The flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) during the ship’s shakedown cruise in March 1943 with numerous F6F Hellcat fighters and SBD Dauntless bombers. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, U.S. National Archives.)
Category - color
Original Caption: A B-25, piloted by Beth Jenkins, taxis in after performing at the “Wings Over Tyler Air Show” at the Tyler Pound Regional Airport in Tyler, Texas, June 3, 2011. Jenkins is the owner of a flight school in...
Sixteen 250 lb. bombs wait to be loaded on a Short Stirling bomber of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
Illustration of the Diamond T Model 969A Wrecker Truck with Open Cab. (Source: Technical Manual TM 9-811, U.S. War Department, 1944.)
A P-47 Thunderbolt, P-51 Mustang, F-4 Phantom, and F-16 Fighting Falcon fly in a heritage flight formation during the 2006 Defenders of Liberty Airshow at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. in 2006. (U.S. Air Force Photo / Master Sgt...
Missouri Air National Guard P-51 Mustangs of the 110th Fighter Squadron, circa 1947. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Original Caption: An F-16C Fighting Falcon, 457th Fighter Squadron, flies in formation with a P-51 Mustang over Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, Oct. 3, 2014. The 457th FS was activated Oct. 4, 1944, and...
Original Caption: A vintage World War II aircraft, the SBD Dauntless, flies over Falcon Field during the Great Georgia Air Show as part of Air Force Week Atlanta Oct. 12 over Peachtree City, Ga. (U.S. Air Force Photograph / Tech...
Maintenance work is performed on a Vought OS2U Kingfisher on a U.S. Navy cruiser off the coast of Japan in March 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A North American P-51 Mustang flies in formation with an F-15E Strike Eagle during an air show in Milwaukee. (U.S. Air Force Photograph / MSgt. Kenneth Pagel.)