Photos

Is dropped from a Curtiss SB2C bomber, during tests. Photograph released 16 October 1946.

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Martin T4M-1 torpedo bombers of torpedo squadron one fly over USS LEXINGTON (CV-2) on 26 February 1929, shortly after that year's fleet problem. Note aircraft laid smoke screen in distance.

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Boeing B-17 with over 200 missions. Hickam Field

A Lockheed P-38 of the 28th Photo Reconnaissance comes in for a landing on Yontan strip, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, after a mission over Japan. 10 July 1945.

Four Lockheed P-38 "Lightnings" of Flight B, 28th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, attached to the 318th Fighter Group, lined up on an airfield on Saipan, Marianas Islands, 20 July 1944. P-38 in the foreground is nicknamed "Lucky Lu". These planes have five aeri

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Members of the 312th Bomb Group pose in front of an A-20

Douglas A-20 is fueled before taking off in test flight at a field somewhere in Australia. 7 October 1942.

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Lockheed P-38 "Lightnings" of the 36th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group, parked along the runway on the Hill Fighter Strip near San Jose, Mondoro Island, Philippine Islands. 20 December 1944

On patrol in the south western Pacific area in 1943-44. This plane belonged to bombing squadron 106 (VB-106).

Photo #: 80-G-73394 A Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter Is lifted on board USS Long Island (ACV-1) from USS Kitty Hawk (APV-1), at Fila Harbor, New Hebrides, 28 August 1942. This plane was en route to Guadalcanal as part of the second group of U.S. Marine Corps pl

A Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" buzzing a base somewhere in the Philippine Islands.