Aichi D3A being shot down over Pearl Harbor 1941
A Japanese Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bomber being shot down over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 7 December 1941.
Bombs explode around destroyer off Guadalcanal 1942
A U.S. Navy destroyer is surrounded by plumes of smoke and a stick of bombs hits the water to the left off Guadalcanal. A torpedo bomber was shot down in the first 10 seconds of action.
Do 217 hit over Gironde 1977 - Australian Troops in World War Two
De Havilland Mosquito aircraft of RAF Coastal Command attacked four German Dornier 217s carrying glider bombs, off the mouth of the Gironde, France, on the evening of 9 August, destroying two of the enemy aircr... More
German Zeppelin shot down over the North Sea c1916
A German Zeppelin shot down by a British plane over the North Sea, with a German torpedo boat and a motor launch.
Ju 52 with paras over Heraklion 1941
A stick of German paratroopers exiting from a Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft over the town of Heraklion during the German airborne assault on the north coast of Crete. The large smoke plume (centre) indicates... More
Lancaster hit by flak AWM P00811.034
AWM caption : EUROPE, C.1945. A DIRECT HIT BY FLAK ON A RAF LANCASTER BOMBER AIRCRAFT.
Back Them Up Art.IWMPST8562 (cropped)
Back Them Up whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in blue, set against a white background. image: a depiction of an air battle against a... More
Back Them Up Art.IWMPST8562
Back Them Up whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in blue, set against a white background. image: a depiction of an air battle against a... More
Crashed! - de Havilland 2 single-seater scout shooting down a Fokker m...
Crashed! - de Havilland 2 single-seater scout shooting down a Fokker monoplane, Salonika image: An aerial view of dogfight, with several RAF DH2 biplanes towards the top of the composition and a Fokker monopla... More
Four pilots of No. 92 Squadron RAF based at Manston, Kent, pick throug...
Four pilots of No. 92 Squadron RAF based at Manston, Kent, pick through the wreckage of a Junkers Ju 87B, which they shot down while it was attempting to attack a convoy in the English Channel on 5 February 194... More
Libya - Help Them Finish the Job Art.IWMPST14981
Libya - Help Them Finish the Job whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in black, set against a white background. image: a depiction of an... More
Me 323 under attack off Corsica 1943 (cropped)
A Messerschmitt Me 263 powered glider under attack off Cape Corse, Corsica, by a Martin Marauder Mark I, flown by the Commanding Officer of No. 14 Squadron RAF, Wing Commander W Maydwell. The aircraft crash-lan... More
Me 323 under attack off Corsica 1943
A Messerschmitt Me 263 powered glider under attack off Cape Corse, Corsica, by a Martin Marauder Mark I, flown by the Commanding Officer of No. 14 Squadron RAF, Wing Commander W Maydwell. The aircraft crash-lan... More
Me-323 shootdown, Imperial War Museum
A Messerschmitt Me 263 powered glider under attack off Cape Corse, Corsica, by a Martin Marauder Mark I, flown by the Commanding Officer of No. 14 Squadron RAF, Wing Commander W Maydwell. The aircraft crash-lan... More
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command C1987
IWM caption : "Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command Death of a Condor, As the westbound convoy it was stalking steams on in the distance, a Focke-Wulf FW200 is abandoned by its crew, having been shot into... More
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command C3646A
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command The end of this Ju88C of KG 40 was caught on the gun camera of Flight Lieutenant Joseph Singleton's Mosquito II on 11 June 1943. Singleton was leading five Mosquitos o... More
Royal Air Force- Air Defence of Great Britain (adgb), 1943-1944. C4095
Royal Air Force- Air Defence of Great Britain (adgb), 1943-1944. Still from camera-gun footage shot from a Hawker Typhoon Mark IB flown by Flying Officer W V Mollett of No. 266 Squadron RAF, showing the shooti... More
Vickers Wellington - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. C1989
IWM caption : "Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. A Vickers Wellington of No. 221 Squadron RAF based at Limavady, County Londonderry, guides an escort vessel to pick up the crew of a Focke Wulf Fw 200 ... More
A burning Japanese torpedo-bomber falls after being knocked down by ar...
General notes: A Japanese plane is shot down over a U.S. Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser during the attacks on Kwajalein and Wotje atolls, 4 December 1943. The cruiser is probably USS San Francisco (CA-38... More
Death of a MIG. Firing his 20mm cannon at point-blank range, Major Kus...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Japanese plane shot down as it attempted to attack USS KITKUN BAY. Nea...
