Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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Cockpit and instrument panel of a B-32 Dominator bomber, circa 1940s	Cockpit and instrument panel of a D4Y4 special attack aircraft, circa 1945	Consolidated PB2Y Coronado in flight, 1944 to 1945. Note the twin tails with shapes similar to the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.	Corporal Lawrie Lever of RAF Mobile Repair Unit warming his hands with an air compressor which had just been used to service the engines of the Harrow aircraft in the background, Advanced Landing Ground B-56 Evere, Brussels, Belgium, 1945

Corsair fighter, under tow, with wings being caught by overhead power lines on Kingsford Smith Drive, Brisbane, Australia, circa 1945	Corsair Mk II fighter aboard an escort carrier in the Indian Ocean, 1945; note outrigger device which allowed the fighter to extend beyond the flight deck thus saving deck space	Crew of B-24J Liberator bomber 'Upstairs Maid' being briefed before a mission, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945	Crews attach lines to an F6F Hellcat hanging over the edge of the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.

Crews check on pilot Ens John E Hood in his FM-2 Wildcat after a hard landing aboard training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. Note bent propeller blades.	Crews move quickly to secure an F6F Hellcat as it hangs over the side of the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.	Crews move to secure an FM-2 Wildcat after a hard landing on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.	Crews perform maintenance on OS2U Kingfisher catapult planes aboard US battleship South Dakota, probably at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 1945

Damaged P-47 aircraft after a landing accident, Italy, 1945	De Havilland Mosquito Photo Reconnaissance variant at Akyab Island airstrip, Burma, 1945 (now Sittwe, Myanmar).	Deck crew signals the pilot of an FM-2 Wildcat aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.	Decoy Japanese B6N, Ki-27, and other aircraft emitting false smoke during US air raid, Koshun Airfield, southern Taiwan, date unknown

Douglas A-26 Invader firing an HVAR air-to-surface rocket, date and location unknown.	Eighteen TBM Avengers in flight, 1943-45.	Experimental P-38H Lightning aircraft, date unknown	F-5A Lightning aircraft of USAAF 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Aug 1943-May 1945