The Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Maximum Load” of the 314th Bomb Wing is prepared for a mission at North Field, Guam, April 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Archive - April 2016
A German train destroyed while crossing a Moselle River bridge by U.S. fighter-bombers from the 9th Air Force. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A column of Churchill tanks from the 25th Tank Brigade advance to support the 1st Canadian Division in Italy, May 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A B-24J Liberator unloads fuel after flying “The Hump” into Kunming, China in September 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina from Patrol Squadron VP-45 is salvaged at Casco Cove, Attu, Alaska in August 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A rare view of a Bell P-39 Airacobra with a trio of rocket launchers mounted under each wing. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Factory workers assemble the cylinders on an early production Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial aircraft engine in June 1942. (U.S. National Archives and Records Admin. Photograph.)
A P-51 Mustang fighter and a F4U Corsair fighter pass over audiences at the Tampa Bay Air Fest at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Fla., on March 20, 2016. U.S. Army Photograph by Capt. Yau-Liong Tsai / Released.
An RAF Short Sunderland GR Mark V of No. 205 Squadron moored off Direction Island, Cocos Islands prepares to refuel from a petrol tanker on board a Tank Landing Craft. (Imperial War Museums Photograph.)
U.S. Marine Corps gliders for student pilots parked at Page Field. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)