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.
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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.
Burning Japanese plane over Midway 1942
A burning Japanese plane over Sand Island, Midway Islands, 4 June 1942.
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
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
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 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
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
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