Date: | 1934 |
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Description: | Howard Hughes, looking every inch the millionaire playboy, with his U.S. Army Boeing pursuit plane. Hughes had rebuilt the plane in order to increase its s... |
Date: | 08 21 1917 |
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Description: | Original caption: "The above picture is the first that has been taken of Mrs. Vernon Castle and her soldier husband since he returned to this country aft... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the motion picture, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (RKO, 1939). Although Astaire and Rogers were ideally cast to... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | An aerial combat scene from "Hell's Angel's," Howard Hughes' classic 1930 motion picture about the British Air Force during World War I. This film was dis... |
Date: | 1970 |
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Description: | Orson Welles as General Dreedle in "Catch 22," the film version of Joseph Heller's classic anti-war story about Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desper... |
Date: | 1932 |
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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 |
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Description: | Spencer Tracy as Jimmy Doolittle in a B-25 during a scene from "Thirty-Seconds Over Tokyo" (MGM 1944). |
Date: | 1934 |
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Description: | Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Margaret Lindsay in a publicity still from "Devil Dogs of the Air" (WB, 1935). In this production Cagney and O'Brien play tw... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Vintage World War airplanes used in the filming of "Sky Devils" (1932), a motion picture produced by Howard Hughes. |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | A publicity still featuring the lead actors in "Test Pilot," an MGM 1938 motion picture release. "Test Pilot" was the story of a reckless commercial test p... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | "Air Circus" (Fox 1928) is the story of two flight school cadets (only David Rollins is pictured) and an accomplished aviatrix, Sue Carol, who can fly ring... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Milwaukee-born Pat O'Brien (in the pilot's uniform) starred with Jimmy Cagney as two commercial airline pilots in "Ceiling Zero." This 1936 Warner Brothers... |
Date: | 1941 |
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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: | 1935 |
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Description: | A publicity still from "Devil Dogs of the Air," (Warner Brothers 1935) in which Milwaukee-born Pat O'Brien appeared with Jimmy Cagney. In this production, ... |
Date: | 11 27 1967 |
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Description: | A machinist running a punch press at Res Manufacturing Company. |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Publicity still from "The Bridges at Toko-Ri," a 1954 Paramount Pictures release about the Korean War that starred William Holden (right) as a bomber pilot... |
Date: | 03 1945 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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... |
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