Military Construction Efforts

Images documenting the construction and operation of military bases and airfields during WWII, including servicemen at work.

Bomb damaged Meycaugan bridge somewhere in the Philippine Islands being reconstructed by "B" Co., 1876th Eng. Aviation Battalion. 10 February 1945.

General View Of A Section Of Poynton Air Depot Showing The Octangular Type Huts Used As Living Quarters For Enlisted Men. England, 4 January 1943.

Wire Mesh Is Laid By The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion During The Construction Of An Airfield At St. Pierre Du Mont, Normandy, France.

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

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 91St Bomb Group, Base At Bassingbourne, England Warm Up For Take-Off On The D-Day Bombing Raid On The French Coast. 6 June 1944.

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

Bomb damaged Meycaugan bridge somewhere in the Philippine Islands being reconstructed by "B" Co., 1876th Eng. Aviation Battalion. 10 February 1945.

A North American B-25 of the 22nd Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, is towed from the dispersal area over the gravel taxi strip to the concrete runway before taking off from Chakulia Airfield, India.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RESCUE War

Buildings Of The 450Th Sub Depot At An 8Th Air Force Base In England, 12 August 1944. 401St Bomb Group.

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

Headquarters Building Of The 390Th Bomb Group At An 8Th Air Force Base In England. 8 March 1945.

This Lockheed P-38 crashed on landing at Lingayen Airstrip, Luzon Island, Philippine Islands. Though the plane was completely washed out, the pilot was uninjured. Mechanic standing in the cockpit is salvaging instruments and other undamaged acessory

Bomb Damage To Bologna, Italy, After Attacks By Planes Of The Mediterranean Allied Air Forces. Photo Was Taken From The Ground After The Fall Of The City.

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.

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Of The 381St Bomb Group, Parked In Dispersal Area At 8Th Air Force Station 167, Are Barely Visible Because Of A Heavy Fog, Very Common In England.

ITALY-This squadron country club offers everything but a golf course. Furnished comfortably, it even has a modern bar with running water.

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

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Ninth Air Force Bombers Have Been Some Distance From Valognes, France. This Picture Shows The Devastation Put In The Path Of The Retreating German Armies.

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

The Engineers Go To Work On The Snow-Covered Runway Of An Allied Airfield In Italy Made Inoperational By A Blizzard. The Americans, Who Maintain The Field, Were Aided By Soldiers From The United Nations. Together They Rid The Runway Of The Snow Providin

A "GI" surveyor working with a Russian girl marks off the area where the joint American-Russian theatre is to be built at Poltava Airbase, one of the shuttle mission bases in Russia. Already preliminary construction work has begun. November 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

A Douglas C-47, carrying supplies, lands at Nadzab Airstrip in New Guinea. In the foreground, men sort supplies which have been unloaded from a cargo plane that has already landed. 11 September 1943.

Members Of The 91St Bomb Group, Equipped With Gas Masks, Enter The Gas Chamber - A Part Of The Chemical Warfare Training Program At Their 8Th Air Force Base At Bassingbourne, England. 20 November 1943.

A Military Train Is Strafed By Raf "Beaufighters" At The Kume Road Station, Burma, December 1943.

A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Is Repaired By Members Of The 27Th Air Depot Group At The Port Moresby Air Depot, Papua, New Guinea.

A Camera (Right, Center) Is Set Up To Take A Photograph Of The Press Dugout On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. The Tripod Supporting The Camera Was Made By The Photographer.

Douglas C-47s of the 9th Troop Carrier Command lined up on a field somewhere in Holland. 26 September 1944.

Heavy Vehicles Are Parked Outside The Third Echelon Automotive Repair Shop At A 353Rd Fighter Group Base In England, March 1945.

BUILDING B-29 BASES IN CHINA by USAAF aviation engineers and native laborers. Landing strips were constructed on rice fields and paddies, bought from Chinese farmers. Then the farmers themselves and neighboring townspeople pitched in to do the work.

