Construction Equipment on Okinawa

Heavy machinery and equipment used by the 1878th Engineer Aviation Battalion on an Okinawa airstrip, with a backdrop of war-torn landscapes.

General View Of The Salvage Area Where Men Of The 340Th Bomb Group Overhaul And Repair The North American B-25S That Were Damaged By Ashes And Cinders During The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius On 23 March 1944.

General View Of Heavy Equipment Which Will Be Used By The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion In The Construction Of An Airstrip On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. May 1945.

The General View Of Naha Airfield Was Photographed Shortly After U.S. Marines Captured This Field In 1945. Note The Bomb Craters Around The Demolished Aircraft In The Foreground.

U.S. plane damaged during German night raid on an airfield at Maison Blanche, Algeria. 21 November 1942.

A General View Of Normandy Beach During Landing Operations Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion.

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The fuel and water lines at Labaun, Borneo, N.E.I., were first laid hastily, and later two culverts were built over them for protection against heavy vehicles. 20 June 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

A Douglas C-47 Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command Wings Its Way At Low Level Toward The Upright Standards Where It Will Snatch Up The Nylon Tow Rope Attached To Cg-4A Glider, Lower Left, During Glider Snatch Pickup Operations In Wesel, Germany. 17 April 19

An ambulance stands by as a Lockheed F-5 of the 9th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron comes in for a landing at an air base somewhere in India.

General View Of The Salvage Area Where Men Of The 340Th Bomb Group Overhaul And Repair The North American B-25S That Were Damaged By Ashes And Cinders During The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius On 23 March 1944.

Camouflaged German Military Installation At An Airfield Somewhere In Germany. 20 April 1945. Camouflaged, Possibly Dummy, Ju-188 Airplane.

'Somewhere In France' - This Is The Entire Headquarters Of The First American Landing Strip In France. It Consists Of A Mobile Control Tower, Shown Being Camouflaged, Ambulances, And Crash Trucks. Already In Operation Servicing American Fighters And Fight

A Bridge Knocked Out By The 14Th Af, In The Area Of Liuchow, China. 308Th Bomb Group Base.

Bomb Damage At Railroad Yards At Pescara, Italy.

Negro troops are serving as air base security units on airfields in North Africa. Here, a unit for a security battalion runs through an alert with their self-propelled 75's. North Africa.

'Bones' Was The Last North American B-25 To Come Off The Assembly Line At North American Aviation Co'S Plant At Inglewood, Calif. Changing To A Different Type Of Production, After Months Of Rolling Out B-25'S, Employees Covered The Plane From Nose To Tail

This crashed Douglas A-20 stands forlornly on its nose at an airstrip at Saidor, New Guinea. 8 February 1944.

Disease Control - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Officers And Enlisted Men Of The 361St Air Base Squadron Pose At Their Base At Tontouta Airfield, New Caledonia. 8 March 1944.

Living Quarters Of The 2Nd Air Base Group At An Airfield Somewhere In Iceland. 1 June 1942.

Mechanics working on Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses." Algiers, Algeria.

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General view of landing field with Boeing B-17 in foreground, Biskra, North Africa. 21 December 1942.

In China, natives pile stones as base for runways (for Boeing B-29's) built on land bought from Chinese farmers. Labor is conscripted by provincial Governors who tell each town how many men it must furnish. They provide their own wheelbarrows, carts

Back from Russia. 15th Army Air Forces Boeing B-17's arriving back at their Italian bases on 11 June 44 on the return shuttle from the USSR.

FRANCE-These are planes in repair. (Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and North American P-51 Mustangs). The strength of American fighting power is doubled since the aircraft need not return to England to be worked on.

Ground crews at work

The Brain Of The Air Defense On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, Was Enclosed In A Sand-Bag Revetted Building Where The Air Defense Control Center Was Located. Wires Leading Into The Building Carried The Plot From The Radar Units And Also Carried Information Out T

An excellent job of camouflage is being done on this drape job over an operations tent of a heavy bomb group somewhere in New Guinea. The net has been spread so that the outlines are vague when seen from the air and the garnish has been dyed to blend

Panoramic View Of San Julian, Cuba, U.S. Air Force And Navy Air Base. The Runways, Plane Parking Area, Radio Receiving Antannae And The Fire Station Can Be Seen From This Point. 21 December 1943.

Wreckage Of A Republic P-47 (A/C 42-7908) Of The 353Rd Fighter Group Which Crashed Near Its Base In England On 16 October 1943.

German & Italian planes burned & blasted on the Pantelleria Airdrome.

Jeeps Are Parked In Front Of Publications, Classified Files, Mail And Distribution, Judge Advocate And Air Inspector's Tents In The 7Th Air Force Headquarters Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 August 1945.

