing B-17 "THE MEMPHIS BELLE", for their 25th mission are, left to right: Capt. Vincent B. Evans of ofrt Worth, Texas, bombardier; Capt. Charles B. Leighton of Lansing, Michigan, navigator; and T/Sgt. Robert J

Two Brazilian plane mechanics servicing the Republic P-47's that the Brazilian pilots fly in the First Brazilian Fighter Squadron. ITALY.

T/Sgt. Jack R. Carlson, Rockford, Ill., And Sgt. Bernard Bedrock, New York City, N.Y., Waist Gunners Of "Our Gang" A Boeing B-17 Of The 324Th Bomb Squadron, Bassingbourne, England, Give One Of The Guns A Final Check Before Taking Off On A Bombing Mission

Pictured Here, A Sgt. Of The 12Th Af Views The Latest Installation Of The K-25 Aerial Camera On A Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Located In The Left Wing Bomb Rack It Can Be Easily And Quickly Removed And Replaced. Italy.

While his Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber of the Ninth AF is refueled Lt. Russell A. O'Connell of Flint, Mich., tells these 9th AF Aviation engineers about his experience in Piccadilly, London. He had just returned from a mission and stopped

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1940. An air gunner sits at the ready in the Nash and Thompson Type FN4 rear turret of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V of No.102 Squadron RAF at Driffield, Yorkshire.

Left: Maj. Thomas W. Ferebee, Bombardier Of B-29 'Enola Gay' Which Atom-Bombed Hiroshima, Japanesean. Right: Maj. Monahan, Public Relations Officer From Washington, D.C. Marianas Is.

Major Walter C. Beckham (Left) De Funiak Springs, Fla., And S/Sgt. Henry E. Bush, Jr., Easley, Sc, Discuss Their Latest Mission In Front Of A Republic P-47 At An Air Base Somewhere In England.

Making life as miserable as possible for the Japanese invaders of the Aleutians (Alaska) at their Kiska and Attu Island bases is the continuing task of the 11th USAF. Working from the Andreanoff Islands, under weather conditions literally the worst in the

Front view of the upper turret guns of a North American B-25 showing a shell hole in the "sight." When the bomber was attacked by three German ME-109s, the gunner was shot in the eye but kept firing and knocked down one enemy plane and possibly

Radio Room Gunner Of The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Hell'S Angels In His Position On The Plane. 303Rd Bomb Group, England. 6 June 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India &CREWS,FIGHTER War

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RESCUE War

A Ground Crew Member Of The 94Th Fs, 1St Fg, Poses Beside The Lockheed P-38 Lightning 'Sweet Sue' At An Airfield Somewhere In Italy.

Ground Crew Members Scan The Sky For Sight Of Bristol 'Beaufighters' Returning To Their Base At Grottaglie, Italy, After A Raid Over Enemy Installations, 17 Nov. 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,ARMAMENT War

When They'Re Shot Up Its His Job To Get Them Fixed Up So Here Capt. Joseph W. Manske, 164 Commercial St., Gowanda Ny, Engineering Officer With A 12Th Af Billy Mitchell Squadron, Takes Stock Of The Damaged Suffered By This North American B-25 Bomber When A

A Pilot Of The 94Th Fighter Squadron, 1St Fighter Group, On The Wing Of His Lockheed P-38 Lightning At An Air Base Somewhere In Italy.

BACK FROM ATTACK-In the greatest attack of the war, in which 8th AF struck at fighter production centers in Germany, American fighters who escorted the bombers established a new record by destroying 61 Nazi planes for a loss of only three. Photo

2Nd Lt. G.R. Mcmoody Of Coldwater, Michigan, Pilot With The 79Th Fighter Group Based At Capodichino, Italy, Examines The Damaged Done To His Plane When He Was Jumped By 2 Fw-190S While Patroling The Beachhead.

At a base somewhere in New Guinea, intelligence personnel rush film to the laboratory for processing. This film was taken on a photo reconnaissance mission over Leyte, Philippine Islands.

On 27 January 1945, Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" Of The 392Nd Bomb Squadron, 30Th Bomb Group Took Off From Saipan For A Raid On Iwo Jima. Flak Encountered By The Planes Was Intense And Accurate. One Of The 75Mm Shells Hit This B-24 And Exploded In The

T/Sgt. Wheeler Of Detachment 'A' 881St Chemical Company, Examines Installation Of Smoke Generator (British) On A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 381St Bomb Group. England, 1 April 1945.

"I got three today," is what Lt. William T. Kemp of 1021 E. Washington St., East Peoria, Ill., is saying as he sticks three fingers in the air on returning to his 8th Fighter Command station in England, today. The North American P-51 Mustang pilot

T/Sgt. Ira M. Linden instructs 2nd Lt. Metrah W. Williams, Bombardier, in the operation of the chin turret gun. The turret was taken from a wrecked plane to be used for this refresher course in Gunnery. Both officers and enlisted men use most of

The 105mm Howitzer being taken out of plane through window of fuselage. (New Guinea)

Colonel William R. Roberts, Jr., Of The 364Th Fighter Group, 67Th Fighter Wing, Climbs Out Of The Cockpit Of His North American P-51 After Returning To His English Base From A Mission Over Enemy Territory. 21 January 1945.

