Sailors mount a 1000-pound bomb beneath a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless on the flight deck of USS Ranger during Operation Torch in November 1942. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses conduct a bombing mission through heavy clouds over Bremen, Germany in November 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Curtiss XSO3C-1 Seamew scout floatplane in the large wind tunnel at the NACA Langley Research Center, Virginia, October 1940. (NASA Photograph.)
A Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighter is photographed on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown as the U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Boise (CL-47) passes alongside. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A 15th Air Force armorer loads ammunition belts for the .50 caliber machine guns in the wings of a P-51 Mustang fighter plane before the fighter leaves an Italian air base for a mission against Axis targets, September 1944. (U.S...
Original Caption: The B-17G Sentimental Journey on display at the War Eagles Air Museum at the Doña Ana County Airport Oct. 2. The Sentimental Journey is one of only a handful of operational B-17s still available to the public...
A Beechcraft XA-38 Grizzly prototype in flight showing the forward-firing 75mm cannon. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Diagram showing the armament of the M3 Medium Tank. (U.S. War Department Technical Manual TM 9-750, 1942.)
A Northrop N-3PB Nomad of No. 330 Squadron, Royal Air Force Coastal Command in Iceland, October 1941. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress flies through heavy flak over the target during World War II. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)