Photos

Curtiss SB2C-1 "Helldiver" bombers fly over task force 58 carriers, while returning to USS YORKTOWN (CV-10) after strikes on Chichi Jima. Photographed by PhoMlc O.L. Smith, USNR. Original CinCPac caption gives date as 6 July 1944, but Chichi Jima Raid was on 4

Fanciful artwork pictures an SB2A engaging a "Zero" over a Pacific Atoll. No SB2A's were used for combat rolls in World War II. Artist Hunter Wood.

At NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, 22 December 1943.

At NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, 22 November 1943.

At NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, 22 November 1943, showing wings folded.

At NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, 24 November 1943. Note folded wings.

At NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, 22 November 1943.

Before: Buka Island, Solomons: Scattered clouds did not obscure the target enough to protect this major Jap air base on Buka Island in the Solomons from 13th Air Force bombers on 15 Sept. Eight Consolidated B-24Ds from Guadalcanal took part in the operation dropping three hundred 120-lb fragmentation clusters from 19,600ft. mostly on runway and revetment areas. Complete lack of opposition and negligible AA fire indicated a high degree of surprise.

Air Corps Supply, 29th Air Service Group. Side view of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in which there are 158 bullet holes

C-75 Stratoliner "Cherokee"

The pilot and co-pilot at the controls of their Consolidated C-87 of the 1330th AAF Base Unit, Air Transport Command, as they roar over the dangerous "Hump" in India. 8 November 1944.

This Consolidated C-87 has flown over the "Hump" and is in the valley on the approach to the Tezpur Air Base, July 1943.

Cargo plane of the India-China Wing Air Transport COmmand, in flight on its return from China to its home base in INdia. These planes do not fly in formation.

Consolidated C-87 "Gulliver II" on runway at Waller Field, Trinidad, British West Indies. April 1943.

Alon, Burma. Railroad transportation in Burma is an acute problem. Pictured are India natives unloading parts of a locomotive off of a Consolidated C-87, flown in from Barrackpore, India. March 1945.

At Kunming, China, Coolies Unload A Bomb From A Consolidated C-87. The Air Transport Command Plane Has Transported A Shipment Of Bombs And Miscellaneous Freight From Chabua, India, Over The "Hump" To The Base In China. 1943.