Submarine Pens And Adjacent Port At Marseilles, France. The Germans Made No Attempt To Continue Construction Of The Large Pens After A Successful Attack By Mediterranean Allied Air Force'S Heavy Bombers.

AGM-10 General Vadenburg , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Douglas C-47's of the 1st Air Commando Group on the line at Nyangu Auxiliary Field in Burma. 16 March 1945.

Nissen Huts Of 2Nd Air Base Group At Camp Tripoli, Iceland. 6 January 1942.

Living Quarters For Personnel Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion At Matching, England. 19 May 1943.

Members of the 1876th Eng. Aviation Battalion repair a bomb damaged bridge somewhere in the Philippine Islands. 6 May 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

Cheered by the liberated French, a pugnacious Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Fighter Bomber roars aloft from a new airfield in France after being serviced by 9th Air force Service Command mechanics. 9th Air force Fighters are now operating

First Army Photos Of The Bombing Of Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. Latrine On Coronet Avenue, 11:30 Am. Bomb Damage At Army Airfield.

Algiers, Algeria-Evacuation of wounded.

Morris Island, South Carolina. Unidentified camp. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

The savagely fighting Japs in the battle of Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands, was finally holed up in Intramuros, the famed walled city built by the Spaniards in the 15th century. The walled city, constructed from blocks of granite shipped by

Operations Building At Poretta Airfield, Corsica. October 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Alexandria, Virginia (vicinity). Battery Rodgers, erected in 1863, overlooking the Potomac river near Jones' Point. 15-inch Rodman gun (left). 200 pd. Parrott rifle and gun (right). Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

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.

Wreckage after the bombing of Terrace Hill at Lae.

View of the entrance to detachment area. Oro Bay, Papua, New Guinea.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Picture Number 1. Pro-Headquarters 1944 2268 Owi Ea 34141. Destroying The Luftwaffe On The Ground And In The Air To Prevent Successful Aerial Interference With Our Troops And Supply Movements Has Been An Integral Part Of The Allied Campaign Ion Europe.

The Main Purpose Of The Cbi Sound Recording Unit Is To Get On-The-Spot Recordings Of Events In The Theatre. Here, A Sound Recording Is Made As The Consolidated B-24 "Krachy Kourier" Of The 425Th Bomb Squadron, 308Th Bomb Group, Starts Its Engines. The T

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

Members Of The 2Nd Service Group Salvaged Parts Of A Wrecked Curtiss P-40 Onto A Truck, Somewhere In Iceland. 26 August 1943.

Right In The Middle - Internal Conflict In China Is Reflected In This Series Of Pictures Just Arrived In This Country From Headquarters Of The Tenth Air Force In Kunming, China Where Soldiers Are Standing Armed Guard And Installations Are Blacking Out At

Civilian help is utilized to build landing strips for the 8th Air force Flying Fields in England.

Aircraft, Burma, India &CAPTUREDMATERIEL War

Once They Were Salvaged But Now They're Forlorn, These Big Naval Guns On The Dock At Toulon. Formerly The Striking Power Of The Cruiser 'Marseillaise' These Guns Were Salvaged By The Hun And Used As Shore Defenses. American Soliders Are Shown Here Inspect

Italian workers under the supervision of the Air Forces Engineers are digging drain ditches for flood waters. The water at this field, like many others, is seeping under the steel mats.

Ambulances And Medics Of The 70Th Service Group Stand By To Administer Plasma To An Injured Man On An Incoming Plane At Great Dunmow, Essex, England. 5 October 1943.

During A Ceremony On 4 January 1944 The 445Th Bomb Group Took Possession Of A Former Raf Base In England.

'Somewhere In France' -- The Flag Flies At Half-Mast Over This American Cemetary At Normandy Beachhead.

Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Fort Brady on the James River, manned by Company C, 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery. (Battery ready for action). Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Personnel Of The Air Transport Command Enjoy Playing On The Basketball And Volleyball Court Which Was Furnished By The Special Services For Recreation For Men On Ascension Island. 24 September 1944.