The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Tinker Toy" Of The 381St Bomb Group Stationed At An 8Th Air Force Base Near Ridgewell, Essex County, England, 8 October 1943.

Capt. W. H. Hays, Williamsport, Penn., Left, Delivers The Mail To Lt. H. H. Brannon, Lubbock, Texas. Capt. Hays Flies Mail. Oahu, Hawaii - With Cessna Uc-78

Here, Maj. Gen. E.R. Quesada, Commanding, 9th Fighter Command, is seen helping refuelling a plane after landing on the emergency strip in Cherbourg Peninsula. With him is Lt. Col. Frank S. Perego of Canandaigua, N.Y., who was among the first on the

CAIRO, Egypt--Constant briefing is necessary to carry out spray missions daily in the areas hardest hit by the cholera epidemic. Here the crew of one of the specially-equipped USAFE C-47s get together with locatl Egyptian pilots at their Egyptian

U. S. Thunderjets Arrive at Rheims/MDAP. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Crew of "LA FRANCE LIBRE," the first 9th Air Force Douglas A-20 bomber to complete 100 missions, check their route before taking off on a flight. They are, left to right: S/Sgt. Steve Risko of Chicago, Illinois, gunner; Capt. Hugh A. Monroe, pilot of

A pilot sits on the fuselage of his F-14A Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) aboard the aircraft carrier JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) during FLEET EX 1-90, waiting for Aviation Structural Mechanic E (Safety Equipment) Third Class Charles R. Berkhouse to finish cleaning the Tomcat's canopy. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Over four hundred planes of...

Colonel L.B. Hillsinger, El Paso, Texas, Who Lost One Of His Legs In The Dieppe, France, Raid Gets Along Well On His Artifical Limb. He Is The First Usaaf Officer Permitted To Return To Operational Flying After Losing A Limb. Here, Colonel Hillsinger Is

'So This Is France.' Cpl. Jos. P. Joyce, Janesville, Minn., A Clerk With A Mats Squadron In Italy, Looks Out At Frnace From The Cabin Of A C-47 Upon Arrival At Nice, Frnace Airport. From The Airport, He Will Go To The Riviera For Seven Days Of Three R'S

A Monkey Mascot Perched On The Nose Of Curtiss P-40 Of The 16Th Fighter Squadron, 51St Fighter Group At An Air Base In China. 23 October 1942.

S/Sgt. Robert G. Vaughan, Carlton, Wash., is tired from the long trip to Frankofrt and is in a hurry to remove his guns from the turret and then join his crew at interrogation. ofllowing this, he can get that long-needed rest.

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. A ground crewman hands a psychrometer to meteorological pilot, Flying Officer J B Gordon of No. 521 Squadron RAF in Gloster Gladiator Mark II, N5897 'E', before he departs on a high-altitude THUM (Temperature and Humidity) flight from Bircham Newton, Norfolk.

A pilot of the 90th Photographic Reconnaissance Wing, seated in the cockpit of his Lockheed F-5 at an air base somewhere in North Africa, talking to another member of the same group.

Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. The bomb-aimer of a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV of No. 139 Squadron RAF mans his position behind the Mark IXA Course-setting Bombsight in the nose of aircraft, at Plivot.

Death Took A Five-Minute Break...And A Quirk Of Fate Helped, Too, As A Martin B-26 Marauder Tail Gunner, Sgt. Edward R. Yurkonis, 24, Of Shenandoah, Pa., Came Back Feb. 25, 1945 From An Encounter With German Flak Gunners That Left His Bomber'S Tail Assemb

Lt. G.P. Novotny Steps Into The Cockpit Of His Plane At A Fighter Group Base In Italy.

Surviving disaster (EV007332_H)

Lt. Colonel Peasley, Attached To Hdq., 1St Bomb Division, Stands In Front Of His Plane, The North American P-51 'Carolyn Ann' At An 8Th Air Force Base In England On 31 July 1944.

S/Sgt. Ted Mascrella, 1122 North 13Th Street, Waco, Texas, Looking Inside Japaneseanese 'Baka' Rocket-Piloted Suicide Plane Which Has Been Placed In His Charge For Instructional Purposes. 807Th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 12 May 1945

Aircraft, Burma, India &PHOTOGRAPHY, CAMERAS,STILL War

Indian Springs, Nevada , Nuclear weapons testing, Airplanes, Measuring, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

S/Sgt. Louis Kiss, radio and tail gunner, of Storres, Conn., holder of DFC, and Air Medal and 3 clusters manning the radioroom gun thru the hatch.

Pilot Lt. J.B. Lee And Ground Crew Beside The North American P-51 'E.K. & Jay Bee' Of The 20Th Fighter Group In England.

Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945 Flying Officer J Brindley of York, a pilot serving in a Bristol Beaufighter squadron, sitting at the controls of his aircraft before taking off from an airfield in Central Burma.

The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Not To-Day Cleo" At An Airbase Of The 452Nd Bomb Group. England, 22 May 1945.

