F4U-1 Corsair fighter of VMF-214 parked at Turtle Bay airfield on Espiritu Santo island during WWII. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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North American P-51H Mustang used by NACA for flight research during 1945. (NASA Photograph.)
Two U.S. fighter pilots from 9th Air Force examine a wrecked German Me 109 fighter. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
U.S. Navy sailors on the escort carrier USS Kasaan Bay launch a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 74 (VF-74) during the invasion of Southern France. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Curtiss P-40K fighter photographed with the typical shark-teeth markings on the nose. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
An ex-RAF Bell P-400 Airacobra photographed at Burtonwood Airdrome, England in March 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Insignia of U.S. Marine Fighting Squadron 217 (VMF-217) photographed on the front of a jeep on Bougainville, 1944. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy Grumman XF4F-3 Wildcat prototype photographed during flight testing in 1939. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter is transferred from USS Kitty Hawk to USS Long Island at Fila Harbor, New Hebrides in August 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Supermarine Spitfire Mark IA of No. 19 Squadron RAF at Fowlmere is prepared for the next mission. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)