Photos

Personnel Inspection of an OS2U Squadron, on the flight line, 1942-43. The unit 's VOUGHT OS2U KINGFISHER Aircraft are parked in the background, with canvas covers over engines and canopies

This Lockheed P-38 rests on its nose after the front wheel of the tricycle landing gear collapsed when the plane struck a hole while landing on Dobodura, New Guinea. 5 April 1943.

25 August 1942, after an off center landing attempt. The pilot was Ensign G. W. Trumpeter.

The Douglas A-20 "Little Hellion #13" of the 89th Bomb Squadron, 3rd Attack Group, which crash landed at an air base near Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea. 1 November 1942.

This crashed Douglas A-20 stands forlornly on its nose at an airstrip at Saidor, New Guinea. 8 February 1944.

The crew of a Martin Baltimore of No. 69 Squadron RAF, disembark from their aircraft at Luqa, Malta, following a reconnaissance sortie.

Crew of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in New Guinea.

USS Biloxi (CL-80) Catapults a Curtiss SO3C Seamew floatplane, during her shakedown period, circa October 1943. Note the plane's national insignia, with the red surround briefly used in mid-1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the Nat

Cockpit of the Curtiss A-12 Shrike

A Curtiss A-12 "Shrike" awaiting delivery to the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in 1936.

Curtiss A-12 Shrike

Curtiss A-12 Shrike

90th Attack Squadron - Curtiss A-12 Shrike, Fort Crockett, Texas

Photograph of Eleven Curtiss A-12 Shrike Aircraft in Formation near Wheeler Field, Oahu, Hawaii taken in 1940.

Two planes in flight. Note: two 20mm guns in wings; two 30mm guns in aft cockpit; white bar on fin indicates the planes are from USS YORKTOWN (CV-10); rake-like antenna beneath wing is ASB search radar.

Parked at N.A.S. Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, circa 1944-45. Note use of battens to lock rudders.