Lt. Erickson Sitting On The Wing Of His North American P-51 Mustang, The "Janie Girl". England 8 July 1944.

Two Ground Crew Members Of The 94Th Fighter Squadron, 1St Fighter Group, Pose Beside Their Lockheed P-38 Lightning At An Airfield Somewhere In Italy. 'The Joker'

Flying Officer Leonard 'Ace' Haines of No. 19 Squadron on his Supermarine Spitfire Mk I at Fowlmere near Duxford, September 1940. Flying Officer Leonard Haines of No. 19 Squadron sits by the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia at Fowlmere, September 1940. Haines shot down six enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain.

Royal Air Force- British Flying Training in the United States, 1941-1945. Group Captain D V Carnegie, head of the RAF Delegation in Washington DC, congratulates Flight Leader Stonier on being the first RAF cadet to fly from the Riddle Aeronautical Institute's training airfield, at Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida. RAI's Chief Flight Instructor, Jack Hunt, looks on from the front cockpit of the Boeing Stearman PT-17.

Signal Corp No. CPA-45-8567 rec'd 26 July 1945 from Signal Corps. Released 9 August 1945. Copied 17 October 1945

Photograph of Man with Rifle Beneath Airplane Propeller.

Group Captain A.G. 'Sailor' Malan on the wing of Squadron Leader Hugo 'Sinker' Armstrong's Spitfire Mk IX at Biggin Hill, 2 January 1943 Group Captain A.G. 'Sailor' Malan on the wing of Squadron Leader Hugo 'Sinker' Armstrong's Spitfire IX at Biggin Hill, 2 January 1943

Tiny Miss Gokeschen gives instructions to one of her many pupils, before taking off for an instructional flight. November 19, 1939.

Project 19 - Operation Sandstone (Enewatak) Test Activities. Men Placing Sampler Box on Ground. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Captain Birdsong Puts The Distinguished Flying Cross On The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Delta Rebel No. 2" For Its Part In Wrecking Nazi Installations In Europe. The Plane Is Attached To The 91St Bomb Group Based In Bassingbourne, England. 8 June 194

Lt. Richard Bong of Poplar, Wisconsin, in cockpit of his Lockheed P-38 Lightning in New Guinea, 3/6/43.

A New Lockheed P-38 Pilot-Trainee Gets His First Flight In A Converted P-38. Shown Here Is 2Nd Lt. K.D. Corrigall, Trainee (Left) And 1St Lt. Fred Dabney, Instructor At A Base In Panama.

Off come the waterproof coverings. The long sea journey is ended. Now it is up to experts of the AAF Air Service Command, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, to help them shed their sea togs and begin a life in the sky. Both here and overseas, ASC

$Pelican Pete, Mascot but Briefly. When members of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter in Caribbean waters picked up a pelican with a broken wing they had hopes of keeping it indefinitely. A U.S. Public Health Service surgeon attached to the ship set the wing. Coast Guardsmen fished over the side to feed "Pelican Pete." Strutting about the deck, the bird would gravely inspect the men at their duties, - posed for his picture with Coast Guardsmen Joseph Tavani of Philadelphia as he stood gun watch. Then, one day, the fracture mended, Pelican Pete jumped ship never to return.$

Functional portrait of the work of the fire line mechanic. Concerns AVDKM 5305297.

1St Lt John A. Dooling Of Little Neck, New York, A Pilot With The 318Th Fighter Group, Inspects Hole Made In The Wing Of His Republic P-47 'Thunderbolt' By Intense Anti-Aircraft Fire Encountered On A Strafing Run Over A Small Japaneseanese Island South Of Kyus

Mechanic in work on aircraft 17, 1944 Mechanic in work on aircraft 17

Gis Who Have Handled Hundreds Of Tons Of Air Technical Service Command Air Freight Shipments And The French Transport Crewmen Work Side By Side To Load A Huge Thunderbolt Engine Into A Douglas C-47. C-47S Transferred To The French Air Corps And Manned By

Capt. Hershel Parsons Of St. Charles, Virginia, A Lockheed P-38 Reconnaissance Pilot, Is Shown At His Base At Mount Farm, England. He Is A Member Of The 7Th Photo Group. 1 July 1943.

Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. The Commanding Officer of No. 681 Squadron RAF, Wing Commander F D Proctor, talks to one of his photo-reconnaissance pilots, Flying Officer Bradford from Canada, who is sitting in the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire PR Mark XI, at Chandina, India.

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

The boots at the ofot of the ladder tell their own story of the respect which this ground crew has for Mr. Dunc, of the P-38 Duncs.

M.J. Dumont, Pilot Of The 364Th Fighter Group, 67Th Fighter Wing, Poses In The Cockpit Of His North American P-51 At 8Th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England. 20 February 1945.

Anefo photo collection. Military exercise "Hold Fast" in Germany. September 16, 1952. Germany

Capt. Charles Cliburn Of Hazelhurst, Miss., Pilot Of The Boeing B-17 'The Bad Penny' Is Shown Just Before Take-Off On A Mission Over Enemy Territory From Their Base At Cambridge, England, On 5 May 1943.

Martin B-26 "Marauder" with tail gun and turret and rudder damaged.

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