Military Engineering and Vehicles

Images depicting military personnel using equipment like bulldozers and jeeps in a wartime setting, featuring machinery and landscape elements.

Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Fill Up Bomb Crater During The Repair Of An Airfield At St. Trond, Belgium, 27 September 1944.

Members Of The 327Th Bomb Squadron, 92Nd Bomb Group, Participate In A Vigorous Game Of Volleyball During Their Off-Duty Hours At An Airbase Somewhere In France. 10 August 1945.

The Men And Their Tools On Ie Shima, Ryukyu Retto. Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Spans Final Gap To Japanesean From Runway Shaped By Bulldozers, Engineers.

Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Fill Up Bomb Crater During The Repair Of An Airfield At St. Trond, Belgium, 27 September 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL, EVACUATION,Air War

Aircraft, Burma, India &MEDICAL,MISCELLANEOUS War

Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviaiton Battalion Unloading Supplies In Dump Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. May 1945.

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

A Stone Quarry On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, Is Operated By Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Supplies Material For Surfacing Airstrips Under Construction On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. Trucks Haul The Stone From The Quarry To The Runwasy Which Are

Men Of The Hydroponics Detachment #2, 7Th Fighter Command Ploughing Furrows In The Area On Iwo Jima. 8 August 1945.

Men Uncrate One Of The Vultee L-5's Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron At Cub Field No. 7 On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. The 163Rd Liaison Squadron Is Attached To The 10Th Army. 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Maintenance,REFUELING War

Taken January 26, 1943: Axis transport wrecked by Allied aircraft beside a desert track near Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya. A Britsh lorry is seen in front of the line. This lorry may have been captured by the enemy during last year's advance and used

Bulldozers did their usual, reliable job on the wild growth which covered Middleburg, an island just off Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Trucks are clearing timber from area, seven days after invasion.

Ground Zero At Nagasaki, Japan As Estimated By Scientists On Bomb Survey.

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.

Aviation Engineers Laying Steel Planks On A Captured German Base.

CONSTRUCTION OF A CHINESE AIRFIELD: Major Lockwood keeps his girl workers in good spirits by giving them candy.

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses"In A Parking Area At 2Nd Air Base Group Airfield In Iceland. 21 July 1942.

T/5 Philip Gilleo of Mountville, N.Y., an anti-aircraft gunner guarding one of the 9th AF Airstrips in Germany, catches up on his reading as he uses a Jerrican for a seat in front of his "straw" shelter.

While The Infantry Advances, Allied Planes Make Direct Hits On Enemy Held Positions.

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.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

A Truck Dumps A Load Of Coral Onto Taxi Strip Which The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Is Building On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 15 May 1945.

22nd Bomb Group, Hq., Enlisted Men's area, New Guinea.

Funeral Of Douglas C-54 Crash Casualties At 1391St Aaf Base Unit, Santa Maria, Azores, 5 July 1945.

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

Damage To Two Large Squadron Tents, Completely Wrecked, Belonging To 389Th Air Service Group Headquarters Was Caused By The Typhoon Of 9 October 1945 On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto 10 October 1945.

Bomb Damage To Nazi Vehicles South Of Rome, Italy. Vehicle In Foreground Bomb Crater Is A Steyer Rso/01 All-Track Supply Truck.

8Th Bomber Command Crew Member Battles English Mud As He Does Maintenance Work On A Caterpillar At An Air Base Somewhere In England.

Bell P-39S Are Serviced At The 91St Bomb Group Base In Bassingbourne, England Before Take-Off On A Mission To Africa On 10 March 1943. Note Belly Tanks On The Planes.

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

Men Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Gather Around Republic P-47S That Have Landed On The Newly Constructed Airfield At St. Pierre Du Mont, Normandy, France.

Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-458. Artillery (Weaponry), Confederate, Virginia, Yorktown, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Confederate, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Destruction & pillage, Confederate.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Strafing &Combat War

Construction of Sepinggang fighter strip across the road from Sepinggang strip. Heavy equipment was used in leveling area and hauling send to fill low spots. Note the typical Japanese pillbox in the center of photo. This pillbox was uncovered and was

9th AF Engineers lay metal landing strips on an airfield they carved out of the Normandy hills under enemy shellfire, in record time. Tactical fighters and bombers of the 9th AF will be serviced and refueled by 9th Air Service Command mechanics and

A couple of well-placed hand grenades thrown by our men hiding in doorways and in lots between houses along Avenida Escarraga put this fleeing truck out of commission with complete dispatch. Pfc. Basil Harvey of Mac Clenny Florida looks at the damage

Bombing of Dagua Airdrome, Wewak, New Guinea-Japanese planes are: (1) Oscar; (2) Tony; (3) Helen; (4) Lily. Note falling parafrags.

Enemy on Kiska.

How bombs, rockets and strafing guns of First Tactical Air Force's medium and fighter bombers helped pave the way for the armies advancing across the Upper Rhine is revealed by German .305 mm gun which was knocked out by a single bomb that caught

Members Of The 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Load Equipment Aboard A Landing Craft During Amphibious Training At Torquay, England.

Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADAR War

Usaf Weather Van At The Weather Station At Devon, England. 4 December 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

Bomb Damage At The Florence Marshalling Yards, Italy. Terrific Blast Effect Of Half-Ton Bomb Is Illustrated Here. Middle Coach Was Split And Gutted, Other Two Derailed.

Railroad cars, rails and roadbeds smashed and ripped by 9th AF fighter-bombers during an attack on an enemy railroad yard along the Belgian-German borders as part of a coordinated plan to snarl German railroad communications by the three Tactical Air

A Section Of The Field With Two P-40'S In The Bg. Here The 'Flying Tigers' Are Shown Relaxing Playing Football In A Nonchlant Mannerand Otherwise Loafing Around In Between Their Flights. Two Planes Are In The Bg, Ready.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

Two American GI's pose with a group of Russian women who work at Poltava Airbase, one of the shuttle mission bases in Russia. November 1944.

Bomb Damage To Railroad Yards Somewhere In France. 8 July 44.

Entrance To Camouflaged Bomb Dump Of The 385Th Bomb Group, England. 5 December 1943.

Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Put Up Their Tents In Camp Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. May 1945.

Wreckage Of A United States Plane Caused By A Japanese Attack On Yonton Field, Okinawa On 24 May 1945. There Were 12 Planes That Made An Attempt To Land On The Field And Demolish Aircraft With Hand Grenades, Magnetic Mines, Knee Mortars And Various Forms Of E

Men Of An Engineer Aviation Battalion Operate This Coral Pit On One Of The Islands In The Ryukyu Retto As Work Goes Ahead Full Speed On New Airstrips And Taxi Ways. 1945.

Air Transport Command Installations, Station #14, Somewhere In Iceland. 2Nd Service Group, 25 July 1944.

Bomb Damage To The Marshalling Yards At Florence, Italy. These Yards Were Wrecked During Bombing By The 42Nd Bomb Wing On 26 September 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,WRECKS War

A Sheep Foot Roller Packs A B-29 Strip Under Construction At Kandena Airfield On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. June 1945.

A long line of freight cars, carrying supplies to Nazi, is strafed by 8th AAF fighters. Puffs of smoke indicate direct hits as first fighters swoop low and fast along the full line of cars.

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

2Nd Service Group Dispensary, Meeks Field, Iceland. 18 July 1943.

Belguim - The 88Mm Gun 75Mm Pak 40 Antitank Gun And The German Panzerkampfwagen V Panther Sd.Kfz. 171 Tank Behind It Were Rendered Useless By Ninth Air Force Fighter-Bombers And U.S. Anti-Tank Gunners On The Staumont-Stavelot Highway During Recent Fig

Aircraft, Burma, India &PERSONALWELFARE War

A Self-Propelled Gun Near Dasburg, Germany, Has Been Pushed Off The Road Into The Crater Of The Bomb That Destroyed It. 36 Tanks Were Destroyed Or Damaged On 22 Jan. 45; The Day On Which 1,179 M/Ts Were Destroyed Or Damaged.

Bomb damaged bridge somewhere in the Philippine Islands. Note the attempt the Japanese made in camouflaging the bridge with foliage.

