War Infrastructure and Logistics

Photos focusing on wartime logistics, including bridges, aircraft, and military structures, illustrating the impacts of conflict on infrastructure.

Transients' barracks at Gura Airport, Gura, Eritrea. June 1943.

Railway Bridge And Highway Bridge At Konz-Karthus, Germany, Both Of Which Span And Saar River At Its Junction With The Moselle River, Were Totally Destroyed By Concentrated 9Th Aaf Attacks.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Transportation War

Quonset Huts, Used As Living Quarters, And Other Installations On Ras Heilf Field, Masira Island (Off Arabian Coast) June 1943.

Chinese Troops Of The 14Th Division Loading Into Planes At The North Airstrip, Myitkyina, Burma. They Are Bound For China.

Japaneseanese Fragmentation Bomb Which Was A 'Dud'. Japanese Raid On Liangshan, China.

Transients' barracks at Gura Airport, Gura, Eritrea. June 1943.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Maintenance,REFUELING War

Playing a new role, Flying Fortresses of the XV AAF recently blasted German communications in Northern Italy from a low level. This photo shows a Flying Fortresses passing over the target.

Douglas C-47 'Briar Hopper' At Gura Air Depot, Eritrea. 3 December 1942.

These 9th Air force mechanics assemble a new glider at a base in France after removing it from the crate in which it was shipped from the U.S.

Bad Durkheim -- Frankstein Road -- A Knocked Out German Convoy Lines The Road After Being Bombed And Strafed By Allied Aircraft. Here, A German Gun Rests On The Bottom Of Water-Filled Bomb Crater, Knocked Out With Other Equipment By Allied Aircraft.

China -- A Proud Crew Relaxes In Front Of Their Consolidated B-24 Which Has Carried Them On Ten Missions. The Crew Has Also Accounted For Three Japanese Fighters, And One Japanese Boat. The Bomber Was Named After The Fabulous Character In Arabian Nights. Nicknamed

The Boeing B-17 Flying ofrtress "Big Mike" was shot up over Berlin yesterday, but in the B-17 tradition, brought its crew safely back to the base despite loss of an engine and its hydralic system. 1st Lt. Ned W. Renick, Grand Rapids, Mich., pilot

Natives Loading Luggage On Cargo Plane At Accra Air Base, Accra, Gold Coast, Africa. May 1943.

CORSICA-Loading the Boeing B-17 is no easy job in itself. The equipment has to be stacked right in order to balance the load and still leave room for the personnel who are to go along.

Headquarters Buildings Of The 313Th Bombardment Wing Based On The Marianas Islands. 21 May 1945.

A Lockheed P-38 Lightning damaged by small demolition bombs is hauled away from its revetment for repair. It was damaged during one of the Japanese raids on Middleburg landing strip, Middleburg Island.

RED AND YANK TEAM UP: A Red Army and U.S. soldier team up to get a gas stove going at one of the U.S. bases in the U.S.S.R., where troops of the two nations work side-by-side to keep American heavy bombers striking at Hitlerized Europe from the

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.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

A Douglas C-47 is mired down in mud after a heavy rain at Tafaraoui, Algeria. November 1942.

These trim fighting ships are P-40K1s, assembled at Gura, Eritrea, Africa, and undergoing their final tests previous to their trial flights.

German vehicles and horses at Beaugency, France, after the surrender of the Germans to the 83rd Division of the 9th U.S. Army 17 Sept 44. Previously the 9th AF had destroyed all avenues of communications, escape or reinforcements.

S/Sgt. Kenneth C. Mowry of Houston, Texas being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal and Cluster by General George C. Kenney in New Guinea.

Unloading Boeing B-17 is much easier than the loading and is accomplished quicker because the men are tired and those who don't have jobs are anxious to "hit the sack." The others set to work with a will to help keep the fighters flying. CORSICA.

Flying Fortresses Wipe Out Messerschmitt Factory. Grim, photographic evidence of the success of an American Air Forces Boeing B-17 raid on the Messerschmitt Aircraft Factory at Regensburg, Germany is provided by this reconnaissance picture made four

Chinese Workers Spreading Mixture Of Gravel, Sand And Clay On Runway Bed To Form Surface Layer. Poashan Airfield, China. 3 February 1945.

Enlisted men washing up at Marrakech Field, Marrakech, Morocco. May 1943.

North American B-25 "Poopsie," veteran of 66 missions, and four of her crew members just after they had completed their 50th Combat mission. Standing left to right are: 1st Lt. Robert B. Kayser, pilot, 41 Stults Rd., Belmont, Mass.; Lt. Ralph K.

Hangars at Marrakech Airfield, Marrakech, Morocco. May 1943.

The First American Troops To Arrive At The First American-Built Airfield In England 'Andrews Field' Are Greeted Early In The Morning With Hot Coffee And Doughnuts By The American Red Cross Clubmobile 'South Dakota'.

Truck load of native laborers just before leaving for airstrip. Wadi Seidna South, Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. May 1943.

Ordnace Men Of The 468Th Bomb Group Prepare Aerial Mines For Loading On The Boeing B-29S Based In Chengtu, China. 24 January 1945.

Nanning, China - With The War In China Moving At A Faster Pace New Airstrips Are Again Being Built, Under The Supervision Of American Air Corps Engineers, To Speed Supplies, And Bases For Fighters And Bombers. A North American P-51 Fighter Of The 14Th A.F

British Albermarles Move Up Runway At Manston Air Base, England.

A 9Th Us Army Infantryman Examines A Bomb Crater Which Stropped A German Supply Train Just Outside The 'Pied Piper' Village Of Hameln, Germany.

China -- The Group Found Working In Tents During Monsoon Could Be Very Unpleasant. Bombings, Rain And Mud Did Not Dampen The Determination Of The Group To Carry The War To The Japaneses.

Maj. Dazio and enlisted men who installed aircraft rocket on A-20.

8Th Air Force Airmen Of The 92Nd Bombardment Group Adjust The Safety Belts Of Army Ground Forces '85 Pointers' Bound For The Usa And Discharge Just Before Take-Off In A Converted Boeing B-17 From A Flying Field Near Marsailles, France. Flying Fortresses,

General view of presentation of medals for heroism by Maj. Gen. Wm. O. Butler, Somewhere in the Andreanof's.

This Scene Is Typical Of Many Farms Scattered Throughout England. Runways At The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Stations Have Been Carved Out Of Former Grazing Land. Here A Farmer Watches One Of The Heavy Bombers About To Take Off From The Edge Of His Ow

Martin B-26 Marauders of the 12th AAF blast railway yards at Arezzo, Italy.

Curtiss P-40 Buzzing Chengkung Air Base In China Before Coming In For A Landing.

Crew Of A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" That Battled To Bring Back A Crippled Airplane And Crew, And They Won. Standing, Left To Right: S/Sgt. Gene W. Royse, 2645 Fairbanks Ave., Gary, Indiana, Ball Turret; T/Sgt. Nobel Duncan Jr., Ellingtn, Missouri, To

France -- In The Absence Of A Catholic Chaplain Aboard Their Landing Craft, Men Of The 9Th Air Force Service Command Conduct Their Own Rosary Service On Deck As The Ship Approaches The Normandy Shore. The Catholic Men Were Led By Cpl. Michael Mcparlane,

LIGHTNING IN RUSSIA: Lieutenant Everett A. Thies, 4240 10th Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn., (right) and his crew chief, T/Sgt. Daniel Noble, Rt. 1, West Lafayette, Ohio, stand beside Thies' Lightning reconnaissance plane in which he brings pictures

Beachhead Station (Rescue Station). Men Are Standing Beside Flag On Roof Of Building (Under Several Feet Of Snow)..

North American P-51 "Mustangs" Of The 16Th And 26Th Fighter Squadrons, 51St Fighter Group Warming Up For Take-Off At Nanking Air Base, China. 16 November 1944.

