An Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M5 “Zero” fighter captured on a Japanese airfield on Saipan in the Mariana Islands in 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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The sole prototype of the Grumman XF5F Skyrocket fighter/interceptor flies past the cameraman to show its unique design. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy evaluates a captured Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 fighter at the U.S. Navy Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River, Maryland in June 1945. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Kawanishi N1K Shiden (“George”) land-based fighter photographed at the end of WWII. (National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Photographer Toni Frissell stands on the wing of P-51 Mustang “Marcelle” with Major George S. “Spanky” Roberts at Ramitelli, Italy in March 1945. (Library of Congress Photograph.)
Curtiss XF7C-1 Seahawk (NASA Photograph.)
A Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter of Fighting Squadron 41 (VF-41) photographed in flight in 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Royal Air Force photographer captures a flight of three Boulton Paul Defiant Mk Is of the No. 264 Squadron, August 1940. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
Italian Macchi MC.200 Saetta fighter at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Formation of Vought F4U-1A Corsair fighters of VF-17 photographed in flight over Bougainville, March 1944. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)