With the flight deck crowded with aircraft, the U.S. Navy Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Cowpens (CVL-25) underway in the Pacific in July 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Tag - 1943
Two U.S. servicemen inspect damage to a German bomber captured in Tunisia in 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
P-39Q Airacobra fighters from the 46th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group parked on Makin Island in the Gilberts in December 1943. (U.S. Army Air Force Photograph.)
A Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 trainer operated by the U.S. Coast Guard parked at Floyd Bennett Field, New York in 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
An ex-RAF Bell P-400 Airacobra photographed at Burtonwood Airdrome, England in March 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Sailors from the USS Lexington move an aircraft with a flat tire down the flight deck, November 1943. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
B-24 Liberators of the 98th Bomb Group fly a low-level bombing mission against the oil refineries around Ploesti, Romania in August 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Douglas Boston aircraft of the South African Air Force in North Africa in 1943. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
B-26 Marauder “Good Buddie” of the 554th Bombardment Squadron, 386th Bombardment Group in 1943 at RAF Boxted, Essex. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
P-38 Lightning “Japanese Sandman II” of the 39th Pursuit Squadron in New Guinea, 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)