Fighter ace Capt. Robert L. Faurot poses in front of his P-38F Lightning aircraft assigned to the 39th Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group. The P-38 wears the number 16, the pilot’s name (“Capt R L Faurot”)...
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A captured prototype of the Kawanishi N1K2-Ja Shiden Kai (Allied codename “George”) fighter photographed prior to restoration. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Soldiers of the 87th Fighter Squadron work on a captured Messerschmitt Bf 109G fighter in Tunisia, April 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph)
Three Grumman F3F-3 fighters from U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron 5 (VF-5) from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) fly over southern California in 1939. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A collection of U.S. Navy Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters from Escort-Fighter Squadron VGF-27 parked alongside Fighter Strip No. 1 on Guadalcanal in February 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
American soldiers from the 4046th QM Truck Company search captured Luftwaffe Fw 190 fighters for souvenirs to send home. (U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.)
A Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter undergoes maintenance at an air base in the United States, circa 1942-43. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Pilots and airmen from the 64th Fighter Squadron of the 57th Fighter Group pose for a photograph in front of a unit fighter. (Library of Congress Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy FM-2 Wildcat fighter flies a combat air patrol over the escort carrier USS Santee (CVE-29) during the Leyte Invasion in October 1944. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
In Tunisia, a French soldier inspects German Luftwaffe wreckage including an Me 109 fighter in the foreground. (Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.)