Airfield Activities during War

Historical images depicting airfield operations and military logistics in wartime scenarios, illustrating the preparation and transportation of military assets.

North Africa-S/Sgt. John Elliott of Lynn, Indiana and hist two buddies, Sgt. Howard Flannagan of Rochester, New York and Sgt. W.J. Mann of St. Louis, Mo., pitch his tent on the African desert.

Refueling A Bell P-39 Of The 38Th Bomb Group At 30-Mile Strip, Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea.

North Africa-S/Sgt. John Elliott of Lynn, Indiana and hist two buddies, Sgt. Howard Flannagan of Rochester, New York and Sgt. W.J. Mann of St. Louis, Mo., pitch his tent on the African desert.

Evacuation scene at Suichwan airfield, China, with Chinese sentry guarding tires and other equipment and baggage ready to be loaded on Curtiss C-46 Transports.

Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto -- 3/4 Front View Of A Single Propelling Charge With The Jet Attached From A Japanese Baka Plane.

With A Heavy Crane, Engineers Of The 1903Rd Lower A 5,000 Gallon Storage Tank Into Position Near Ie Shima Fighter Strip. Tank Will Be Part Of Drum Dumping System. (7Th Af #2700-5).

Douglas C-47 Dumps Chutes Carrying Supplies For Troops Fighting In The Lungling Area Over The Drop Field. China.

The Invasion Fleet Waiting In Naples Harbor, Italy, Before The Invasion Of Southern France.

Bomb damage to communications systems at Maintenon, France, one of the causes for the surrender of 20,000 to the 83d Division of the 9th U.S. Army, 17 Sept. 44.

Left To Right: M/Sgt. Herbert H. Roberts, Rosebud, Texas, Crew Chief Of This Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress", S/Sgt. Robert C. Opp, Chillicothe, Ohio, And Sgt. Robert W. Cooley, Grand Rapids, Mich., Members Of The Cub Ground Crew. England.

A German 155 Mm Howitzer, Part Of A Large Convoy Knocked Out By Allied Aircraft, Lies In A Water Billed Bomb Crater In The Bad-Durkheim Area, Germany, 7Th Us Army Sector.

Uso Show At 21St Field Hospital, Paoshan, China, 31 Jan. 1945, One Of A Series Given By Lily Pons And Andrew Kostelanetz, During A Tour Of The C-B-I Theatre. Lily Pons And Frank Versaci.

This photo, made on the raid, shows smoke pouring from the burning aircraft and oil dumps.

Returning from the support of bombers deep within Germany, Lt. James W. Wilkinson, 411 Dickinson Ave., Swarthmore, Pa., recently swept low over two airdromes with the results shown. Pictures 50448 AC and A show the

Bomb damage to...

North American B-25 Mitchells Over Boran Field, Wewak, New Guinea 16 Oct. 1943 500Bg 345Bs.

Ruins of the city of Leyte Is., P.I. Civilians setting up temporary quarters.

The seam of a wing is even torn up by a .303 shell.

Aleutian Islands, Alaska-These men are putting a North American B-25 to bed by covering the wings. Making life as miserable as possible for the Japanese invaders of the Aleutians at their Kiska and Attu Island bases is the continuing task of the Eleventh

Air Views Of The Twelfth Observation Squadron.

A Lockheed P-38 Lightning damaged during Japanese retaliatory raid on Middleburg landing strip, Middleburg Island. Most of the damage was suffered by parked planes.

The First Three Republic P-47 'Thunderbolts' To Arrive At Kunming, China Are Shown Parked On The Line. They Arrived On 20 April 1944.

Bullets strike the deck.

Native Laborers Tear Down Revetments At Chengkung Airbase In China In Order To Lengthen The Runways To Accomodate 'Super' Bombers.

A Douglas C-47 of the 9th Air Force Troop Carrier Command is unloaded after it landed on a German Airfield in France that was captured by American forces and put to work for the Allies.

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

Its boilers bursting in a cloud of smoke and steam, caused when a U.S. 8th AF fighter pilot dove in and strafed it, this locomotive will haul no more supplies to Rundstedt's battle lines. This supply train was destroyed by Capt. L.K. Carson. GERMANY.

American Soldiers Assemble Gi Trucks At Hsinching Airfield, Matterhorn Project At Chengtu, China, That Were Flown In By Transports From India.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,EQUIPMENT War

Weather Installations Looking North At Skjoldungen, Greenland. 17 November 1944.

Bombs Dropped By Planes Of The 305Th Bomb Group, 8Th Air force On 5 Jan. 1944, Fall Toward The German Shipyard Center At Kiel, Germany. Smoke Can Be Seen Pouring From Smoke Pots In An Attempt To Hide The Target.

Lining up to wash mess kits in front of the mess hall. Each man waits his turn to dunk his eating equipment in boiling hot soapy water, then on to clean boiling fresh water.