In order to prevent Malaria, Filipinos, under the direction of 37th Malaria Control Unit, spray oil on a small stream near Bacolod Airstrip, Negros, Philippine Islands. 14 June 1945.

A Typical Exterior View Of A Well Camouflaged Assembly Hangar. Notice The Net Covered Entrance, Grass Planted On The Roof And The Use Of Paint Camouflaging The Hangar At Atsuigi, Japanesean. 15 Sept. 1945.

Bomb-shattered administrative buildings on the airfield at Castel Benito, Tripolitania, Libya, the most important airbase around Tripoli. The Regia Aeronautica had permanent quarters there until the Allies moved in. 26 January 1943.

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 305Th Bomb Group Are Parked On The Line At Their Base At Chelveston, England. 1 July 1943.

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North Africa-Off they go-huge North American B-25 bombers fly over their camp after taking off on a mission somewhere in North Africa. These bombers "softened up" Rommel's Mareth Line and played a large part in forcing the Afrika Korps' retreat

Rain water drain across the airstrip at Finschhafen, N.E. New Guinea. Note the cargo plane in the background. 13 December 1943.

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses"Of The 381St Bomb Group Line Up In Preparation For Bombing Mission Over Enemy Installations. 553Rd Bomb Squadron Area In Foreground And 534Th Bomb Squadron Area In Background. Both Squadrons Are Attached To The 381St Bomb

Members of the Engineers constructing a camouflage net over a North American B-25, in North Africa. 18 February 1943.

Battle activities during battle for Falsise Gap on 20 Aug 44 when Argentan was taken by the British, Falaise by the Canadians and Trun by the Poles. Picture shows destruction wrought by Air support of the 2d and 9th Tactical Air Forces and Air

Starting From Opposite Ends, Aviation Engineers Of The Ix Engineer Command Approach A Central Point Which Will Mark The Completion Of The Runway At A Fighter-Bomber Airstrip In Germany. Shortly After This Photograph Was Made, A Republic P-47 Thunderbolts

In this photograph taken on September 7, 1965, we see a group of UH-34 helicopters being used in Operation Piranha by the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Vietnam. The 16 HA-261 and VMO-2 armed Huey helicopter escorts are shown taking the 2nd Battalion, 4th RV Army Regiment to landing zone Pine. This image is from the Defense Department and was taken by Sgt J. McCullough. (Marine Corps)

The landing field and surrounding area of the Chengkung Air Base. This photograph was taken from a nearby hill.

P-47's IN ITALY-P-47 Thunderbombers sit patiently in the mud waiting for their next assignment to strafe and bomb the Hun in Italy and keep tightening the iron ring around Germany.

The repeated rifle raids by the 5th Air Force bombers produced "graveyards" of Japanese planes, also destroying airstrips on the Japanese base in Wewak, New Guinea.

Control Tower Of The 2Nd Air Base Group At Patterson Field, Iceland, 8 June 1942.

Tunis, Tunisia-The wreckage of German and Italian aircraft on the El Aouina airfield in Tunis.

Steadily pursuing the enemy, American Army Air Force personnel start to set up an advnace air base somewhere in the Western Desert, Egypt. Leaving all non-portable equipment behind and taking only the barest essentials, another airdrome is set up to

Boram Air Field/Wewak, N.E. New Guinea Bombing.

Before mechanics of a 9th AAF Service Command unit in France took over, the foamite-covered Thunderbolt shown here was just another wrecked and partly burned plane that seemed consigned for spare parts duty in the local air force salvage yards.

Lockheed P-38 of the 1st...

Part of "Operation Uppercut," these parachutes fill the sky over the coast of Southern France after the 12th USAAF troop carrier air division Douglas C-47's carried men and supplies to dropping zones over the new beachhead. The scene is somewhere

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate battery. Magruder with 8-inch Columbiads. Federal transports in river. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

A Decapitated Mark V Panther Tank, Knocked Out By Xix Tactical Air Command Fighter-Bomber In The Mass Destruction Of German Equipment During Thier Mass Withdrawal Eastward In Northern Luxenburg Jan 22-25, 1945. This Tank Was Blasted Out Of The Was Near Ma

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Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" Of The 376Th Bomb Group Lined Up At An Air Base Near Bengasi, Cirenaica, Libya, Shortly After The Group'S Return From A Ploesti Bombing Mission. Libya.

A Gi Sits In A Partially Filled Bomb Crater As He Looks Over A Section Of German Base Which Is Now Operated By (Douglas A-20 'Havoc') 416Th Bomb Group. Villarouche, France. 2 October 1944.

On 13 November 1943, A North Americna B-25 Skidded While Landing On The Runway At Alexai Point, Attu, Aleutian Islands, And Cut Into The Tail Of Another B-25 Which Was Taxiing For Take Off. It Then Slid Off The North End Of The Runway.

