A gun crew fires 40mm Bofors guns aboard the escort carrier USS Badoeng Strait, circa 1948. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A snow-camouflaged M36 tank destroyer crosses a field near Dudelange, Luxembourg in January 1945. (U.S. Army Photograph.)
Missouri Air National Guard P-51 Mustangs of the 110th Fighter Squadron, circa 1947. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Original Caption: An F-16C Fighting Falcon, 457th Fighter Squadron, flies in formation with a P-51 Mustang over Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, Oct. 3, 2014. The 457th FS was activated Oct. 4, 1944, and...
Sailors test the machine guns of a Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat of Fighting Squadron Six (VF-6) on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) in April 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Curtiss P-36 Hawk fighter aircraft. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
The aerodynamic lines of the P-51 Mustang are shown in this photograph of a parked P-51D aircraft. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Factory workers pull a completed Douglas A-20 attack bomber off the assembly line at the Long Beach manufacturing plant, October 1942. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Photograph.)
Original Caption: A vintage World War II aircraft, the SBD Dauntless, flies over Falcon Field during the Great Georgia Air Show as part of Air Force Week Atlanta Oct. 12 over Peachtree City, Ga. (U.S. Air Force Photograph / Tech...
Pilots of U.S. 9th Air Force consult maps on the wing of a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber near St. Mere Eglise, France in June 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
