Tag: US Army

American Air Force pilot Richard Bong (Richard Ira “Dick” Bong, 1920-1945) stands near his P-38 “Marge” (Lockheed P-38 Lightning) fighter aircraft at a military airfield in the Pacific theater of…

Three skilled American workers at the White Motor Company military plant are carrying out an industrial assembly of an undercarriage element for an M2 half-track armored personnel carrier. The Second…

The American soldiers from the US Army infantry go east of the town of Aitape on the island of New Guinea. The Pacific theater of military operations, the Second World…

American Brigadier General Julian Cunningham and Lieutenant Colonel P.L. Hooper looking at a map of the fighting at their headquarters on the island of New Guinea. The Second World War.…

Two Grumman TBF-1 “Avenger” carrier-based torpedo bombers from US 5th Torpedo Squadron VT-5 (from USS Yorktown) fly over explosions from a direct hit on a Japanese Wakatake destroyer north of…

View of the destroyed hangar No. 11 and the tail of a Douglas B-18 Bolo bomber from the 18th Bomb Group at Hickam Field in Pearl Harbor after a Japanese…

Northrop BT-1 carrier-based bomber from the American 5th Squadron (VB-5, aircraft carrier “Yorktown”) of the US Navy in a dive on a sea target. Pacific theater of operations, World War…

Burnt-out 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns aboard the American aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6). Battle of Okinawa, Pacific theater of operations, World War II. The USS Enterprise photo source: US Naval…

American generals George Patton, Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower in the Ohrdruf concentration camp near the fire where the Nazis burned the bodies of prisoners. In a dark coat and…

The American Spearfish submarine (USS Spearfish, SS-190, Sargo class) sails the sea near the US naval base on Mare Island during World War II in Europe. Location: Mare Island, California,…