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Effects of impact and explosions.

- Half-title page: Summary technical report of the National Defense Research Committee.
- "Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were…

Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the USS California settles slowly into the mud and muck of Pearl Harbor. Clouds of black, oily smoke pouring up from the California and her stricken sister ships conceal all but the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma at the extreme right

Depicts the USS California beginning to sink shortly after taking heavy fire from the surprise attack bombings in Pearl Harbor by Japan.

Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Raleigh. Torpedoed and bombed

Torpedoed and bombed, the 7,050 ton light crusier USS Raleigh is held afloat near her anchorage in Pearl Harbor by a barge. The capsized USS Utah is…

Hiroo Onada

Profile photo of Hiroo Onoda as a young officer.

Henry Ford and President Franklin Roosevelt Touring the Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1942

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Ford Motor Company's Willow Run bomber plant on September 18, 1942. The…

Flow Chart for B-24 Production at the Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1944

Ford's Willow Run Bomber Plant, designed by Albert Kahn and constructed in 1941, undoubtedly contributed to the outcome of World War II. With 3.5…

Australian War Memorial

GREECE. AIR ATTACK WAS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WHICH CONFRONTED THE MOVING OF TRANSPORT ALONG THE ROADS ... WHEN POSSIBLE, ALL VEHICLES CARRIED A MAN ON…

Japanese Warplanes Bomb US Military Airfield in an Effort to Delay Organized Response to their Attacks

US Aviators look up in dismay as Japanese bombers relentlessly strike the US military airfield on the morning of Pearl Harbor

The General Board - 'Combat Exhaustion'

To make a study of the condition known as "combat exhaustion" as it occurred in the European Theater of Operations and to report the procedures which…