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Bombs Away

Staff Sergeant Ulysses S. Nero in his Non-Commissioned Officer uniform around the time of the Mitchell Bombing Trials in 1923.
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Curtiss Four-Cylinder

Curtiss Four-Cylinder engine on display in the Early Years Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. In the official speed trial, the Baldwin airship reached 19.61 mph. The engine is on loan from the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock).
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Curtiss Four-Cylinder

Curtiss Four-Cylinder engine on display in the Early Years Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. In the official speed trial, the Baldwin airship reached 19.61 mph. The engine is on loan from the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock).
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Curtiss Four-Cylinder

Curtiss Four-Cylinder engine on display in the Early Years Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. In the official speed trial, the Baldwin airship reached 19.61 mph. The engine is on loan from the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock).
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Curtiss Four-Cylinder

Curtiss Four-Cylinder engine on display in the Early Years Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. In the official speed trial, the Baldwin airship reached 19.61 mph. The engine is on loan from the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock).
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Curtiss Four-Cylinder

Curtiss Four-Cylinder engine on display in the Early Years Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. In the official speed trial, the Baldwin airship reached 19.61 mph. The engine is on loan from the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock).
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Curtiss Four-Cylinder

Curtiss Four-Cylinder engine on display in the Early Years Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. In the official speed trial, the Baldwin airship reached 19.61 mph. The engine is on loan from the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock).
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Curtiss Four-Cylinder

Curtiss Four-Cylinder engine on display in the Early Years Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. In the official speed trial, the Baldwin airship reached 19.61 mph. The engine is on loan from the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock).
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Ruhrstahl X-4 Air-to-Air Missile

Ruhrstahl X-4 Air-to-Air Missile on display in the WWII Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. This missile, like the V-weapons, is an example of advanced technology that failed to prevent German defeat in WWII, but previewed future arms development. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock)
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Flight engineer MSgt Harry Miller at the engineer’s instrument panel of his B-29 following a bombing raid on Anshan, Manchuria.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Accurate forecasts were critical to determining if and when to launch aerial missions. The AAF relied upon their Weather Service meteorologists who were primarily enlisted men. In this photo, technical sergeants use a weather balloon and kite to measure and record findings during training in England in 1943.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Waist gunners SSgt Eldon Lapp and SSgt William King were shot down in their B-17 in 1943. They both became POWs but fortunately survived the war. SSgt King was later killed in action during the Korean War when his B-29A was shot down in 1952.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Sergeant Lois Neal, a stenographer with the Operations Section, B-17 Division Headquarters, takes a dispatch by radio.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Corporal Geraldine Hill plots the course of Allied planes in flight over a specific station in England.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Staff Sergeant Alma Vegler obtains shoes from a supply clerk for the women assigned to the 12th Air Force headquarters in Italy.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

An ordnance mechanic sets flash bomb fuses in Belgium during WWII.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Medics remove a litter patient from an L-5 Sentinel as liaison pilot TSgt Sylian Sharp looks on. Field units needed at least two doctors, a dentist, and about fifteen enlisted medics. Most enlisted medics came from the Army’s draft pool and often had no previous medical experience.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Mechanics had to fix aircraft as quickly as possible for upcoming missions. That sometimes meant working without shelter. Here, mechanics repair engines on P-47 Thunderbolts during WWII.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Enlisted engineers with the 826th Engineer Aviation Battalion construct an airfield in England using a paving machine. The hard work of enlisted engineers allowed aircraft to reach destinations all over the world.
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Army Air Forces Enlisted in WWII

Airmen decipher messages using cipher machines to break down code in the Philippines in 1945. The enemy could break code in as little as seven hours, so it had to be changed frequently.
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