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US ships under attack off Kwajalein 1943
A Japanese plane is shot down over a U.S. Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser during the attacks on Kwajalein and Wotje atolls, 4 December 1943. The cruiser is probably USS San Francisco (CA-38), the carrier t... More
A6M before crashing near USS Essex (CV-9) 1945
A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero Kamikaze fighter before crashing into the sea after trying to hit the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) off Okinawa, in 1945. Note the Cleveland-class light cruiser in ... More
AIM-54 Phoenix destroys QF-4 drone 1983
A U.S. Navy AIM-54 Phoenix missile destroys a McDonnell QF-4B Phantom II target drone over the Naval Weapons Center China Lake, California (USA).
AIM-9 hitting QF-4B at Point Mugu 1974
An AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile strikes a McDonnell QF-4B Phantom II target drone during tests at U.S. Navy Naval Missile Center (NMC) Point Mugu, California (USA), 6 February 1974.
AIM-9B hits F6F-5K over China Lake 1957
An AAM-N-7 (later AIM-9B) Sidewinder air-to-air missile fired from an Grumman F9F-8 Cougar hits an Grumman F6F-5K Hellcat drone over Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) China Lake, California (USA), 19 August 1957.
AIM-9L hits QF-86F over China Lake 1978
An AIM-9L Sidewinder air-to-air missile intercepts a North American QF-86F Sabre target drone over the U.S. Navy Naval Weapons Center (NWC) China Lake, California (USA), 26 January 1978.
AIM-9L hits QT-33 over China Lake 1975
An AIM-9L Sidewinder air-to-air missile intercepts a Lockheed QT-33 Shooting Star target drone over the U.S. Navy Naval Weapons Center (NWC) China Lake, California (USA), 19 May 1975.
AIM-9L hitting QF-9J over China Lake 1973
An AIM-9L Sidewinder air-to-air missile strikes a Grumman QF-9J Cougar target drone over the U.S. Navy Naval Weapons Center (NWC) China Lake, California, 27 June 1973.
Burning US plane near Ewa 7 Dec 1941
A U.S. plane shot down by a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero (visible overhead) burns in the woods near Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii, during the Pearl Harbor attack, on 7 December 1941. The crashed plane is probably a USS En... More
F-14A flies over QF-86F debris 1977
A Grumman F-14A Tomcat flies over the debris of a North American QF-86F Sabre target drone that it shot down with an AIM-9L Sidewinder air-to-air missile over the U.S. Navy Naval Weapons Center (NWC) China Lake... More
G4M shot down near USS Lexington (CV-2) 1942
An Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber plunges towards the water after being shot down during an engagement with U.S. Navy Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighters from Fighting Squadron VF-3 defending t... More
Japanese bomber shot down off Truk April 1944
A Japanese Nakajima B6N Jill in flames after being hit by antiaircraft fire during an attack run against the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the waters off Truk on 29 April 1944.
Japanese plane shot down over USS Cabot (CVL-28) during Battle of the ...
A Japanese plane is shot down over the U.S. Navy Task Force 58 during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19 June 1944. The photo was taken from the light aircraft carrier USS Cabot (CVL-28), which SC air search ... More
Kamikaze attacks USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) in April 1945
A Japanese kamikaze suicide plane (Yokosuka D4Y "Judy"?) attacks the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) off Okinawa, 1409 hrs, 11 April 1945. It was shot down and crashed aft of the ship.
Mitsubishi G4M crashing with engine burning c1944
A Japanese Mitsubishi G4M hit by anti-aircraft fire from U.S. Navy ships of the fast carrier task force (TF 38/58).
Shot down Mitsubishi G4M burning on the water c1944
A crashed Japanese Mitsubishi G4M after being shot down by anti-aircraft fire from U.S. Navy ships of the fast carrier task force (TF 38/58).
Burning Japanese plane over Midway 1942
A burning Japanese plane over Sand Island, Midway Islands, 4 June 1942.
A sinking Italian CANT Z.501 seaplane with lifeboat (27374081915)
A sinking Italian CANT Z.501 seaplane with lifeboatEnglish: Able Seaman Arthur Thomas Wood was born 21 April 1921 at Berry in New South Wales, and joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1938 at the age of 17. Aft... More
A Zeppelin's Lurid End Above the Clouds
A Zeppelin's Lurid End Above the Clouds Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches) Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: M... More
USA-P-Approach-p51
Damaged japanese airplanes. The Fifth Air Force, in a series of low-level bombing attacks, found enemy aircraft parked wing tip to wing tip along the runways. Hollandia, early April 1944
Indian jet shot down by Pakistani AAA 1971
An Indian mig-21 or SU-7 shot down over chammb by Pakistani anti aircraft fire during the battle of chamb in 1971.
USS Langley (CVL-27) off Formosa
Scene on the flight deck of USS Langley (CVL-27), looking forward, as the carrier shoots down a Japanese plane during air attacks on Task Force 38 off Formosa, 14 October 1944. The falling plane is visible dire... More
Japanese B5N2 shot down near USS Yorktown (CV-5) in June 1942
A Japanese Type 97 Nakajima B5N2 attack aircraft is shot down while attempting to carry out a torpedo attack on the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5), during the mid-afternoon of 4 June 1942.
