Naval Aviation

Aerial bombardment (2477)
Air warfare (2269)
Submarine warfare (784)
Bailing out/loss of plane (664)
Naval shore bombardment (537)
Kamikazes (489)
Carrier warfare (425)
Dog fights (366)

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Bomb-damaged city, Naples, 1944
Photograph. Piles of rubble and damaged buildings stand alongside a wide roadway. Personal caption on photo reverse:‘"...
Bombardier of a Navy plane uses Norden bombsight to determine when to release his bombs in November 1944
"File No: 47150 November 25, 1944. Eyes and "Mechanical Brain" on the target. Bombardier of a Navy plane uses famed and...
bombardment of Japanese held fortification in Manila Bay score direct hit in the 1940s
"Bombardment of Jap held fortification in Manila Bay score direct hit." 194-
Bombed building and rubble
Photograph. The ruins of a building. The same building seen in 2013.574.121. Unknown location. No date
Bombed building, Germany, 1945
Photograph. View looking down at a damaged building and a pile of rubble. Distant mountains in the background. Germany...
Bombed building, Philippines, 1945
Photograph. Building site with debris and hanging wires. Personal caption on photo reverse: "1945 Manila, Phillipines [...
Bombed building, Philippines, 1945
Photograph. Bombed site with twisted metal. Personal caption on photo reverse: "1945 Manila, Phillipines [sic] Luzon...
Bombed buildings surrounded by dense trees, Tokyo
Photograph, aerial. Palace grounds. Personal caption: "Palace grounds--Tokyo." Official caption: "Released. If...
Bombed buildings, ETO
Photograph. Bombed buildings and rubble. ETO. No date
Bombed buildings, Germany
Photograph. A bombed building and piles of debris in the streets. Shop sign reads "Wolfgang Licqur."’Germany. No date
Bombed buildings, Innsbruck, 1945
Photograph. Destruction of buildings along town square. Snow-capped mountain in the distance. Personal caption on...
Bombed buildings, Japan
Photograph. Bombed remnants of city buildings. Japan. 1945
Bombed city blocks, Tokyo
Photograph, aerial. Bombed city blocks in Tokyo. Personal caption: "Scene Tokyo--Aug. 1944." Official caption: "...
Bombed factory, Japan
Photograph, aerial. Bombed Japanese factory. Personal caption: "Bombed factory--Japan." Official caption: "Released. If...
Bombed factory, Japan
Photograph, aerial. Bombed Japanese factory. Personal caption: "Large liquidated factory--Tokyo." Official caption: "...
Bombed industrial complex, Japan
Photograph, aerial. Bombed Japanese industrial complex. Official caption: "Released. If published credit must be given...
Bombed Japanese factory complex, Japan
Photograph, aerial. Bombed Japanese factory complex. Japan. Circa 1944-45
Bombed Japanese factory, Japan
Photograph, aerial. Bombed Japanese factory. Personal caption: "Bombed Japanese factory." Official caption: "Released....
Bombed Japanese factory, Tokyo
Photograph, aerial. Bombed Japanese factory. Personal caption: "Bombed refinery--Tokyo." Official caption: "Released....
Bombed Japanese waterfront, Tokyo
Photograph, aerial. Bombed Japanese waterfront. Personal caption on photo reverse: "Gutted water front--Tokyo."...
Bombed out factories, warehouses, and repair shops, Livorno
Photograph, aerial. Factories, warehouses, and repair shops bombed by American bombers. Official caption on front: "...
Bombed-out buildings, Burma
Negative. Aerial. Remains of three bobmed-out buildings. Burma [modern-day Myanmar]. No date
Bombers and air crews on an airfield, October 1941
Photograph. German Focke-Wulf FW 200 bombers and their Luftwaffe crews on airfield. Translation of official German...
Bombing of Kure, Japan, 1945
Photograph, aerial. United States Navy warplanes attacking the Japanese battleship Haruna in a harbor. Official caption...
Bombing of Kure, Japan, 1945
Photograph, aerial. United States Navy warplanes attacking ships docked in a harbor. Official caption on front: "Jap...
Bombs drop from a bomb bay towards a desert floor, North Africa (probably), 1942-43
Aerial view, from open bomb bay, of six bombs dropping towards a desert floor crisscrossed by roads and/or rail lines....
Bombs falling on the Mitsubishi Steel Works, Kobe, Japan, 1945
Photograph, aerial. Explosions rise from the water near offshore ships and from a large onshore factory. Official...
Bombs falling towards a landscape of ponds, fields, and wooded areas crisscrossed with roads, Burma, 1945
Photo taken from bomb bay showing eight bombs falling towards a landscape of ponds, fields, and wooded areas...
Bow-on view of Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller's Consolidated Liberator 'Thunder Mug' on Eniwetok in September 1944
401.Photograph. Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator. 'File No: 46583 September 21, 1944 Saga of Bus Miller--- 'Bow-on' view...
Bridge destroyed over river, ETO
Photograph. Photo showing a bridge destroyed by bombing or demolitions and collapsed into an unknown river. Several...
Building wreckage, Germany
Photograph. Piles of debris in streets after bombing city buildings. Germany. No date
Buildings surrounded by firebombed destruction, Japan
Photograph, aerial. Bombed Japanese city and undamaged overpasses. Personal caption: "Several overpasses (apparently...
Bulldozer, servicemen and tall piles of rubble, MTO
Photograph. Serviceman, a bulldozer and a tall pile of rubble. MTO. No date
Burning American LST off the coast of Gela, Sicily, 1943
Photograph. Burning American LST [Landing Ship, Tank] near a shoreline. Official caption on front: "LST takes direct...
Burning Japanese airplane diving towards an American aircraft carrier off the coast of Peleliu, 1944
Photograph. Burning Japanese airplane diving towards an American aircraft carrier; two folded Grumman Avenger torpedo...
Burning Japanese bomber in the Pacific Ocean, 1945
Photograph. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/9/45--End of Japanese Bomber--Flames gush from a Japanese 'Mavis' patrol bomber...

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