Mechanics perform maintenance work on a PBY flying boat at NAS Seattle, April 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Archive - August 2015
“It’s fortunate for the United Nations the Liberator is on our side!” — Army Air Forces (U.S. Army Official Poster, Office for Emergency Management, Office of War Information.)
Original Caption: An P-47 Thunderbolt taxis to the runway during the 2015 Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, March 1, 2015. The aircraft that participated in this year’s...
A Lockheed P-38F Lightning of the 50th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group in the snow at Camp Tripoli Airfield, Iceland, November 1942. (U.S. Library of Congress Photograph.)
A group of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft flies over a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter on a field in England. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
An RAF Hawker Hurricane Mk IIB fighter photographed with Russian sentries near Murmansk, October 1941. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A Consolidated B-24 Liberator of 780th BS, 465th BG which crash landed in a dense fog near Poltava Airbase in Russia. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A camouflaged Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter parked on an airfield near St. Lo, France during the summer of 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Vought F4U-1 Corsair being tested in Langley’s 30×60 full-scale wind tunnel. (NASA Photograph.)
RAF mechanics change the engine on a Curtiss Tomahawk Mark IIB of No. 112 Squadron RAF in the Western Desert, 1941. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)