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Images of military equipment and installations from World War II, featuring tents, aircraft components, and landscapes in Burma and Italy.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RESCUE War

A N.A. At-6 Of The 353Rd Fighter Group Buzzes The Field At An 8Th Air Force Base Where English Civilians And American Military Personnel Have Congregated To Observe The Exhibitions On Air Force Day On 1 March 1945.

General View Of The Perimeter Of The 390Th Bomb Group Base In England, 3 March 1945.

Part Of A Complete German 'Robot Bomb' Found Intact By Members Of The 9Th Air Force In France. It Had Come In For A 'Perfect' Landing And Did Not Explode. A Bomb Disposal Unit Dis-Assembled The Unit And Loaded It Aboard A Transport Plane To Be Flown To

Boeing B-29S Parked By Control Tower At An Air Base In Tinian, Marianas Islands. 11 April 1945.

Typical Company Living Area Showing Stage Of Completion Of Access Road. 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion At An Air Base In Matching, England. 11 January 1943.

English Armstrong gun in Fort Fisher, N.C.. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-1234. Artillery (Weaponry), North Carolina, Fort Fisher (Fort), 1860-1870, Soldiers, Confederate, North Carolina, Fort Fisher (Fort), 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, Confederate, North Carolina, Fort Fisher (Fort), 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Confederate, North Carolina, Fort Fisher (Fort), United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Confederate, North Carolina, Fort Fisher (Fort), United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Confederate, North Carolina, Fort Fisher (Fort).

General View Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Put Up Their Tents In Camp Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. May 1945.

Five-Hundred Pound Bombs Are Delivered To Republic P-47'S At An Airbase In India. 1Sy Air Commando Group, 10 February 1945.

807Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Operating Bulldozers During Construction Of Causeway Built To Facilitate Landing Operations On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 3 May 1945.

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

A P-47 fighter lands on the newly completed landing strip.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Strafing &Combat War

Radio Transmitting Antennae Of The 2Nd Army Airways Communication Wing At An Air Base In Turkey.

Parachute Bombs Dropped By Planes Of The 5Th Air Force'S 3Rd Bombardment Group, 90Th Bombardment Squadron, Fall Toward Japaneseanese Trucks On A Road At Ransiki Airdrome, Dutch New Guinea, On June 1, 1944.

Artillery Liaison plane taking off from Kibawe Airstrip, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. Due to the length of grass, softness of fields and shortness of the airstrips, this field was usable only by Liaison planes. 5 May 1945.

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Parked On The Line At The 91St Bomb Group In Bassingbourne, England. 6 June 1944

Soldiers from the 9th Engineers work on completing the Memorial Hospital in Chu Zai Hew Life Hamlet during the Vietnam War. Funds to construct the clinic were donated by friends of a late correspondent. Photograph captured on October 27, 1966.

The U.S. Troop Carrier Forces Have Played A Great Role In The Evacuation Of Battle Casualties From The Front Since D-Day. Here, Amublances Await The Removal Of Wounded Soliders From Douglas C-47S Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command At Le Bourget Field, Fran

American soldiers navigating a shell-torn battlefield near Bony, south of Le Catelet. This area was part of the Hindenburg Line, which the Americans successfully broke through during World War I. The photograph was taken on November 5, 1918 and was passed by the A.E.F. censor.

Wrecked U.S. Planes After Japanese Air Attack On Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, On The Night Of 24 May 1945. Some Of The Damage Was Caused By The Demolition Squadron Of Japaneses That Poured Out Of "Suicide Sally" - The Only One That Got Close To The Fiel

Enemy on Kiska.

Aerial View Of Bomb Damaged Airfield At Paderborn, Germany. 12 May 1945.

Ruins Of Cologne, Germany After Bombing By The 9Th Af. 10 April 1945.

Kweilin, China.

US Marines from "W" Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, crossing a blown-up bridge during a patrol south of the battalion's command post at Duc Pho, Vietnam. The bridge had been destroyed by the Viet Cong at the beginning of the overnight patrol. Photograph taken by Sgt. Lenin Trices on March 13, 1967.

