World War II Bomber Crews

Photographs of bomber crew members from the 8th Air Force during World War II, showcasing camaraderie and military attire at bases in England.

Bennedsen And Crew Of The 487Th Bomb Group, Based In England. 7 January 1945.
Bennedsen And Crew Of The 487Th Bomb Group, Based In England. 7 January 1945.
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Capt. A.H. Rostron and under officers of "Carpathia"
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Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Flying Officer R G Hayes (left) and Flight Lieutenant J Gordon, navigator and pilot respectively of a De Havilland Mosquito B Mark IV of No. 105 Squadron RAF, listen intently during the briefing for a night raid on Berlin, Germany in the Operations Room at Marham, Norfolk. Both men were killed on 5 November 1943 when their Mosquito, DZ587 'GB-B', crashed at Hempnall, Norfolk, while returning from an evening raid on Bochum.
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Anefo photo collection. American flyers of Soesterberg airbase won the Bong Trophy. American pilots posing with the Bong Trophy. October 15, 1965. Soesterberg, Utrecht
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC School Reserve officers Infantry (S.R.O.i.) in Bandoeng. Gymnastics exercises. In pairs with tree trunks. June 1947. Bandoeng, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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Jap Bullet Hole in FortressCorp. L. R. Johnson points out bullet hole in wing of flying fortress June 12 to the other members of the plane crew which took part in the Midway Island battle. Despite the work of the Jap gunners the fortresses proved they could take it ,, and give it too. June 16, 1942. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Idaho. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Anefo photo collection. Workmen Bridge Deventer number 10a. April 22, 1948. Deventer
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Description: Buglers of the Cheshire Regiment. Location: Cyprus Date: June 1953 mediterranean, mediterraneanthroughalens
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Group photo of Machine room staff a / b from the frigate hr.ms. Isaac Sweers (1968-1990).
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Members of the ICFTU Visit SHAPE. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Anefo photo collection. Decision in the MOC Hilversum Marvo. Assessed officers /. November 2, 1948. Hilversum
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Photograph Taken on Christmas On Board the USS Anzio (CVE-57)Christmas night party, decorated tree, and presents aboard the USS Anzio (CVE-57).”.
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Personnel Of The 1943Rd Quartermaster, In The Tontouta, New Caledonia Area, Pose For The Photographer On March 1944. 13Th Air Depot Group.
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Marines from Mich.
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Released prisoners-of-war arrive at Yokohama railway station (Left to right) Pte. George Carroll of Towyong, Victoria, Pte. Jim Kay of Bega N.S.W. Cpl. Frank Lawrence of Nowra N.S.W, Pte. Jack White of Jerilderie N.S.W. Pte. Doug Mayers of South Melbourne, Pte. Harold Ramsey of Clayton Melbourne, Pte John Dwyer of South Brisbane, Pte. Walter Williams of Northbridge Sydney, Pte. Bill Mayne of Richmond Melbourne and Driver Arthur Hunt of Dorrigo. September 4, 1945. (Photo by Australian Official Photo).
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Six Soviet Girl Parachute Jumpers Establish a World Record - From left to right: Olga yakovleva, Nadezhda Babushkina, Serafima Blokhina, Alexandra Nikolayeva, Maria Bartseva and Muza Malinovskaya. June 1, 1935. (Photo by Loskutov).
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Capt. Thompson And Crew Of The 614Th Bomb Squadron, 401St Bomb Group, At An 8Th Air Force Base In England. 8 March 1945.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Transfer function adjudant general. Transfer function adjudant general, r. Links shake the resigning adjutant General Colonel mr. C.H.J.F. Van Houten and the new adjutant General Colonel P. Alons the hand. Next to them General D.C. Buurman van Vreede and Army Commander General S.H. Track. March 31, 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies
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Armed Forces Day, 1973 , Armories, Ordnance industry, Military parades & ceremonies, Military officers, Armed Forces Day, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Survivors of the Norwegian cargo ship Fingal. Sunk off Nambucca *****. May 07, 1943
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Ignoring the howls of a...
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Anefo photo collection. Visit Eisenhower to the MDK. May 9, 1951
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First train with Russian prisoners of war on the line between Narvik and Karlshäll at the end of the Second World War.
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Touring For The Treasury. The Eleventh Naval District Coast Guard band, of which Lieutenant Rudy Vallee is bandmaster, is now making a tour in behalf of the United States Treasury Department's Third War Loan drive. The band is shown here during a rehearsal under direction of Coast Guardsman Jimmy Grier, assistant bandmaster and arranger. Members of the orchestra are all famous musicians.
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DN-SN-86-05248. Base: Naval Station, Long Beach State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Four Officers Of The 15Th And 21St Fighter Groups Who Are Presented Medals. They Are Left To Right: Major Gilmer L. Snipes, 45Th Fighter Squadron, 122 East Ashley Place, San Antonio, Texas; Major James M. Van Dehey, 80 19Th Street, Hermosa, California; Ma
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Eight divers of the Royal Navy wearing various suits and apparatus employed in underwater warfare seen at the Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit, Tolworth, Surrey. Left to right: Port Clearance; Human Torpedo; Davis Submarine Escape Apparatus; Experimental Suit; Mine Recovery Suit; Soft Helmet Air Diver; Frog Man; Air Diver.
