Boeing P-26 Peashooters of the 17th Pursuit Group at March Field, California in 1932. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
A Martin RA-30 Baltimore light bomber used by NACA from June 1943 until March 1944 at Langley. (NASA Photograph.)
A British soldier takes cover in front of a knocked-out German Panzer III in Oosterhout near Nijmegen, September 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) photographed at Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu in May 1942 with ground crew. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Gloster Sea Gladiator Mark I of the Royal Air Force photographed on the ground at an airfield in Malta, probably in September 1940. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A Kawanishi N1K Shiden (“George”) land-based fighter photographed at the end of WWII. (National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Boston (CA-69) photographed from the USS Quincy (CA-71) in August 1945. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull scout-observation biplane in flight in July 1939. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Color photograph of a U.S. Navy Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo bomber waiting to takeoff from the flight deck of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) in 1943. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)