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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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...
Burning Japanese naval base, Rabaul, 1943
Photograph, aerial. Large columns of smoke rising from a burning Japanese naval base along a coast; a half-sunken...
Burning Japanese ship off the coast of an island, Pacific Ocean
Photograph, aerial. Column of smoke rising from a burning Japanese transport ship; bomb explosions are going off in the...
Burning Japanese transport ships sinking in Rabaul Harbor, New Guinea
Photograph, aerial. Several Japanese transport ships burning and sinking in a harbor. Official caption on front: "...
Burning of shoreline
Photograph, landscape. Several fires on burning along a shore line. Location unknown. No date
C-46 taking off, 1945
Photograph. Front view of a Curtiss C-46 Commando taking off from an airstrip. Personal caption on reverse: "C46 / Take...
C-46 taking off, 1945
Photograph. Front view of a Curtiss C-46 Commando taking off from an airstrip. Personal caption on reverse: "C46 / 1945...
Captured German 'one man submarine' on Anzio beachhead in April 1944
198.Photograph. Fifth Army, Italy. Captured German 'one man submarine' converted from an ordinary torpedo from which...
Captured German 'one man submarine' on Anzio beachhead in April 1944
251.Photograph. '21 April 44. MM-5-44-3969. Fifth Army, Anzio Beachhead Area, Italy. Captured German 'one man submarine...
Captured Kamikaze Aircraft, Hickam Field, Oahu c.1945
US dubbed 'Baka' or Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, "cherry blossom," a rocket powered human-guided kamikaze attack plane, "...
City Hall in ruins, Manila, 1945
Photograph. Distant view of City Hall in ruins. Foreground has pile of debris and grassy plain leading to the City Hall...
Civilian women pull handcart full of personal belongings down city street, Belgium
Photograph. Belgian civilian women on street pulling cart loaded with suitcases; street scene with Allied bomb damaged...
Civilians carry a basket of belongings out of bombed building, Belgium
Photograph. Belgian civilians carry belongings out of house onto rubble-filled street after building was destroyed by...
Civilians on street pulling carts loaded with belongings, Belgium
Photograph. Belgian civilians on street pulling carts loaded with belongings after Allied bombings; damaged buildings...
Cloud of smoke rising from a ship and pier on the coast of Manila Bay, Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Cloud of smoke rising from a Japanese ship and pier after an American aerial attack. Official...

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