Photos

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.

USS Intrepid (CV-11) Air Group SB2C ?Helldiver? aircraft on their return flight after the attack on the Japanese fleet. Photographed by Richard Shipman, a photographer from USS Intrepid (CV-11), from the back seat of an SB2C.

USS Intrepid (CV-11) Air Group SB2C ?Helldiver? aircraft on their return flight after the attack on the Japanese fleet. Photographed by Richard Shipman, a photographer from USS Intrepid (CV-11), from the back seat of an SB2C.

USS Intrepid (CV-11) Air Group SB2C ?Helldiver? aircraft on their return flight after the attack on the Japanese fleet. Photographed by Richard Shipman, a photographer from USS Intrepid (CV-11), from the back seat of an SB2C.

USS Intrepid (CV-11) Air Group SB2C ?Helldiver? aircraft on their return flight after the attack on the Japanese fleet. Photographed by Richard Shipman, a photographer from USS Intrepid (CV-11), from the back seat of an SB2C.

Bell P-39 "Old 66". Lt Col Milton B. Adams of Corpus Christi, Texas

Bell P-39 "Airacobras" in flight

Bell P-39 "Airacobra" in flight over Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, Florida

Bell P-39 in parking area, with alert crew on duty

BOAC Boeing 314 in Lagos

Boeing Clipper "Bristol" at Shediac Bay, Canada, ca 1941

A Boeing 314 "Clipper" in flight. This Boeing 314 (c/n 2081; US civil registration NC18607) was built for the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and served with the UK registration G-AGBZ from 1941 to 1948. It was sold to the General Phoenix Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland (USA), as NC18607 in 1948 and later scrapped.

Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper

Standing under the nose of their FLying Fortress, these two men of the ground crew pause to pose for the Army photograhper in the South Pacific. These men are extremely pround of their planes and their victories. Note the string of shells for the machine gun i

On a snowy airfield, 26 February 1943. Plane has Bu# 3144.

Photographed circa 11 July 1942.