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Airplanes - Instruments - Movable target used by air gunners for target practice

Airplanes - Instruments - Movable target used by air gunners for targe...

Airplanes - Instruments Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Airplanes - Instruments - Aeroplanes. Movable targets used by air gunners at target practice

Airplanes - Instruments - Aeroplanes. Movable targets used by air gunn...

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Keeping an eye out (4934022435)

Keeping an eye out (4934022435)

100826-F-1020B-008.jpg Kabul - A CH-47 Chinook helicopter gunner keeps a watchful eye out over Gardez valley during a flight from Bagram Aug. 26, 2010. Gardez falls under control of Regional Support Command - E... More

355 Sqn RAF personnel India 1944

355 Sqn RAF personnel India 1944

Salbani, Bengal, India. 1944-11-24. Group portrait of some of the RAAF and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) members of No. 355 (Liberator) Squadron RAF. Left to right, kneeling: Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) R.... More

462 Squadron RAAF aircrew Sept 1942

462 Squadron RAAF aircrew Sept 1942

AWM caption : A Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber squadron, No. 462 Squadron RAAF, operating in the Middle East Command is manned by flying crews from all over the Empire. Left to right: Sergeant (Sgt) N. Dear... More

German DFW C.V with crew in 1918

German DFW C.V with crew in 1918

The pilot, Leutnant Frankewitz, and an unidentified observer of a German squadron, probably Bayrische Flieger Abteilung 287 (Bavarian Flying Section 287), sitting in the cockpit and gunner's station of a DFW C.... More

003626Murdoch1b - Australia in World War Two

003626Murdoch1b - Australia in World War Two

1940-02-17. PORT MORESBY - SQUADRON LEADER A.M. MURDOCH, RAAF FIRES A BURST FROM LEWIS GUN IN PORT VENT OF A18-10 USING SHADOW OF FLYING BOAT AS MORNING TARGET ON THE SEA. 3626A - PORT MORESBY - AN AUSTRALIAN A... More

RAAF 462 Sqn crew with Me 110 of W Schnaufer 1945

RAAF 462 Sqn crew with Me 110 of W Schnaufer 1945

Schleswig, Germany, 19 June 1945. Informal group portrait of a Handley-Page Halifax crew of No. 462 Squadron RAAF standing next to an Messerschmitt Me 110G-4 aircraft (G9+BA). Identified are, left to right: Fli... More

RAF 612 Sqn crew with Whitley Iceland 1942

RAF 612 Sqn crew with Whitley Iceland 1942

One of two RAF Coastal Command, No. 612 Squadron, Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley bombers which operated out of Iceland, showing most of the crew lined up in front of the starboard propeller at Reykjavik, Iceland, ... More

Sergeant Ryan 24 Squadron RAAF with waist gun Fenton NT 1944 AWM NWA0627

Sergeant Ryan 24 Squadron RAAF with waist gun Fenton NT 1944 AWM NWA06...

AWM caption : Fenton, NT. c. November 1945. Sergeant P. Ryan, of Melbourne, Vic, cleaning a waist gun of a Consolidated B24 Liberator bomber aircraft of No. 24 Squadron RAAF. Sergeant Ryan took part in a succes... More

617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 TR1126

617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 TR11...

617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 Flight Lieutenant H S Wilson's crew. Left to right: Flight Sergeant J H Payne, gunner Pilot Officer T W Johnson, engineer Sergeant W E Hornby S... More

617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 TR1129

617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 TR11...

617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 Flight Lieutenant Dave Shannon, pilot of ED929/`AJ-L' on the dams raid, with Flight Lieutenant R D Trevor-Roper, who flew as Gibson's rear gunne... More

An air gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun turret of his Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940. CH874

An air gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun turret of...

An air gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun turret of his Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940. An air-gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun... More

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General; Royal Air Force D4736

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General; Royal Air Force D4736

Cecil Beaton Photographs- General The Royal Air Force: The rear gunner in his position in a Wellington bomber.

