Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945 during World War 2. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lands and rolls past a flagman and waiting Marine with arm wound. View of the wounded Marine inside the airplane. View of L-5B taking off and in flight. Wounded Marine on stretcher being loaded on an L-5B and another being taken, on a stretcher, from an ambulance and loaded on an L-5B.
U.S. Army Air Forces XX Bomber Command Operations during World War 2. A Boeing B-29-10-BW Superfortress, number 42-6347, named "King Size," of the 462nd Bombardment Group, 769th Bombardment Squadron. It is seen here, at their forward operating base on Kiunglai Airfield, China. Tents are seen near the flight line. Numerous bombs are lined up on the ground ready to be loaded aboard the bomber. A B-29 taking off at nightfall. A formation of B-29s in flight. Bombs being dropped over Japanese installations at Hatto, Formosa (aka Taiwan). View of B-29 landing after the mission. (Note. Formosa was a Japanese colonial territory from 1895 to 1945.)
Casualties being loaded into U.S. Army UH-1B helicopters at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Casualties being loaded into Army UH-1B helicopter. Wounded man seated in a chair, wearing bandages. Injured men being loaded into Army UH-1B helicopters with red cross markings. Helicopter flies from Bien Hoa Air Base and lands at air base. Views of pilot. Sign: 'Headquarters, 34th Tac Gp, K.D. Chien Thuat 34'. Soldiers seated in line. Casualties being taken off from UH-1B.
U.S. Army Air Force B-17s in formation flight over enemy terrain in Europe during World War II. Interiors of a B-17 in flight. Pilot in cockpit of B-17, with hand on throttles. Copilot next to him. Other crew members at their stations. View from aircraft as it crosses coastline. Navigator checking his charts with pair of dividers. B-17s generating contrails in the sky.
Damage to A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress and to property following the aircraft crash shortly after take off at March Air Base in California. A USAF B-52 tail section and scattered debris. Personnel at crash site. Views of March Air Base and fog covered mountains. Medics carry body bag on a litter. Damaged tail section and tires of a crashed B-52. Fire fighters extinguish small fires. Smoldering debris. Damaged B-52.
Removal of damaged U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules, a military transport aircraft after a crash landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Shows foam-splattered C-130B with damaged landing gear and fuselage on runway. It is being towed to taxi strip and fire-fighters spray foam on gear. Giant crane tows a damaged C-130B. Air force personnel near the crashed C-130B. One personnel signals to stop the towing. Crew man opens the tow bar of C-130B from a crane.
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