A British Spitfire prepares for takeoff from the USS Wasp during a Malta reinforcement mission in May 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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The Martin XA-22 (Martin Model 167) prototype photographed in April 1939. The type was used primarily by the British under the designation Martin Maryland Mk I. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Landing craft maneuver behind the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in July 1942 during the Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph via U.S. National Archives.)
A gun crew from the 864th Antiaircraft Battery mans a 40mm antiaircraft gun at Isley Field on Saipan, Mariana Islands in July 1944. Thunderbolts and Avengers are visible in the background. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter captured at Akutan Island, Alaska in 1942 and sent to Langley Field for installation of flight test equipment. (Official NASA Photograph.)
The P-38 Lightning “Mama’s Boy” is photographed at King’s Cliffe, England in 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
British officers unload luggage and equipment from a Bristol Bombay of No. 216 Squadron after landing at Maleme, Crete in 1941. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A Blackburn Shark torpedo bomber serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force at Rockcliffe AFB, Ontario. (Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada Photograph.)
Loaded with troops returning from Europe, USS West Point passes the Statue of Liberty outisde New York City, July 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A U.S. Army machine gun crew from the 26th Infantry fire a M1919 Browning during street fighting in Aachen, Germany in October 1944. (U.S. Army Photograph.)