Photos

Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" landing on the new Tacloban Airstrip, Philippine Islands. 27 October 1944

Lockheed P-38 "Lightning", 28th Photo Reconnaissance, preparing to land on Yontan Airstrip after completing a photo mission somewhere over Kyushu, Japan. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, 29 July 1945.

Lockheed P-38 Napalm bombing near Ipo Dam, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Warming for the takeoff, this Lockheed P-38 soon will grind down the baked runway past dispersed sister ships, then all out into the sky for a tour of duty.

Flying Shark - Bell Airacobra or better known as the P-39, done up in war paint, shown off the runway at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, in the Solomons.

P-39 in Front of Operations Building, Patterson Field

P-39 in Front of Operations Building, Patterson Field

At an army air base in the South Pacific Area an Army Bell P-39 stands ready to take off on a strafing mission. The P-39'S heavy cannon and machine guns, together with a fragmentation bomb under the fuselage, make it an ideal plane for strafing enemy troops

At an army air base in the South Pacific Area an Army Bell P-39 stands ready to take off on a strafing mission. The P-39'S heavy cannon and machine guns, together with a fragmentation bomb under the fuselage, make it an ideal plane for strafing enemy troops

Pvt Charles Hasher, a member of the 2nd Raider Battalion, guards a Bell P-39 on the fighter strip at Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Island, 12 December 1943

Pvt Charles Hasher, a member of the 2nd Raider Battalion, guards a Bell P-39 on the fighter strip at Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Island, 12 December 1943

Side View Of A Bell P-39 "Aerocobra" At Burtonwood Airdrome, England. 16 March 1943.

Side View Of A Bell P-39 "Aerocobra" At Burtonwood Airdrome, England. 16 March 1943.

Three Douglas P-70 night fighters of the 6th NFS, Detachment B, at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal

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