U.S. Navy PB4Y Liberator patrol bomber aircraft in flight over the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. VD-5 Photo-Squadron crewman operates an aerial camera through hatch of PB4Y. Man addresses an envelope.
U.S. bomber crew members on leave in England while awaiting final orders to return home to the USA, during World War 2. A sign reads 'Officers Entrance Red Cross Aeroclub'. U.S. airmen and officers have drinks and snacks in a garden, compliments of the Red Cross, at the aeroclub of 127th Replacement Battalion site, Washington Hall, Euxton, Chorley, Lancashire. The airmen line up in formation for a retreat ceremony and salute as the American flag is lowered and folded by Military Police. An announcement over Loudspeakers prompts the fliers to rush toward Squadron "O" Bulletin Board to find their names on the list of those scheduled to return home to the USA. One flier wears a leather jacket with image of B-17 named "American Beauty" and 36 bombs (for missions) painted on it. Another wears jacket with image of a B-24 and 31 bombs, and one has room only for the name,"Piccadilly Willy," because the rest of the jacket contains bombs for 65 combat missions. Army Air Forces Methodist Chaplain, Clifford Peace, from North Carolina, conducts a brief service of blessings and good wishes for the fliers who will now be returning home.
A U.S. Navy blimp crashes among trees in the United States. A rescue team of civilian workers uses wooden levers to raise the gondola from the ground and removes the airship fabric from trees. Navy and Marine Officers and men around the gondola of the airship. The men carry wooden planks to the crash site. Men push and lift up the gondola. The officers watch. The fabric of the airship spread over the trees. Men try to remove the fabric from the trees.
U.S. Civilian Public Service camp number 3 (Camp Patapsco, in Elkridge, Maryland), run by the American Friends Service Committee of the Quaker Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A sign reads ‘Civilian Public Service Camp No.3’. Building at the camp. Conscientious objectors who choose public service in lieu of military service, arrive and are checked into the camp. The U.S. flag flutters from a pole. The arriving personnel talks to a man at the entrance. The new arrivals pose.
U.S. ships and landing crafts at Normandy beach for the invasion of France during World War II. Ships at a harbor. A beach in the foreground. A line of troops marches up a road. The troops march up on a hillside. U.S. Army vehicles move along the road. Damaged LCVPs (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) on the beach.
Soldiers of 41st Infantry, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division attack Venon, France during World War II. A wounded German soldier is given medical attention by U.S. soldiers. Two German soldiers surrender on a field. U.S. soldiers search German soldiers.
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