United States Army Air Forces have established an oustanding record for precision bombing. This was again illustrated recently when a flight of 24 Flying Fortresses from the Northwest Africa Air Forces winged over the harbor of Palermo, Sicily, and

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

On 29 January 1944, The Martin B-26 Marauder Of The Tactical Air Force (12Th Air Force) Cut Another Bridge, Northeast Of Civite Castellana. The B-26S Have Matched The Precision Bombing Of Their Big Four Engined Brothers In The Battle For Italy.

Activity Is Stirred Up In The South China Sea On 16 October 1944, When This North American B-25 Of The 11Th Bombardment Sqd., 341St Bombardment Group, 14Th Air Force Carries Out Its Mission Against Enemy Shipping.

1st Lt. Charles H. Hubbell, Jr., 22, of 2000 Mars Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio, navigator, and 2d Lt. Frank Reising, 28, of 322 North 7th St., Kansas City, Kans., bombardier, examining the damage done to a Boeing B-17 Flying ofrtress by anti-aircraft shell

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

A Japanese Twin Engine fighter on Labuan Island, Airstrip, Borneo, N.E.I.

Lone Boeing B-17 in flight over Mediterranean with cloud bank background.

Le Tourneau Machine Levelling Off Runway On Rufisque Airfield, Rufisque, French West Africa. June 1943.

This Photo Of The Fighter-Bomber Attack Of A German Retreat In Northern Italy Was Taken By The Pilot Of A Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Of The Us 12Th Af As He Sped Away From His Target. The Fire Is Seen From Above The Clouds Of Smoke. With This Movie Shot,

Crew Of The Boeing B-29, 'Eddie Allen' Of The 45Th Bomb Sq., 40Th Bomb Group, Xx Bomber Command; Left To Right, Back Row: Major Ira V. Matthews, Layette, Alabama, Pilot, 1St Lt. Robert A. Winters, Wichita, Kansas, Co-Pilot, 1St Lt. Herbert C. Hirachfield,

Smoke Markers And Bombs Head For The Airfield At Conches, France, To Add To The Destruction Already Being Wrought During A Mission On 24 June 1944 By Planes Of The 8Th Air Force'S 93Rd Bombardment Group.

At an 8th AAF Bomber base somewhere in England, 30 April 44. Lt. G.J. Bolger of Janesville, Minn., and Lt. Joseph Marinello of 2339 South 68th St., Milwaukee, Wis., examine their plane after they were forced to taxi the bomber into a reckpile when

Chinese Aircraft Spotting Team At Kunming Air Base In China. One 'Plane Spotter' Points To A Plane While The Other Telephones The Information. 5 November 1944.

Engineers laying steel mat on Tacloban airstrip, Leyte, Is., P.I.

Aviation engineers of the 9th Engineer Command shown building one of the first emergency landing strips laid down on the continent. Elements of this new type of 9th AF Command went onto the beachhead early and by 5:53 P.M. Thursday, 9

On a strafing run over a Germany truck convoy near Sjeinca, Yugoslavia, the pilot of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning of the 15th Fighter Command spotted an ammunition truck, and on his first burst over-shot his target.

Ferryville, Tunisia - A Target Well Covered By Bombs From Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortresses' Is This Dock Area. Explosions Can Be Seen In The Southeast Pier Area As Hits Were Made On Harbor Installations And Ships With A Number Of Fires Left Raging Along The

Aerial View Of Gliders Of The 1St Allied Airborne Army Lined Up On A Runway At An Airfield In France, Loaded And Ready To Go, In What Was Perhaps The Greatest Airborne Operation In The History Of The War, The Dropping Of Paratroops And Airborne Infantryme

A Japaneseanese boat flees from bombs dropped by planes of the 3rd Bomb Group, 8th Bomb Squadron in the Kokas, Dutch New Guinea area on 16 June 1944.

Wrecked Consolidated B-24D is spotted on mountainside on Cocos Island near Costa Rica, Central America, where it burned a patch of jungle.

Discovering an ME 110 below him, Capt. Charles W. Dinse, 304 Tougy Ave., Park Ridge, Ill, dove down and destroyed it. The picture was taken by his automatic camera as his bullets found their mark. Credit for the kill was shared with Lt. Richard A.

A rear view of the Bell P-59A, showing two reasons for its speed and maneuverability.-ALASKA.

Flaps and wheels down, a fighter (Lockheed P-38) comes home from a mission.

Three of the crew that brought back from Germany one of the most flak-battered Boeing B-17 Flying ofrtresses ever to be returned to England from a bombing attack on the enemy. They are (L to R) 2d Lt. Winfield F. Muffet, 22, of 195 North Euclid

Relentlessly harrying the Japaneseanese positions in New Guinea, bombers from the Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific continue carrying out forays against the enemy. Photo shows column of smoke rising from the strongly held Japanese base of Salamaua where

A Bomb Revetment In England. 6 September 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India &MISCELLANEOUS War

View Of Prum, Germany, On 2 March 1945 Showing Utter Ruins And Desolation Caused By The Allied Bombings, 4Th Infantry Div., And Artillery Shelling Of The City.

Plan showing smoke screen at Warnemunde operating during attack by U.S.B.C. on 29/7/43. Photograph shows hits blanketing the target despite the elaborate smoke screen apparatus indicated on the accompanying map.