Japanese Aichi D3A dive bomber shot over USS Enterprise (CV-6) on 24 A...
A Japanese Aichi D3A dive bomber, believed to be piloted by Yoshihiro Iida, burns as it is shot down by anti-aircraft fire directly over the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of... More
Japanese plane shot down
Japanese plane shot down as it attempted to attack USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) near Mariana Islands
A6M damaged by USS Essex (CV-9) 1945
A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero Kamikaze fighter trying to hit the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) off Okinawa, in 1945.
Douglas A-20J-10-DO 050606-F-1234P-024 USAF
U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas A-20J-10-DO Havoc (S/N 43-10129, "5C-I") of the 671st BS, 416th Bomb Group after being hit by flak on Mission 46 over Beauvoir, Manche, France, 12 May 1944. The crew was Pilot 1Lt ... More
Me-262Shootdown
Photo of Luftwaffe Me-262 being shot down by USAF P-51 Mustang of the 8th Air Force, as seen from the P-51's gun camera.
Battle of Lake Khasan-Soviet aircraft shot down
Battle of Lake Khasan-Soviet aircraft shot down
Mirage III Shot Down By Mi G 21 2 - Egypt
Gun Camera footage of a Israeli Mirage III fighter jet shot down by Egyptian MiG-21 at a unknown date.
Mirage III Shot Down By Mi G 21 - Egypt
Israeli Mirage III fighter jet shot down by Egyptian MiG-21
248 Squadron RAF Mosquito gunfire hits Ju-88 IWM C 5217
IWM caption : Cannon fire from a De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI of No. 248 Squadron RAF strikes the fuselage of a Junkers Ju 88, during an interception of a mixed formation of 18 German torpedo bombers by 45... More
BV 138 shot down off Scotland 1943
A German Blohm & Voss Bv 138 flying boat settles in the water after being shot down by a Bristol Beaufighter of No. 404 Squadron RCAF while escorting a Naval force off the north coast of Scotland.
C-47 aircraft hit by flak
An USAAF C-47 aircraft, hit by flak returning from the Market-Garden drop, burns after crash-landing into a knocked-out German Jagdpanther in a field near Gheel in Belgium. Polski: Amerykański C-47 trafiony p... More
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Kondor sinking (July 23 1941)
A German Focke-Wulf Fw 200C Kondor of KG 40 sinking in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland, after being shot down by a Lockheed Hudson Mark V of No. 233 Squadron RAF. Original description: "A Focke-Wulf Fw 200 ... More
Fw 190D shot down while attacking Lancaster 1944
Still from camera gun footage shot from a North American Mustang Mark III flown by Flying Officer J. Butler of No. 65 Squadron RAF, as he shot down a Focke-Wulf Fw 190D of II/JG 26 which was attempting to attac... More
Fw 200 7 KG40 shot down March 1943
Flames and smoke issue from a German Focke Wulf Fw 200C-4 Kondor (WNr. 0186, coded F8+ER) of 7./KG 40 as it dives towards the sea after being shot down by two Bristol Beaufighter Mark VICs of No. 248 Squadron R... More
Fw 200 1 - A black and white photo of a person in the water
A German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 shot down over the Atlantic Ocean in 1941 west of Ireland. The aircraft was shot down by a Bristol Beaufighter IC (s/n T3250, PN-A) of No. 252 Squadron, RAF.
Heinkel He 115 shot down of Norway c1943
A German Heinkel He 115 on fire and trailing smoke, photographed by the observer of De Havilland Mosquito "P" of No. 333 (Norwegian) Squadron RAF based at Leuchars, Fife (UK), which intercepted the seaplane 60 ... More
Henschel Hs 126 shot down near Paris 1943
Still from camera gun footage shot from the North American Mustang of Squadron Leader J.A.F. MacLachlan, Commanding Officer of No. 132 Squadron RAF, when, during a sortie south of Paris with Flight Lieutenant A... More
HSL 2641 rescueing USN PB4Y crew 1944
Aerial photograph taken during the rescue by an RAF high speed launch of the crew of a U.S. Navy Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator on the day after they were shot down by German Junkers Ju 88s in the Bay of Biscay.... More
Ju 52 minesweeper shot down off Lorient
Still from camera-gun footage shot from a RAF Hawker Typhoon Mark IB flown by Flying Officer W.V. Mollett of No. 266 Squadron RAF, showing the shooting down of a Junkers Ju 52/3mg6e minesweeping aircraft of the... More
Ju 52 shot down at Heraklion 20 May 1941
A German Junkers Ju 52 3/m transport plane shot down by anti aircraft gunfire near Heraklion, Crete on 20 May 1941. Smoke and flames pour from the German plane as it loses altitude.