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A crowd of African American Women's Army Corps members waving at the camera, Staten Island Terminal, New York Port of Embarkation. 1946. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African Americans, African-American soldiers, Armed Forces , United States, Staten Island (New York, N.Y.), African American women, United States. Army. Women's Army Corps, Homecomings
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Anefo photo collection. North American F-86 SABRES from the USAFE 32 St Fighter Day Squadron stationed on Soesterberg Dutch Air Force Soldier on bicycle with Americans. November 9, 1954. Soesterberg, Utrecht
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DN-SN-85-05693. Base: Naval Air Station, Pensacola State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Commanding Officers, Watertown Arsenal, World War I through World War II , Military officers, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Black fighter pilot series--Colonel Benjamin O. Davis seated with pilots at briefing in Italy, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell
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Swing band rehearsal 372nd Infantry , Soldiers, Military bands, Rehearsals, United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 372nd. Jack Miller Collection
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'Old Time Professionals', c1850s. Artist: Unknown.
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The Fijians crowed round the doorway to sing Isa Lei, a Fijian song of farewell, to Captain G. Beaton (second from right) a former Quartermaster for the Fijian Battalion in Malaya, who was passing through Amberley on his way back to New Zealand from Korea. October 01, 1954. (Photo by The Telegraph Feature Service).
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Australian Manned American General Stuart Tanks In Action -- Only Christmas tree seen on the Buna front was at an advanced American dressing station. Decorations are of cotton wool and cigarette cartons. February 6, 1943. (Photo by Department of Information, Commonwealth of Australia).
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April 9, 1940 Ames personnel
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Youth Storm walks along the beach, 1942 photograph A group of girls from the youth storm walk in uniform along the beach of Zandvoort and Zingt. Given the clothing it is summer. Zandvoort photographic support gelatin silver print military training Zandvoort
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DN-SN-85-07024. Base: Portsmouth State: New Hampshire (NH) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Oakland, Caliornia: May, 1944. An African American Boy Scout troop in Oakland.
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Men Of The 94Th Wing Group Were Presented The Croix De Guerre By The French Government During Colorful Ceremonies On 7 May 1945, In England. 351St Bomb Group.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting Semarang and surroundings. Male and female soldiers posing at a staff car. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Men Of The 390Th Bomb Group Entertain British Children At A Christmas Party Held On 23 December 1943 At Their 8Th Air Force Base In England.
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Basketball Team Of The 353Rd Fighter Group At Station F-157, England. August 1944.
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Monsigneur Bishop Patruska & General Tokarzewski (Polish) & other officers on terrace of Dom Polski, Old City. Polish General Michal Tadeusz Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski (1893-1964) standing to right of Bishop Patruska. 1940, Jerusalem, Israel
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Emergency Mass Feeding, Fort Dix, New Jersey 1954 , Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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Sharpshooters in the South Queensland Squadron of the Air Training Corps last week took the A.T.C. Inter-Squadron Rifle Shooting Cup, which they won last year, to Melbourne, only to Return with the Cup this week, after winning it for the second successive year. Here members of the team admire the Cup on their return to Brisbane. They are, from left: L.A.C.'s J. East (Brisbane Grammar School), W. G. Rowley (C.E.G.S.), Flight Lieutenant K. R. Glanville (coach), F./Sgt. P. Sele (State High), Cadet Pilot Officer G. J. Drummond (H.Q. Flight), I..A.C. G. Pearce (State High), ***** and Sgt. W.G. Pearcy (State High). April 18, 1955.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Glodok prison. A number of Japanese, who have been captured by the Dutch troops on Sumatra, has been transferred to the prison Glodok in Batavia. V.l.n.r. Standing: Kasaharu Sengi (GE. in Belawan), Kodama Mitsugi (Siantar), Hayasi Tadao (Arnhemia), Kitassura Slisahu (Koala Bindjei), Hurkend: Akiyama Fiiatri (Kabandjahe), Tamahi Keizo (Idi.), Kuollya (Bindjei) and TOMAN HIDOSKI (SIANTAR) .. August 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, Dutch East Indies
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Capt. Jack Westward Of Lewiston, Idaho, Instructs Combat Fliers On The Fine Points Of Formation Flying. England.
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Touch Of The Bronx In Philippines. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen with their own "Homemade" ball park somewhere in the Philippines, after the house that Babe Ruth built.
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Members of the Marine Fire Revers
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Ordnance School, Watertown Arsenal, Course I, 1939-1940 , Armories, Ordnance industry, Students, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Mess Hall, Lovell General Hospital, Fort Devens, Mass. , Mess halls, Military hospitals, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Sons of American Legion, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Netherlands, 1900-09 part 4. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Netherlands
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Three sailors on ship, likely in Shelburne, Vermont , Ships, Sailors. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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A wooden crate more than a century old is shown Aug. 26 , 2022, at the Fort McCoy History Center in the historic Commemorative Area at Fort McCoy, Wis. The crate was donated to Fort McCoy by Alan McCoy of Sparta, Wis., who is the grandson of Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy for whom Fort McCoy is named after. The crate, which once carried lard buckets, traces back to the time of Camp Emery Upton and Camp Robinson in Wisconsin around 1910.
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The President of the Senate of the Corps Adelbills, Sergeant-Adelborst J.H. Van Gulik, flanked by the other members of the Senate.
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U.S. Navy officials and shipyard personnel pose for a photograph during the keel laying ceremony for the guided missile destroyer BENFOLD (DDG-65). Base: Pascagoula State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Greetings from Greenville Army Air Base, S. C. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Greetings from Fort Lee, Va. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States