A rare view of a Bell P-39 Airacobra with a trio of rocket launchers mounted under each wing. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Factory workers assemble the cylinders on an early production Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial aircraft engine in June 1942. (U.S. National Archives and Records Admin. Photograph.)
A P-51 Mustang fighter and a F4U Corsair fighter pass over audiences at the Tampa Bay Air Fest at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Fla., on March 20, 2016. U.S. Army Photograph by Capt. Yau-Liong Tsai / Released.
An RAF Short Sunderland GR Mark V of No. 205 Squadron moored off Direction Island, Cocos Islands prepares to refuel from a petrol tanker on board a Tank Landing Craft. (Imperial War Museums Photograph.)
U.S. Marine Corps gliders for student pilots parked at Page Field. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)
A Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter of Fighting Squadron 41 (VF-41) photographed in flight in 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Officers watch the Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Bolivar Jr.” as the aircraft taxis on Saipan, Mariana Islands in May 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) burns on June 4, 1942 after attacks from Japanese dive bombers during the Battle of Midway. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The Chance Vought XF4U-1 Corsair prototype photographed during testing at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia in 1941. (NASA Photograph.)
A Northrop BT-1 dive bomber of Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) photographed on the flight deck of the USS Yorktown (CV-5). (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
