The crowded nose of the B-25 Mitchell bomber “Betty’s Dream” on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force as part of a ceremony for the Doolittle Raiders. (U.S. Air Force Photograph / Kevin...
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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Maximum Load” of the 314th Bomb Wing is prepared for a mission at North Field, Guam, April 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A rare view of a Bell P-39 Airacobra with a trio of rocket launchers mounted under each wing. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy ASM-N-2 “BAT” radar-guided bomb mounted under the wing of a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer at the Philadelphia Ordnance District during development and testing. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
Closeup of halftrack suspensions and tracks at Holabird Ordnance Depot, Baltimore, Maryland. (Library of Congress.)
Sailors mount a 1000-pound bomb beneath a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless on the flight deck of USS Ranger during Operation Torch in November 1942. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
Sixteen 250 lb. bombs wait to be loaded on a Short Stirling bomber of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
Lend-lease Thompson submachine guns arriving in England are unpacked by an ordnance corporal. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)