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Gun to protect the photographic machine

Gun to protect the photographic machine

Machine gunner in the back of a reconnaissance plane, France, during World War I. The photographic machinery mentioned in the caption is not apparent in this view but the protective gun is. The plane is named '... More

Waiting for Boche planes, Flanders

Waiting for Boche planes, Flanders

Encamped on snowy ground, this image shows four anti-aircraft guns on top of their vehicles. Anti-aircraft batteries were initially formed into small groups of guns such as this, so that the range could quickly... More

Anti-aircraft guns which brought down a huge German aeroplane in France

Anti-aircraft guns which brought down a huge German aeroplane in Franc...

Anti-aircraft gun, France, during World War I. This image is rather arresting due to the gun barrel silhouetted against the barren landscape. There is also strong sunlight falling across parts of the image. Thi... More

Spotting a German plane, Flanders

Spotting a German plane, Flanders

Machine-gun post, France, during World War I. Two machine gunners are preparing to target an enemy aeroplane. The main gunner is sighting and aligning the Vickers machine gun, while his partner is using a teles... More

Anti-aircraft gun in action during the battle, Flanders

Anti-aircraft gun in action during the battle, Flanders

Soldiers silhouetted against the sky. They are preparing to fire an anti-aircraft gun. On the right of the photograph a soldier is being handed a large shell for the gun. ..The Battle of Broodseinde (October 19... More

Our anti-aircraft gunners spot a Hun plane

Our anti-aircraft gunners spot a Hun plane

This photograph of gunners rushing to man two anti-aircraft guns may have been a contrived shot, as the man in the foreground is grinning broadly, which seems unlikely if this was a real incident. Anti-aircraft... More

Firing a Maxim gun at an aeroplane, Flanders

Firing a Maxim gun at an aeroplane, Flanders

Soldiers firing a Maxim gun. Three members of a gun crew, kneeling on the ground, are grouped around a machine gun - they are partly protected by a rise of mud. There are three other soldiers standing in the ba... More

Where is it?, Flanders during World War I

Where is it?, Flanders during World War I

Soldiers standing next to two anti-aircraft guns. The guns are in position and some of the soldiers are looking toward the sky. They are standing in a very bleak and barren landscape, next to what could be a du... More

Anti aircraft gun in the snow and ruins, Flanders

Anti aircraft gun in the snow and ruins, Flanders

Uniformed men crowds around an anti-aircraft gun. All of the men are wearing long overcoats to combat the cold of this snow-covered landscape. The gun has been positioned on a raised area of ground, close to a ... More

Machine gun firing at a Boche plane, Flanders

Machine gun firing at a Boche plane, Flanders

Vickers machine-gun crew, Western Front, during World War I. A machine-gun crew using a Vickers machine-gun to fire at an aircraft. The Number 1 of the crew is clearly looking through the sights on the back of ... More

Camp of an anit-aircraft gun crew, Flanders

Camp of an anit-aircraft gun crew, Flanders

There is a lorry disappearing off the bottom right of the image, which carries a large fixed gun as its load. There are a lot of soldiers grouped around the machinery of the gun with their heads together. There... More

Anti aircraft unit - The Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection

Anti aircraft unit - The Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Line-up of 30MM Anti-Aircraft guns at Camp Edwards, Mass.

Line-up of 30MM Anti-Aircraft guns at Camp Edwards, Mass.

Public domain photo of vintage Massachusetts postcard - Picryl description

Greetings from - U. S. Army Tank, U. S. Anti-Aircraft gun

Greetings from - U. S. Army Tank, U. S. Anti-Aircraft gun

Public domain photograph of vintage postcard - Picryl description

Mobile anti-aircraft guns postcard

Mobile anti-aircraft guns postcard

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Anti-aircraft gun and crew postcard

Anti-aircraft gun and crew postcard

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Inspection anti aircraft battery

Inspection anti aircraft battery

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Greetings from - U. S. Army Tank, U. S. Anti-Aircraft gun

Greetings from - U. S. Army Tank, U. S. Anti-Aircraft gun

Public domain photograph of vintage postcard - Picryl description

African American seamen delivering shells and loading the anti-aircraft gun aboard a vessel on the Atlantic patrol

African American seamen delivering shells and loading the anti-aircraf...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

British A. A. guns illumine the desert wastes

British A. A. guns illumine the desert wastes

Photograph shows British anti-aircraft guns in action near Tobruk during a night raid. [Summary taken from note on photograph] Date stamped on lower right: Jan. 23, 1942. British official photograph : AUS 896.... More

A.T.S. with the A.A. gunners

A.T.S. with the A.A. gunners

Four women outfitted in uniforms and gear stand next to an anti-aircraft gun. BO-797. Good type of girl at predictor. British Official Photo BH-9664. Office for Emergency Management.

Cyrenaica reconquered - An eighth Army officer beside a German dual purpose 88 mill. gun, put out of action by British Artillery near El Gubbi. This gun is used both for anti-aircraft and long range shelling

Cyrenaica reconquered - An eighth Army officer beside a German dual pu...

British official photograph : BM 7865. No. BO-845. Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gunners manning a captured breda gun ready to fire at any German aircraft that ventures within range

Gunners manning a captured breda gun ready to fire at any German aircr...

Photograph shows three soldiers at an anti-aircraft gun, one holding ammunition. Note on photograph front: Tobruk though besieged by the enemy is by no means inactive. The Garrison is busily engaged in preparin... More

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Axle brackets for a thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage are machined on this milling machine. Today's fast-moving planes present a target requiring the very best in antiaircraft guns. Carriage and mount are as important as the gun itself for rapid fire power and maneuverability. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City. Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Axle brackets for a thirty-seven millimeter...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Axle brackets for a thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage are machined on this milling machine. Today's fast-moving planes present a target requiring the very best in antiaircraft guns. Carriage and mount are as important as the gun itself for rapid fire power and maneuverability. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City. Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Axle brackets for a thirty-seven millimeter...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

French "75" gun in action against battle planes

French "75" gun in action against battle planes

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18756. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

British anti-aircraft gun in action on Balkan front, camouflaged and mounted on auto

British anti-aircraft gun in action on Balkan front, camouflaged and m...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18903. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

French "75" gun in action against battle planes

French "75" gun in action against battle planes

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18756. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

British anti-aircraft gun in action on Balkan front, camouflaged and mounted on auto

British anti-aircraft gun in action on Balkan front, camouflaged and m...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18903. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More