A rare view of a Bell P-39 Airacobra with a trio of rocket launchers mounted under each wing. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)

Rocket-Armed Airacobra

April 15, 2016

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A rare view of a Bell P-39 Airacobra with a trio of rocket launchers mounted under each wing. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)

A rare view of a Bell P-39 Airacobra with a trio of rocket launchers mounted under each wing. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.) — (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)

Factory workers assemble the cylinders on an early production Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial aircraft engine in June 1942. (U.S. National Archives and Records Admin. Photograph.)

Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp

A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina from Patrol Squadron VP-45 is salvaged at Casco Cove, Attu, Alaska in August 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina Salvage

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