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World War II Aircrew Moments

Historic black-and-white images featuring military aircrew members, aircraft, and their roles during World War II, evoking a sense of duty and camaraderie.

A pilot of the 90th Photographic Reconnaissance Wing, steps into the cockpit of his Lockheed F-5 at an air base somewhere in North Africa.

021206-M-3031H-078. Base: Russell Island Country: Solomon Islands (SLB)

Naval Expedition off to The Arctic - New types of protective clothing to be worn during the expedition. Ldg. Aircraftman F. Whitehead (left) and Lieut. F. W. Burgess wearing a specially heated immersion suit aboard the aircraft carrier "Vengeance", chief ship of the expedition.Ships of the Royal Navy - including aircraft carriers - are leaving Britain for a cruise in Arctic waters. 1,500 men will take part, including doctors, metallurgists, engineers and gunnery specialists and tests will be carried out with new clothing and equipment designed for work under war-time conditions in the Arctic Circle. February 01, 1949. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Portrait photography of Henrik Nordström Portrait photography of Henrik Nordström, head of Södermanland's flight fleet, dressed in aircraft suit in front of aircraft Saab 32 Lansen. Framed photo.

Lt. Robert O. Laho, 10542 Commerce Ave., Tujunga, Calif., Of The 84Th Fighter Squadron, 78Th Fighter Group, Poses In The Cockpit Of His Republic P-47 'My Baby' At 8Th Air Force Station F-357 In Duxford, England. 16 October 1944.

Anefo photo collection. Demonstration with safety belts by the ANWB. November 10, 1960

Photograph of Captain Edward J. Dwight, Jr.. Photograph of Captain Edward J. Dwight, Jr..

Pilot from 332nd Fighter Group Signing Form One Book, Indicating any Discrepancies of Aircraft, Prior to Take-off, Ramitelli, Italy, Toni Frissell, March 1945

Find the dead body of Andree. The Finish pilot-woman Gisken Jakobsen (the only flying lady in Finland) with her intended husband, the pilot Leppinen, who was flying to the "Braatvaag" and there greeting the dead body of Andree. The engaged couple Mrs. Gisken Jakobsen and Leppinen. November 17, 1930. (Photo by Atlantic Photo-Co.).

A Crash Truck And Its Crew Of The 379Th Bomb Group Is In Readiness To Come To The Aid Of Any Plane In The Event Of An Emergency. England, 12 April 1944.

Portrait of a sailor standing with his arms crossed, Cologne, Germany, 1900

Anefo photo collection. Zopf (war criminal). January 17, 1966

Diver preparing for recovery operation

General Nobile on the Norge airship before embarking on a transpolar flight, May 11, 1926, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LII, No 33, August 15, 1926.

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.

Bound For Makin. Captain Merlin O'Neil, U.S. Coast Guard, left, and Lieutenant Colonel James Roosevelt of the Marines are photographed on the bridge of a Coast Guard manned combat transport, part of the column of invasion ships bound for Makin.

Southern Cross Jr. Guy Menzies (right) & Albert James. March 4, 1931.

ENGLAND-Close call-Bombardier Lt. Vernon Plummer, South Portland, Maine, examines a hole in the nose section of his Boeing B-17 Flying ofrtress, and another through his map both caused by flak. Passing through the dural skin and the map, the flak hit

Lockheed P-38 of the 1st...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. Leading Aircraftman A Natley of Frome, Flying Officer Downing of Blegdon, Somerset, and Sergeant L M Austin of Finchley, Middlesex, controlling aircraft movements atop an improvised control tower at Tabingaung airfield, near Shwebo, Burma.

Vintage Photograph. Soldier demonstrates how to communicate with helmet in studio portrait.

Aerial Photography during the Second World War A hand-held F24 aerial camera. The F24 was first produced by the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1925 and was used by the Royal Air Force for day and night aerial photography until 1955. It was very reliable although it lacked the high definition of the F8 camera and was therefore of limited use for military mapping. The F24 could be accommodated within most aircraft types and consisted of a magazine, camera body, shutter gearbox and lens cone, all of which were interchangeable. It had a focal-plane shutter with speeds ranging from 1/40 to 1/120 second. The hand-held version of the camera was operated by a hand drive projecting from the camera gearbox.

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Ir Van Dijk Sr. In New Nickerie. October 1947. Nickerie, Suriname

1970. Arturo Fernández in "The Faithful Infantry".

Coast Guard Blinker. This image depicts a U.S. Coast Guardsman carrying equipment.

Enrollees in Defense Training Course. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

021206-M-3031H-002. State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

1950S Two Boy Scouts One Pointing Wearing Hiking Gear Uniforms

01/31/1937. This Boy, mascot of the Lister brigade, also performs a service in the Motorized section of his Column.

Anefo photo collection. Amsterdam fire department. February 4, 1946

Los Angeles Coast Guardsman in Okinawa Invasion. Coast Guardsman Victor Heyden, Boatswain's Mate First Class, of 8141 Victoria Avenue, South Gate, Los Angeles, Calif., participated in the invasion of Okinawa in the Ryukyus aboard a Coast Guard-manned LST. A Coast Guard combat correspondent, Heyden previously saw action in the landing assaults on Iwo Jima.

A U.S. Marine of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit awaits orders to offload and move ashore to assume the management of the port of Beirut. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

Mr. Churchill Airman -- Mr. Churchill getting into his flying kit. Mr. Winston Churchill, who was recently appointed Hon. Air Commodore, inspector No. 615 Auxiliary Air Force Squadron a Kenley, Surrey, and went for a flight. May 08, 1939. (Photo by London News Press Agency Ltd.).

Shoulder Line Throwing Gun. This image depicts a Coast Guardsmen using a shoulder line throwing gun.

New Zealand soldier, circa 1917, by Len Casbolt.

Indiana Coast Guardsman is Hero of Normandy Beachhead. Twenty-year-old Coast Guardsman Gene Oxley, coxswain, of Indianapolis, Indiana, performed one of the outstanding deeds of valor in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, when he swam through a Hell of machinegun and mortar fire, carrying a guide line from his LCI to the beach. Then he wrapped the end of the line around his waist and served as a human anchor while 39 Yankee soldiers attempted to follow it through a choppy surf to shore. Only six of the soldiers made it. Coast Guardsman Oxley previously had carried in the guide line through the surf at bloody Salerno. A four-invasion veteran, the youthful Hoosier participated in the landings on North Africa and Sicily, as well as Salerno and Normandy. He is back in the United States on temporary duty. Oxley's mother, Mrs. Hazel L. Oxley, lives on R. R. 16, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Bardouille, Lawrence , Soldiers. Jack Miller Collection

Passing over the target along the Brenner Pass, Cpl Kenneth F. Raser of Ozone Park, New York City, tail gunner on a North American B-25 Mitchell, heard an explosion and saw his compartment fill with confetti. A piece of flak had punched its way

The Man Behind the Gun. This image depicts Coast Guardsman Albert E. Frantum.

Vintage Photograph. Soldier smiles expressively wearing a small hat and formal attire.

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.

Lieutenant Robert M. Hauson, Captain Donald H. Aldrich, Captain Harold I

A corporal-air force monitor with service dog (German shepherd) .LB.VERVERE service subjects.

British troops uniform. August 30, 1951.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Various topics article "Weapon brothers", shooting downstad, landscapes and kampong image, recording sloop Farywell. The sloop "Farywell" Sailor royal navy poses. July 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Captain C. ("Co") Bouma, Commander 119 Squadron, with a Hawk air defense system in the background.

Front cover of The Illustrated London News showing Sir Edmund Hillary together with Sherpa Tensing Bhutia reaching the summit of Mount Everest on May 29 1953. 1953

Coast Guard Invader's Knife. "You can use it to clean your finger nails, or if the ship is torpedoed you can use it cut away the rafts, or, if you're close enough to a Nazi, you can.." that's the way Coast Guardsman Edward (Shorty) Butler, water tender first class, of Irvington, N.J., describes his well sharpened hunting knife. Butler is one of a number of Coast Guardsmen, who saw action in the North African invasion, that are now stationed temporarily at the Detroit, Mich., Coast Guard barracks.

Ing.Moberg and Foreman Svanlund posing in front of the lake worm on the bed, Jan.1967. ING.Moberg and Foreman Svanlund posing in front of the lake worm on the bed, Jan.1967 Malmö Shipper History Association has received the album of a son of Nils Holmström.Peter Skanze from the association has in contacts with the Historical Museum's manager Hans-Lennart Ohlsson expressed that the gift is aimed at the Maritime History Museum, while in the donation letter a "desire to the album ends up at any museum with a focus on our marine heritage".At sea-historical, there is already an extensive collection of photographs from Kockum's MV.Since the images show the warships fit the album better in Marine Museum Karlskrona's gathering area and was therefore added to Marine Museum's collections.

A.I.F. In Korea - Action & General Scenes - Australian Troops. August 18, 1953. (Photo by Public Relations HQ BCOF Hobson).

Greenland Patrol. This image depicts a portrait of whiskered Junior Grade Lieutenant George R. Boyce.

12/31/1928. In the Image, Robert Bartlett, captain of the "Morrisey".

Mr. V. Gadsby Senior Photographer Snowy mountain thins Authority. August 16, 1954.

Sergeant-Adelborst with manual sign. Is part of the AVDKM 53193 to 53229 object series.

Coastguard at Fort Story, Virginia, USA coastal defence. 1942

Portrait of a male pilot. Fédèle Azari (Italian, 1895 - 1930)

Workman at Shasta Dam reads war extra. Shasta County, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

""....And Pass The Ammunition."". Seaman Barrett C. Benson who was a Methodist minister with two churches at Dalton and LaFayette, Georgia, saw the men of his churches going off to war..Deciding to follow them he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard. The former minister joined the Coast Guard as an apprentice seaman and went through the regular 'boot' training with thousands of other young men. He is shown carrying on his duties as an armed guard protecting fighting ships under construction at Manitowac, Wisconsin. On Sundays he has been helping out as a preacher in a Twin Rivers church, after answering a call to fill in for the regular minister who was unable to attend. Coast Guardsman Benson said, "When the war is over, I hope to be back in the pulpit a better man for having had the adventure of trying to maintain my duty to both Church and State.

The Champ At Chow. Coast Guardsman Lew Jenkins, former world's champion lightweight boxer, champs his chow on the run during the invasion of France. Jenkins served aboard a Coast Guard-manned invasion craft, landing troops and supplies on the shell-swept Normandy coast on D-Day and the critical days that followed. Jenkins learned how to gulp his grub in a hurry during the Mediterranean invasions. Former Athlete.

Lord Kitchner's trumpeter in 1915, Pvt. Frank Inman of Australian Imperial Forces. Mr. Inman trumpeting at Anzac Day services of April 25th, 1940, Israel

Garry Davis. August 18, 1949.

Carlisle & Finch Searchlight - Anti-submarine Action. This item consists of a photograph of a individual operating a signal light.

NEW SUMMER TENUESS

Leather Jacket Worn By Crew Members Of The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 401St Bombgroup Stationed At An 8Th Air Force Base In England, 12 May 1944. ("Salvo Sadie").

Artwork: "Civic Action," South Vietnam Artist: Alvin Pimsler. Country: Unknown

The Camargue - (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

SRA Kevin Day, winner of the Outstanding AIRMAN of the Year award, poses with Briggs, his K-9 partner. Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana Country: Turkey (TUR)

Those Bearded Battles of the Blizzard Belt. This image depicts Coast Guardsman Edward Keating.

The gear is changed.

The American explorer Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940), photo from L'Illustration, No 3472, September 11, 1909.

Adorable toddler in oversized military hat brings smiles and charm.

Capt. Alex. Weyand - Army

Leather Jacket Worn By Crew Members Of The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" 'Diabolical Angel' Of The 401St Bomb Group Stationed At An 8Th Air Force Base In England, March 1, 1945.

Close-up of a colonel wrapped in a blanket, Spanish Civil War

970624-M-9368G-011. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

He Made Pop a Promise -- And Kept it in the Palaus. When Coast Guardsman Ernest E. Jullerat, storekeeper first class, enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard he promised his dad that he would participate in more battles than "the old man" did in World War One. The elder Jullerat had rolled up a score of five. Young Jullerat kept his promise, when he fought in the assault upon the Palaus Islands, 515 miles from the Philippines. That was his sixth invasion from a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport. No wonder he proudly raised the sign, "I did it, Pop." Jullerat's home is in Dunbar, W. Va.

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