Smith took the camera into the tail gun position after the take-off and join-up. This is a picture of the Marauder flying on their right wing, "Boomerang," a veteran of 54 missions and the bomber Foulkes and Smith flew most of their missions in

CHINA - The harmless shadow of a Vultee L-5 which preludes destruction. Whenever the Japaneses see this, they tremble for they know that these are merely the eyes for the fire and terror which is to come.

This Captured German Messerschmitt Me 109G Is Being Reconditioned And Repainted By Men Of The 87Th Fighter Squadron At Tunisia For Use By The U.S. Air Force. April 1943. This Caption Is Incorrect!!! The Aircraft Is A Curtiss P-40.

In carrying out its bombing mission at Salerno, this B-25 (North American) was hit by enemy fire and had to make a landing on one wheel. The field was still under construction, but the pilot managed to balance the plane on one wheel, turn into

Aircraft, Burma, India &RECREATION War

Lt. John Timothy, Of The British Paratroops And A Paratrooper Of Parachute Battalion With The Mascot Of Their Plane, An Icelandic Dog, Picked Up By The Crew When Enroute To England. Lt. Timothy Is Liaison Officer To The Parachute Battalion Now In Trainin

Long view of the skeet truck with ofrtress gunners and mounted guns complete riding out to where the skeet release traps are located.

U.S. Air Forces bombers carry out an attack on an enemy cargo vessel in the Bismarck Sea. Note, right center, four more bombs are on the way.

Graphic pictures have arrived showing details of the smashing of the Japaneseanese convoy the early part of March in the Bismarck Sea between New Britain and New Guinea in which 22 Japaneseanese transports and warships were sunk. A large Japaneseanese (three

Excellent View Of Heavy Bombing Of Airfield At Rheine, Germany, During Bombing Of 8 April 1944.

Boeing B-17 Forts on the way to bomb Berlin, and the greatest air battle ever fought against Germany also lay ahead of them. The Germans threw up everything possible in defense of their capital. Reconnaissance showed that fires had been started in

The Nazi airdrome at St. Omer, chief fighter base in its group, was blasted by aircraft of Eighth Bomber Command in conjunction with the attack at Meaulte. Bursts are seen on the airdrome and in the aircraft dispersal area. (Photo two of 7)(See 23826

The gas tank reached, the troop carrier explodes with a blinding flash that completely obliterates the spot where it had stood. Another target fallen to the blazing fifties of an 8th Air Force fighter plane. In the three pictures the telegraph pole

Shooting Up An Enemy Train In Southern France. The Locomotive Is Hit. Note The Enemy Equipment On The Second Car.

Lt. Berodt's Crew Of The 486Th Bombardment Group In England.

Men Of The 93Rd Bomb Group Gather Around Their Camp Area At A Base In North Africa.

Line-Up Of Vultee L-5 Planes At Liuchow Air Base, China In July 1945, After Its Re-Occupation By The Allies.

Shot Of Completed Fw 190S Which The Germans Had To Leave Behind Because Of Lack Of Fuel, In A Wrecked, Roofless Former Factory Building. After The Bombing This Building Was Used For Storage Purposes. Oschersleben, Germany.

Landing operations on Elba Island.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,RECREATION War

Aircraft, Burma, India &Transportation War

Enemy on Kiska.

Ryukyu Operation, Okinawa.

Cherbourg, France-Photo of Sorellerie II shows how Allied bombardment forced the enemy into a policy of continually more careful concealment. The Robot skis (most obvious give-away for the photo interpreter) have been lined up along the edges

Long range Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighters are now operating with the strategic bomber force of the Mediterranean Air Command.

View of the southeast end of the runway constructed so laboriously by the Japaneses at Kiska. Note the bomb burst alongside the road in the center foreground with another falling bomb just above.

Wings From Nazi Airplanes Are Part Of The Vast Amount Of Equipment Blasted By The Air Force During November Raids In 1944 On The Railroad Yards In Aschaffenburg, Germany.

