Photos

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.

Enters the water at Seattle, Washington, for a test flight circa 11 July 1942.

In Lake Washington, near Seattle, circa July 1942 while undergoing tests.

In flight during tests, 13 October 1942.

This damaged Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" was only 30 feet away from a 1000 pound bomb crater 35 feet by 15 feet. 21 December 1944. Mindoro Island, Philippine Islands

A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" at an Army Air base in the Solomon Islands, stands ready to have bombs loaded aboard. Note the interlocking steel strips that form a runway surface ideally suited for these heavy bombers

Curtiss SB2C-1 "Helldiver" bombers return to USS YORKTOWN (CV-10) after strikes on Chichi Jima. Photographed by PhoMlc O.L. Smith, USNR. Photo dated 6 July 1944, but Chichi Jima Raid was on 4 July 1944.