U.S. soldier inspects a German Me 109 fighter abandoned on the airfield at Salzburg, Austria by retreating German forces. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
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German prisoners, in a variety of uniforms, behind barbed wire in the Anzio beachhead, Italy, February 1944. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)
B-24 Liberator aircraft used for testing the 24-C jet engine. (NASA Photograph.)
NACA Northrop P-61 Black Widow flight test aircraft at Moffett Field, California, 1948. (NASA Photograph.)
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.)
B-17 Flying Fortress (U.S. Air Force Photo / SSgt. Connor Estes.)
North American F-82F Twin Mustang of the 52nd Fighter Group (All Weather) at the 1950 World Wide Gunnery Meet at Nellis AFB, Nevada in 1950. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
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...
The world’s largest formation of Supermarine Spitfire aircraft taxi down the runway during the Duxford Air Show in England in September 2011. The Supermarine Spitfire was the only Allied aircraft in production throughout the...