Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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TBM Avenger and SB2C Helldiver bombers dropped their load on the Japanese city of Hakodate, Jul 1945	TBM-3 Avenger of Marine Squadron VMTB-242 taxiing past USAAF P-51D Mustangs at Iwo Jima's Motoyama Airfield No 1, 1945.

B-24M Liberator “Top o’ the Mark” and other bombers of the 23rd Bomb Squadron over Allied invasion fleet at Balikpapan, Borneo, July 2 1945.	PBJ-1 Mitchell bombers of Marine Squadron VMB-433 depart Rabaul, New Britain, after a raid 4 July 1945.

FM2 Wildcat of Composite Squadron VC-93 after getting caught in the crash barrier cables aboard escort carrier USS Steamer Bay 850 miles southeast of Japan, 9 Jul 1945.	Planes from USS Essex on a raid over Japan on 10 Jul 1945 with Mt Fuji in the background. Plane in foreground is a TBM Avenger and those beyond are SB2C Helldivers.

A Navy XJD-1 Invader of Utility Squadron VJ-4 flying out NAS Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 13 Jul 1945.	US C-54 Skymaster aircraft at the Berlin-Gatow airfield, Germany, 15 Jul 1945; these aircraft brought Harry Truman and other US leaders to Berlin for the Potsdam Conference

B-29 Superfortress of the 29th Bomb Group trailing smoke with number-4 engine feathered over Japan, 17 Jul 1945	P-51C Mustang of the 311th Fighter Group escorting C-47 Skytrain transports over a terraced landscape in China, July 24 1945

B-29 Superfortress bombers near Mount Fuji, Japan, circa Jul 1945	Light carrier USS Cabot steaming from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on her way to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, 26 Jul 1945

B-25J Mitchell bombers of the 41st Bomb Group armed with Mark XIII torpedoes prepare for take-off from Yonton Airfield, Okinawa bound for an attack on Japanese shipping at Sasebo, Japan, 28 Jul 1945.	Australian soldiers posing with a captured Japanese Type 92 tankette and wrecked No. 42 Squadron RAAF Catalina aircraft, Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945

B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs on Japan, circa Jul-Aug 1945	B-29 Superfortress “Sweet Thing” of the 678th Bomb Squadron, 444th Bomb Group based at Tinian, Mariana Islands, circa Jul 1945 (ser# 44-70108).

B-32 Dominator bomber in flight, Aug 1943-Jan 1947	B-32-1-CF Dominator aircraft in flight, Aug 1943-Jan 1947

Crewmen of the USS Wasp (Essex-class) celebrate news of the war’s end by sunbathing on the flight deck off Japan, mid Aug 1945; days before this section of the flight deck was badly damaged in a typhoon.	F4U Corsairs of Fighting Squadron VBF-86 flying from USS Wasp (Essex-class), Aug 1945