General view of the tents and hospital area at Clark Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 27 June 1945.

Personal Equipment Building Of The 94Th Fighter Squadron, 1St Fighter Group, At An Airfield Somewhere In Italy.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RESCUE War

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Africa 1940/1941. Aerial recording. Destroyed English barracks in Sidi El Barrani. October 2, 1940

A-3 (Training) And Communications Tents In The 7Th Air Force Headquarters Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 August 1945.

Destroyed Nazi Equipment Along Highway In France. 5 September 1944.

Wire Mesh Is Laid By The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion During The Construction Of An Airfield At St. Pierre Du Mont, Normandy, France.

The Wreckage Of A Japaneseanese Plane Lies On The Beach At Kiska, Aleutian Islands As A Result Of Allied Bombing. American Troops And Supplies Are Seen Around The Wreckage. 19 August 1943.

Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps - Louisiana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

A Navy Tbf Buzzes The Field On Baker Island As Engineers Are Shown Preparing To Lay Pierced Steel Plank On The New Runway. 5 September 1943.

Ladd Field Cemetery, Alaska.

A Field Is Surveyed By The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion As Construction Is Started At Lombron, France.

New Guinea-The major responsibility for the planning and construction of temporary buildings at an advance air base in the Southwest Pacific, falls on the shoulders of the Aerial Engineers with Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney's 5th Air Force. Although

Aerial view of the stone village at a 15th Air Force heavy bomber base in Italy.

These Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Fighter Bombers Peel Off In Preparation For Landing At An Air Field In Southern France. They Are Part Of An Element That Performed The First Fighter-Bomber Mission Flown From Southern France.

C-47 Transport Planes, Of 6Th Troop Carrier Squadron, Lined Up Ready To Taxi Down Strip For Take-Off, Carrying Supplies To Forward Combat Area, Ward'S Drome, Port Moresby, New Guinea. April 1943.

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

Members of the 1876th Eng. Aviation Battalion level ground for Pitoe somewhere in the Philippine Islands. 25 June 1945.

Internees wounded in the taking of a Prison Camp at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands, await evacuation.

An American tank destroyer fires at a German target in the city of Aachen, Germany. The city was being pounded by artillery, tanks and divebombers of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force.

Description: Takoradi. The scene immediately after His Royal Highness's inspection of the Guard of Honour. Location: Takadori, Ghana Date: 1925 africa

Atlanta, Georgia, just after its capture. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative number: LC-B811-2718. Railroad facilities, Georgia, Atlanta, 1860-1870, Covered wagons, Georgia, Atlanta, 1860-1870, Sherman's March to the Sea, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military occupations, Union, Georgia, Atlanta.

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

United States supply depot in North Africa. 1943.

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

Men building the Enlisted Men's Club at Solenzara, Corsica.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,ARMAMENT War

Hancocks Brigade repulsing the enemy. Battle of Williamsburg. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886, Military service, United States, Army, Signal Corps, 1860-1870, Williamsburg, Battle of, Williamsburg, Va, 1862, Artillery (Weaponry), 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, Troop movements, Union, 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Casualties, United States, Virginia, Williamsburg

Ajaccio, Corsica-After men of Headquarters Squadron of 2688th Air Defense cut probably the tallest tree in Corsica, members of Company A, 437th Signal Battalion (Aviation) put the finishing touches on the log which became the first American Flag

Aircraft, Burma, India &Operations War

History: Print received 2/1945 from BPR, toACcompany Press Release 'U.S. CEMETARY IN CHINA'. Copied 24 May 1945.Category: CemeteriesSubcategory: GeneralSubjects: CHINA,CEMETERIESWar Theater Number: 11War Theater: East AsiaUS Air Force Reference Number: 57468ACPlace: ChinaPhoto Series: WWII. 1940 - 1983. National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD). Photographic Print. Photographs of Activities, Facilities and Personnel

500 Kg Japaneseanese Bombs To Be Used As Land Mines Along Sempsin Harbour. Rabaul, 30 October 1945.

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.

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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