Airbase Operations

Historical photographs of military airbases featuring tents and aircraft. Scenes highlight operational setups during WWII, with attention to barracks and infrastructure.

Men Of The 364Th Fighter Group, 67Th Fighter Wing, Repair A Portion Of The Runway At 8Th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England. 5 November 1944.

Living Quarters For Personnel Of The 372Th Bomb Squadron, 92Nd Bomb Group, At An Airbase Somewhere In France. 10 August 1945.

General view of barracks for Russian shuttle misison personnel at the Poltava Airbase in Russia. 1944.

A Bulldozer, Operated By A Member Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Clears A Field In Preparation For Construction Of An Airfield At St. Trond, Belgium. 1 October 1944.

These 8Th Air Force B-17S On Poltava Airfield, Ukraine, Russia, Having Just Completed Their First Shuttle Bombing Mission From England, Were Destroyed On The Ground In A Perfectly Timed And Well Executed Attack By The German Air Force On The Night Of 21 J

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Members Of An Anti-Aircraft Unit Draw Water From A Small Lake, Formerly Part Of The Japaneseanese Water Supply. Pfc. Charles B. Nelson Of Elburn, Illinois, Operates The Pump And Cpl. Harold W. Mullenbach Of Osage, Iowa, Is In Charge Of Water Cans On The 3/4 T

Men Of The 364Th Fighter Group, 67Th Fighter Wing, Repair A Portion Of The Runway At 8Th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England. 5 November 1944.

Enlisted Men's Latrine And Shower In The 7Th Air Force Headquarters Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 August 1945.

Bomb Damage To St. Malo, France. 21 August 1944.

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

Liuchow Area In China After The Retreating Japaneses Moved Just Outside The City After Completely Destroying It.

Completely knocked out, this bridge on the West coast of Italy below Ancona was a target for fighter-bombers and Baltimores of RAF Desert Air Force. All units of the Mediterranean Air Forces worked together on Operation Strangle.

Bomb damage to Ostiense Railroad Yards on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. Note gun in foreground.

An Scr 527 Radar Station Operated By The 316Th Radar Company Is Loacted One Mile East Of Brown Beach On Labuan, Borneo, Netherland East Indies.

Parachute bombs are dropping from low-flying U.S. planes on revetments protecting dispersed Japanese craft on the runway and on tents, huts, and a truck at Vunakanau Airfield, Rabaul, New Britain. Note plane nosed in ditch at lower left, and other planes

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, Storm Damage War

During off-duty hours, Yanks stationed at Poltava Airbase in Russia, seek out-door exercise. Here, a fast game of volley ball keeps these men on their toss. 11 April 1945.

Parachute bombs falling on Clark Field in the Philippines during the week that preceded General MacArthur's landing on Luzon Jan 9, 1945.

Dust Storm At Patterson Field, Iceland. 2Nd Air Base Group, 17 June 1942.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

U.S. Air Force equipment is loaded on flat cars of a special train on the siding at Poltava Airbase, one of the shuttle bombing bases in the U.S.S.R. 15 October 1944.

Air Transport Command Theatre On Ascension Island. 5 October 1945.

Luzon, Philippine Islands-Forward strips basically are short stretches of reasonably flat terrain capable of landing Vultee L-5s and are spotted as close to the front as possible to permit speedy evacuation of the more serious of wounded men.

Arrival Of Lockheed P-38 "Lightnings" At 2Nd Air Base Group Airfield Somewhere In Iceland. 6 July 1942.

The 433rd Fighter Squadron using a parachute for shade on the airstrip at Lingayen, Luzon Island, Philippine Islands, while servicing Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" engines. 29 April 1945.

These 8th Air Force Boeing B-17s on Poltava Airfield, Ukraine, Russia, having just completed their first shuttle-bombing msision from England, were destroyed on the ground in a perfectly timed and well executed attack by the German Air Force on the

Important Rail Center Between Central Germany And Frankfurt, Fulda Handled 2,000 Cars Daily Before It Was Blasted By 682 Tons Of Bombs Dropped By The 8Th Air force In Four Attacks.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RELIGION War

Boram Field, Wewak, New Guinea.

7Th Air Force Personnel Take Advantage Of Their Free Time To Have Their Hair Trimmed In A Make-Shift Barber Shop In The 7Th Air Force Headquarters Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 August 1945.

Aerial View Of The Bomb Damaged Railroad Yards At Hamm, Germany. 12 May 1945.

Engineering Section of the 528th Bomb Squadron, 380th Bomb Group, at Mindoro, Philippine Islands, August 1945.

Muddy and flooded runways and taxi strips at a 15th AAF P-47 Thunderbolt fighter field in Italy make take-off something of a problem, but do not delay or prohibit missions. 325th Fighter Group.

