Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

5,139 items in this album on 257 pages.


Major Walker of USAAF 3rd Bomb Group briefing pilots before a mission, Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, mid-1944	OS2U Kingfisher scout plane being recovered aboard the battleship USS Missouri, 1944-45

P-61 Black Widow 'Tabitha' of USAAF 425th Night Fighter Squadron at RAF Scorton, England, United Kingdom, circa mid-1944	SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-7 coming aboard USS Hancock off the United States east coast, mid-1944

TBM-1C Avenger bombers prepared to take off from Monterey to attack targets on Tinian, Jun 1944	Top view of a P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight over the English countryside, Jun 1944

US Navy Lt Robert F Doyle shaking hands with his wingman, Ens John F Mudge, after their return from a gunfire-spotting and strafing mission over the Normandy beaches, Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England, UK, Jun 1944.	US Pilots of 380th Fighter Squadron, 363rd Fighter Group with P-51D Mustang 'Fools Paradise IV' at Maupertus Airfield, Cherbourg, France, Jul-Aug 1944; note Jeep and CCKW fuel truck

USS Iowa in camouflage Measure 32, mid-1944	WASP pilot Florene Watson, one of the original WAF pilots, warming up her P-51D aircraft in Inglewood, California, United States, spring 1944

WASP pilot Helen W. Snapp flying her A-25A Shrike tow aircraft near Camp Stewart, Georgia, United States, Jun 1944	P-47D Thunderbolts of the 318th Fighter Group are loaded onto Escort Carrier USS Natoma Bay, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, June 1, 1944. The Fighter Group was on its way to Saipan, Marianas. Note USS Manila Bay with the rest of the Fighter Group’s Thunderbolts.

B-17 Fortress bombers of the 97th Bomb Group based in Italy flying over the Dinaric Alps in Yugoslavia on their way to bases in Ukraine as part of Operation Frantic, 2 Jun 1944.	US troops preparing to board Horsa gliders for Normandy, France assault, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2

US troops preparing to board Horsa gliders for Normandy, France assault, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1944, photo 2 of 2; note RAF markings recently painted over with USAAF markings	Ground Crewmen with Bombing Squadron 139 posing with their squadron mascot in front of the tail section of a PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber on Attu Island, Alaska, 4 Jun 1944. Note the Marsden mat surface.

B-24 Liberator “Memories” of the 465th Bomb Group over Ferrara, Italy Jun 5 1944.	A-20 Havoc bombers of US 416th Bomb Group attacking German road networks in Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944

British airborne troops admiring the graffiti chalked on the side of their Horsa Mk I glider, 6 Jun 1944	Crash-landed Allied Horsa Mk I glider near Hiesville, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944