Bomb Damage To Hangars At Marseilles, France.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Transportation War

FIRST U.S. PLANES LAND IN RUSSIA: Flying Fortresses peel-off to land above U.S. Strategic Air Forces airdrome in the U.S.S.R. after attacking targets in German-occupied Europe. Other Fortresses already have landed and crews are being welcomed

Improvised Post Exchange of the 38th Bomb Group at 14-mile Strip, Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea.

Bombs Burst On The Marshalling Yards At Hamm Germany As Bombs Continue To Fall To Add To The Destruction During This Mission By Planes Of The 8Th Air Force 44Th Bombardment Group, 22 April 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India &MISCELLANEOUS War

War Theatre #12 (Italy) Strafing & Combat--Direct Hits Were Scored When Planes Of The 350Th Fighter Group, 1St Brazilian Fighter Squadron Attacked This Enemy Command Post Somewhere In Italy On 18 April 1945.

Gun camera photos showing strafing of a train in France, 6 July 44 fighter pilot, 1st Lt. Arner M. Douglas, Ithaca, Mich.

Aerial View Of Tank Farm At Poashan, China. War Theatre #11 (Paqshan, China)

The Vultee L-5 hugs the...

GIs for honors in the ski and slalom meet at Ladd Field, Alaska, 13 February 1944.

Airborne infantrymen prepare for take-off.

Consolidated B-24 Liberators of a famed AAF Bomb Group fly over Adriatic on their way to bomb targets in Northern Italy. AAF Photo.

Eighth Air Force Bomber Station, England -- The Men In This Picture Believe They Have A Record To Be Proud Of. There Are 37 Of Them And As Bomb-Loaders For One Squadron Of One "Flying Fortress" Group They Have Averaged More Than 100 Tons Each In One Year

Aircraft, Burma, India &Aircraft, SINGLE, North American War

Lt. Colonel Melvin J. Nielsen, Palo Alto, Calif., Commander Of A Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Group, Seated In The Cockpit Of His P-47 At An Air Base Somewhere In France.

A Wounded Crewman Is Transferred From A Plane To An Ambulance For Evacuation To A Hospital At A Base Somewhere In Europe.

A flak fragment gave the bomb-bay air conditioning.

German Fw 190 And Ju 87 In Center Of A Destroyed Hanger In Vicenza, Italy. This Bomb Damage Was Caused By The 15Th A.F. Bombers, 10 May 1945.

North Africa-Pictured are the four steps necessary to become a member of the "Royal but not too Ancient Order of Funnelleers," a society composed of bombardiers who have dropped their bombs down the funnel of a ship, as demonstrated by Lt. E.W.

Sgt. Ernest A. Paquette, Lynn Mass., And A Chinese Mechanic Classify Nuts, Bolts, And Screws, Etc, Salvaged From Damaged Aircraft. At This Us China Air Service Command Depot These Infinitesimal Parts Which Would Ordinarily Be Scrapped Are Painstakingly S

Aircraft, Burma, India &Aircraft, GROUND,VULTEE War

Hostel #7 At Liuchow Air Base In China.

Martin B-26 Marauders Parked By The Six-Lane Runway Especially Built For These Bombers At Their Base In Decimo, Italy. August 1944.

Coolies and rocks are the main factors in repair of China airfields.

Aircraft, Burma, India &WRECKS War

Barracks And Installations At Sheikh Othman Airport, Aden, Arabia. June 1943.

A Douglas A-20 Warms Up At Ladd Field, Alaska, 12 February 1944.

Operations Analysis Section Of The 13Th Air Force Based On Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 18 April 1944.

FRANCE--In the shadow of blasted buildings and amidst the rubble, French Martin B-26 Marauder airmen of the Franco American 1st TAC AF stand at attention as the Tricolor is lowered at their medium bomber base somewhere in France.

Capt. Unger's Crew Of The 486Th Bombardment Group In England.

The Body Of A German Airman Burns In The Wreckage Of His Me-109 That Was Downed By Anti-Aircraft Of The 90Th Division Near Waldwisse, On The German Border Near The Saar River Front. This Was One Of The Twelve Planes That Flew A Mission Over This Territor

Aircraft, Burma, India &MISCELLANEOUS War

War Theatre #19 (New Guinea) Ceremonies And Decorations. These Four Lockheed P-38 Lighting Pilots Are Shown At Attention During A Ceremony In New Guinea At Which They Were Decorated By Brig. General Paul B. Wurtsmith. They Are, Left To Right: 1St Lt. Ge

Tent Quarters Occupied By Atc Personnel At Wideawake Field, Ascension Island. May 1943.

BOMB SERVICE TRUCK AND TRAILER, with two one-ton bombs, approaches the Flying ofrtress. Technically bombs of this size are not "block busters", but when one goes off it will kill anyone within 110 ft. and throw fragments nearly a mile.

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.

A rifle salute is given at the burian of four Air Force men of the 38th Bomb Group at Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea.

of 2