P-61 Black Widow Photographs | World War II Database

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YP-61 prototype aircraft in flight, circa 1941	P-61 Black Widow aircraft in flight, viewed from above, Aug 1943-Aug 1945

P-61 Black Widow 'Tabitha' of USAAF 425th Night Fighter Squadron at RAF Scorton, England, United Kingdom, circa mid-1944	USS Intrepid departing San Francisco, California, 9 Jun 1944 packed with vehicles, equipment, and aircraft including SBD Dauntless, F6F Hellcats, C-45 Expeditors, PV-1 Venturas, and P-61 Black Widows. Photo 1 of 3

USS Intrepid departing San Francisco, California, 9 Jun 1944 packed with vehicles, equipment, and aircraft including SBD Dauntless, F6F Hellcats, C-45 Expeditors, PV-1 Venturas, and P-61 Black Widows. Photo 2 of 3	USS Intrepid departing San Francisco, California, 9 Jun 1944 packed with vehicles, equipment, and aircraft including SBD Dauntless, F6F Hellcats, C-45 Expeditors, PV-1 Venturas, and P-61 Black Widows. Photo 3 of 3

Armorers SSgt George Townsend and Sgt George Barker make ready the dorsal quad Browning .50 caliber machine guns of a P-61 Black Widow night fighter, Saipan, 19 Jul 1944.	Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighters of the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron in formation over Western Europe, late Aug 1944

P-61 Black Widow night fighters and a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter at Kipapa Army Air Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 1945	P-61 Black Widow night fighters at Kipapa Army Air Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 1945

P-61 Black Widow of USAAF 419th Night Fighter Squadron in flight, circa 1944-1945	P-61 Black Widow and P-51 Mustang fighters at Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945; note one TBM Avenger (wings folded) and one C-46 Commando aircraft in background

War weary aircraft at the Wheeler Field graveyard (Waieli Gulch airstrip), Oahu, Hawaii, 4 Apr 1945. Photo 1 of 2.	War weary aircraft at the Wheeler Field graveyard (Waieli Gulch airstrip), Oahu, Hawaii, 4 Apr 1945. Photo 2 of 2.

P-61 Black Widow and P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft at Kagman Airfield, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1945	P-61 Black Widow aircraft at rest in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, summer 1945

Radar installed in the nose of a P-61 Black Widow aircraft, circa 1946-1949	P-61 Black Widow aircraft used in support of Thunderstorm Project, 1947

Northrop P-61B Black Widow night fighter with the 317th Fighter Squadron (All Weather) flies above the San Francisco fog over Sausalito, California, United States, Jun 23, 1948.	F-15A-1 Reporter resting at an airfield, circa late 1940s