Consolidated Liberator - Digri - Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. CI678

Consolidated Liberator - Digri - Royal Air Force Operations in the Far...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. The crew of "Winnie" a Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI of No. 159 Squadron RAF based at Digri, India, salute the nose insignia on their aircraft. Sittin... More

Fairey Battle - Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C1653

Fairey Battle - Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C1653

Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. A sergeant air-gunner mans his .303 Vickers K-type gas-operated machine gun from the rear cockpit of a Fairey Battle of No. 103 Squadron RAF at St-Lucien Ferme near Rheges. ... More

Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 22 July 1943. TR1128

Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. ...

Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 22 July 1943. The crew of Lancaster ED285/`AJ-T' sitting on the grass, posed under stormy clo... More

Lockheed Hudson - Bircham - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH358

Lockheed Hudson - Bircham - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945...

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The crew of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I, N7318, of No. 206 Squadron RAF which rescued the Commander in Chief of Free Polish Forces, General Władysław Sikorski and his st... More

Lockheed Hudson - Leuchars - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH982

Lockheed Hudson - Leuchars - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-194...

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The crew of a Lockheed Hudson of No. 224 Squadron RAF, prepare to board their aircraft at Leuchars, Fife. The wireless operator/air gunner (far right) is carrying hi... More

Lockheed Hudson - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH339

Lockheed Hudson - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH339

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The wireless operator/air gunner of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I of No. 206 Squadron RAF based at Bircham Newton, Norfolk, signals with an Aldis lamp to four other aircra... More

Martin Baltimore - Royal Air Force- Italy, 1942-1945. CNA2599

Martin Baltimore - Royal Air Force- Italy, 1942-1945. CNA2599

Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South East Europe, 1942-1945. The crew of a Martin Baltimore Mark IV of No. 223 Squadron RAF walk from their aircraft (FA394) at Celone, Italy, after successfully complet... More

RAF Fighter Command 1940 HU104495

RAF Fighter Command 1940 HU104495

RAF Fighter Command 1940 An air gunner climbs into a Boulton Paul Defiant of No. 264 Squadron, July 1940.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH12209

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH12209

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Lancaster skipper, Flying Officer T Blackham of No. 50 Squadron, keeps a firm hold on the crew's lucky mascot, as he is helped into his flying jacket by his flight engi... More

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH14855

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH14855

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Crew members of Lancaster PA995/BQ-V of No. 550 Squadron board their aircraft at North Killingholme for its 100th operation on 5 March 1945. Left to right are: Sergeant... More

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH573

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH573

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Trainee Polish air gunners receive instruction on a Vickers (VGO) K machine gun at a bombing and gunnery school. These were some of the Polish airmen who had escaped to... More

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command CH2450

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command CH2450

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command On board a No 240 Squadron Catalina at Stranraer, March 1941. A WOp/AG (wireless operator/air gunner) poses with his twin Vickers 'K' guns at the starboard blister hat... More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. C496

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. C496

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. Aircrew a No. 77 Squadron RAF Detachment at Villeneuve/Vertus, France, prepare to board Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V, N1357 'KN-H', for a leaflet-dropping ("Nick... More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1941-1945. CH11640

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1941-1945. CH11640

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1941-1945. Crew members of a Short Stirling B Mark III of No. 622 Squadron RAF face their intelligence debrief at Mildenhall, Suffolk, after returning from the major raid on Berl... More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CH10678

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CH10678

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The air and ground crew of Avro Lancaster B Mark I, W4236 'QR-K', of 'A' Flight, No. 61 Squadron RAF, grouped by the nose of the aircraft at Syerston, Nottinghamshire,... More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CH12090

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CH12090

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Air gunners attend a refresher class in aircraft recognition conducted by a Gunnery Instructor, Pilot Officer V A Reed, using wooden models, at No. 7 Air Gunners Schoo... More

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH413

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH413

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The two side-gunners in a Short Sunderland Mark I of No. 10 Squadron RAAF, mount watch from their positions by the open dorsal hatches mid-way along the fuselage, dur... More

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH637

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH637

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Air gunners at their positions on board a Beaufort Mark I, L4461 'OA-J', of No. 22 Squadron RAF at North Coates, Lincolnshire. One gunner occupies the Bristol Mark I... More

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH807

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH807

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The rear fuselage interior of a Short Sunderland Mark I of No. 210 Squadron RAF, showing the tail gunner leaving his turret and making his way forward.

