The first production Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK-1 dive and torpedo bomber photographed on the ground carrying a drop tank and radar in 1945. Only five prototypes of the XBTK were built before the program was cancelled. (U.S. Navy...
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The remains of a destroyed German Panther tank sit on the roadside near Trarivi, Italy in September 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
The sole prototype of the Grumman XF5F Skyrocket fighter/interceptor flies past the cameraman to show its unique design. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Photograph.)
In France, Allied soldiers unload a jeep from a Douglas C-47 Skytrain military transport aircraft. (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.)
An M10 Tank Destroyer of the 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion advances in support of the U.S. 10th Mountain Division in Italy during the campaign in the North Apennines. (U.S. Archives Photograph.)
Beech AT-11 Kansans from the U.S. Army Air Forces fly a training mission from an advanced flying school dropping practice bombs near Carlsbad, New Mexico in February 1943. (U.S. Army Air Forces Photograph.)
A Grumman TBF-1 Avenger is guided to a landing on the USS Card (ACV-11) by a Landing Signal Officer in 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
U.S. Army soldiers sort through a pile of German helmets left behind by the 10th and 15th Panzer Divisions after the Axis surrender in Tunisia. (U.S. Library of Congress Photograph.)
The famous B-17 “Memphis Belle” visits NACA in 1943 after her return to the United States. (NASA Photograph.)