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WWII Military Air Operations

Images show military aircraft and ambulances at airfields, highlighting wartime logistics and repair efforts involving American and Australian forces.

Ninth Air Force fighter-bombers, flying ahead of the First Army thrust to Cologne, knocked out this loading platform in the railroad yard at Duren, Germany. In the early days of this offensive, Republic P-47 Thunderbolts of the 9th's three tactical
Ninth Air Force fighter-bombers, flying ahead of the First Army thrust to Cologne, knocked out this loading platform in the railroad yard at Duren, Germany. In the early days of this offensive, Republic P-47 Thunderbolts of the 9th's three tactical
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How Bombs, Rockets And Strafing Guns Of The 1St Tactical Air Force Medium And Fighter Bombers Helped Pave The Way For The Armies Advancing Across The Upper Rhine Is Revealed By This Wreckage Of The Railway Station At Zweibrucken, Germany.
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Lae-after an attack on 18 Jan 43 when seven North American B-25s and eleven Beaufighters delivered eight tons of bombs and 12,935 rounds of strafing fire.
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Cpl. James Simon From Wadworth, Ohio Works On A Curtiss P-40 Parked Under Engine Hoist At Lilibari Field, Lilibari, India, 16 March 1943.
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Ruins Ludlow Colony -- Trinidad, Col.
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In the Los Negros Cemetery (Admiralty Islands) are graves of the men who died so gallantly during the intense struggle for the islands. All branches of the Service are represented without discrimination to color, race or religion. Many of the graves
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Hangar, 20 July 1945, Santa Maria, Azores.
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Wreckage In The Marshalling Yards In Hall, Austria Because Of The Bombing By The 15Th Air Force Bombers.
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To deny the Americans the use of the Timbali Strip at Labuan, North Borneo, Netherland East Indies, Japaneseanese built these pronged bamboo racks. Evidently paratroopers were to have impaled themselves on these racks.
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Armor piercing bombs at bomb dump on Lingayen Airstrip, Philippine Islands. 12 June 1945.
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Three soldiers posing by a mounted cannon with a wall of sandbags behind them. Civil War Photograph Collection . Cannons, 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Confederate, 1860-1870, Batteries (Weaponry), 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Confederate, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Confederate.
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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.
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General View Of The 410Th Bomb Group At Station A-68 In France. 13 March 1945.
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In A Field Near Watton, Norfolk, England, Where It Was Forced Down On The Return Trip From A Mission Over Enemy Territory, This Consoldiated B-24 Liberator Waits For The Return Trip To Its Home Base. 14 December 1943. 392Bg - D
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American Troops Move In On A Bomb Damaged City Somewhere In France. 29 July 1944.
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Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL, EVACUATION,Air War
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Gathering dead -- Vera Cruz
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Destroyed coaches in the Marshalling yards in Vicenza, Italy. This damage was done by 15th Air Force bombers. 10 May 1945.
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Wreckage Caused By Japanese Attack On Yonton Field, Okinawa On 24 May 1945. There Were 12 Planes That Made An Attempt To Land On The Field And Demolish Aircraft With Hand Grenades, Magnetic Mines, Knee Mortors And Various Forms Of Explosive Charges. Survivin
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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.
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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.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & Training
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Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War
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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.
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Cantonment, Wrightstown, N.J.
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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.
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The 831St Engineering Company At Work At An Army Air Force Station In England. 27 July 1944.
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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.
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Members Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Construct A Quonset Hut At An Airfield At Le Molay, France.
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Beaumont at Genoa en route to Rome
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,EQUIPMENT War
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View Of A Douglas C-47A Transport Plane Which Crashed At Fort Pepperrell, Newfoundland, 24 November 1943.
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Mobile Control Tower-Signal Trailer Of The 490Th Bomb Group At An Airbase In England. 19 July 1944.
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Ships unloading at San Fernando Point in the Philippine Islands. Larg stores of ammunition, oil and rations are piled along the cast at San Fernando Point, located 30 miles north of Lingayen airstrip. 25 May 1945.
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Aviation Engineers had to struggle against sand of the North African deserts in building the air bases vital to the victorious drive against the Axis forces.
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Chalonnes (Loire)-This half-mile long bridge spanning a wide expanse of the Loire as it nears the sea was knocked out by the U.S. Heavies on 9 June 44-D-Day plus three. FRANCE.
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Lower parade grounds Fort Huachuca, Arizona , Forts & fortifications. Jack Miller Collection
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CVA 43 Coral Sea 19-NN-CVA 43 Coral Sea-158498 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War
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Even Water Is Shipped In During Initial Phase Of An Operation In The Pacific. Here, Men Of The 318Th Fighter Group Unload 5-Gallon Cans Of Water From A Truck Which Brought It To The Area From The Boat. They Are, Left To Right: S/Sgt. Harrison Gilmore Of
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When spring came, melting snow flooded the area around the barracks at Poltava Airbase, one of the shuttle mission bases in Russia. 27 March 1945.
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Bomb dumps and fuel dumps are dispersed over a large area at an 11th Air Force base near Constantine Harbor, Amchitka, Aleutian Islands. 10 October 1943.
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Houffalize, Belgium, an important enemy comunications center during von Rundstedt's advance, as it appeared after repeated bombardments by U.S. Army 9th AF medium, light and fighter-bombers had forced the Germans to withdraw from the town.
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FOXHOLE-The best way to make men of the U.S. Army 13th Air Force mad is to talk about the Army Air Forces' reputation for comfortable living. Ever since it was activated in the Battle of Guadal-canal, the 13th has tried unsuccessfully to catch up
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500 lb. M76 incendiary bombs at bomb dump on Lingayen Airstrip, Philippine Islands. 12 June 1945.
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Pierced Steel Plank Is Laid On The Runway By Members Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion During Construction Of An Airfield At Furth, Germany.
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Ghost-Like Figures Dot This Lonely Country Road In England As Men Of The 353Rd Fighter Group Participate In A Simulated Gas Attack - A Part Of The Group's Chemical Warfare Training Program. March 1944.
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American Engineer Camouflage Unit building a dummy bridge during World War I. MM-3-44-1382 photograph.
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German Military Installations At Normandy Beach, France. Taken 22 June 1944.
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The 5Th Army Lands In Italy - Landing Craft, Loaded With Personnel And Equipment, Go Ashore Near Salerno, Italy On 9 September 1943.
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No, it's not the Washington Monument, but the high vertical tail of a Boeing B-17 Flying ofrtress, barely discernible as a heavy snow storm blankets heavy bomber bases in England. Crewman of this group, like others, worked all night clearing the wet
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FRANCE-St. Raphael in Frejus Beach area, midpoint of Riviera Landings, looked like this on 17 July 44.
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Bomb damage to harbor area, north of Rome, Italy.
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