Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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Battleship USS Iowa launching one of her Vought OS2U Kingfisher float planes while two others remained on their catapults, location unknown, 1944	Bell P-39 Airacobra on the Haleiwa Fighter Strip, Oahu, Hawaii, 1943-45. Note temporary nature of the tower construction.	Bf 110 aircraft in flight over Budapest, Hungary, early 1944	Bomb bay gasoline tanks for B-25 Mitchell bombers sat at the North American Aviation plant awaiting assembly, Inglewood, California, United States, 1944

British Spitfire fighter attempting to topple a German V-1 flying bomb with its wing tip, date unknown	British Tetrarch light tank being unloaded from Hamilcar glider during training (as suggested by sandbags and lack of landing gear), date unknown	British troops loading field gun aboard Horsa Mk II glider with glider nose section swung away, England, United Kingdom, 1940s	Broadside view of the Curtiss C-46 Commando in flight, Circa 1944. Note the twin paratrooper doors on either side of the airplane, unlike the single door of the C-47.

C-46 Commando aircraft flying over the Himalaya Mountains, 1943-1945	C-46 Commando and C-47 Skytrain aircraft of China National Aviation Corporation at rest in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, date unknown	C-47 Skytrain aircraft of China National Aviation Corporation in flight over China or Burma, circa 1944	C-47 Skytrain aircraft, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, 1943-1945

Canadian Spitfire F. MK XIV fighter of the No. 402 Squadron RCAF, circa 1940s	Canadian Spitfire F.R MK XIV of No. 430 Squadron RCAF, circa 1940s	Captured Buffalo fighter with Japanese markings, date unknown	Captured German Bf 110 G-4 night fighter at rest, United Kingdom, circa 1940s

Central Air Transport Corporation He 111A Doppel-Blitz aircraft (former Chinese Air Force aircraft number 1902), China, between 25 Feb 1943 (date of transfer from CAF to CATC) and 23 Dec 1944 (date of crash during a test flight)	Chinese and American pilots of the Chinese-American Composite Wing (Provisional) with a P-40N Warhawk fighter, China, 1943-1945	Chinese pilot Yoh Kung Chen of 27th Fighter Squadron of 5th Fighter Group of the Chinese-American Composite Wing (Provisional) with his P-40 Warhawk fighter, China, 1943-1945	Chinese troops in exercise, 1940s