Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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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 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.	XP-80 prototype jet fighter 'Lulu-Belle', 1945

XP-80A prototype jet fighter Gray Ghost in flight, 1944-1945	Yak-3 fighter in flight, 1940s

York C Mark I MW165 'BP' aircraft of No. 246 Squadron RAF being loaded with freight at RAF Luqa, Malta, 1944-1945	A captured Heinkel He-219 A-2 Uhu night fighter at a British controlled airfield in Germany. The number ‘FE612’ was applied by the British with ‘FE’ standing for ‘Foreign Equipment,’ Jan 1945

Corsair fighters taxi down the runway at Orote Field, Guam, Marianas, 1944-45. Note F6F Hellcats lining the runway in the foreground and TBM Avengers on the far side.	Crashed Halifax III bomber at RAF Full Sutton, England, United Kingdom, early Jan 1945

F4U-1D Corsair fighters fly in formation over Hawaii, Jan 1945. Photo 2 of 2.	Ground crew members of the USAAF 459th Fighter Squadron working on a P-38 Lightning aircraft, Chittagong, India, Jan 1945

Halifax B Mk III bomber of No. 462 Squadron RAAF at an airfield in Foulsham, England, early 1945	P-38J Lighting “Val” of the 393rd Fighter Squadron sits on the snow covered Saint-Dizier Airfield in France while pilots are delivered to their planes in an unusual manner, Jan 1945

P-47D Thunderbolt aircraft of the USAAF 358th Fighter Group, Toul Air Base, France, Jan 1945	PBY-5 Catalina of US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-52 sits in Woendi Lagoon, Dutch New Guinea, 1944-45. As this photograph was taken, this airplane was in the process of slowly sinking, which it did a short time later.