Image Gallery

A selection of Air Force history images from our archives–

The People

: Wilbur Wright

: Charles Lindberg

: Lt Gen Frank Andrews

: Lt Gen Ira Eaker

: Gen MacArthur and Cpt Richard Bong

: TSgt John Chapman

: General Hap Arnold

: SSgt Maynard Smith

: A2C Duane Hackney

: Maj Chuck Yeager

: Corporal Vernon Burge

: Cpt Ivan Kicheloe

The Places

: Oklahoma City Bombing

: The “Hump”

: Lowry AFB, CO

: Paul Doumer Bridge Attack

: Osan Air Base, Korea

: Holloman AFB High Speed Test Track

: Monte Cassino

: Guantanamo Bay

: Missile Field, Malmstrom AFB MT

: Quemoy and Matsu Crisis

: Laos, Operation Lam San 719

: Iraqi Aircraft Shelter Destruction, Operation Desert Storm

The Machines

: Lockheed EC-121 Electronic Surveillance, Cold War

: Boeing B-52H “Memphis Belle IV”

: Sikorsky S-2

: Curtiss “Junebug”

: NASA Boeing KC-135 “Vomit Comet”

: Martin Titan-IIIC

: Lockheed F-104 Rollout

: Lockheed F-117

: 5000th F-4 Delivery

: Shuttle Atlantis meets Mir, June 1995

: Beechcraft T-6A Texan II

: RQ-4 Global Hawk

The Teams

: USAAF WW II

: The “Mighty Eighth”

: TAC

: SAC

: Military Airlift Command

: USAFE

: PACAF

: 13th Air Force

: 12th Air Force

The Missions

: Lockheed EC-121 Electronic Surveillance, Cold War

: Operation Flax, April 1943

: Operation Anaconda, March 2002

: Monte Cassino Bombing, March 1944

: F-16A, F-15C and F-15E flying during Desert Storm, Jan 1991

: !st Alll-female Combat Mission, September 2005

: BMEWS Site, Cold War

: Doolittle Launches from the USS Hornet, April 1942

: Missile Launch from the Airborne Command Post “Looking Glass,” Cold War

: Korean War Air Rescue, H-5

: B-24s on the Ploesti oil refinery bombing mission.

: Marianas Turkey Shoot, June 1944

: Air Mail Scandal, 1934

: Berlin Airlift, 1948-49

: A-1E Skyraiders of the 34th Tac Fighter Group based at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, fly in formation on way to target

: Billy Mitchell leads St Mihiel Air Offensive, September 1981

: Air Launch of Minuteman Missile

: Operation Ranch Hand

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