Burning Fiat CR42 near Tobruk 1941
A burning Italian Fiat C.R.42 Falco fighter shot down near El Adam, south of Tobruk, Libya.
Crashed Fiat BR20 in Britain c1940
A crashed Italian Fiat BR.20M bomber in Britian. Italy formed the "Corpo Aereo Italiano" with 13° and 43° Stormi (80 BR.20Ms) in September 1940. They flew attacks on twelve days between 24 October and 10 Januar... More
Destroyed Oscar fighter aircraft
Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. c. 1944-05. The remains of a destroyed Japanese "Oscar" fighter aircraft in its dispersal bay after the area had been attacked and strafed by P40 Kittyhawk aircraft of No. 78 (fight... More
Ju 87D StG 3 shot down Africa 1943
A German Junkers Ju 87D dive bomber (S7+HH) from Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 (StG 3, 3rd Dive Bomber Wing) shot down in the Western Desert.
Shot down Typhoon 245 Sqn RAF 1944
A shot-down Hawker Typhoon IB of 245 squadron RAF. The fuselage shows extensive flak damage and some blackening from fire. The aircraft still bears its invasion stripes from the D-Day landings and in the foregr... More
Wrecked Italian aircraft at Tripoli 1943
Wrecked Italian Fiat CR.42 and G.50 aircraft at Castel Benito airport, Tripoli, Libya, in 1943.
Douglas DC-3 - Arnhem - Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. ...
Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. Operation MARKET III: air re-supply of British airborne forces in the Arnhem area, 19 September 1944. Burnt-out Douglas Dakota Mark III, KG401, of No. 48 Squadron ... More
Douglas DC-3 - Melsbroek - Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-194...
Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. A Douglas Dakota of RAF Transport Command, destroyed during the attack on B58/Melsbroek, Belgium, by Luftwaffe fighter-bombers (Operation BODENPLATTE), burns itself... More
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command A704
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command An RNVR officer of the Medway River Patrol inspects the wreckage of a Spitfire that came down on mudflats in early September 1940. Although not positively identified, ... More
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. CH1347
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. The shell-torn rear gunner's compartment of Handley Page Hampden Mark I, P1355 'OL-W', of No. 83 Squadron RAF photographed at Scampton, Lincolnshire, on the morning af... More
Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...
Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Members of the RAF Regiment inspect wrecked Junkers Ju 52s and other German aircraft in a scrap heap on El Aouina airfield, North-east of Tunis.
Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. CL1648
Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. The remains of a Messerschmitt Me 262 of 2./KG 5, shot down over B86/Helmond, Holland, the previous day by a 40mm Bofors gun crew of No. 2875 (Anti-Aircraft) ... More
Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. ...
Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. An officer and men of an RAF Regiment light anti-aircraft squadron pick through the wreckage of a Junkers Ju 88 shot down on the foreshore d... More
The Battle of Britain HU69874
The Battle of Britain An RAF airman examines the wreckage of a Messerschmitt Bf 110D of EGr 210, one of two shot down by anti-aircraft guns at Manston aerodrome, 14 August 1940.
The Battle of Britain HU70268
The Battle of Britain RAF aircraftman guard the remains of Dornier Do17Z-2 (F1+HT) shot down during the low-level attack on Kenley aerodrome, 18 August 1940. The aircraft crashed in Golf Road, Kenley at 1.20pm.
The Battle of Britain HU73750
The Battle of Britain The remains of a Messerschmitt BF 109E-3 of I/JG 52 being transported on the back of a civilian lorry (AEC Mammoth Major?), September 1940. Note the I Gruppe 'running boar' insignia on the cowling.
The Nazi-soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939 HU87205
The Nazi-soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939 Red Army soldier guarding a Polish PWS-26 trainer aircraft shot down near the city of Równe (Rivne) in the Soviet occupied part of Poland.
Photograph of a wing from a Japanese bomber shot down on the grounds o...
General notes: Wing of Japanese Nakajima B5N Type 97 torpedo bomber of from the aircraft carrier Kaga that crashed at Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 7 December 1941. The rising sun insignia later alm... More
Nakajima B6N Tenzan is shot down by USS Yorktown (CV-10) off Kwajalein...
A Japanese Nakajima B6N Tenzan torpedo bomber explodes in the air after direct hit by 5-inch (127mm) shell from the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) as it attempted an unsuccessful attack on the ... More
Crashed Mitsubishi G4M floating off Tulagi on 8 August 1942 (80-G-K-38...
A largely intact floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G4M Type 1 land attack plane (Allied code name "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi I... More
Lavotskin LaGG-3 (SA-kuva 75636)
Suomi: Ilmatorjunnan pudottama ryssän hävittäjä Nurmoilan metsässä. Kone oli melko hyvässä kunnossa. (Kuvassa on Lavotskin LaGG-3). Kuvauspaikka: Nurmoila
Russian Pilot and Aircraft - Utti, Falcon Lake 21.7. 1941. 1941
One of 300 images declassified by the Finnish government in 2006 showing the Winter War and Continuation War against the Soviet Union from 1939-45.
Razbitine letala Spitfire, Slovenia
Spitfire wreckage, shot down over LlubjianaSlovenščina: Razbitine letala Spitfire, ki je bilo sestreljeno nad Ljubljano
Hx332a - A black and white photo of the wreckage of a plane
A crashed British bomber in a Yorkshire field. It was shot down on the night of the 3/4 March 1945 by a German night fighter during Operation Gisela.
Operation Barbarossa - Russian planes
Operation Barbarossa: Russian and German planes destroyed on the ground. In the front Russian Polikarpov UTI-4 a two seater training version of I-16 Soviet fighter. In the back a plane with German markings is ... More
RWD 14 Czapla wreck. Aviation of Second Polish Republic
Wreck of a polish RWD 14 Czapla observation plane.