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A trail of black smoke merks the death dive of a Japanese raid bomber shot down by U.S. gunners who beat back a Japanese raid on American positions on Guadelcanal in the Solomons Islands. NI 9226

Foto's Y.M.C.A. thee bus bij WaalbrugBijschrift: "As allied armies pour across the Rhine this famous bridge at Nijegen is a vital link in the transport system. G.P.S. Y.M.C.A. Mobile Uptown Branch serving gunners who are guarding the bridge across the Waal (Dutch Rhine). They are only two miles from the German lines and are constantly shelled. Copyright XY.110 & 122." daar onder: "These photos were ...

Portrait of America. U.S. trains American youth for merchant fleet. U.S. Merchant Marine seamen must be expert gunner as well as sailors. This gun crew, operating a 20 milimeter anti-aircraft gun on a U.S. training ship, learns to function with clock-like precision. Thousand of young Americans are being turned into trained crews for merchant ships that keep the sea lanes opens fot the United Nations ...

The 'Panay' funeral procession down the Yangtse as seen from British gunboat. This picture, just recieved in Londen, was made from the British gunboat 'Ladybird', as the funeral procession of those who lost their lives in the sinking by the Japanese of the American gunboat 'Panay' near Hoshien passed down the Yangtse River to Shanghai. Following the 'Ladybird', which had herself suffered damage at ...

achtergrondinformatie Engelse Graven op het R.K. kerkhof te Wijchen. "betreffende Flight Sergeant P.H. Bode - Air-gunner R.A.F. - 21 september 1944 - 21 jaar" "betreffende Flight-Sergeant W.H. Skewes - Wireless-operator - air-gunner R.A.F. - 21 september 1944 - 23 jaar" "aanvullende achtergrondinformatie - de gegevens van Mark Azouz zijn ontleend aan de gegevens van de Air Historical Branch van het ...

Dutch and U.S. troops guard Netherlands Guiana Base. At Paramaribo, in Dutch Guiana, U.S. troops and Dutch soldiers share the guarding of the port from which a large part of American's beauxite (aluminum ore) is shipped. In Surinam or Dutch Guiana, on the Northern Coast of South America, this native anti-aircraft gunner helps protect Fort Amsterdam. His job is to cooperate with U.S. troops in the defense ...

Een Boeing 'B-17 Fortress II' ('Vliegende Forten') bommenwerper. 'ENEMY-CUT WINDOW IN FORTRESS TAIL ASSEMBLY. Nineteen-year-old tail gunner Sgt.F/W. Fayette, Manchester, N.H., looks through the jagged hole in the tail assembly of his B-17 Flying Fortress, the work of a German fighter over Steyr, Austria. In spite of this damage, the Fortress continued on its mission. Fayette, who stuck to his guns, ...

Foto burger die op deel romp vliegtuigwrak zit. Tekst: 'Wrak van de Short Stirling ser. nr. R-9272 van nr. 7 Squadron te Riel (ZW van Tilburg). Hierbij kwam slechts een bemanningslid om het leven, t.w. de air gunner sgt. F. Dukes'.

Allied Taks Force liberates Morotai. From the bridge of the Australian destroyer, H.M.A.S. Arunta. Lt. Moloney (navigator) and Gunner Cantor watch the landing on Morotai. NI 5572

Training the marksmen of the Royal Air Force. Observers choosing bombs with which to load their machines. The observers also act as air-gunners and bombaimers.

Foto van een Auster verkenningsvliegtuig boven een vuurpositie van 25 ponder gun-howitsers. Tekst: "AIR OBSERVATION FOR THE ARTILLERY. Owing to the type of country over which the Allied forces are fighting in Normandy, air observation is invaluable to the gunners for the accuracy of their fire. The Air Observation Squadron in their Auster IV aircraft carry out this neccessary work for the artillery. ...