Consolidated B-24 Liberators, North American B-25 Mitchells, & Douglas C-47 Parked At Bari Airfield, Italy. October 1944.

Personnel Of The 340Th Bomb Group Digging Out As The Storm Subsides After The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius On 23 March 1944. Italy

The first 9th Air Force Republic P-47 fighter-bomber lands on a new airstrip constructed in Germany by the IX Engineer Command. Major General Hoyt S. Vandenberg's three Tactical Air Commands, operating from bases in France, Belgium, Holland and

Trucks Loaded For Transport At The 2Nd Base Air Depot, Lancashire, England. 18 July 1944.

Engineers Clean Away The Rubble From These Bomb Damaged Buildings In Kassel, Germany. 29 April 1945.

Even The Fighter Fields Get A Face Lifting In Readiness For Old Man Winter. Here, A Huge Cat And Scraper Of A Fighter Group Of Mediterranean Allied Air Forces Operated By T/4 Leo H. Lennon, 28 Of Gladwin, Michigan, Resurfaces An Air Strip Somewhere In It

Le Bourget Airfield (near Paris). Rubble blasted walls & the wrecked Ju-88 which you see standing in a gutted hangar are results of an 8th AF Bomber Command attack on Le Bourget Airfield on Aug. 16, 1943.

Aerial View Of The 410Th Bomb Group Base At Station A-68 In France.

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The Air Plan, "Operation, Strangle," has worked since Feb 18, 1944 to choke off all means of transporting supplies to the Huns on the Anzio and Cassino Fronts. Trains can run through the battered yards at Foggia, but the yards still cannot be used

90th Photographic Reconnaissance Wing Laboratory tent at an air base somewhere in Malta.

A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 390Th Bomb Group Parked On A Hardstand At An 8Th Air Force Base In England, 8 March 1945.

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Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

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A battery of American Field Artillery crossing the river Aire to join the fighting in the Forest of Argonne during World War One. The bridge had been destroyed by retreating Germans, but American Engineers quickly repaired it. Photograph taken as part of the American advance in the Arconne.

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U.S. marines from the 2/3 battalion entering the outskirts of the village LI MAI during a patrol mission on May 6, 1965. The photograph, taken by Sgt. R.R. Reynolds, displays a fence made of bamboo and barbed wire in the foreground. This image is part of the Defense Department's collection: A184,124 127 GVB-283.

Boeing B-17's Of The 2Nd Service Group On The Line At Meeks Field, Iceland. 23 April 1943.

Bombers of the First Tactical Air Force scored these devastating hits on the rail yards and station at Velletri, south of Rome, Italy.

General View Of Hanowa Prisoner Of War Camp # 6 In Honshu, Japanesean. 14 September 1945.

Bomb Damage To Railroad Yards At Sienna, Italy.

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Interdicted By The Flying Tigers Since They Evacuated On 7 November 1944, The Former 14Th Af Advanced Base At Liuchow, Vital Railroad And Highway Junction In Central Kwangsi And In The Path Of General Japaneseanese Withdrawls From The Lung Valley And Siang Cor

Down Comes The Union Jack As The 401St Bomb Group Takes Over The Former Raf Base At Deenethorpe, England On 20 December 1943.

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Shipping And Harbor Installations At Civitavecchia, Near Rome, Italy, Were Completely Destroyed By Attacks Of The 12Th And 15Th Air Forces.

5th Liaison pilots being presented medals. 1944.

Enemy ships lie wallowing in the river bed and the quay is a shambles after attack by bombers of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces on the harbor and installations at Piombino, south of Leghorn on the Italian west coast. This close-up photo

The Gliders Pictured Here Were Just A Few Of Those Used In The Invasion Of Southern Holland In September 1944, One Of The Major Troop Carrier Missions.

Tanker engines on a Tripoli's waterfront damaged by blast from Allied bombs. The boiler of the engine in the foreground has been pierced and the cab of the other is damaged. 6 February 1943.

Water Tanks For The Hydroponics Garden On Ascension Island. 7 February 1945.

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A Lockheed P-38 Is Parked In A Revetment At Kila Airfield, Port Moresby, New Guinea. 14 September 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.

General hospital wharf. Army of the Potomac, City Point, Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection . Men, Virginia, City Point, 1860-1870, Rivers, Virginia, City Point, 1860-1870, Piers & wharves, Virginia, City Point, 1860-1870, Government vessels, Union, Virginia, City Point, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, Virginia, City Point, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Medical aspects, Virginia, City Point, Appomattox River (Va.), 1860-1870, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865.

Damaged Japanese built pill-box near the Lashio Airstrip in Burma, showing direct hits by mortar and small arms fire. 11 March 1945.

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