A Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo fighter suffers a landing gear failure on board the USS Long Island in July 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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A Republic P-43 Lancer is assembled by ground crew for the Republic of China Air Force, 1943. (U.S. Library of Congress Photograph.)
Original Caption: An F-16C Fighting Falcon, 457th Fighter Squadron, flies in formation with a P-51 Mustang over Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, Oct. 3, 2014. The 457th FS was activated Oct. 4, 1944, and...
Sailors test the machine guns of a Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat of Fighting Squadron Six (VF-6) on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) in April 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Lockheed P-38 Lightning “Little Red Head” photographed on Saipan in the Marianas, November 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Sailors on the USS Hornet fold the wings of a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter after a raid over the Marianas, June 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Spitfire Mk VB used by 309th FS, 31st FG is parked at Membury Airdrome, England in March 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
U.S. soldier inspects a German Me 109 fighter abandoned on the airfield at Salzburg, Austria by retreating German forces. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat: This Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat tested while at Langley a turbo-supercharger, rather than a gear-driven supercharger as was the norm with the F6F. This aircraft served with the NACA for almost one year...
The world’s largest formation of Supermarine Spitfire aircraft taxi down the runway during the Duxford Air Show in England in September 2011. The Supermarine Spitfire was the only Allied aircraft in production throughout the...