Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Airplane, Military
Filter: Reproduction Rights of Special Conditions
Filter: Subject of outdoor photography
| 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: | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Publicity shot for "Flying Fleet," an MGM motion picture release starring Ramon Navarro and Anita Paige. The Navy aircraft on which the actors are posed is... |
| 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: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Vintage World War airplanes used in the filming of "Sky Devils" (1932), a motion picture produced by Howard Hughes. |
| Date: | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A publicity still of Fred MacMurray from "Dive Bomber" (WB, 1941) in which a crew member is adjusting the helmet of MacMurray's pressurized flight suit. Be... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Medical facilities, Iwo Jima plus nine. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle in the aftermath of the landing at Iwo J... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on ... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Iwo Jima Airfield #1, as it appeared nine days after the initial assault. On the runway is a C-47 transport plane, the military equivalent of the DC-3. T... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Loading crates of blood at Falalop Island. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle that document the care of the wounded... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A C-47 bomber returns to North Airfield, Guam. This airfield had been operational only since early February. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee p... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | TAG operations on Falalop Island in the Pacific. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the ... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Marines arriving at Soc Trang on a C-130 Hercules transport carrier. Soc Trang was an abandoned landing strip built by the Japanese during World War II. ... |
| 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: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A CH-37 Mojave helicopter landing on an aircraft carrier. This helicopter type could carry 26 troops or two jeeps. It was used for aircraft recovery in Vie... |
| Date: | 1960 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Bell Model 47 light observation helicopters during a training exercise at Fort Benning, Georgia. One of the most popular helicopters ever built, the Model ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | An unidentified image from the collection of Dickey Chapelle, a freelance photographer, shows a U.S. Marine on duty in the watchtower of a South Vietnamese... |
| Date: | 1958 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Major Antonio Lusson, battilion commander for Castro during the fight for the town of LaMaya, fires on a strafing B-26 from Batista's air force. Cuba. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A B-29 bomber plane landing at North Field in Guam after its first fire raid on Tokyo. A tree is in the center foreground with three men sitting around it ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two men working on a B-29 bomber, just returned from its first fire raid on Tokyo. The men are on top of the plane, opening a hatch. They are both shirtles... |
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: