Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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Soviet pilot Mariya Dolina posing in front of a Pe-2 bomber, circa 1944	Spitfire XI aircraft EN 409 which was used in high speed diving trials in 1944

Stripped US Army airborne jeep exiting a Horsa glider, date unknown; note jeep's lack of ends of the front bumper, and some body and fender panels	Ta 152H aircraft at rest, date unknown

Ta 154 A-0 Moskito night fighter, circa 1944	Ta 154 Moskito night fighter, circa 1944

Ta 154 Moskito night fighter, circa 1944	TBF Avenger being spotted for parking at Barakoma Airfield, Vella Lavella in the Solomons, 1944

TBF-1 Avengers getting ready to take off from Piva airstrip, Bougainville, Solomons for a strike against Rabaul, New Britain, 1944. Note differences in the National Insignia.	TBM Avenger aircraft in covered concrete revetments at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, US Territory of Hawaii, 1940s

TBM-1 Avenger on a carrier deck, 1942-44. Note Mark XIII torpedo and crewman on top of the airplane handling an antenna from the ASB radar system.	TBM-1C Avenger aircraft flying from the USS Intrepid, 1943-1944

TBM-1C Avenger aircraft flying from the USS Intrepid, 1944; note five low flying aircraft below lower element	TBM-1C Avengers forming up over the Green Island airstrip, Northern Solomons, on their way to strike the Japanese. Some Avengers flying from Green Island acted as control ships for some of the first radio-controlled drone bomb strikes, 1944-45.

The damaged landing gear of an FM-2 Wildcat after a hard landing aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45.	This P-40K Warhawk was one of three P-40s that were heavily modified with supercharged Allison engines & bubble canopies into the experimental XP-40Q. Performance improved but still did not match the P-51, P47, or P-38 so they never went into production

Three FM-2 Wildcats flying over Lake Michigan, United States during carrier qualifications aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable, 1943-44.	Three Horsa gliders landing, pre-May 1944

Two D4Y2 dive bombers prepared to take off, circa 1944	Two TBM-1 Avengers sent to Britain under Lend Lease to become Tarpons of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm.