A Royal Air Force photographer captures a flight of three Boulton Paul Defiant Mk Is of the No. 264 Squadron, August 1940. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
Italian Macchi MC.200 Saetta fighter at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A pilot boards a Royal Air Force Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Mk II of No 30 Squadron. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
Aerial view of the battleship USS North Carolina photographed during antiaircraft training. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Quad 40mm antiaircraft guns firing aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) in February 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The Vultee YA-19 (Vultee V-11) attack aircraft flying in U.S. Army Air Corps service. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
The clean lines of a TBM-1C Avenger with wing-mounted radar pod are shown to good effect at NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, July 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Formation of Vought F4U-1A Corsair fighters of VF-17 photographed in flight over Bougainville, March 1944. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise underway in the Pacific, March 1944. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
Sailors watch aircraft from the Carrier Air Group 12 (CVG-12) landing on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3). A Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless is in the foreground and Grumman F6F-3 Hellcats are landing...
