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Puerto Rico Defenses, Southern Methodist University collection

Puerto Rico Defenses, Southern Methodist University collection

Title: Puerto Rico Defenses . .Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: 1939..Place: Puerto Rico..Physical Description: 1 transparency: film, color; 10 x 13 cm. ..File: ag1982_0234_2063_K_39_sm_opt.jpg ... More

Anti-aircraft, Puerto Rico, pre-war

Anti-aircraft, Puerto Rico, pre-war

Title: Anti-aircraft, Puerto Rico, pre-war . .Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: 1939..Place: San Juan, Puerto Rico..Physical Description: 1 transparency: film, color; 10 x 13 cm. ..File: ag1982_0... More

After duty, anti-aircraft gunners indulge in the old-time winter sport

After duty, anti-aircraft gunners indulge in the old-time winter sport

With their battery of guns immediately behind them, these anti-aircraft gunners take a light-hearted break from the war to take part in a peaceful fight. As can be seen from the grouped lorries, this is a motor... More

Waiting for Boche planes, Flanders

Waiting for Boche planes, Flanders

Encamped on snowy ground, this image shows four anti-aircraft guns on top of their vehicles. Anti-aircraft batteries were initially formed into small groups of guns such as this, so that the range could quickly... More

Anti-aircraft guns which brought down a huge German aeroplane in France

Anti-aircraft guns which brought down a huge German aeroplane in Franc...

Anti-aircraft gun, France, during World War I. This image is rather arresting due to the gun barrel silhouetted against the barren landscape. There is also strong sunlight falling across parts of the image. Thi... More

Driving away a Bosche plane, Flanders

Driving away a Bosche plane, Flanders

In the middle of a dusty, hilly wasteland, a trailer on rails has been permanently parked. On a hollow in the middle of the trailer, an anti-aircraft gun is positioned. At either end of the trailer are the cont... More

Anti-aircraft gun in action during the battle, Flanders

Anti-aircraft gun in action during the battle, Flanders

Soldiers silhouetted against the sky. They are preparing to fire an anti-aircraft gun. On the right of the photograph a soldier is being handed a large shell for the gun. ..The Battle of Broodseinde (October 19... More

Our anti-aircraft gunners spot a Hun plane

Our anti-aircraft gunners spot a Hun plane

This photograph of gunners rushing to man two anti-aircraft guns may have been a contrived shot, as the man in the foreground is grinning broadly, which seems unlikely if this was a real incident. Anti-aircraft... More

Anti aircraft gun in the snow and ruins, Flanders

Anti aircraft gun in the snow and ruins, Flanders

Uniformed men crowds around an anti-aircraft gun. All of the men are wearing long overcoats to combat the cold of this snow-covered landscape. The gun has been positioned on a raised area of ground, close to a ... More

Camp of an anit-aircraft gun crew, Flanders

Camp of an anit-aircraft gun crew, Flanders

There is a lorry disappearing off the bottom right of the image, which carries a large fixed gun as its load. There are a lot of soldiers grouped around the machinery of the gun with their heads together. There... More

Jeanne Le Roux. Address: 8 Rue St. Marc. Quimper (Finistere) protege of: Anti Aircraft Artillery, APO 702. American Expeditionary Forces

Jeanne Le Roux. Address: 8 Rue St. Marc. Quimper (Finistere) protege o...

Caption from negative sleeve: Jeanne Le Rouse, adopte. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] G... More

Maurice Lefebvre. Address: 59 Rue du Nouveau Pont, Coudekerque Branche, pres. Dunkerque. protege of Anti aircraft Artillery, co Chap. Griffin, APO 702, A.E.F

Maurice Lefebvre. Address: 59 Rue du Nouveau Pont, Coudekerque Branche...

Caption from negative sleeve: Maurice Lelebure, adopte. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] Date b... More

Jeanne Illigot. Address: Mme. Vve. Illigot, 23 Place du Chateau. Brest (Finistere) protege of: Anti Aircraft Artillery, co Chap. H. R. Griffin, APO 702

Jeanne Illigot. Address: Mme. Vve. Illigot, 23 Place du Chateau. Brest...

