Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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TBF Avenger being spotted for parking at Barakoma Airfield, Vella Lavella in the Solomons, 1944	TBF-1 Avengers getting ready to take off from Piva airstrip, Bougainville, Solomons for a strike against Rabaul, New Britain, 1944. Note differences in the National Insignia.	TBM Avenger aircraft in covered concrete revetments at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, US Territory of Hawaii, 1940s	TBM-1 Avenger on a carrier deck, 1942-44. Note Mark XIII torpedo and crewman on top of the airplane handling an antenna from the ASB radar system.

TBM-1C Avenger aircraft flying from the USS Intrepid, 1943-1944	TBM-1C Avenger aircraft flying from the USS Intrepid, 1944; note five low flying aircraft below lower element	TBM-1C Avengers forming up over the Green Island airstrip, Northern Solomons, on their way to strike the Japanese. Some Avengers flying from Green Island acted as control ships for some of the first radio-controlled drone bomb strikes, 1944-45.	The damaged landing gear of an FM-2 Wildcat after a hard landing aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45.

This P-40K Warhawk was one of three P-40s that were heavily modified with supercharged Allison engines & bubble canopies into the experimental XP-40Q. Performance improved but still did not match the P-51, P47, or P-38 so they never went into production	Three FM-2 Wildcats flying over Lake Michigan, United States during carrier qualifications aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable, 1943-44.	Three Horsa gliders landing, pre-May 1944	Two D4Y2 dive bombers prepared to take off, circa 1944

Two TBM-1 Avengers sent to Britain under Lend Lease to become Tarpons of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm.	Two US B-17G Fortress aircraft of the 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Bomb Squadron in formation, Sep 1943-Oct 1944	UC-45F Expeditor aircraft in flight, Aug 1943-Jan 1947	United States Army Air Forces OA-10A Catalina aircraft in rescue training off Keesler Field , Mississippi, United States, 1944

US airmen with a P-40N Warhawk fighter in China, 1943-1945	US armored division troops letting an 8th Air Force officer try a German MP 40 machine pistol, England, United Kingdom, 1943-1945; note Jeep vehicle, B-24H bomber, and M1 Garand rifle	US Army and Chinese nurses, China, 1944	US B-17G Fortress aircraft 'Pistl Packin Mama' of the 91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron based at RAF Bassingbourn, England, United Kingdom, 1944