P-39Q Airacobra fighters from the 46th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group parked on Makin Island in the Gilberts in December 1943. (U.S. Army Air Force Photograph.)
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A Curtiss SBC-3 (Curtiss Model 77A) biplane from VS-6 of the USS Enterprise flies past USS Mustin (DD-413), a Sims-class destroyer of the United States Navy, during naval maneuvers in the Pacific in May 1940. (U.S. Navy...
A Churchill tank from the 9th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Brigade advances toward Goch, Germany in February 1945. (Imperial War Museums Photograph.)
B-29 Superfortresses from the 29th Bombardment Group taxi at North Field, Tinian in 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A formation of Bristol Beaufighter TF.X aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force fly over the Scottish coast in 1945. (Imperial War Museums Photograph.)
Ground crews load 500-lb bombs into North American Mitchell Mark II aircraft from No. 98 Squadron RAF at B58 airfield near Melsbroek, Belgium. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A formation of Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver dive bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) fly over the U.S. Navy fleet on the way to attack targets on Iwo Jima in February 1945. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A U.S. Marine Corps Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber takes off for a mission over Luzon, Philippines in 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Sailors on the destroyer USS Ault (DD-698) watch a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat from Fighting Squadron 87 (VF-87) land on the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) in July 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Supermarine Seafire fighter sits on the flight deck of HMS Smiter after a nose over landing accident in 1944. (Imperial War Museums Photograph.)