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Military Aviation Vintage Postcards
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Postcards are an important medium in telling stories, and preserving images, of the past. They are historical masterpieces, showing life at points in time.
Military aviation has been a popular subject of picture postcards for decades, showing us how air bases, flight lines, aircraft, war scenes, and military personnel looked at differing points in time.
While photographs depict perhaps more exact realism, postcards bring back forgotten images of early WWII aircraft and other aspects of the earlier days of military aviation.
Shown on these pages are but a small sampling of the thousands of historic picture postcards that have been printed and distributed over the decades.
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In our collection presented here, we explore various military aircraft and Army Air Bases from around the country as they existed in the 1940s, and Air Force Bases in 1950s.
Our collection includes front gates, flight lines, various base scenes, "greetings," and victory and morale building postcards.
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And we have images of early Army Air Corps fighters, bombers and other aircraft at work protecting the nation.
Keep 'em Flying, and enjoy our planes of the past ... presented in historic, vintage picture postcards!
Military Aircraft
Flying Fortress ... Keep 'em Flying! |
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B-25 Mitchell Twin-Engine Army Bomber with Escort |
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Boeing B-47 Stratojet Plant |
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Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter of the U.S. Air Force |
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Front Gates of Military Bases and Air Fields
Greetings ... from Amarillo Air Force Base in Texas |
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Gate at Scott Air Force Base |
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Entrance sign at Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas |
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Gate at Warren Air Force Base |
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Main Gate, Hunter Air Force Base, Savanah, GA |
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Gate at Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas |
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Gate at Travis Air Force Base, California, circa 1950s |
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Gate scene at Dover Air Force Base |
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Gate at Biggs Air Force Base, El Paso, Texas, circa 1950s |
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Gate at Fairchild Air Force Base |
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Gate at Orlando Air Base in Florida |
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Gate at the U.S. Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1950s |
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U.S. Military Bases
Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas |
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Carswell Air Force Base NCO CLub, circa late 1950s, Fort Worth, Texas |
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Warren Air Force Base |
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Base Headquarters, Hunter Air Force Base, Savannah, Georgia |
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Hospital area, Army Air Forces Gunnery School, Tyndall Field, Florida |
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Enlisted Men's Pool, Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi |
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Post Chapel, Army Air Forces Gunnery School, Tyndall Field, Florida |
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Barracks at MacDill Field, U.S. Army Air Base, Tampa, Florida |
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Base Hospital, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL |
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Air Base Flight Lines
Sewart Air Force Base, Smyrna, Tennessee |
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Jet Training, Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas |
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Flight Line at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio |
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World's Largest Hangar at Kelly AFB Texas |
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Planes at Langley Field Virginia |
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Greetings from Military Bases and Air Fields
Greetings from Maxwell Air Force Base Alabama |
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Greetings from Lackland Air Force Base Texas |
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Greetings from McGuire Air Force Base, Trenton, NJ |
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Greetings from Camp Luna, Las Vegas, New Mexico, the Air Transport Command Training Center |
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Greetings from Hammer Field, California |
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Greetings from MacDill Field, Tampa, Florida |
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Greetings from Pocatello Army Air Base in Idaho |
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Greetings from Victorville Army Flying School in California |
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Greetings from Camp Cooke, California |
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Greetings from Camp Barkeley in Texas |
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Greetings from Travis Field California ... circa 1950s |
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Greetings from Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois |
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Turner Air Force Base, Albany, Georgia |
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Greetings from Salt Lake City Army Air Base in Utah |
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Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, Georgia |
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Morale Builders
Keep 'em Flying! |
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Too Good to be True! |
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To the Girl I Left Behind |
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Victory ... and Keep 'em Flying
Keep 'em Flying |
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Keep 'em Flying |
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Defend Your Country |
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