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.)
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Sailors perform engine maintenance on a Grumman F6F Hellcat on the USS Yorktown somewhere in the Pacific. (U.S. Navy 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.)
A group of senior pilots pose in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress from the 325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group at Alconbury Airfield in June 1943. (U.S. Army Air Forces 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.)
A U.S. Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon displayed at the U.S. National Museum of Naval Aviation. (U.S. National Museum of Naval Aviation Photograph.)