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.

American anti-aircraft crewmen swarm over a German light tank knocked out in the town of Hosingen near the Seigfried Line, in an area thoroughly pounded by 9th AF fighter-bomber planes.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

Italian Laborers, Under The Direction Of Members Of The Army Air Force Engineer Command, Lay Pierced Steel Planking On An Airfield Somewhere In Italy.

Bomb Damage In Southern France.

Weather station at an 11th Air Force base on the southern tip of Amchitca Island, Aleutian Islands. 12 October 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

Boela, Ceram Is., (N.E.I.)-During the attack, the off shore wells were shrouded in geysers of smoke and spray. Two out of the three wells smoking at left were damaged. Other damage in shore area included 20 houses, but not the tennis court or the

Men String Communication Lines At An 8Th Air Force Base In England, 15 August 1944. 401St Bomb Group.

Vultee L-5 Destroyed By Fire After Being Hit By Anti-Personnel Bombs Dropped By Japaneseanese Planes During An Attack On An Advanced 20Th Bomber Command Base In China, On The Night Of 27 October 1944.

Digging Coral For Ie Shima Airstrips -- Aviation Engineer Operate Coral Pits At Ie Shima As Work Goes Ahead Full Speed On New Air Strips And Taxiways From Which Far East Air Forces Planes Will Strike At The Japanese Homeland.

Allied Installations Near An Airfield At Rome, Italy. 4 July 1944.

Japaneseanese Hangarettes Located Southwest Of Atsugi Airdrome, Japanesean. 5 September 1945.

Supply laden chutes released by Consolidated B-24s drop in assigned area. Holland, 18 Sept 44.

Chinese Laborers At Work During Construction Of Lushien Airstrip In China. 1 June 1945.

Over four hundred planes of...

Crew Of The 864Th Bomb Squadron, 494Th Bomb Group, Sit Under The Wing Of Their Plane - The Consolidated B-24 Liberator 'Kuuipo' While Awaiting Orders To Take Off On Bombing Mission To 'Araka Besan' In The Palau Group. This Plane Is Going On A Mission Only

Shown Is A Portion Of Perimeter Track Broken Through By Weight Of Airplanes At Thurleigh Airbase, England. 1 May 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RECREATION War

Deep Mud Makes Walking Difficult At This Base On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. The Men Are Members Of The Medical Detachment Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion. May 1945.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations, War

Trapped In Revetment, This Me-109 In Italy Was Smashed By Maaf Bombers.

Bomb Damage To Railroad Yards Somewhere In France. 8 July 44.

Gun Installations Of The 386Th Bomb Group At Their Base In Great Dunmow, Essex, England, 16 July 1944.

North Africa-So important was proper formation flying for the Northwest African Strategic Air Force's heavy bombers, now in the 15th Air Force, that practice missions were flown for the sole purpose of perfecting this phase. Taking off in elements of

Lying where they fell, these rail cars were on the receiving end of Mediterranean Allied Air Force bombs during a raid on this rail bridge of the Arezzo-Florence railroad line in Northern Italy. The operations were part of the campaign to choke off

Crew of Martin B-26s in Mediterranean Area.

Fire destroyed Major General Davenport Johnson's headquarters on Adak, Aleutian Islands, 20 November 1943.

S/Sgt. John L. Austin, Shreveport, La., Cleaning The Bolt And Oil Buffer Assembly Of One Of The Two 50-Cal. Machine Guns Of The Lower Forward Turret Of A Boeing B-29 Of The 444Th Bomb Group, Xx Bomber Command, After A Raid On Japaneseanese Industries In Anshan

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

Men Salvage Useable Parts From The Wing Of A Republic P-47N Thunderbolt Of The 318Th Fighter Group, Based On Ie Shima, Ryukyu Retto. 1945.

Photo collection First World War. The Front in France. Big Guns Going up to the front. 1914-1918}. Chavignon, France

Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviaiton Battalion Unloading Supplies In Dump Area On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. May 1945.

Bomb Damage To Railroad Yards Somewhere In France. 31 July 1944.

Germans guarding a high-water dam on the Memel

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