Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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US Marine F4U Corsair fighter kicking up the dust on its way to the runway at Majuro, Marshall Islands, 1944-45.	US Navy Construction Battalion (Seabee) man waving to a formation of three B-29 Superfortress bombers, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944-1945

US Navy or Marines PBJ Mitchell bombers fitted with Mark XIII torpedoes with break-away glide wings to extend aerial range, 1945. Photo 1 of 2.	US Navy or Marines PBJ Mitchell bombers fitted with Mark XIII torpedoes with break-away glide wings to extend aerial range, 1945. Photo 2 of 2.

US Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer on patrol. This aircraft design was based on the B-24 Liberator but no super-charged engines and a tail design taken from the B-23 Dragon. The waist blisters seem to be inspired by the PBY Catalina. Date and location unknown.	US Navy PV-2 Harpoon aircraft in flight, circa 1945

US Navy squadron VF-66 commanding officer Lieutenant Commander John Gray posing with a FR-1 Fireball fighter, Naval Air Station North Island, California, United States, 1945	US personnel examine a Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu reconnaissance plane abandoned at Salzburg, Austria, 1945

US pilot Lt Robert G Young, Jr of the 374th Fighter Squadron on his P-51D Mustang at Little Walden in Essex, England, early 1945	US test pilot assesses the German ME 262 jet fighter over Ohio, late 1945. This aircraft fell into Allied hands when the German pilot defected and landed the plane at a US held airfield in Germany.

USAAF bomber crews at a briefing in England, United Kingdom, 1944-1945; note drawing of Me 163 Komet jet fighter on the map	USAAF engineer clearing out a captured airstrip, somewhere in Europe, circa 1945; note P-38 Lightning aircraft flying overhead with landing gear down

USS Makin Island's flight deck and island, late 1944-mid 1945; note arresting wires, barrier wires, 4 FM-2 Wildcat aircraft, and 1 TBM Avenger aircraft	USS Sable underway in Lake Michigan, United States, 1945; note crashed FM-2 fighter on flight deck

View of a fleet of B-29 bombers through the nose of another B-29 bomber, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945	View of the control tower at RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, 1945. Note line of 91st Bomb Group “hack” aircraft: Piper L-4 Grasshopper, Noordyne O-64 Norseman, P-47 Thunderbolt, and Cessna UC-78 Bobcat.

WASP pilot Vivian Eddy in the door of a P-39 Airacobra, 1945. Location unknown.	WASP pilots Eloise Huffines Bailey, Millie Davidson Dalrymple, Elizabeth McKethan Magid, and Clara Jo Marsh Stember in front of their B-24 aircraft, Aug 1943-Jan 1947

Welkin Mk II nightfighter at rest, 1940s	Wing-mounted HVAR air-to-surface rockets on a TBM-3 Avenger, 1945 or later, location unknown. Note the YAGI radar antenna.