Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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A Curtiss SC Seahawk floatplane on USS Nashville’s catapult, 1945. Note the radar pod under the right wing. Missing from the ship is the starboard aircraft catapult that was removed in the Mar 1945 refit at Puget Sound.	A Douglas R4D (C-47) transport plane (center) loading wounded Marines on Iwo Jima's South Field bound for a Navy hospital on Guam, Mar 1945. Note Mount Suribachi to the left.	A F6F-5 Hellcat fighter on the port catapult of USS Randolph, Mar 1945; note Geometric Symbol (G-symbol) on tail.	A Marine "Oly" (OY-1 Sentinel) landing on Iwo Jima, Mar 1945.

A Mark XIII aerial torpedo with wooden shroud rings fore and aft being loaded from a boat into the starboard bomb bay (in the engine nacelle) of a PBM Mariner patrol aircraft, probably 1945 in the Pacific.	African-American airmen Marcellus Smith and Roscoe Brown, Jr., Ramitelli Airfield, Italy, Mar 1945	An F6F Hellcat landing aboard Independence-class carrier USS Cabot in the Pacific while a cruiser steams off the beam, 1945.	An ordnanceman aboard USS Wasp (Essex-class) placing tape over the gun ports on F4U Corsairs to keep dust and salt spray out of the guns before they are fired, 1945.

Ar 96 aircraft with Czechoslovakian markings at rest, Czechoslovakia, spring 1945	Armorers load belts of .50 caliber ammunition into a P-51D Mustang of the 45th Fighter Squadron, Saipan, Mariana Islands, before flying to Iwo Jima, Mar 1945.	B-26G Marauder “Sure Go for No Dough” of the 394th Bomb Group (Medium) sitting on the ramp at RAF Mount Farm, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1945.	B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 29th Bombardment Group assembled at North Field, Guam, Mariana Islands, 1945. Note the large Square-O on the tails that painted over the tail numbers.

C-47 or R4D aircraft delivering mail to US Marines in southern Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945	Captured Heinkel He-219 Uhu night fighters in Denmark, 1945	F4U Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-222, Guiuan Airfield, Samar, Philippines, 1945. Note the oversized squadron decals on the cowls.	Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft at rest, circa 1940s

Me 410B-2 Hornisse aircraft, captured by Russian troops in East Prussia, spring 1945	Overhead view of plane handlers spotting an SB2C Helldiver aboard USS Bennington, early 1945. This view offers a good look at the large surface area of the Helldiver’s tail plane.	Personnel being taken aboard the Independence-class carrier USS Langley by high wire while underway off Okinawa, Japan, Mar 1945.	Photo of Essex-class carrier USS Randolph taken from the back seat of an SB2C Helldiver that had just launched, Feb or Mar 1945, Pacific