Caption fron negative or negative sleeve: Enfants adoptes, Jeanne Illigol. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Colin [J... More

Simone Bouillard. Address: 42 Rue du Bac., Rouen. (Inf.) protege of: Anti Aircraft Artillery, APO 702. American Expeditionary Forces

Simone Bouillard. Address: 42 Rue du Bac., Rouen. (Inf.) protege of: A...

Caption from negative sleeve: Simone Bouillard, adopte. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] ... More

Bilden föreställer tre uniformsklädda besättningsmedlemmar vid en luftvärnskanon ombord på minfartyget Älvsnabben under långresan 1966-1967. Nederst till höger syns flaggartillerimästaren Evert Ahlin, till vänster en högbåtsman och i mitten en menig artillerihantverkare.

Bilden föreställer tre uniformsklädda besättningsmedlemmar vid en luft...

Ingår i album med fotografier från Älvsnabbens långresa 1966-1967. Hon avlöpte 10/11 1966 från Karlskrona och åkte via Suezkanalen mot Australien, USA:s västkust, genom Panamakanalen via Dublin hem till Marstra... More

Swedish Navy images - IV362 Sverige. Public domain image.

Swedish Navy images - IV362 Sverige. Public domain image.

IV362 Public domain image of Industry in 20th-century Sweden, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bilden visar en grupp rekryter samlad runt en luftvärnskanon. Utbildaren sitter i stolen och siktar mot himmelen.

Bilden visar en grupp rekryter samlad runt en luftvärnskanon. Utbildar...

Bilden visar en grupp rekryter samlad runt en luftvärnskanon. Utbildaren sitter i stolen och siktar mot himmelen.

Bilden visar en sjöman som tittar genom siktet av en dubbel kulspruta m/36 ombord på ett örlogsfartyg.

Bilden visar en sjöman som tittar genom siktet av en dubbel kulspruta ...

Bilden visar en sjöman som tittar genom siktet av en dubbel kulspruta m/36 ombord på ett örlogsfartyg.

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Greek trainees with the Anti-aircraft artillery training center. Left to right: Private James Bezirgianidis, Thomas Harris (ne Hanozoes) and Damainos Daykos. Harris served with the Greek Navy before coming to this country while Deykos saw service with the Greek Army

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Greek trainees with the Anti-aircraft art...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

459th AAA men standing on a field, 1953

459th AAA men standing on a field, 1953

459th AAA [Anti-Aircraft Artillery] men standing on a field, possibly Fort Baker, 1953.

459th AAA men walking with hard hats, 1953

459th AAA men walking with hard hats, 1953

459th AAA [Anti-Aircraft Artillery] men walking with hat hats, possibly Fort Baker, 1953.

459th AAA AW BN group with large gun

459th AAA AW BN group with large gun

459th AAA [Anti-Aircraft Artillery] AW BN group, Fort Baker. Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cambria Davis and her little sister, Raia Davis, spin

Cambria Davis and her little sister, Raia Davis, spin

Cambria Davis and her little sister, Raia Davis, spin and move the barrel on a 37mm anti-aircraft artillery gun provided by the 547th Intelligence Squadron during Aviation Nation Nov.10, 2012, at Nellis Air For... More

Bofors Gun Mounting at the Scotswood Works, England

Bofors Gun Mounting at the Scotswood Works, England

Bofors Mounting, 12 Shop, Scotswood Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, September 1946 (TWAM ref. 5366/13). ..‘Workshop of the World’ is a phrase often used to describe Britain’s manufacturing dominance during the Nine... More

Indonesian sailors at AA Gun, Jalesveva Jayamahe, p45

Indonesian sailors at AA Gun, Jalesveva Jayamahe, p45

Indonesian sailors at an anti-aircraft gun Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bechuanaland Boys cleaning Aa Guns in the Twilight after Action, Syracuse, Sicily Art.IWMARTLD4576

Bechuanaland Boys cleaning Aa Guns in the Twilight after Action, Syrac...