Ju 88 shot down by Mosquitoes over Kattegat 1945
Smoke and flame erupt from a German Junkers Ju 88 torpedo-bomber as it crashes into the North Sea while Royal Air Force De Havilland Mosquitos of the Banff Strike Wing (144, 235, 248, 333 (Norwegian) Squadrons,... More
Ju 90 shot down at Bastia July 1943
The German Junkers Ju 90/0007 (serial J4+JH) of Lufttransportstaffel 290 turns for the land as it comes under cannon attack from a Royal Air Force Martin Marauder piloted by Wing Commander W.S.G Maydwell, the C... More
Junkers Ju 52 burning over Crete 1941
A German Junkers Ju 52 3/m transport plane shot down by anti aircraft fire over Crete in May 1941.
Junkers Ju 88 shot down off Norway
A stricken German Junkers Ju 88A, hit by cannon fire from a De Havilland Mosquito of No. 333 (Norwegian) Squadron RAF, about to crash into the sea off the Norwegian coast, with its starboard elevator collapsed ... More
Me 323 under attack off Corsica 1943
A German Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant transport plane flown by Obfw. Walter Honig from II/TG 5 (KG zbV II/323) under attack off Cape Corse, Corsica, on 30 July 1943 by a Martin Baltimore Mark I, flown by the Co... More
Mosquito shooting down Ju-88
This spectacular series of six stills was taken from a De Haviland Mosquito NF Mk. II while intercepting a Ju 88 over the Bay of Biscay during bad weather. The fighter was flown by Flight Lieutenant J Singleto... More
Wellington No. 221 Sqn RAF over shot down Fw 200 crew 1941
A Vickers Wellington Mk.1C ("DF-S") of No. 221 Squadron RAF based at Limavady, County Londonderry (Northern Ireland, UK), guides an escort vessel to pick up the crew of a German Focke-Wulf Fw 200C Kondor in a ... More
Farman airplane - Belgische overwinning op Taube
The first aerial victory of the First World War. The Belgian crew de Petrowski-Benselin shoots down a Taube with small arms on 25 September 1914. Nederlands: Op 25 september 1914 schoot de bemanning Petrowski... More
Mitsubishi G4M is shot down in May 1944
An Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G4M ("Betty") bomber is burning, as it is shot down by a U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing 2 (FAW-2) Consolidated PB2Y-3 Coronado patrol bomber, in the Central Pacific. The Japanese ... More
A-20G shot down at Kokas (Papua) July 1944
Crash sequence of a U.S. Army Air Force Douglas A-20G-25 Havoc (s/n 43-9432) during an attack on Kokas, Papua New Guinea, on 22 July 1944. Twelve A-20s from the 387th Bombardment Squadron, 312th Bombardment Gro... More
B-24 hit by Flak
The U.S. Army Air Force Consolidated B-24L-10-FO Liberator, s/n 44-49710, named "STEVENOVICH II", of the 779th Bombardment Squadron, 464th Bombardment Group, shot down by Flak during an attack on ground troops... More
MIM-23A Hawk destroys QF-80 target drone c1958
A U.S. Army XM3E1 (MIM-23A) Hawk missile destroys a Lockheed QF-80 Jet Fighter Target Drone target drone.
United States Marines - USMC-111001-M-FW834-002
Marines with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 268 (Reinforced) low-altitude air-defense detachment shoot down an un-manned aerial vehicle using a stinger weapon system here Oct. 1.The squadron serves as the a... More
TDD target drone falling in flames after being shot down in October 19...
A U.S. Navy TDD target drone falling in flames, after being shot down by the escort carrier USS Makin Island (CVE-93) during gunnery practice off Wakanoura, Japan, 1 October 1945. Note that much of the drone's ... More
A shot down Japanese aircraft burns on the water off Guadalcanal, circ...
A Japanese Mitsubushi G4M "Betty" aircraft burns on the water after it was shot down by anti-aircraft fire during an attack on U.S. transports between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 7-8 August 1942. Guadalcanal is in ... More
Japanese Aichi D3A is shot down over Guadalcanal on 16 June 1943
Japanese air raid on Guadalcanal, 16 June 1943: A Japanese Aichi D3A "Val" dive bomber goes down smoking during the attack.
Eerste Wereldoorlog Luchtoorlog Grote belangstelling van Engelse milit...
Nederlands: Omschrijving: Eerste Wereldoorlog : Luchtoorlog : Grote belangstelling van Engelse militairen bij een neergeschoten vlieger / piloot die met zijn parachute in een kapotgeschoten boom is blijven han... More
A Zeppelin's Lurid End Above the Clouds (cropped)
A Zeppelin's Lurid End Above the Clouds Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches) Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: M... More
Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14755972415)
Identifier: belltelephonemag4344amerrich (find matches) Title: Bell telephone magazine Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Informati... More
