Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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Australian soldiers posing with a captured Japanese Type 92 tankette and wrecked No. 42 Squadron RAAF Catalina aircraft, Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945	B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs on Japan, circa Jul-Aug 1945	B-29 Superfortress “Sweet Thing” of the 678th Bomb Squadron, 444th Bomb Group based at Tinian, Mariana Islands, circa Jul 1945 (Serial Number 44-70108).	B-32 Dominator bomber in flight, Aug 1943-Jan 1947

B-32-1-CF Dominator aircraft in flight, Aug 1943-Jan 1947	Crewmen of the USS Wasp (Essex-class) celebrate news of the war’s end by sunbathing on the flight deck off Japan, mid Aug 1945; days before this section of the flight deck was badly damaged in a typhoon.	F4U Corsairs of Fighting Squadron VBF-86 flying from USS Wasp (Essex-class), Aug 1945	F6F-5 Hellcat, TBM-3 Avengers, and SB2C-4E Helldivers of Carrier Air Group 87 aboard Ticonderoga, Jun-Aug 1945.

FG-1D Corsair fighter of US Navy squadron VBF-88 in an elevator aboard USS Yorktown, Aug 1945	FG-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-213 assigned to Escort Carrier USS Saidor flying a training flight in Hawaii, 1945	Fw 190 D-9 'Langnasen-Dora' aircraft at rest at an airfield, captured by Americans, post-European War; note P-47 fighters in background	Head-on view of a Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft, circa 1940s

Hurricane Mark IV fighter-bomber in flight, Aug 1945; note deeper radiator and rockets	J7W Shinden, 1940	Ki-45 and Ki-61 aircraft, Jeju-do, Korea, Aug 1945	Kikka prototype jet with rocket-assisted takeoff equipment, Kisarazu Air Field, Japan, Aug 1945

Kikka prototype jet, Kisarazu Airfield, Japan, Aug 1945	Port side view of a Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft, circa 1940s	SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-86 approaching the carrier Wasp (Essex-class) near Japan, 1945. Note the white radar pod under the wing.	SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-86 approaching the carrier Wasp (Essex-class) near Japan, 1945. Note the white radar pod under the wing.