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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The crew of a North American B-25 Mitchell, nicknamed “STUD”, poses with their aircraft, a veteran of over fifty missions, before flying back to the United States to tour the country promoting War Bonds. (U.S. Air...
Pilots from the 85th “Flying Skull” Fighter Squadron, 79th Fighter Group discuss air tactics in front of a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter. (U.S. Air Force 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 group of senior pilots pose in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress from the 325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group at Alconbury Airfield in June 1943. (U.S. Army Air Forces Photograph.)
The pilot of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt “Miss Mary Lou” sits in his cockpit on a grass field on Saipan, Marianas Islands, July 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
U.S. Marine Corps gliders for student pilots parked at Page Field. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)
A Supermarine Spitfire Mark IA of No. 19 Squadron RAF at Fowlmere is prepared for the next mission. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy Vought F4U-1 Corsair photographed with a test pilot at the Vought factory in Stratford, Connecticut. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
U.S pilot Lt. Mohawk of the 319th FS, 325th FG is helped into his parachute by a crew chief in Italy. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)