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH8078

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH8078

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Flight-Sergeant Albert Jeffrey, a wireless operator/air gunner aboard a Consolidated Liberator GR Mark IIIA of No. 224 Squadron RAF based at Beaulieu, Hampshire, ste... More

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH8080

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH8080

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Flight-Sergeant Ronald Johnson, a wireless operator/air gunner on board a Consolidated Liberator GR Mark IIIA of No. 224 Squadron RAF based at Beaulieu, Hampshire, m... More

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH810

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH810

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Two gunners in Short Sunderland Mark I, N9027, of No. 210 Squadron RAF based at Oban, Argyll, sit at their positions with .303 Vickers K-type machine guns, mounted in... More

Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. CH1585

Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. CH1585

Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. A pilot, (Flying Officer L G H Kells; left), and gunner of No. 29 Squadron RAF climb on board their Bristol Blenheim Mark IF for a night sortie from Coleby Grange/Wel... More

Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. CH868

Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. CH868

Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Pilots and gunners of No 264 Squadron RAF, pass the time with a game of draughts while waiting at readiness outside their dispersal tent at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire.

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. CNA47

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. The Commanding Officer of a squadron of No. 326 Wing RAF, followed by wireless operator/air gunner, alights from a Bristol Blenheim Mar... More

Royal Air Force- 1939-1945- Coastal Command CH1081

Royal Air Force- 1939-1945- Coastal Command CH1081

Royal Air Force- 1939-1945- Coastal Command A Dutch air gunner in the turret of an Anson of No 320 Squadron at Carew Cheriton, near Pembroke Dock, in August 1940.

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. CL1523

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. CL1523

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. A petty-officer in the Royal Dutch Naval Air Service, serving as a wireless operator/air gunner with No. 320 (Dutch) Squadron RAF, checks over his .5 Browning... More

Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. CNA1186

Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. ...

Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. Personnel of No. 284 Squadron RAF, an air/sea rescue unit, standing in front of one of their aircraft, Supermarine Walrus, X9506 'C', at Cas... More

Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, a West Indian air gunner serving with No. 102 Squadron, by the rear turret of his Halifax at RAF Pocklington, February 1944. CH12263

Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, a West Indian air gunner serving w...

Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, a West Indian air gunner serving with No. 102 Squadron, by the rear turret of his Halifax at RAF Pocklington, February 1944. West Indians in the Royal Air Force: Sergeant Lin... More

Short Stirling Mk I of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, 1942. TR9

Short Stirling Mk I of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach in...

Short Stirling Mk I of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, 1942. Aircrew in full flying kit walking beneath the nose of Short Stirling Mark I, N3676 'S', of 1651 Heavy Conversion Uni... More

The crew of a Short Stirling bomber of No. 622 Squadron RAF being debriefed by the intelligence officer at Mildenhall, Suffolk, after returning from the major raid on Berlin of 22-23 November 1943. CH11641

The crew of a Short Stirling bomber of No. 622 Squadron RAF being debr...

The crew of a Short Stirling bomber of No. 622 Squadron RAF being debriefed by the intelligence officer at Mildenhall, Suffolk, after returning from the major raid on Berlin of 22/23 November 1943. The crew of ... More

The crew of an Avro Lancaster of No. 57 Squadron RAF eat their bacon and eggs at Scampton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid, February 1943. CH8806

The crew of an Avro Lancaster of No. 57 Squadron RAF eat their bacon a...

The crew of an Avro Lancaster of No. 57 Squadron RAF eat their bacon and eggs at Scampton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid, February 1943. Sergeant J B Mallett, Sergeant H H Turkentine and Sergeant R ... More

The crew of the first Canadian-built Avro Lancaster X to arrive in Britain, christened the 'Ruhr Express', photographed with their mascot at Northolt, Middlesex, on 15 September 1943. CH11042

The crew of the first Canadian-built Avro Lancaster X to arrive in Bri...

