Date: | 1941 |
---|---|
Description: | Military mechanics and TD-14 crawler tractor with a Hughes-Keenan Crane servicing a B-17 bomber in MacDill Field hanger. MacDill Field, now MacDill Army Ai... |
Date: | 1944 |
---|---|
Description: | Factory workers assembling an engine cowling for the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo and transport airplane during World War II at International Harvest... |
Date: | 1943 |
---|---|
Description: | Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, later a Wisconsin senator, posing as a tail gunner during World War II in Douglas SBD Bomber. McCarthy was an intelligen... |
Date: | 1916 |
---|---|
Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell posing next to an airplane wearing flight gear. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Parade drill of the Waukesha County unit of the Civil Air Patrol. Because World War II ended general aviation, male and female pilots who were either too o... |
Date: | 07 27 1988 |
---|---|
Description: | Vintage aircraft always attract attention. In 1988 on their way to the EAA convention, the national organization of owners of World War II trainers made a ... |
Date: | 01 31 1971 |
---|---|
Description: | View of the cockpit as Lt. Col. Joseph Bourassa and co-pilot Leonard Dereszynski of the 440th Tactical Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve at General Mit... |
Date: | 1918 |
---|---|
Description: | Captain John B. Stetson, Jr., the officer in charge of flying instruction at the American Expeditionary Force, 2nd Aviation Instruction Center near Tours, ... |
Date: | 1932 |
---|---|
Description: | Spencer Tracy in "Sky Devils," Howard Hughes's silly World War I comedy. Tracy (center) and William Boyd play two inept stowaways who end up on a ship that... |
Date: | 1944 |
---|---|
Description: | Spencer Tracy as Jimmy Doolittle in a B-25 during a scene from "Thirty-Seconds Over Tokyo" (MGM 1944). |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Vintage World War airplanes used in the filming of "Sky Devils" (1932), a motion picture produced by Howard Hughes. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, O.S.F., in a B-52 simulator with Major Ralph M. Hanson. Sister Mary Aquinas was fulfilling her dream of f... |
Date: | 04 16 1944 |
---|---|
Description: | The launching office above a Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier gives the "go" signal to the pilot. This photograph is from a scrapbook compiled by Philip F. L... |
Date: | 05 22 1944 |
---|---|
Description: | A Japanese bomber going down in flames after having been surprised by a Coronado flying boat of Fleet Air Wing Two. This photograph, which was shot from t... |
Date: | 1963 |
---|---|
Description: | A KC-97 of the 126th Refueling Squadron, Wisconsin Air National Guard, refueling an F-84 fighter over eastern Wisconsin. |
Date: | 05 01 1954 |
---|---|
Description: | Men of the 57th Infantry Division wait to begin loading on a C-124C "Globemaster II" for transport to their training site. The C-124, a development on the ... |
Date: | 02 1966 |
---|---|
Description: | Arriving at a forward area, a U.S. Air Force CH-30 helicopter carrying a 105mm howitzer is directed in for a landing. The artillery piece, which was in a r... |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | The supersonic Concorde frames "Fi-Fi," the only B-29 then still flying, at the Annual Convention and Fly-in of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)... |
Date: | 1918 |
---|---|
Description: | Vernon Castle, half of the glamorous Castle dancing team, enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and flew over 150 missions at the Western Fron... |
Date: | 1939 |
---|---|
Description: | Aerial view of a B-15 flying over the granite memorial to the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The 60-foot memorial was dedicat... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: