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Everett Binther Oregon (Baker. B-17 radio operator "Carroll Cuties" raids over upper Solomons

Everett Binther Oregon (Baker. B-17 radio operator "Carroll Cuties" ra...

Portrait drawing shows the head of a bearded soldier from the side. Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114).

Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Charlotte Amalie high school cadets are organized to assist authorities during air raids

Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Charlotte Amali...

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Cairo's A.R.P at practice and in training. Britain has presented Egypt with the sum of 1,000,000 pounds for the general protection of the city from air attack. All work is carried out by the Ministry of Civil Defence, which in cooperation with police and military authorities has now organized A.R.P measures so well that the city is thoroughly organized to meet any eventuality. Medical services are controlled by Dr. Sidi Bey Araf, director of government hospitals in Egypt and Dr. Fanous, assistant medical liaison officer to the Ministry of Civil Defence. Over 100,000 persons have been trained in auxiliary fire service work and additional training is constantly in progress at the Cairo Fire Brigade Headquarters where a special emergency section exists under the leadership of Steffel Bey. A mobile canteen has been presented to Cairo by the American Red Cross. In the event of air raids it would be used to supply hot drinks and food in bombed area

Cairo's A.R.P at practice and in training. Britain has presented Egypt...

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General George C. Marshall (recently back from B-29 raids over Japan) and General Henry H. Arnold after inspection of B-29 Super Fortress at Washington National Airport

General George C. Marshall (recently back from B-29 raids over Japan) ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Men caught in raids by federal agents leave prisoners' van at U.S. Court House in Foley Square today / Photo by Palumbo.

Men caught in raids by federal agents leave prisoners' van at U.S. Cou...

NYWT&S staff photograph. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Civilian defense. Much time is saved by the use of the teletype to spread important messages during air raids. Individual telephone calls to the various defense centers are unnecessary, since the teletype will present the information on paper to all centers simultaneously

Civilian defense. Much time is saved by the use of the teletype to spr...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Charlotte Amalie high school cadets are organized to assist authorities during air raids

Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Charlotte Amali...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This section of Osaka, Japan was levelled by fire-bomb attacks by Superfortresses in a long series of heavy raids during the months that preceded Japan's capitulation / Credit U.S. Army A.A.F. photo, Wash. D.C.

This section of Osaka, Japan was levelled by fire-bomb attacks by Supe...

Aerial view of Osaka, Japan after firebombing. Ira Clarence Eaker Collection. No. 58495 A.C.

The zeppelin raids: the vow of vengeance. Drawn for "The Daily Chronicle" by Frank Brangwyn A.R.A. 'Daily Chronicle' readers are covered against the risks of bombardment by zeppelin or aeroplane / / designed by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. ; printed by The Avenue Press, Ltd., Bouverie St., London, E.C.

The zeppelin raids: the vow of vengeance. Drawn for "The Daily Chronic...

Poster showing a soldier shaking his fist at a zeppelin following bombing.

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's Long Beach, California, plant. Sand bags for protection against air raids form the background. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Lunchtime brings a few minut...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker must be prepared to reach victims of bomb raids and fallen debris and give them emergency first aid treatment. It is not always possible to remove debris by hand, therefore, rescue workers' trucks carry equipment to enable the rescue squad to shore up masonry, cut through steel or stone, shut off broken mains or tunnel through conglomerate heaps of debris. The worker here shown is using an acetylene torch to cut away a stubborn resisting piece of expanded steel

Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker mu...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lae, New Guinea. A United States Army Air Force A-20 attack plane pilot swooped down to within sixty feet of the ground to get this aerial view of smashed enemy planes. More than fifty Japanese planes, destroyed by Allied bombing and strafing raids, littered the airfield after the Allied attack. In this photograph, showing a small section of the dump, are three smashed medium bombers and four, possibly five, Zeros that will never fly again

Lae, New Guinea. A United States Army Air Force A-20 attack plane pilo...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Sandbags protect vital plant areas of the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, against air raids. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Sandbags protect vital plant...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Civilian protection. These auxiliary firemen will play an important part in our civilian defense in the event of air raids on American cities. Here they are going out on a practice "emergency call." The truck is a regular fire department hose wagon, painted battleship gray to reduce visibility and equipped with blackout headlights. The Maltese crosses on the men's armbands is the insignia of the auxiliary fire forces

Civilian protection. These auxiliary firemen will play an important pa...

