Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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TBM-1C Avengers and an F4F Wildcat, probably with Marine squadrons, lined up at Dulag airstrip, Leyte, Philippines in late 1944 or early 1945.	TBM-3 Avenger folding its wings after landing on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, 1944-45. Poor quality photo but shows well the three-color paint scheme used on United States Navy aircraft in the Pacific.

TBM-3 Avenger making low and slow pass over other Avenger aircraft on the flight deck of USS Makin Island, 1945	TBM-3E Avenger circles over the flight deck of USS Antietam off Hawaii, 1945. Note F4U Corsairs, SB2C Helldivers, and F6F Hellcat on the flight deck.

The flight deck of the training aircraft carrier USS Sable showing a severe slice in the steel caused by the spinning propeller of an F6F Hellcat. Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.	Toyohara Airfield under US parafrag attack, Taichu (now Taichung), Taiwan, 1945, photo 1 of 2

Tu-2 medium bomber at rest, 1940s	Two B-17 Flying Fortresses' vapor trails light up the night sky over Eastern Europe, circa 1945

UC-64A Norseman aicraft (44-70439) of USAAF 3rd Air Commando Group, Philippine Islands, circa 1944-1945	Unloading photographs from a B-29 Superfortress reconnaissance aircraft, Mariana Islands, 1945

US Army assault landing training at Bellows Field (Waimanalo Beach), Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 1945; note P-39 Airacobra aircraft, CCKW trucks, and Wailea Point in background	US Army Lieutenant General James Doolittle and Major General Curtis LeMay at 8th Air Force headquarters, High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom, 1945; note a tail boom of a P-38 Lightning behind them

US Army personnel unloading photographic equipment from a B-29 Superfortress reconnaissance aircraft, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945	US Army personnel with C-47 aircraft, Italy, 1945

US Army photo technicians servicing a F-5B Lightning reconnaissance aircraft 'Lucky Lu', Kagman Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 1 of 2	US Army photo technicians servicing a F-5B Lightning reconnaissance aircraft 'Lucky Lu', Kagman Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 2 of 2

US Army soldier standing next to a C-47 Skytrain wreck, near Bastogne, Belgium, circa early 1945	US B-25 bombers above the Japanese Toyohara Airfield, Taichu (now Taichung), Taiwan, 1945

US Coast Guard PBM Mariner aircraft taking off from the water, circa late 1940s	US Marine Corps SB2C Helldiver aircraft in flight exercises over US Territory of Hawaii, 1944-1945