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.)
A U.S. Marine Corps Grumman TBM-3 Avenger from Marine Torpedo Bomber Squadron VMTB-332 drops supplies during close air support training at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa in 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Color photograph of a P-51D Mustang of the 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group in 1944. (United States Air Force via National Archives.)
B-26 Marauder “Good Buddie” from the 554th Bombardment Squadron, 386th Bombardment Group photographed at RAF Boxted in 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Sailors man 20mm Oerlikon antiaircraft guns on the catwalk of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) in February 1945. (U.S. National Archives and Records Admin. Photo.)
