American soldiers from the 4046th QM Truck Company search captured Luftwaffe Fw 190 fighters for souvenirs to send home. (U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.)
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Engines are heated on a Lend-Lease Douglas A-20G in Alaska in preparation for delivery to Russia. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and RAF trainee ground crew perform maintenance work on a Hawker Hart biplane as part of the Commonwealth Joint Air Training Plan at Waterkloof near Pretoria, South Africa. (Imperial War...
Training flight of Douglas O-46A and North American O-47 aircraft assigned to the 104th Observation Squadron of the Maryland National Guard, March 1940. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A replica of an F-4E Corsair aircraft flies alongside an F/A-18F Super Hornet during a Centennial of Naval Aviation tribute at the N’awlins Air Show. The air show celebrated the Centennial of Naval Aviation and featured a...
Sailors from the USS Lexington move an aircraft with a flat tire down the flight deck, November 1943. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) launches a TBM Avenger for an attack on German submarines, January 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
B-29 Superfortress of 468th Bombardment Group attacking Rangoon, Burma in March 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Grumman F6F-5 Hellcats converted to drones for use during the Operation Crossroads atomic tests on the Bikini Atoll in July 1946. The drones were flown through the radioactive cloud to measure radioactivity. (U.S. Navy...
Color photo of two Being YB-29 Superfortress heavy bombers in flight. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)