Color photograph of the Northrop A-17A attack bomber at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Douglas TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of torpedo squadron VT-3 line up on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Sailors from the USS Lexington move an aircraft with a flat tire down the flight deck, November 1943. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) launches a TBM Avenger for an attack on German submarines, January 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Dauntless Dotty” prepares for a bombing mission to Tokyo on an airfield on Saipan, November 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A pair of Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters from Fighting Squadron VF-6 on the elevator of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) during the Doolittle Raid, April 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
B-29 Superfortress of 468th Bombardment Group attacking Rangoon, Burma in March 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Insignia of U.S. Marine Fighting Squadron 217 (VMF-217) photographed on the front of a jeep on Bougainville, 1944. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighters of the 318th Fighter Group are serviced by mechanics at Bellows Field, Oahu, Hawaii, May 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A rare Fairchild 91 flying boat photographed in British service in the Western Desert, Egypt. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)