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...
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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.)
Marine F6F Hellcat night fighter parked on Orote Airfield on Guam, August 1944. (U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.)
The Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL 26) is shown at anchor in the Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands with a group of F-6F fighter aircraft on the flight deck, November 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Douglas BD-2 is delivered to the U.S. Navy after transfer from the U.S. Army Air Corps at Naval Air Station North Island, California in 1941. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Republic P-43 Lancer is assembled by ground crew for the Republic of China Air Force, 1943. (U.S. Library of Congress Photograph.)
U.S. Army soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division guard the road leading to Bastogne, Belgium in December 1944. (U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph.)