Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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US B-29 bomber flying over Osaka, Japan, 1945	US Marine Corps pilot First Lieutenant Williams L. Hood on a US Navy F4U Corsair fighter, Okinawa, Japan, 1945

US Navy nurse Lieutenant (jg) Madge Overstreet at Yontan, 1945	USAAF Photo Reconnaissance F-5E Lightning ‘Information Please’ accompanying Marine F4U Corsairs on a raid to Kushi-Take, Okinawa, Japan, June 1945. Photo 1 of 2. Note the photo nacelle under the F-5.

USAAF Photo Reconnaissance F-5E Lightning ‘Information Please’ accompanying Marine F4U Corsairs on a raid to Kushi-Take, Okinawa, Japan, June 1945. Photo 2 of 2. Note the photo nacelle under the F-5.	View from the island of USS Hornet (Essex-class) looking aft and leading the USS Bonne Homme Richard, USS Belleau Wood, and USS San Jacinto during gunnery exercises, 12 Jun 1945 off the Philippines.

Wounded US Marines being loaded onto an aircraft for evacuation, Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945; note female USN nurse Ensign Jane Kendeigh	Detachment One of US Navy Lighter Than Air Utility Squadron ZJ-1 sit for a group photograph in front of airship K-28 control car, Meacham Field, Key West, Florida, United States, June 1, 1945.

Escort carrier USS Attu the morning after riding out a punishing typhoon that scattered aircraft all over the flight deck and washed 3 aircraft overboard, 5 Jun 1945.	After the leading edge of USS Hornet’s flight deck was collapsed in Typhoon Connie, F6F Hellcats were launched over the stern as the carrier steamed in reverse at 18.5 knots, 6 Jun 1945.

FG-1D Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-323 in flight over Okinawa, Japan, 10 Jun 1945	Captured MXY7 Ohka aircraft on display at Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaii, 18 Jun 1945.

Casablanca-class Escort Carrier USS Shamrock Bay underway off Formosa (Taiwan), 24 Jun 1945. Note FM-2 Wildcat fighters on the flight deck.	P-61 Black Widow and P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft at Kagman Airfield, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1945

Beaufighter aircraft of No. 31 Squadron RAAF landing at an airfield on Tarakan Island off Borneo, 28 Jun 1945	A crewman resting aboard a B-29 Superfortress bomber, 1945

Air evacuation of wounded men from the Philippines on a mid-Pacific stop over, mid-1945. The wounded men are transferred from a PB2Y-3 Coronado to WC54 ambulances before boarding another plane bound for the US.	American B-29 bombers attacking Kure, Japan, late Jun or early Jul 1945

Armorers preparing propaganda leaflet canisters for loading onto a B-29 Superfortress bomber, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945	B-29 Superfortress bomber bombadier at work, 1945