The crew of the first Canadian-built Avro Lancaster X to arrive in Britain, christened the 'Ruhr Express', photographed with their mascot at Northolt, Middlesex, on 15 September 1943. The crew of the first Cana... More

The rear gunner of a Lancaster of No. 44 Squadron peeks out through a cut-out in the perspex of his gun turret, October 1942. TR187

The rear gunner of a Lancaster of No. 44 Squadron peeks out through a ...

The rear gunner of a Lancaster of No. 44 Squadron peeks out through a cut-out in the perspex of his gun turret, October 1942. A gunner, believed to be Sergeant J Bell, looks through the opening in the perspex o... More

The Royal Air Force in North Africa E8292

The Royal Air Force in North Africa E8292

The Royal Air Force in North Africa The gunner of a Blenheim bomber, F/Sgt J Mitchell, in his turret, 12 February 1942. This aircraft was used as personal transport by Lt Gen Neil Ritchie, GOC 8th Army, for vis... More

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A1867

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A1867

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The crew; pilot, observer, and air gunner, report to the Commanding Officer on getting out of their Supermarine Walrus aircraft on board the aircraft carrier HMS ARGUS... More

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A24262

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A24262

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Interrogation of Grumman Avenger bomber crews of 832 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm on board HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. Left to right: Petty Officer R O Begley, Tail Gunner, from Dulwi... More

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A3843

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A3843

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The air gunner of a Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber at his position on the rear-facing .303 inch Vickers machine gun. This Fairey Swordfish was one from HMS ARK ROYAL.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A7540

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A7540

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A bearded Fleet Air Arm gunner, Leading Airman C H Clark, from Tadworth, Surrey, exits his Fairey Albacore aircraft carrying his flying kit, after his aircraft returne... More

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A9008

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A9008

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Air gunners of a Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish squadron passing a line of Supermarine Walrus sea-planes at HMS SPARROWHAWK, Royal Naval Air Station Hatston, Orkney Islands.

Training of Royal Air Force Aircrew in Rhodesia, 1943 CRH29

Training of Royal Air Force Aircrew in Rhodesia, 1943 CRH29

Training of Royal Air Force Aircrew in Rhodesia, 1943 Royal Air Force air gunners receive class-room instruction at an Air Training School in Southern Rhodesia. The instructor is Pilot Officer J Ward.

Unidentified airship RAE-O946 during World War I

Unidentified airship RAE-O946 during World War I

Aircraft and Balloons Used by Some of the Air Pioneers Who Were Contemporary With Samuel Franklin Cody. An unidentified airship on the ground. Note the gunners on the front of the airship and on top of it.

Vickers Wellington at Amendola - Royal Air Force - Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1944-1945 CNA2785

Vickers Wellington at Amendola - Royal Air Force - Italy, the Balkans ...

Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1944-1945. A Boeing B-17 crew of the 5th Bombardment Wing, 15th USAAF, after returning to Amendola, Italy, from a daylight bombing mission over Sofia, ... More

Vickers Wellington at Chaklala - Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945 CI643

Vickers Wellington at Chaklala - Royal Air Force Operations in the Far...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. The crew of Vickers Wellington Mark X, HZ950, of No. 99 Squadron RAF, gather by the tail turret of their aircraft at Chaklala, India, after returning from ... More

Wing Commander Guy Gibson, Vc, Dso and Bar, Dfc and Bar, Commander of 617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 TR1127

Wing Commander Guy Gibson, Vc, Dso and Bar, Dfc and Bar, Commander of ...

Wing Commander Guy Gibson, Vc, Dso and Bar, Dfc and Bar, Commander of 617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 Wing Commander Guy Gibson with members of his crew. Left to right: Wing Co... More

Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 D13380

Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 D1...

Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 Third Officer Ingledew, WRNS, gives a lecture on aircraft recognition to gunners of the Station Defence. She uses an epidiascope to project p... More

Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 D13385

Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 D1...

Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 Third Officer Ingledew, WRNS, encourages gunners of the Station Defence to draw various aircraft types from memory as part of her daily hour-l... More

20TH AIR FORCE, OKINAWA-A-2C Don W. Murray of Mazon, Ill., flashes a victory smile from the gun blister of his U.S.... - NARA - 542361

20TH AIR FORCE, OKINAWA-A-2C Don W. Murray of Mazon, Ill., flashes a v...

Scope and content: 20TH AIR FORCE, OKINAWA--A/2C Don W. Murray of Mazon, Ill., flashes a victory smile from the gun blister of his U.S. Air Force B-29 "Superfort" after shooting down a Communist jet fighter. A... More

98TH BOMB WING, JAPAN-Pfc. Benjamin Livingston flys as a gunner on one of the U.S. Air Force veteran 98th Bomb... - NARA - 542359

98TH BOMB WING, JAPAN-Pfc. Benjamin Livingston flys as a gunner on one...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A dramatic night photo caught the navigator and pilot of a Fifth Air Force B-26 "Invader" of the 3rd Bomb Wing... - NARA - 542228

A dramatic night photo caught the navigator and pilot of a Fifth Air F...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Air Force personnel & equipment. The Pacific, England, Wash. DC. 1942-44 (mostly 1943) - NARA - 292574

Air Force personnel & equipment. The Pacific, England, Wash. DC. 1942-...

Scope and content: Waist Gunners of the B 17 Invader II, S/Sgt. Eldon R. Lapp, Fort Wayne and S/Sgt. William D. King, Imperial, Texas. England.

Air Force personnel & equipment. The Pacific, England, Wash. DC. 1942-44 (mostly 1943) - NARA - 292576

Air Force personnel & equipment. The Pacific, England, Wash. DC. 1942-...

Scope and content: B-29 Men bombed Tokyo. The crew of "Waddy's Wagon", fifth B-29 to take off on the initial Tokyo mission from Saipan, and first to land after bombing the target. Crew members, posing here to ... More

FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN-As the words informing the world of the truce being signed in Korea reached the ears of... - NARA - 542363

FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN-As the words informing the world of the tru...

Scope and content: FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN--As the words informing the world of the truce being signed in Korea reached the ears of military personnel in Korea and Japan, emotions were expressed in a variet... More

FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN-Combat infantrymen must know how to do a flat crawl - NARA - 542362

FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN-Combat infantrymen must know how to do a fl...

Scope and content: "FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN--Combat infantrymen must know how to do a flat crawl, hugging the ground to avoid being hit. Combat airmen must also know how to maneuver horizontally, only they ... More

FIFTH AIR FORCE, KOREA-Six gunners join hands as a part of 17th Bomb Wing night interdiction teams in Korea - NARA - 542322

FIFTH AIR FORCE, KOREA-Six gunners join hands as a part of 17th Bomb W...

Scope and content: FIFTH AIR FORCE, KOREA--Six gunners join hands as a part of 17th Bomb Wing night interdiction teams in Korea. They are (left to right), A/2C Edward Howard, Jr., 506 12 Ave., Fort Dodge, Iowa... More

RETURN AT DAWN. T-Sgt. Charles W. Ledbetter, 705 East Stewart Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, is shown as he returned shortly... - NARA - 542358

RETURN AT DAWN. T-Sgt. Charles W. Ledbetter, 705 East Stewart Avenue, ...

United States in World War Two Public domain photograph of a bomber aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

United States Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, La. fires machine gun on enemy during aerial... - NARA - 196309

United States Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, ...

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - United States military, propaganda free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Action station (AWM ARTV04986)

Action station (AWM ARTV04986)

AWM Caption: This is a British poster depicting a rear-gunner in a Lancaster bomber. A second aircraft is seen flying at left. Added to the slogan 'Savings is everybody's war job' are the words 'Post Office Sav... More

Aircrew walking beneath tnose oaShort Stirling

Aircrew walking beneath tnose oaShort Stirling

Aircrew in full flying kit walking beneath the nose of Short Stirling Mark I, N3676 'S', of 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire while the ground crew run up the engines. The pilot (2nd fro... More

Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 22 July 1943. TR1128 (cropped)

Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. ...

Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 22 July 1943. The crew of Lancaster ED285/`AJ-T' sitting on the grass, posed under stormy cl... More

The crew of Lancaster AJ-T sitting on the grass, posed under stormy clouds

The crew of Lancaster AJ-T sitting on the grass, posed under stormy cl...

Picture series: 617 Squadron (Dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943. Object description: The crew of Lancaster ED285/'AJ-T' sitting on the grass, posed under stormy clouds. Left to right: Sergean... More

Boulton Paul Type A gun turret

Boulton Paul Type A gun turret

An air gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun turret of his Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940. An air-gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gu... More

VL Tuisku (SA-kuva 132558), Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive

VL Tuisku (SA-kuva 132558), Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive

Suomi: Kun tähystäjäoppilas on suorittanut ilma-ammunnan, lähtee seuraava ampumapaikalle.

Maschinengondel eines Zeppelin-Luftschiffes - Felix Schwormstädt 1917

Maschinengondel eines Zeppelin-Luftschiffes - Felix Schwormstädt 1917

Farbdruck (1917)<BR>"In der hinteren Maschinengondel eines Zeppelin-Luftschiffes während der Fahrt durch die feindliche Luftsperre nach einem erfolgreichen Angriff auf England." Nach einem Aquarell von Felix Sc... More

Memphis Belle crew USAF

Memphis Belle crew USAF

Crew of the Memphis Belle. The crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle" is shown at an air base in England after completing 25 missions over enemy territory on June 7, 1943. They are, left to right: T... More

Thule AFB B-52 Gunner Rescue

Thule AFB B-52 Gunner Rescue

The gunner is rescued after ejecting from a B-52 that crashed new Thule Air Base on 21 January 1968

PBY Gun Blister

PBY Gun Blister

Jesse Rhodes Waller, a World War II Aviation Ordnanceman stationed at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, installing a M1919 Browning machine gun in a United States Navy PBY plane.

PBY gunner NASCoChr1942

PBY gunner NASCoChr1942

Jesse Rhodes Waller, AOM3c, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed in a U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas (USA), in August 1942.

USS Yorktown VS-5 July 1942

USS Yorktown VS-5 July 1942

U.S. Navy pilots and rear gunners of scouting squadron VS-5. VS-5 flew the Douglas SBD-2/-3 Dauntless dive bomber from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) during the ship's 1942 operations, including at t... More

Ruptured Duck Crew

Ruptured Duck Crew

Crew of "The Ruptured Duck" (B-25 Doolittle Raider) Crew No. 7 (B-25 #40-2261: target Tokyo) Front Row L-R, Lt. Ted W. Lawson, pilot; Lt. Dean Davenport, copilot; Back Row L-R, Lt. Charles L. McClure, navigato... More

Doolittle Raider, Plane 1

Doolittle Raider, Plane 1

Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, Crew No. 1 Crew No. 1 (Plane #40-2344, target Tokyo): 34th Bombardment Squadron, Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle, pilot; Lt. Richard E. Cole, copilot; Lt. Henry A. Potter, navigator; SSgt.... More

Doolittle-plane8

Doolittle-plane8

Crew No. 8 (Plane #40-2242, target Tokyo): 95th Bombardment Squadron, Capt. Edward J. York, pilot; Lt. Robert G. Emmens, copilot; Lt. Nolan A. Herndon, navigator/bombardier; SSgt. Theodore H. Laban, flight eng... More

Doolittle Raiders Crew5 060217-F-1234P-113 1

Doolittle Raiders Crew5 060217-F-1234P-113 1

Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, Crew No. 5: Crew No. 5 (Plane #40-2283, target Tokyo): 95th Bombardment Squadron, front row: Capt. David M. Jones, pilot; and Lt. Ross R. Wilder, copilot; back row: Lt. Eugene F. McGur... More

Doolittle Raid Crew 6

Doolittle Raid Crew 6

Lt. Chase J. Nielsen (left) stands with his fellow crewmen before the famed Doolittle Raid mission April 18, 1942. As part of Crew No. 6, 95th Bombardment Squadron, they flew Plane #40-2298 to bomb targets in ... More

Crew of Lt. James Muri with Martin B-26 Marauder at Midway in June 1942

Crew of Lt. James Muri with Martin B-26 Marauder at Midway in June 194...

