Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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Three FR-1 Fireball fighters of US Navy squadron VF-41 aboard escort carrier USS Bairoko, 1946	Underside view of C-75, circa 1940s

US Navy personnel inspecting MXY7 K-1 Kai training aircraft, Yokosuka, Japan, date unknown	US serviceman taking a 20mm ammunition drum out of a G4M2a aircraft, Japan, 1945-1946

US-built P-40 fighter of the Chinese Air Force having been re-captured by Chinese forces after it had previously been captured by the Japanese (and painted with Japanese markings), China, circa 1946	Wrecked American A-20 Havoc bomber, date unknown

XF4U-3 Corsair aircraft, 1946; seen in Jun 1946 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	British mechanics inspecting a captured Japanese H6K flying boat, Sourabaya, Java, Jan 1946

Corporal Ralph Hayden and Leading Aircraftman Harry Pearce of No. 80 Squadron RAF working on F1M (foreground) and N1K (background) aircraft, Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies, Jan 1946	FR-1 Fireball fighter of US Navy squadron VF-41 landing aboard escort carrier USS Bairoko, 13 Mar 1946; this aircraft's nose gear would collapse moments after this photo was taken

Close-up view of an AN/APS-3 radar mounted on a US Navy PV-2 Harpoon aircraft, 1946; as seen in US Navy publication Naval Aviation News dated Apr 1946	F4U-4 Corsair aircraft of US Navy squadron VF-75 and SB2C-4E Helldiver aircraft of US Navy squadron VT-75 in flight over USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, western Atlantic Ocean, 5 May 1946

A F4U Corsair aircraft leading two F6F Hellcat aircraft attacking target ship DD-224 off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 May 1946; note this might be a composite photograph	Group portrait of Australian Governor-General's flight with York aircraft 'Endeavour', RAAF Base Fairbairn, Canberra, Australia, Jun 1946

RAdm Gerald Bogan and Commodore A. Burke, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, United States, summer 1946; note wing of R5D Skymaster aircraft and TBF Avenger, SNJ, and SB2C Helldiver in background	P-80A Shooting Star aircraft, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffet Field, California, United States, 22 July 1946

Three radio-controlled B-17G-90-DL Flying Fortress drone aircraft in flight, probably out of Eglin Field, Florida, United States, 6 Aug 1946	Chiang Kaishek and Song Meiling at an airfield in Taiwan, Republic of China, 21 Oct 1946

Ar 196A-5 aircraft in flight, circa late 1940s	F4U Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-213 being service, Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California, United States, 1947; seen in Nov 1947 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News