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.)
The famous B-17 “Memphis Belle” visits NACA in 1943 after her return to the United States. (NASA Photograph.)
A Douglas BTD-1 Destroyer torpedo bomber photographed at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland circa 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy evaluates a captured Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 fighter at the U.S. Navy Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River, Maryland in June 1945. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers from VC-29 prepare for antisubmarine patrol on the flight deck of the escort carrier USS Santee (ACV-29) during operations in the Atlantic. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