The crew or a U.S. Army Air Forces Martin B-26 Marauder (s/n 40-1391, "Susie-Q") from the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron (Medium), 22nd Bomb Group, which made torpedo-attack on the Japanese carriers in the early... More

LADY BE GOOD Crew

LADY BE GOOD Crew

The ill-fated crew of the Consolidated B-24D "Lady Be Good," from the left: 1Lt. W.J. Hatton, pilot; 2Lt. R.F. Toner, copilot; 2Lt. D.P. Hays, navigator; 2Lt. J.S. Woravka, bombardier; TSgt. H.J. Ripslinger, e... More

NNSA-NSO-970, Atomic Bomb Test Site

NNSA-NSO-970, Atomic Bomb Test Site

TEAPOT - 11TH BOMB WING CREW PARTICIPATES IN TEAPOT OPERATION - CARSWELL AFB, TEXAS. Left to right, front row: Lt. Col. Fred D. McKinney, aircraft commander; Captain Joseph J. Tyler, 1st. Pilot; 1/Lt. Dan J. L... More

"A "Send-Home" Photo" (BOND 0579)

"A "Send-Home" Photo" (BOND 0579)

B-17 gunner poses for "send home" photo, Will Rogers Field, 1943. Frank Bond photo. Subject: "military base, photography, American soldier"

Betty tail gunner. Japanese empire during World War Two.

Betty tail gunner. Japanese empire during World War Two.

G4M1 Betty tail gun station view Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

150 Squadron Wellington crew Tunisia WWII IWM CNA 1271

150 Squadron Wellington crew Tunisia WWII IWM CNA 1271

The crew of a Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 150 Squadron RAF receive a final briefing from their flight commander before taking off from Kairouan, Tunisia, for a raid on targets in the Salerno area on the d... More

466 Squadron Wellington crew RAF Leconfield 1943 IWM CH 11173

466 Squadron Wellington crew RAF Leconfield 1943 IWM CH 11173

The first all Australian crew in Bomber Command to complete a tour of operations (with No 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force) stand in front of their Vickers Wellington bomber at RAF Leconfield, Yorkshir... More

550 Squadron Lancaster and crew IWM CH 17852

550 Squadron Lancaster and crew IWM CH 17852

IWM caption : The crew of Avro Lancaster B Mark III, ED905 'BQ-F' "Press on regardless", of No. 550 Squadron RAF, pose on their aircraft after it had completed 70 operational sorties, at RAF North Killingholme... More

A No. 57 Squadron Lancaster mid-upper gunner in his turret, February 1943. CH8795

A No. 57 Squadron Lancaster mid-upper gunner in his turret, February 1...

A No. 57 Squadron Lancaster mid-upper gunner in his turret, February 1943. A No 57 Squadron mid-upper gunner, Sergeant 'Dusty' Miller, 'scans the sky for enemy aircraft' from a Lancaster's Fraser Nash FN50 tur... More

Blenheim gunner Greece 1940 CM 285

Blenheim gunner Greece 1940 CM 285

IWM caption : A wireless operator/air gunner mans his Vickers K gun in the turret of an RAF Bristol Blenheim Mk I at Menidi/Tatoi, Greece.

Boulton Paul Defiant gun turret WWII IWM CH 879

Boulton Paul Defiant gun turret WWII IWM CH 879

An air gunner in the turret of a Boulton Paul Defiant Mark I of No. 264 Squadron RAF, trains his four .303 Browning machine-guns skywards at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire.

IWM CH2526 - A couple of men sitting in the cockpit of a plane

IWM CH2526 - A couple of men sitting in the cockpit of a plane

Flight Sergeant E. R. Thorn (pilot, left) and Sergeant F. J. Barker (air gunner) pose with their Boulton Paul Defiant turret fighter at RAF Biggin Hill, Kent, after destroying their 13th Axis aircraft. Note th... More

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