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Postwar aviation. The interior of the new Superliner, which is among the aircraft designed to fill the postwar skies. It is roomier but similar to prewar style. Conservation will keynote early stages of postwar aviation though blueprints include radically designed transports and helicopter sky flivvers.

U.S. task force gathers for blow at enemy. Ships of a U.S. Navy task force move into formation at the start of a mission against the enemy in the Pacific. Including battleships, cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers, transports and other vessels, the task force is a development of this war, combining all components on land, sea and aerial warfare into a single powerful weapon. Navy task forces have ...

U.S. soldiers land on Japanese-held Saipan Island. American infantrymen carry weapons and equipment along a beach of Saipan Island, in the Central Pacific, where they were landed by amphibious tanks (right). Other landing vessels speed toward the island of the Marianas group from an off-shore armada of U.S. warships and transports (background). U.S. soldiers who stormed ashore on Saipan, on June 14, ...

Soviet officer talks to lilberated Belgian soldiers. A Russian officer (left, wearing fur cap) talks with Belgian soldiers who were liberated from German prison camps by the Red Army drive in East Prussia. As Soviet forces tightened the trap around the enemy in EastPrussia in early March 1945, almost 10,000 Allied fighting men who had been freed by the Russians from German prison camps were awaiting ...

AD B 14 Geallieerde acties Allied Airborne Army lands in Holland. In the biggest airborne operation over attempted, a great Allied airborne army has landed in Holland, says a special anouncement from Supreme Headquarters. Allied paratroopers entering one of the huge transports before taking off on the assault on German occupied Holland.

Japanese base in Java blasted by Allied task force. Casting a shadow over the countryside, a column of jet black smoke towers over a blazing oil refinery set afire by bombs unloaded from British and American carrier-based planes during a joint attack on Surabaya, Japanese-held naval base and oil refinery center on the Island of Java. During the raid on the enemy stronghold in the Dutch East Indies, ...

Van de Nederlandse strijdkrachten telde de marine de meeste mensen. In tegenstelling tot de landmacht was de marine er begin mei 1940 in geslaagd een aanzienlijk deel van personeel en materieel uit Nederland te evacueren. Daarnaast bevond zich in de Indische wateren het marinesmaldeel dat belast was met de verdediging van de archipel. Naast het escorteren van konvooien hebben Nederlandse marineschepen ...