The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) burns on June 4, 1942 after attacks from Japanese dive bombers during the Battle of Midway. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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The Chance Vought XF4U-1 Corsair prototype photographed during testing at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia in 1941. (NASA Photograph.)
A Northrop BT-1 dive bomber of Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) photographed on the flight deck of the USS Yorktown (CV-5). (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Royal Air Force passengers wait in a Bristol Bombay transport aircraft of No. 216 Squadron RAF based at Heliopolis, Egypt. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A Bell P-39 Airacobra camouflaged with palm fronds is serviced on an island in the Pacific. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
U.S. Navy battleship USS Texas (BB-35) photographed underway off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia in 1943. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Douglas TBD-1 Devastators of torpedo squadron VT-4 on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) while anchored in Cuba in 1942. (U.S. Navy Photographs.)
The Consolidated Vultee XP-81, which combined both turbojet and turboprop engines, photographed in 1945 at Edwards AFB. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Final production assembly of an A-20 attack bomber at Douglas Aircraft factory in Long Beach, California in late 1942. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
A Boeing B-29 Superfortress used by NACA for engine cooling research in June 1944. (NASA Photograph.)