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

This oil storage tank at Balikpapan took a direct hit by a "Jungle Air Force" 1,000 pound bomb in the pre-invasion aerial assault. Many others were left in similar condition. Photo taken a few days after F-Day shows smoke still rising from burning

General View Of Camp Area Of 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 1 June 1945.

Post Exchange Counter At The 7Th Air Force Base On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 21 August 1945.

FOXHOLE KITCHEN-As protection against strafing by the Luftwaffe, this chow line at a 9th USAAF base in France forms in a trench and gets its food from an underground kitchen. Strafing chow lines is a favorite trick of the Luftwaffe.

Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Clean Debris From Streets Of The Bombed Town Of Furth, Germany.

Offices, tents and trucks of bombardment group, Benina Field, Bengasi, Lybia. July 1943.

View Of Camp Area Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron At Field Number 10, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Raf 6Th Motor Transport Company Convoy Of North American 'Harvard' Trainers Assembled At The Raf Base At Glasgow, Scotland For Transport To England. 11 November 1943.

Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.

Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADIO War

Revetment is excavated and a floor of granite laid so heavy bombers will not bog down in wet weather.

Bombing of Cairo, Egypt...

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

The Greatest American Power Dream Come True As Boeing B-29 "Superforts"Move Toward Japanesean. Only A Fact To Us - - But A Nightmare To The Japaneses. Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.

"Somewhere in France"-A Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is shown landing at the first American air field in Normandy. The landing strip, built under fire by soldiers of the Ninth Engineer Command, is now in operations refueling and servicing fighters and

Damaged Gliders Of The 1St Air Commando Group, Resulting From A Wind Storm At A Base In Asansol, India. 22 April 1945.

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Federal battery on Morris Island. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Two of the freight houses at John Payne Field, near Cairo, Egypt. 12 November 1943.

T/4 John Radawich, Detroit, Michigan, With Splint Kit Carried In Air Ground Rescue Jeep For Plane Crashes. China.

Personnel Of The 379Th Bomb Group Examine The Wreckage Of The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" (A/C No. 887) Which Crashed At Its 8Th Air Force Base As A Result Of Battle Damage Over Enemy Territory On 5 January 1944.

Reaching out for the river - drill grounds of the defenders of Cairo, Ill.. Title from item, Copyright by Review of Reviews Co, Illus. from: The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities / Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor-in-chief ; Robert S. Lanier, managing editor. New York : Review of Reviews Co, 1911, v. 1. The opening battles, p. 176-77 (bottom). United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Union, Military camps, Union, Illinois, Cairo, 1860-1870, Military training, Illinois, Cairo, 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, Illinois, Cairo, 1860-1870.

Thunderbolts of 12th AF set ablaze this German train carrying Wehrmacht motor vehicles through Yugoslavia, 26 Feb. 1945.

Jap planes burn furiously at Clark Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands. They were strafed by a North American P-51 during the fierce air and ground battle to regain control of the field.

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.

BOMBING

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

Air Transport Command Officer's Club On Ascension Island. 5 October 1945.

A 3,000 Ton Japanese Freighter Is Bracketed By Bombs From Planes Of The U.S. Army 5Th Af, While Numerous Other Bomb Bursts May Be Seen In The Background. Scene Is Wewak Harbor, On The North Coast Of New Guinea, Where The U.S. Planes Sank An Enemy Transport An

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

American And British Soliders Aid In Removing The Injured From The Dockside Wreckage Following The Explosion Of An Ammunition Ship In The Bari, Italy Harbor, On April 9 1945.

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate sandbag fortifications | Library of Congress

Men At Work At The 448Th Sub-Depot, 381St Bomb Group, England, 22 April 1944.

Buna Mission after capture by American Force.

The Retreat Of German Armies Is Greatly Harrassed By The Destruction Rained Down On Them By Bombers Of The 9Th Af. The Above Picture Shows Some Of The Damage Done 1 3/4 Miles West Of Valognes, France.

