Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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Major Gregory Weissenberger, Commanding Officer of Marine Fighting Squadron 213, the “Hellhawks,” getting into his F4U-1 Corsair with the engine running, Guadalcanal, Solomons, 1943.	Marine Corps SB2C Helldiver in flight, 1943-45. Note the unusual display of the Navy Bureau Number in the USAAF manner. This aircraft was USAAF A-25A Shrike #42-80453 that was transferred to the Marines.

Marine F4U-1 Corsair on the Torokina Airstrip, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, early 1943.	Mariner aircraft of US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-201, Naval Air Station Banana River, Florida, United States, circa Dec 1942-Feb 1943

Martlet fighter of No. 888 Squadron FAA taking off from HMS Formidable, Mediterranean Sea, circa 1942-1943	Martlet fighter of No. 888 Squadron FAA taking off from HMS Formidable, Mediterranean Sea, circa 1942-1943

Me 323 Gigant aircraft (foreground) and Bf 109 F aircraft (background) in winter camouflage, circa 1943	Me 323 Gigant aircraft at rest, 1940s

Me 323 Gigant aircraft at rest, 1940s	Me 323 Gigant aircraft at rest, 1940s

Me 323 Gigant aircraft loading or unloading a field gun, Italy, 1943	Me 323 Gigant aircraft loading or unloading an Opel Maultier halftrack vehicle, Italy, 1943

Me 323 Gigant at rest, Szentes, Hungary, 1940s	Me 323 Gigant heavy transport in flight, 1940s

Me 323 Gigant in flight, 1940s	Me 410 Hornisse aircraft in flight, circa 1942-1944

Mechanics performing maintenance on a D3A dive bomber, 1940s	Medical orderlies loading wounded servicemen onto a Harrow aircraft of No. 271 Squadron RAF, RAF Hendon, London, England, United Kingdom, 1940s

Members of No. 487 Squadron RNZAF posing with a Ventura bomber, RAF Methwold, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, early 1943	Members of USMC VMF 124 squadron maintenance crew, 1943