Photos

The Boeing B-17 "TALISMAN" warms up prior to take off from Jackson's Drome, Port Moresby, New Guinea. This plane carried General MacArthur to and from the battle zones in New Guinea. 5 September 1943.

Sgt. Edward Hakes, bombardier, at his position in a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortess". Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaii

Entire Crew Of A Boeing B-17, 64Th Bomb Squadron, 43Rd Bomb Group, Is Shown In Front Of Their Plane At An Airfield, Mareeba, Australia After Returning From A Mission. 17 November 1942.

A photographer in the cockpit of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress en route to target framed this photograph of the plane's No. 3 and No. 4 engines. This "Flying Fortress" is based at Hickam Field, Hawaii. 30 January 1942.

This is the Boeing B-17, the men and the equipment which took part in the flight to move artillery by air. The plane carried a load which consisted of: one 105mm howitzer complete, twenty five rounds of ammunition, one tractor and the eight man gun crew with complete field equipment, also the normal plane crew.

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Hell's Kitchen" and officer personnel. South Pacific Area.

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Parked In A Revetment At An Airfield Near Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea. 1 November 1942.

These Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses" will take aboard this bomb load and a short while later drop them on the Japs in the Solomon Islands

A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" is repaired by members of the 27th Air Depot Group at the Port Moresby Air Depot, Papua, New Guinea

A heavy concentration of Jap vessels at Rabaul, New Britain was surprised and dispersed by a squadron of US Air Force bombers in January 1943. The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses", loaded with bombs for the Japs, speed through cloud-speckled skies over the sout

B-24 Over Iwo Jima

Baltimore over Italy

Loading drop tanks on SB2Cs aboard USS LEXINGTON (CV-16) before a search mission, on 25 October 1944.

Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6) TBD-1 aircraft are prepared for launching on USS Enterprise (CV-6) at about 0730-0740 hrs, 4 June 1942. Eleven of the fourteen TBDs launched from Enterprise are visible. Three more TBDs and ten F4F fighters must still be pushed into position before launching can begin. The TBD in the left front is Number Two (Bureau # 1512), flown by Ensign Severin L. Rombach and Aviation Radioman 2nd Class W.F. Glenn. Along with eight other VT-6 aircraft, this plane and its crew were lost attacking Japanese aircraft carriers somewhat more than two hours later. USS Pensacola (CA-24) is in the right distance and a destroyer is in plane guard position at left. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

TBFs and SB2Cs enroute to attack the enemy. Photograph released 30 June with other Philippine Sea views.

USS Intrepid (CV-11) Air Group SB2C ?Helldiver? aircraft in flight, en-route to attack the Japanese fleet. Photographed by Richard Shipman, a photographer from USS Intrepid (CV-11), from the back seat of an SB2C.