Photos

Lockheed P-38 "Lightnings" in flight over Panama

Lockheed P-38 Airplanes on line in New Guinea

Lockheed P-38 front view

Lockheed P-38 Lightning in flight

Lockheed P-38 over Tacloban strip, Leyte Is., P.I.

Lockheed P-38 warming up for a take-off

Low-flying Douglas XB-19, circa 1942

Lieutenant Junior Grade James N. Barnitz, better known as "bean bag", and arm3c Herbert N. Stienkemeyer, examine the battered rudder of the SB2C-1C (Bu# 18208) they flew in raiding Marcus Island. Photographed on board USS ESSEX (CV-9), on 20 May 1944. In the background of the picture are two of Stienkmayer's fellow gunners. To the left of the propeller is Charles Lossie Rowland, and to the right, his face partially obscured by the propeller, is Stanley Nelson Whitby. Whitby was killed five months after this photograph was taken, shot down by the Japanese over the Pescadores Islands in October of 1944.

Lieutenant Junior Grade James N. Barnitz, better known as "bean bag", and arm3c Herbert N. Stienkemeyer, examine the battered rudder of the SB2C-1C (Bu# 18208) they flew in raiding Marcus Island. Photographed on board USS ESSEX (CV-9), on 20 May 1944. In the b

Ensign Wilfred M. Bailey and Arm3c Andrew P. Grotsis, examine the damaged propeller of their SB2C-1C "Helldiver", on board USS ESSEX (CV-9), 20 May 1944. The plane was hit by a shell during the Marcus Raid, and appears to have lost it's spinner.

TF-58 planes raid Pagan Island, 23 June 1944. Note SB2C "Helldiver" in overhead.

Raid Rabaul, circa 1943-44. Note flak bursts.

Dropped from a T4M-1 in Newport harbor, 1928, at a speed of 90 knots from an altitude of 50 feet. Note drogue attached to exercise head.

A Martin A-30 Baltimore in USAAF markings prior to delivery to the RAF

A USAAF Martin A-30 (Baltimore Mk IIIA) with the RAF serial number "FA105". Note this aircraft has the Martin dorsal turret.

A Martin Baltimore light bomber attacking Sulmona, Italy. The aircraft can be identified as the Baltimore IIIA, IV or V by the two gun low profile Martin turret. The picture also show the narrow fuselage of the aircraft.