Weeks ago, this house came flying across the ocean. Not actually of course, but S/Sgt. Ely Crinzman, 100 Union Ave., Cranford, N.J. surveys the early Italian sun, from in front of two former luggage racks that were part of a Consolidated B-24

At their Sicilian base, these three members of the crew of a B-25 Mitchell bomber discuss their crash landing in the Mediterranean Sea when flak riddled their plane. The pilot 1st Lt. Ray I. Sherbourne, (right) of Sacramento, Calif., was awarded the

A Lockheed P-38 Lightning, first fighter plane to land on a field on Mindora Island, Philippines, in flames after being shot down by a Zero within an hour of the arrival of the first Douglas C-47 at the strip. Soon after the first group of transports

Damaged Planes In Hanger And On Runways At Field At Detmold, Germany Hit By U.S. Air Force And Taken By 120Th Regiment Of 30Th Infantry Division, 9Th U.S. Army.

Pictured here are staff officers from the "Wolf Pack" unit of the 5th AF's famous 38th Bomb Group. L. to R. in their bamboo, bungalow home on Luzon in the Philippine Islands are: Capt. Hugh P. O'Brien, Phil. Pa., Capt. Henry L. Pugh, Montgomery, Ala.

The Chiefs Of Staff Of The British And American Armies During Their Visit To Jerusalem. Gen. H.H. Arnold On Far Right. Palestine, 1943.

B-26 Marauder is lost after bombing its target in Pas de Calais area.

Historical Section Of The 13Th Air Force Based On Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 11 April 1944.

Lt. Brachley And Crew Of The 8Th Af's 457Th Bombardment Group Based In England. 12 June 1944.

War Theatre #16 (Ladd Field, Alaska) Airplanes - Ground. Douglas A-20S On The Line At Ladd Field, Alaska Are Covered With Snow Just After A Snowstorm On 12 February 1944.

Martin B-26 Marauders Of The 12Th Aaf Take Off On A Mission.

Air-Sea Rescue Operations Of The 65Th Fighter Wing At Saffron-Walden, Essex, England. Vhf Radio Receivers (Bc-639) And Auxiliary Control Equipment Used In Fighter Control System Scs-2.

Troop Carrier planes off on a mission.

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

Ground Crew Of "Winnie The Pooh" A Plane Of The 385Th Bomb Group, Based In England, Check In The Maintenance Manual Before Making Repairs On The Plane. 20 December 1943.

Wreckage Of Plane No. 362 Of The 792Nd Squad., 468Th Bomb Group, 20Th Bomber Command, Strewn Over Rice Field For A Distance Of Approximately Two Miles. Shown Here Are Bodies Of Four Crew Members Of The Wrecked B-29. Identification Of The Bodies Was Diff

Europe-Gun camera photo...

Lt. Frieda Cox, 13 Main St., Mullica Hill, N.J. (right) displays the group colors she made for an AAF Flying Fortress group. The colors were made from salvaged material and old parachute silk to replace the group's original colors which were lost in

Consolidated B-24 Liberator crew who knocked out six Japaneseanese Zero fighter planes in a running battle, which lasted about 15 minutes, and took place over Wewak, New Guinea. The crew, left to right, are; back row: 1st Lt. George W. Shaffer, pilot, of

Men receiving Christmas packages at the 38th Bomb Group base at Wagani, near Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea. January 1943.

The Plattling Marshalling Yards In Germany After It Was Bombed By The 15Th Af Bombers.

Motion Picture Titling Machine At The General Staff Aerial Photo Processing Lab Of The 65Th Fighter Wing, Saffron-Walden, Essex, England.

Col Grant O. Williams, Left, Signal Officer, 1St U.S. Army, Awards The Air Medal To S/Sgt. Anthony F. Piraino, Right. Sgt. Piraino's Wife Is Living In London, England.

Bombing-Durmen, Belgium.

Fueling A Douglas C-47 Plane At Salala Airfield, Salala, Arabia. June 1943.

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