A Bloch MB.175 light bomber of the French Air Force photographed at an airfield in North Africa. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
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This Consolidated B-24D Liberator, nicknamed “Ripper the 1st”, nosed over while landing after returning from a raid on Rome, Italy. The B-24 belonged to 515th Bombardment Squadron, 376th Bombardment Group of Ninth Air...
Captain Glenn Miller plays the trombone with the Aviation Cadet Orchestra during a concert at Maxwell Field, Alabama on Christmas Eve, 1942. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Seabee Caterpillar D7 medium bulldozer goes to work at the Construction Battalion Training Center, Camp Endicott, Davisville, Rhode Island, in the fall of 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Pilots from the 85th “Flying Skull” Fighter Squadron, 79th Fighter Group discuss air tactics in front of a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Mechanics perform maintenance work on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, converted to an F-13 photographic reconnaissance variant, on Guam in the Mariana Islands. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Piper L-4 Grasshopper liaison aircraft, nicknamed “Elizabeth”, prepares to takeoff from the USS Ranger (CV-4) during Operation Torch in November 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) fires her 8 inch/55 caliber guns while bombarding a Pacific island in February 1942. The cruiser’s Curtiss SOC Seagull floatplane is shown in the foreground. (U.S. Navy...
With the flight deck crowded with aircraft, the U.S. Navy Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Cowpens (CVL-25) underway in the Pacific in July 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Lockheed A-29 Hudson from the U.S. Army Air Forces photographed in flight, circa 1941. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)