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Nurse training. Hospital preparations for possible air raids involve the training of street accident units to increased efficieny. Nurses wear coat and skirt that can be put on over uniform in a jiffy

Nurse training. Hospital preparations for possible air raids involve t...

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The zeppelin raids: the vow of vengeance. Drawn for "The Daily Chronicle" by Frank Brangwyn A.R.A. 'Daily Chronicle' readers are covered against the risks of bombardment by zeppelin or aeroplane / / designed by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. ; printed by The Avenue Press, Ltd., Bouverie St., London, E.C.

The zeppelin raids: the vow of vengeance. Drawn for "The Daily Chronic...

Poster showing a soldier shaking his fist at a zeppelin following bombing.

Weapons from waste. These will never heat a building again, but they may have a lot to do with protecting buildings from air raids one of these days. These boilers will be stripped and the valuable metal in them reused by steel mills for the machinery of defense

Weapons from waste. These will never heat a building again, but they m...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Low-level aerial view of destruction of a refinery in the Tokyo area, as the result of B-29 raids, during the five months of concentrated attacks on Japan, during the second world war]

[Low-level aerial view of destruction of a refinery in the Tokyo area,...

U.S. Army A.A.F. photo. No. A-58492 A.C. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Municipal office building, which is prepared for air raids with sand bags

Baltimore, Maryland. Municipal office building, which is prepared for ...

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Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter are the volunteer auxiliary firemen of Washington, D.C. Trained to fight incendiary and fires of other causes during raids, they are shown carrying hose into a building during a drill

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Fully...

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Nurse training. Student nurses, like millions of other United States citizens, are today taking Red Cross First Aid courses, but with a difference. These students of nursing are taught not only to give first aid in case of air raids or other war or peacetime emergencies, but also how to deal with amateur first aiders. Here a group of young nurses adjust a traction splint on a fellow "victim"

Nurse training. Student nurses, like millions of other United States c...

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Lease lend loadings. Welding wheels of Douglas twin-engine light bombers to a platform on deck insures safe transit from an American port to the bombers' destination. Crews of highly specialized workers are required to load assembled planes on shipboard and to prevent their becoming dislodged in heavy seas. These precautions are unnecessary when planes are sent unassembled in crates; however, most planes going to the Near East are shipped ready for flight within one hour after docking, since in many ports competent unloading equipment is lacking or has been demolished by Axis raids

Lease lend loadings. Welding wheels of Douglas twin-engine light bombe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Left to right: Private Asser Llomaki of Mason, New Hampshire; Staff Sergeant D.E. Horton of Painted Post, New York; Staff Sergeant C.L. Hoopman of Ionia, Michagan working on the tail of a B-17 Flying Fortress at a replacement center somewhere in England. The bomber was damaged in raids over occupied France and Germany

Left to right: Private Asser Llomaki of Mason, New Hampshire; Staff Se...

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Martha Raye clowned and sang her way through North Africa, riding in tanks, planes and jeeps and taking shelter during air raids

Martha Raye clowned and sang her way through North Africa, riding in t...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. During air raids this bread truck would be on duty for the Red Cross

Lititz, Pennsylvania. During air raids this bread truck would be on du...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel and the National Capital School Visitors' Council, over 200 high school students chosen for their intellectual alertness visited Washington for a week. Mrs. Roosevelt apologizes to students for the disarray of the White House rooms which are being prepared for air raids

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's Long Beach, California, plant. Sand bags for protection against air raids form the background. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Lunchtime brings a few minut...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description