Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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Personnel of the US 5th Armored Division examining a captured German Me 262 Schwalbe of Jagdgeschwader 7 at Stendal, Germany, 15 Apr 1945. Note FW-190 at right.	TBM Avenger torpedo planes of Composite Squadron 84 from USS Makin Island flying over Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 16 Apr 1945

US B-25 bombers above the Japanese Lamsepo Airfield, Linkou, Taiwan, 16 Apr 1945	CG-4 troop gliders awaiting snatch by low passing C-47 Skytrain aircraft, Wesel, Germany, Apr 17, 1945

F6F-5 Hellcat rests on the flight deck of USS Bataan as Marine and Navy Honor Guards prepare for a burial at sea off Okinawa, April 18 1945	B-17G Fortresses of the 546th Bomb Squadron drop their loads on the rail yards at Elsterwerda, Germany, Apr 19 1945. Note the smoke marker dropped by the lead aircraft signaling the remaining aircraft to drop their bombs.

Armorers equipping a F4F Wildcat fighter with HVAR rockets aboard USS Anzio, 20 Apr 1945 off Okinawa.	B-24M Liberator, pathfinder aircraft for the 707th Bomb Squadron, drops a smoke marker as well as its bomb load on the rail junction at Mühldorf, Germany, Apr 20 1945 (Hitler’s birthday).

FM-2 fighters secured on the flight deck of USS Anzio, Pacific Ocean, 21 Apr 1945	John Arledge and Theodore Schmidts unhooking a F4F fighter from the arresting cable aboard USS Anzio, Pacific Ocean, 21 Apr 1945

A B-29 Superfortress crashed during an attempted emergency landing on Iwo Jima Apr 24, 1945 and ran into nine P-51 Mustangs.	A B-29 Superfortress crashed during an attempted emergency landing on Iwo Jima Apr 24, 1945 and ran into nine P-51 Mustangs. Ground personnel wait behind a Jeep for all ammunition to cook off.

PV-1 Ventura aircraft of US Navy patrol bomber squadron VPB-125 taking off from Natal, Brazil, 25 Apr 1945; note PB4Y-1 Liberator bombers in background	Anti-aircraft tracers in the night sky above Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 28 Apr 1945; note US Marine Corps Corsair fighters in foreground

A British Lancaster bomber dropping food parcels for the starving residents of Ypenburg, Netherlands as part of Operation Manna, May 1945.	A message from the starving people of Holland to the US Air Force for food drops during Operation Chowhound, early May 1945. The RAF ran Operation Manna that dropped even more food to the starving Dutch. Page 1 of 2.

Americans disarming a capturing MXY7 Ohka Model 11 aircraft, 1945	Aviation Ordinancemen loading a Mark XIII torpedo into the bomb bay of a TBM Avenger aboard USS Bennington, May 1945. Note the torpedo’s plywood drag ring on the nose and wooden tail shroud.

B-24H of the 732nd Bomb Squadron was force to land at a Luftwaffe airfield in France Feb 4 1944. It was repaired and flown by the Germans as A3+KB. It was then recaptured at Salzburg, Austria in May 1945 where it was examined here by SSgt JT Sipkovsky	B-25 Mitchell of the 17th Reconnaissance Squadron (Bombardment) at Lingayen Field, Luzon, Philippines, Apr-May 1945