Vintage Photographs - Aviation
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of aircraft and aviators.
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 French
sausage balloon
(WW) |
 Sausage
balloon rising
(WW) |
 American
air squadron in flight at Kelly Field, San Antonio
(WW) |
 U.S.
searchlight watching for enemy aircraft
(WW) |
 U.S.
dirigible D U-1 leaving for its maiden flight
(WW) |
 Raoul
Lufberry
(WW) |
 War
artist and ace Lieut. Henry Farre
(WW) |
 Leading
French air ace Georges Guynemer
(WW) |
 U.S.
Marines with anti-aircraft gun
(WW) |
 U.S.
troops firing an anti-aircraft gun
(WW) |
 German
aircraft disturbs Canadian anti-aircraft gun crew
(WW) |
 British
airmen examine Richthofen's guns following his demise
(WW) |
 French
anti-aircraft automobile gun in Picardy
(WW) |
 Range
finding for French anti-aircraft gun
(WW) |
 German
biplane brought down in flames behind Allied lines
(WW) |
 Pulling
a British anti-aircraft gun into position
(WW) |
 Motor
bus carrying a French aircraft
(NW) |
 Photo
taken from the bridge of a Zeppelin during a London air raid
(NW) |
 French
adaptation of the German Zeppelin
(NW) |
 Stern
view of a wartime Zeppelin
(NW) |
 German
battleship squadron with its guardian Zeppelin
(NW) |
 A
French triplane
(NW) |
 English
dirigible balloon at manoeuvres
(NW) |
 German
Zeppelin inspecting Warsaw
(NW) |
 A
French aircraft with two machine guns joined via a turret
(NW) |
 Verdun
aviation camps as seen from a French aeroplane
(NW) |
 A
French balloon making its descent as the gas was escaping
(NW) |
 Gun
and gunners who downed a Zeppelin L77 with a lucky shot
(NW) |
 Aerial
photo of a German gas attack on the Eastern Front
(HW) |
 An
aircraft about to attack a Zeppelin over England
(HW) |
 British
airmen inspect a large bomb
(HW) |
 Belgian
military observation balloon
(HW) |
 Aerial
photo of a French attack on the naval base at Trieste
(HW) |
 Mechanics
tuning up a giant British bomber in 1918
(HW) |
 Sir
David Henderson
(GW) |
 German
naval Zeppelin hovering over aircraft base at Heligoland
(GW) |
 British
seaplane armed with a machine gun
(GW) |
 Biplane
with machine gun in its bow
(GW) |
 Weight-caryying
biplane used to drop bombs
(GW) |
 Biplane
with curved-back, used by the German air force
(GW) |
 Two-seater
British monoplane used for scouting
(GW) |
 The
'Spiess' a rigid-type French airship
(GW) |
 French
non-rigid airship used for detailed reconnaissance
(GW) |
 British
patrol airship above Ostend
(GW) |
 A
German Taube
(GW) |
 A
'Flight' of French military aeroplanes
(GW) |
 Aircraft
fitted with quick-firing gun, manned by a marksman
(GW) |
 Belgian
military cyclists sniping at a German aeroplane above Ostend
(GW) |
 British
aircraft at the Front in France
(GW) |
 Flight-Lieutenant
C. H. Collet, R.N., D.S.O.
(GW) |
 Flight-Lieutenant
R. L. Marix, R.N., D.S.O.
(GW) |
 Wing-Commander
Charles R. Samson, R.N., D.S.O.
(GW) |
 Flight-Lieutenant
Sidney V. Sippe
(GW) |
 A
Zeppelin being drawn out from a huge Dusseldorf hangar
(GW) |
 German
airship shed with Zeppelin over it
(GW) |
 An
anti-aircraft gun
(GW) |
 View
inside a Zeppelin shed containing two Zeppelin aircraft
(GW) |
 Squadron-Commander
E. F. Briggs
(GW) |
 Flight-Commander
T. J. Babbington
(GW) |
 German
dirigible emerging from its shed
(GW) |
 German
quick-firing, anti-aircraft gun at work
(GW) |
 British
AVRO aircraft
(GW) |
 German
Taube aircraft downed behind Allied lines
(GW) |
 Airships
of the British Aircraft Service, 'Gamma' and 'Delta'
(GW) |
 British
aircraft used for reconnaissance work over Sinai Peninsula
(GW) |
 Naval
sea plane descending through engine failure in the North Sea
(GW) |
 Men
of the Royal Naval Flying Corps, led by Commander Samson
(GW) |
 Flight-Commander
Hewlett, rescued at sea following Cuxhaven raid
(GW) |
 Claude
Graham-White
(GW) |
 An
army aeroplane in transit
(GW) |
 An
aerial duel over the French lines
(GW) |
 Second-Lieutenant
Rhodes-Moorhouse, V.C.
(GW) |
 Remains
of German Zeppelin L3, wrecked on coast of Fanoe, Denmark
(GW) |
 Sub-Lieutenant
R. A. J. Warneford, V.C.
(GW) |
 Captain
Anthony Marshall, D.S.O.
(GW) |
 Flight-Commander
Bigsworth, D.S.O.
(GW) |
 An
aeroplane's billet in the tree-tops
(GW) |
 Captain
J. A. Liddell, V.C.
(GW) |
 Russian
Army Sikorsky super-biplane, capable of holding 16
(GW) |
 Captured
German Fokker aircraft brought down on the Western Front
(GW) |
 Second-Lieutenant
G. S. M. Insall, V.C.
(GW) |
 Captain
Robert Loraine, M.C.
(GW) |
 The
war in the air
(GW) |
 Captured
German Albatross dispatched by rail behind Russian lines
(GW) |
 French
airman Pegoud
(GW) |
 Gabriele
D'Annunzio
(GW) |
 British
Flight Sub-Lieutenant R.A.J. Warneford, V.C.
(GWS) |
 Gabriele
D'Annunzio
(GWS) |
 Roland
Garros
(JH) |
 Death
of a Prussian observation officer, whose Aviatik was downed
(GWS) |
 View
of a Turkish town on the Dardanelles from a French aircraft
(GWS) |
 View
of a Turkish town on the Dardanelles from a French aircraft
(GWS) |
 2nd-Lieutenant
Rhodes-Moorhouse, V.C.
(GWS) |
 Sub-Lieutenant
Warneford, V.C.
(GWS) |
 Rear-Admiral
Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee, Director of Air Services
(GWS) |
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A Town Major was a staff officer responsible for billeting arrangements in a town or village behind the lines.
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