Role of Air Service Command in keeping remote air force landing strips supplied in the European Theater during World War II. Air Service Command personnel uncover camouflaged bombs. A truck drives and stops. Personnel load bombs on the trailer of the truck. The truck loaded with bombs drives away. Drums are loaded on a truck. Medical supplies, ammunition, parachutes, food, sugar, potatoes and various crates of supplies to be loaded. A personnel stands guard. A convoy of trucks drives through an open field. A dust cloud rises. A personnel standing beside artillery. The trucks cross a water stream. The personnel moves the position of artillery. The trucks deliver tons of supplies at an airfield. Aircraft parked at the airfield. An aircraft takes off. The aircraft in a formation flight. The convoy of trucks is driven away after delivering the supplies.
Role of Air Service Command in repairing and salvaging damaged airplanes and equipment in the European Theater during World War II. An aircraft taxis on a grassy field. Natives in the foreground. Crates are carried by the natives. Chinese people construct an airfield. They carry buckets hanging on both sides of a pole. They use hand tools to break rocks. An aircraft taxis. The aircraft is hoisted by a crane. The aircraft takes off. Air service center personnel repair damaged aircraft. Ruins of damaged aircraft. Two men work at an equipment. Aircraft take off.
United States OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War II. In support of Italian anti-fascists and anti-Nazi Germany, U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop parachute supplies for Italian partisans on snow-covered fields.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate anti-fascist, partisan activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War 2. Operations Officer Albert Materazzi briefs the men of Operational Group (Cayuga Team) at OG (Operational Group) headquarters in Ciano, Italy. Cayuga Team members study the terrain in which they have to operate. Pilots who will fly in the Cayuga Team members are briefed. Cayuga Team members with their paratrooper packs board U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft. The C-47s taxi on an airfield. Aerial view of Italian terrain. Parachutists of Cayuga Team jump from C-47s in flight.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan, anti-fascist activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War 2. A U.S. radio operator receives a radio message at Operational Group headquarters after Cayuga Team (OSS Operational Group members) are parachuted in a drop zone. An officer takes a look at the message detailing requirement of equipment needed for the mission. The material is loaded in waiting U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain transport airplanes. The C-47s warm up before taking off. They taxi and take off from an airstrip. Formations of C-47s. Parachute supplies are dropped in drop zones in mountainous terrain.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. An SI agent washes a paper with 'Eagle atop Swastika' Nazi symbol of Hitler's Third Reich in Germany. The officer pours a solution and places the paper in a surgical tray. He fixes the paper on a cardboard and further examines it.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy ©2026 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2026 CriticalPast LLC.