Bechuanaland Boys cleaning Aa Guns in the Twilight after Action, Syracuse, Sicily image: soldiers from Bechuanaland stand on the edge of a gun emplacement, cleaning the barrel of a gun. Behind them are several... More

Gun Mountings in Mgb's. 17 February 1943, on Board HMS Beehive. A14552

Gun Mountings in Mgb's. 17 February 1943, on Board HMS Beehive. A14552

Gun Mountings in Mgb's. 17 February 1943, on Board HMS Beehive. Gun mountings in MGB's.

The British Army in Greece, 1940. E1296

The British Army in Greece, 1940. E1296

The British Army in Greece, 1940. Camouflaged anti-aircraft gun site in Greece, 1940.

"A Camouflaged British Anti-Aircraft Gun in Action on Balkan Front."

"A Camouflaged British Anti-Aircraft Gun in Action on Balkan Front."

Horizontal, sepia stereocard showing a steep hill where uniformed men operate an anti-aircraft gun. Keystone Stereograph number V18903. The title reads: "British Anti-Aircraft Gun in Action on Balkan Front, Cam... More

Anti-aircraft tracer shells (KEAGLE 0059)

Anti-aircraft tracer shells (KEAGLE 0059)

Anti-aircraft gun tracer shells leave 4th of July type streaks in the sky over Akyab Island, Burma, during Japanese aircraft raid on the island's harbor. This photo was made by placing the camera on a box, op... More

USS New Mexico Flak Kamikaze Battle of Okinawa

USS New Mexico Flak Kamikaze Battle of Okinawa

A.A. fire from New Mexico (BB-40) as the first kamikaze, a “George II” begins its dive on 12 May 1945. A five-inch shell burst underneath of it during descent and caused it to narrowly miss. (80-G-326638, NARA... More

Bursts of German anti-aircraft fire fill the sky above Wesel

Bursts of German anti-aircraft fire fill the sky above Wesel

Bursts of German anti-aircraft fire fill the sky above Wesel, Germany, as 80 Avro Lancasters of No. 3 Group attack the town in preparation for the 21st Army Group's assault across the River Rhine, (Operation V... More

Objects Dropped From The Air p56 (cropped c)

Objects Dropped From The Air p56 (cropped c)

Civil Defence Training Pamphlet No 2: Objects Dropped From The Air (3rd Edition). Issued by the Ministry of Home Security. This training pamphlet described some of the objects which could be found on the groun... More

Our anti-aircraft gunners spot a Hun plane (4688571780)

Our anti-aircraft gunners spot a Hun plane (4688571780)

This photograph of gunners rushing to man two anti-aircraft guns may have been a contrived shot, as the man in the foreground is grinning broadly, which seems unlikely if this was a real incident. Anti-aircraf... More

German anti-aircraft guns - DPLA - e2f96358b14a3db465a2ce93743220e4
Machine Gun at Infiltration Course - DPLA - 895ab6b2a1095e2da1093b61e8f5ed1a

Machine Gun at Infiltration Course - DPLA - 895ab6b2a1095e2da1093b61e8...

Original caption: "Pvt. S. G. Jones, 35775460, Headquarters Battery Anti-Aircraft Replacement Center, Ft. Eustis, Virginia, is here shown firing 30 caliber machine guns as the 649th Tank Destroyer Battalion cra... More

Anti-aircraft Defense Project Panama Canal - DPLA - d2ff89990aad7049d20546217b79dfa2
AA-gun-niva-1916 during World War I

AA-gun-niva-1916 during World War I

Russian 3 inch divisional gun in anti-aircraft mount at the Russian-German front, 1916. Caption was: «Противоаэропланное орудие», anti-aircraft cannon. Русский: Русское трёхдюймовое орудие обр. 1902 года (наз... More