The Only Undamage Cellar Remaining Of An Underground Powder Storage Depot After An Attack By 12 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Fighter Bombers Of The Xix Tactical Air Command. The Structure 120 Feet Wide And 20 Feet High Contains Hundreds Of Unexploded Powder

Rec Hall China Style - A Curtiss C-46 cargo plane that once blazed freight routes across the CBI theatre finds a new future. Resting quietly at a 14th Air force airfield it serves as a recreation hall for men of the "Flying Tigers" transport unit.

The Roof End And Two Floors Of This Building In The Kugelfischer Plant At Schweinfurt, Germany, Have Dropped On Precision Machinery, Observers Found When Making A Survey Of Bomb Damage Close Behind Advancing Allied Ground Forces.

Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton (Left) And Major General Elwood R. Quesada (Center) Talk With Officers During Their Visit To St. Pierre Du Mont Airfield, Normandy, France.

FRANCE-The German steam-shovel (center) was gouging out anit-tank defenses in the Siegfriend Line area when 9th Air Force Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bombers appeared on the scene. A few bursts from a low-flying Thunderbolt fired the shovel

Allied invasion fleet lies off shore at Balikpapan, Borneo, N.E.I. On the ruined pier, once a pipeline outlet for loading oil freighters, buildings and pipes show the effect of the pre-invasion pounding by the 13th AAF. The veteran "Jungle Air Force"

Enemy motor transport waterlogged in cirenaica, Libya.

PRO 13th AAF-GHQ WAR CORRESPONDENTS HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, 9 July 1945---A direct hit on this big oil storage tank by a thousand pound bombed dropped by a 13th AAF Liberator produced unhappy results for the Japaneses. Australians

The Typhoon Of 9 October 1945 Brought Damage To The Headquarters Squadron, Orderly Room, Machinato Air Base, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.

United States Military Cemetery on Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.

Chemical Warfare - Men Don Oxygen Masks Preparatory To Entering The Gas Chamber At 8Th Air Force Station 167 In England, 13 August 1943. 381St Bomb Group.

Released prisoners debark from an amtrack at Laguna De Bay after their liberation from the Los Banos Prisoners of War Camp in Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands.

Members Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Constructing Runway At An 8Th Air Force Base At Matching, England. 13 June 1943.

Men Of The 324Th Service Group Arrive At The 340Th Bomb Group Base To Start Salvage Work After The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius On 23 March 1944. Italy

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,ARMAMENT War

Motor Pool In The 7Th Air Force Headquarters Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 August 1945.

A roller smoothing out the rough spots of Bacolod Strip, Negros, Philippine Islands. 9 May 1945.

The remains of a string of freight cars in the railroad yard at Stommeln, Germany, results of a 9th AF fighter-bomber attack carried out to deny enemy troops key rail facilities.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Troops &Paratroops

American military personnel working at a salvage plant at Aviation Field #3 in Issoudon, France during World War I. The photograph was taken on May 22, 1918 by Sgt. Moscioni, S.C. It was officially released by the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) censor on July 29, 1918.

Douglas C-47S Parked On An Airfield Somewhere In Germany. 20 April 1945.

German Military Installations At Normandy Beach, France. Taken 22 June 1944.

Wrecked Lockhead P-38 "Lightnings" At A Base Somewhere In The Pacific Area.

Men Of The 318Th Fighter Group Preparing Crates For Shipment. Bellows Field, Oahu, Hawaii, 15 May 1944.

Bomb Damage To St. Malo, France. 21 August 1944.

The First Close Look Many Americans Got Of Japan Was When They Landed At Atsugi Airfield, 32 Miles From Tokyo. The Flotsam Of A Beaten Air Force Was Assembled On Atsugi Airfield, Including Well-Ventilated Navy Jack Planes.

Pursuing the peaceful occupation of oat-gathering, pretty Miss Millicent Heyward, English farmerette is seen on a farm located in the midst of a widely dispersed air service depot where some of the great force of 8th AF Boeing B-17 Flying ofrtresses

Enroute To The Dropping Zone At The Air Warning Station On Mt. Atwell, The Cargo Plane Flys Low Over A Naga Village. As The Plane Flew Over The 'Hump', The Crew Members Searched For Any Sign Of Japaneseanese Troops. Burma. August 1943.

After Three Engines Had Been Shot Out Of Commission Over France, This Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Returned, But Had To Make An Emergency Landing And Undergo Repairs On The Spot. Here, It Is Shown At Dawlish, England, Awaiting The Building Of An Emergen

Landing Fields - Philipines - Mindanao Island, Aerial Photograph.

This giant Wurzburg German radar antennae registers planes within 80 kilometers, also plots fighter interception. In simplest terms, radar is an electrical device for detecting the prescence of stationary or moving objects (such as airplanes).

General View Of The Oxygen Generating Plant Of The 27Th Air Depot Repair Group, 5Th Service Command At Port Moresby, New Guinea. 15 March 1943.

A 'Follow-Me' Jeep Directs A Republic P-47 Into A Parking Area After It Landed On An Airfield At St. Pierre Du Mont, Normandy, France.

A 37 Mm. Anti-Aircraft Gun In Revetment Which Has Been Dug By A Bulldozer And A Carry-All Grader. Baker Island, 9 September 1943.

Stockpile Of Parapacks At The 490Th Qm Depot, 9Th Troop Carrier Command, Somewhere In France. 3 March 1945.

General View Of An Airfield In Querqueville, France. 17 July 1944.

Framed by the remnants of a hangar once used by the Germans, a 9th Air force Martin B-26 Marauder is pictured taking off from a ofrmer Luftwaffe airfield in France on a mission to Germany. before the Marauders were able to use the field, 9th

Russian Red Cross field station

A post exchange in the middle of the boggy tundra of an Aleutian outpost is a combined tobacco shop, drug store, and dry goods emporium to American troops.

Quatermaster Warehouse, Meeks Field, Iceland. 2Nd Service Group, 19 May 1943.

Sc-356 Gasoline Fueled Power Unit In Foreground And In Rear, Scr-584 Radar Of The 124Th Aaa Battalion, At Dymchurch, Kent, England, On The Sea Wall Overlooking The English Channel Opposite The Flying Bomb Launching Region Of Pas De Calais, France. 4 Augu

Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL,EVACUATION War

Just A Few Miles Behind The Front Lines In Normandy, France, Men Of The 9Th Air Force Aviation Engineers Constructed Emergency Landing Strips With "Hessian Mat" Used For Surfacing. After The Selected Site For The Airstrip Is Graded And Leveled, The Mat,

Consolidated B-24's Of The 90Th And 380Th Bomb Groups Are Seen Here Being Refueled By The 324Th And The 305Th Airdrome Squadrons. 22 July 1945, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, 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.

Battle-field of Gettysburg Northern portion of Gettysburg, from a position west of the town, near the Theological Seminary. | Library of Congress

Unloading equipment of the Engineer Aviation Battalion at Kulack Bay, Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, August 1942.

Lower End Of Runway B, Constructed By Men Of The 818Th Engineer Aviation Battalion, At An Air Base In Gt. Dunmow, England, 9 January 1943.

Aerial View Of Bomb Damaged Cologne/ Nippes Marshalling Yards At Cologne, Germany. 9 May 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RESCUE War

Anti-Tank Defenses Along The Saar River Near Willingden, Germany. "Dicing" Or Low Level Photo And Visual Reconnaissance Mission Flown By Capt. Robert J. Holburg, 10Th Photo Group Of 9Th Af.

SCR-615-A radar station of 45th Fighter Sector, located at Bolinao, Pangasinan Province. The radar station was installed in February 1945, and was operated by "C" Company, 565th Signal Air Warning Bn. Luzon Island in the Philippines.

A soldier looks for possible snipers in the ruins of the Ayala Bridge, which crossed the Pasig River, Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. This bridge was blown up at the last minute by retreating Japs who then defended the approaches on the opposite

Bomb-wrecked supply ships of the Axis merchantile fleet in Bengasi Harbor, Cirenaica, Libya. In the foreground is an ammunition ship and its bos are turned back over the wrecked super-structure amidships by the force of the explosion of a R.A.F.

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

DAMAGE FROM THE AIR FOR D-DAY-In the foreground lies a chunk of reinforce concrete part of the roof of a storage vault, underground and strongly constructed in the town of Ouistreham, France.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Operations War

Germany - Protected By A Cover Of Figher-Bombers Provided By Major General O.P. Weyland'S Xix Tactical Air Command, Us 3Rd Army Troops Established A Bridgehead On The East Side (Foreground) Of The Rhine. Tanks Are Being Ferried On Pontoon Rafts. One Of

Bomb Damage Ordnance Depot, Amberg, Germany.

Consolidated C-87 Destroyed By Fire After Being Hit By Anti-Personnel Bombs Dropped By Japaneseanese Planes During An Attack On An Advanced Xx Bomber Command Base In China, On The Night Of 27 October 1944.

Wreck Of Consolidated B-24 (Ac #123728) In Iceland, Killing Fourteen Members. Among Those Killed Were, Lt. General Frank M. Andrews And Bishop Adna Wright Leonard. Only One Member Of Crew Survived. 2Nd Service Group, 4 May 1943.

Bomb Damage To The Carpiquet Airdrome In Caen, France. 22 July 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL,MISCELLANEOUS War

Consolidated B-24, With First Load Of Pows, Taxiis Toward Hangar Area At Hsian Airfield, China. 27 August 1945.

Transient aircraft-North American B-25s and Douglas C-47s-are lined up on Nichols Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands, prior to movement to Japan. 20 August 1945.

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