Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldivers strapped to the deck of the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Kwajalein (CVE-98) during a typhoon in December 1944. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Two Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighters — named Dell and Flamin’ Mame — undergo repairs on Amchitka Island in the Aleutian Islands in October 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A formation of Martin Baltimore bombers flying to attack Axis forces in Tunisia. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Bristol Taurus VI engine is removed from a Bristol Beaufort Mark I of No. 217 Squadron RAF at St Eval, Cornwall. (Imperial War Museums Photograph.)
German and Italian aircraft wreckage photographed on the El Aouina airfield neaar Tunis in Tunisia. Visible are wrecks of a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka and several Junkers Ju 52s. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Paratroopers, with 82nd Airborne Division shoulder patches, board a plane on Karouan Airfield, near Sousse, Tunisia. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Aircraft from RAF Coastal Command attack German shipping. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A rescue vessel from the Air Sea Rescue Service pulls alongside two rubber dinghies with crew members of a B-17 Flying Fortress forced down in the North Sea in August 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Destroyer USS Kearny (DD-432) alongside the USS Monssen (DD-436) in port at Reykjavik, Iceland after the USS Kearny had been torpedoed by the German submarine U-568. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Two U.S. servicemen inspect damage to a German bomber captured in Tunisia in 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
