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Soldiers operating an acoustic airplane locator during World War II, Trelleborg, Sweden, 1940. (Photo Carl Gunnar Rosborn]

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An aerial view of the Mauthausen area, 1943-45 [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of NARA, College Park]

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U.S. Naval Air Station, Santa Ana, California, c. June 1945. pecialist (X) 2nd Class Marcelle Whiteman holds one of the 200 carrier pigeons based at NAS Santa Ana, circa June 1945. The birds were used to transmit communications from the air to the station when radio silence is in force. One of the occupations covered by the Specialist (X) rating was Pigeon Trainer. [Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives]

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An aerial view of Amsterdam, taken before the war for German military use, 25.08.1939. [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of NARA, College Park]

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84844 AC - Fifth Air Force, Korea - With a photograph of a Communist gun position in front of him, Sgt James E. Kindseth moves in for a better view.  His reports of Red Flak are used in briefing fighter-bomber pilots on how best to approach heavily defended targets.  March 1952.  U.S. Air Force Photo.

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American soldier examines North-Korean anti-aircraft positions through a magnifying loupe. In the foreground is a well-equipped stereoscope. March 1952. (USAF Photo)

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1943 – Photo from a camouflage class at New York University, where men and women make models from aerial photographs and devise a camouflage scheme for a defense…

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1943 – A camouflage class at New York University, where men and women make models from aerial photographs and devise a camouflage scheme for a defense plant. This…

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Half of the heavy listening device Goertz (Czechoslovakia) developed between WWI and WWII.

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Acoustic Mirrors at Denge, a site of the British Royal Air Force near the Channel, where some experimental models were built in the 1920s and 1930s. One is…

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Dutch personal horns. Rotating acoustic listening device developed for the Dutch army as part of air defense systems research between World Wars I and II, 1930s.