NACA Northrop P-61 Black Widow flight test aircraft at Moffett Field, California, 1948. (NASA Photograph.)
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ASM-N-2 Bat radar-guided unpowered missile mounted under the wing of a PB4Y Privateer during development. (Photograph from U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)
Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver used by NACA at Langley for radio-control and other tests. (NASA Photograph.)
Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat: This Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat tested while at Langley a turbo-supercharger, rather than a gear-driven supercharger as was the norm with the F6F. This aircraft served with the NACA for almost one year...
Experimental North American P-51D Mustang with pulsejets mounted under the wings. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A 16-inch heavy howitzer and crew at Fort Story, Virginia, April 1942. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)
P-51 Mustang “My Girl” prepares for takeoff from Iwo Jima. From this hard-won base on Iwo Jima, U.S. Air Force fighters escorted the B-29 Superfortresses on bombing missions to Japan, and also attacked the Japanese...
Consolidated OA-10 Catalina air-sea rescue training at Keesler Field, Mississippi in 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
The destroyed town of Houffalize, Belgium photographed with the wreckage of an overturned German Panther tank in the river after the Battle of the Bulge. (U.S. National Archives.)
A North American A-36A “Doodle” parked at Paestum, Italy in 1943. From left to right are Lt. Sefton, Flight Officer Bryant and an unidentified soldier. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)