Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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USAAF pilots Colonel MacDonald and Al Nelson in the Pacific Ocean with MacDonald's P-38J Lightning aircraft 'Putt Putt Maru', 1944	USS Coral Sea underway with F4F and TBF aircraft on board, 1943-1944

USS Corregidor ferrying trucks, jeeps, and aircraft, mid-1940s	USS Enterprise with wartime camouflage under way with F6F Hellcats and SB2C Helldivers on her flight deck, 1944

USS New Jersey at sea, date unknown	USS Saratoga underway with SBD Dauntless, F6F Hellcat, and TBF Avenger aircraft on her flight deck, 1943-1944

USS Wake Island, 1940s; note Camouflage Measure 33, Design 10A and TBM Avenger and FM-2 Wildcat aircraft probably of VC-58	View from an American A-20 Havoc aircraft during a bomber run against a Japanese airfield, 1943-1945; note Ki-21 aircraft about to be destroyed

View from cockpit of a CG-4A glider as it was towed by a C-47 Skytrain aircraft, 1944	View from the control tower at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, England, UK, of P-51D Mustangs of the 360th Fighter Squadron in sandbag revetments, 1944.

View of Sand Island, Midway Atoll from a PB2Y-5 Coronado aircraft in the submarine basin, circa early 1944	Vought OS2U Kingfisher float plane being recovered aboard battleship USS New Jersey, location unknown, 1944

WAAF flight mechanics pulling the chocks from the wheels of a Beaufort Mark I aircraft of No. 51 Operational Training Unit before a training flight from RAF Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1944; note a Beaufighter Mark VI aircraft in background	WAAF Leading Aircraftwomen Iris Denholm and Doris Evans checking the desert survival equipment of a Hurricane aircraft at a Maintenance Unit in the Middle East, 1944-1945

WASP Betty Gillies flying a P-47 Thunderbolt, circa 1944, location unknown.	WASP pilot Dawn Seymour at the controls of a B-17 Fortress, circa 1944, location unknown.

WASP pilot Shirley Slade at the controls of a Martin B-26 Marauder bomber, 1944. Slade had a reputation for flying the difficult-to-handle airplanes like the P-39 Airacobra and the B-26 Marauder.	WAVES personnel washing a SNJ training aircraft, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, circa 1943-1945; note SNB aircraft in background

William Dibble at Chongqing airfield, China, circa 1944	Yokosuka P1Y Ginga Navy Type 11 medium bomber, date and location unknown, photo 1 of 4; note fuel pods on wings