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.
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.
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Burmese islanders helping to unload stores after the beach had been secured at Cheduba , South of Ramree, Burma. Royal Marines of the East Indies Fleet made a successful landing on Cheduba Island under protection of a bombardment by cruisers and destroyers and air cover provided by the Fleet Air Arm. Assault craft can be seen just off shore.
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Bomb Dump Of The 379Th Bomb Group At An 8Th Air Force Base In England. 8 March 1945.
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A Negro family coming into the Union lines. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original glass negative no.: LC-B811-657 (half). African Americans, War, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, African Americans, Families, 1860-1870, Carts & wagons, 1860-1870, Military camps, 1860-1870.
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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.
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Lookouts - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Men Of Co. C, 833Rd Engineers Aviation Battalion Load British Type Landing Matting Onto A Truck To Be Used In The Construction Of An Airfield At Cokethorpe, England.
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Unloading A Generator Unit From A Higgins Boat At Dock Area, Prince Christian's Sound, Greenland. 6 Oct 1944.
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During off-duty hours, Yanks stationed at Poltava Airbase in Russia, seek out-door exercise. Here, a game of catch is in progress at the shuttle mission base. 11 April 1945.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RECREATION War
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Jet Planes Line Airfield At Erding, Germany Where Nazis Were Assembling Them When The Area Was Taken Over By The 14Th Armd. Division, Third U.S. Army.
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Warehouses and installations at Gura Airport, Gura, Eritrea. June 1943.
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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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Bombs for Germany-Plenty of these are available and will be dropped in ever-increasing numbers on our enemies.
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Russian soldiers and an American GI level off area, part of the construction work underway at the Poltava Airbase in Russia in October 1944. RUSSIAN SHUTTLE MISISON.
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Members Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Work On The Construction Of A Runway At Matching, England.
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ENGLAND-Stacked up two thousand pound bombs loaded on a trailer for delivery to a bomb bay of a Consolidated B-24 which will forward them to Germany (K2385).
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U.S. plane damaged during...
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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.
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Immense Wreckage In The Marshalling Yards In Hall, Austria, Done By The 15Th Air Force Bombers.
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During The 11 August 1944 Bombing Raid East Of Frejus, This Gun Platform Received Severe Damage From A Direct Hit Which Rendered The Gun Unserviceable Without Destroying It. France.
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AMS-153 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. Douglas Dakotas waiting for their freight to be unloaded after arriving at B56/Evere, Belgium.
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Lt. Colonel Joseph Edgerton And Group Of Aviation Writers Viewing Bomb Damage To Submarine Yards In Hamburg Harbor.
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Snow Drifts Around Headquarters Building Of The 2Nd Service Group At An Airbase Somewhere In Iceland. 14 January 1944.
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Search light located west and slightly north of battery 203. Damaged and put out of service by fragments from near misses and from strafing.
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Members Of The 2Nd Service Group Hoist Salvaged Of A Wrecked Curtiss P-40 Onto A Truck, Somewhere In Iceland. 26 August 1943.
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Kuma class cruiser taking...
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Ordnance Men Prepare Bombs For The Aircraft Which Will Carry Them. The Crew Men Were Briefed By 1St Lt. William R. Sincock, Of Calumet, Mich, Operations Officer, Who Warned The Crews Taht 'The Bomb Is Not Dangerous, If Reasonable Care Is Exercised.'
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Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RESCUE War
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Fragments Of A German Rocket Which Exploded Near Clare, England, On 1 December 1944.
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After the battle of Haelen
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Building thatched huts for U.S. Troops.
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As natives continue their construction work at the end of runway, a North American B-25 comes in for a landing at Payne Field, Cairo, Egypt.
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Aircraft, Burma, India & Operations , Naga Headhunters War
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Sailors on shore leave from SOUTH CAROLINA
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Bomb Damage To The Railroad Cars In The Marshalling Yards Of Linz, Austria, Caused By The Bombing Of The 15Th Air Force.
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Aircraft, Burma, India &Ceremonies& Decorations, MEMORIALSERVICES War
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A heavy rain storm almost covered some of the 260 lb. fragmentation bombs at the bomb dump on Lingayen Airstrip. Philippine Islands-12 June 1945.
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Mediterranean Allied Air Forces Aviation Engineers Had To Battle 'General Mud' During The Rainy Season In Sunny Italy. Shown Here, Is A Group Of Engineers Enroute To Make Additional Repairs To The Airfield At Anzio, Italy. See Attached Related Press Re
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Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADIO 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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Personnel Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Felling Trees. This Area Is Being Cleared For New Stone Quarry On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 18 May 1945.
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Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADAR War
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps - Ohio. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Pontoon Bridge And Under Construction At Perdenbach, Germany Is Snapped By The P-38 Photo Plane. Note The Temporary Ferry In Mid-Stream. In Center Background Are Dense Barbed Wire Entanglements That Guarded Approaches To The Westwall. "Dicing" Or Low L
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Statue Of Chinese Aviator At Nanking, China.
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Until the belly tank came along, fighter protection was extremely limited & the big boys had to shift for themselves when they came into the target area where the opposition usually was thickest, however, these two cylinderical tanks furnish P-38's
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Operation 'Alert' - Boston Regional Office - 1954 , Shipping, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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German U-Boat
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Vehicles of the Motor Transport Service Carry Vital Supplies Over Newly Graded War Torn Roads. Original caption: Following the progress of the armies into Germany the vehicles of the Motor Transport Service carry vital supplies over newly graded war torn roads to supply depots and dumps close to the fighting line. Credit U.S. Army Signal Corps. State: Europe.
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Haldane's arrival, West Point
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Cpl. Wilfred E. Tritz, Milwaukee, Wisc., Is Building A Chimney Out Of No. 10 Food Cans For His Villa, Now Under Construction. Italy.
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ARD-18 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Two Russian Soldiers Stand By An Entrance To The Main Park In Poltava, Russia - The Gateway Has Been Decorated In Honor Of The 27Th Anniversary Of The Red Revolution Which The Country Celebrated On 7 November 1944.
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Camp near Juarez
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Refugees at the railway station at Kweilin, China. We see some of the moving drama involved when masses of Chinese are evacuated to safer localities. This evacuation was part of a plan to move all unnecessary civilians out of Kweilin.
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Nat. Guard practice, 2/21/15
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AMS-195 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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Two Members Of The 410Th Bomb Group Walk Away From The Memorial Monument At Chateau-Thierry, France.
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Berchtesgaden, Germany -- Fishing Near The Base Of The Eagle'S Nest Are Gis Of The 101St Airborne Division'S 327Th Glider Infantry Regiment. Left To Right: Sgt. Roy T. Bouckou, From Hollywood, Ca., S/Sgt. Harold J. Mangini, From Garfield, Nj; And Pvt. Vi
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Seal hunting kayak on sled. Alaska Task Force Photographs
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Roger Bolstead (BLM) in front of old trapping cabin. Alaska Task Force Photographs