Fighter ace Capt. Robert L. Faurot poses in front of his P-38F Lightning aircraft assigned to the 39th Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group. The P-38 wears the number 16, the pilot’s name (“Capt R L Faurot”)...
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The crowded nose of the B-25 Mitchell bomber “Betty’s Dream” on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force as part of a ceremony for the Doolittle Raiders. (U.S. Air Force Photograph / Kevin...
The crew of a North American B-25 Mitchell, nicknamed “STUD”, poses with their aircraft, a veteran of over fifty missions, before flying back to the United States to tour the country promoting War Bonds. (U.S. Air...
Two Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighters — named Dell and Flamin’ Mame — undergo repairs on Amchitka Island in the Aleutian Islands in October 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Air crew and ground crew pose in front of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ‘Ole’ Miss Destry of the 366th BS, 305th BG in July 1944 in England. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” of the 9th Air Force photographed at a base in Libya in 1943. (Library of Congress Photograph.)
The P-38 Lightning “Mama’s Boy” is photographed at King’s Cliffe, England in 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Dog Breath” of the 452nd Bomb Group receives a touchup on its nose art in England in April 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Boeing B-29 Superfortress of the 29th Bomb Group at North Field, now named Andersen Air Force Base, Guam in July 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Color photograph of a lineup of P-47 Thunderbolts of the 347th Fighter Squadron, 350th Fighter Group on the airfield in Italy. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)