This Vultee L-5 'Sentinel' Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron, 10Th Army, Was Wrecked When It Became Caught In Down-Wind During Take-Off From Field #10, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, 1945.

A Member Of The 94Th Fighter Squadron 1St Fighter Group, Leaves His Villa Which Was Constructed By Him At This Airfield Somewhere In Italy.

Senior Officers' Quarters In The 7Th Air Force Headquarters Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 August 1945.

15Th Air Force Bombers Make A Direct Hit On The Airdrome At Campo Formido, Italy, 12 May 1945.

Forbes, Colo. -- Comrade, after battle, rescuing body of slain miner

Members of the RAF attached to the Ninth U.S. Air Force in the Middle East, clean the containers in which homing pigeons are carried when they accompany Yank fliers on combat missions. The birds are released with S.O.S. messages in case of failure

Manassas, Virginia Orange and Alexandria Railroad wrecked by retreating Confederates. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, Railroads, United States, Virginia, Manassas.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

The Shop And Office Of The Air Transport Command Motor Pool Area On Ascension Island. 5 October 1945.

Return of Flying ofrtress from the Rouen raid of 17 Aug 1942 first all American mission against Europe. The painting shows scene observed by artist Peter Hurd as an airdrome in Britain. It is reprinted from Life.

AGS-25 Kellar , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

The landing gear of a glider, participating in the 52nd Troop Carrier Wing maneuvers in 1943, drifts down toward the Comiso Airfield in Sicily. The gear was dropped so that the glider would make a skid landing when it reached its destination at Ponte

Schneider siege mortar , Mortars Ordnance, Artillery Weaponry. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Sgt. A Crammed Of Australia Demonstrates How The Paper Chute Will Open After Leaving The Plane During The Testing Pf Paper Parachutes At An Airbase At Brisbane, Australia. 22 March 1943.

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

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Petersburg, Virginia. Confederate Fort Mcgilvery. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Liberation forces clean filth ridden Bilibid Prison at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. All furniture and bedding were burned and buildings were cleaned and fumigated and cleaned for housing of prisoners until they could be moved to a rear area.

Hawaiian Islands - Bombing 12/7/41 - Hickam Field, First Army Photos Of Bombing Of Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. Looking South Down Hanagr Avenue With Largest Hangars In Background Damaged By Fire. Hickam Field, Hawaii.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RELIGION War

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

Zeebrugge -- gun spoiled by Germans

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Berry Airdrome looking Northwest along runway near Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea. 27 November 1942.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

A Vultee L-5 Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron Comes In For A Landing On Cub Field No. 7 On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. This Squadron Is Attached To The 10Th Army. 1945.

Bomb damage to Littoria Airdrome, Rome, Italy, sometime in 1944.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting Hollandia. Overview of Hollandia with in the foreground Z.G. Quonset Huts. February 1947. Hollandia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, New Guinea

Behind The 9 Statistical Control Unit's Tent (Extreme Left) Are The Photo Trailer Of The 7Th Combat Camera Unit And The Photographic Laboratory Tents Of The 9Th Photo Intelligence Detachment. These Tens Are Located In The 7Th Air Force Headquarters Area

1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War

Mrs. G.H. Kinnicutt, Miss Mellen, Austin Nichols

Aerial View Of Bologna, Italy, After The Fall Of The City, Showing The Accurate Bombing By 12Th & 15Th Air Force Planes. None Of The City'S Cultural Shrines Were Hit. 6 August 1944.

CVA 61 Ranger , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Hospital linens are washed by Negro troops operating the portable laundry units at Clark Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 27 June 1945.

This Is One Of The 7 Big Railroad Guns Ruined By Tactical Air Force Planes In The Four Day Attack On The Road From Montelimar And Valence.

On Their Way To Work, Wacs Walk Past Buildings Shattered By Bombs Of Their Own Aaf When That Part Of Italy Was In German Hands. The Wacs Are Members Of A Platoon Assigned To The 12Th Air Force Headquarters.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Drought refugees in California near Holtville. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Holtville, California , Imperial County, Internal migrants, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939

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