Royal Air Force passengers wait in a Bristol Bombay transport aircraft of No. 216 Squadron RAF based at Heliopolis, Egypt. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A Bell P-39 Airacobra camouflaged with palm fronds is serviced on an island in the Pacific. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
U.S. Navy battleship USS Texas (BB-35) photographed underway off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia in 1943. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Douglas TBD-1 Devastators of torpedo squadron VT-4 on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) while anchored in Cuba in 1942. (U.S. Navy Photographs.)
The Consolidated Vultee XP-81, which combined both turbojet and turboprop engines, photographed in 1945 at Edwards AFB. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Final production assembly of an A-20 attack bomber at Douglas Aircraft factory in Long Beach, California in late 1942. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
A Boeing B-29 Superfortress used by NACA for engine cooling research in June 1944. (NASA Photograph.)
Royal Navy Blackburn Skuas of the No. 800 Squadron Fleet Air Arm photographed on the flight deck of the HMS Ark Royal. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
Wood Flies to War: The Army & Navy Need 40,000 Board Feet of Lumber for Each Cargo Plane, WWII Poster. (U.S. Office for Emergency Management, Office of War Information.)
Soldiers of the 36th Armored Infantry Regiment take cover behind an M4 Sherman tank near Düren, Germany, December 1944. (U.S. Army Photograph.)
