Photos of World War II Aircraft | World War II Database

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German Bf 109E fighters in flight over Kent, England, United Kingdom, 1940; note 'Chain Home' radar towers in background	German He 111 Doppel-Blitz bomber of KG 53 in flight over Belgium or France, Sep-Oct 1940	German Luftwaffe Do 17 bombers of KG 3 on an airfield, Belgium or France, Sep-Oct 1940	M.14 Magister aircraft of No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School preparing for flight at Woodley Aerodrome, Woodley, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Sep 1940

TBD-1 Devastator showing damage to fuselage after a landing accident on Yorktown, 3 Sep 1940	US Navy pilot C.M. O'Brien's TBD-1 Devastator aircraft crashed into Yorktown's starboard catwalk in a landing accident, 3 Sep 1940	German He 111 bomber in flight northbound over Surrey Docks, London, England, United Kingdom at 1700 hours on 7 Sep 1940, photo 1 of 2	German He 111 bomber in flight northbound over Surrey Docks, London, England, United Kingdom at 1700 hours on 7 Sep 1940, photo 2 of 2

The first aircraft, an N3N-3 Canary, to have landed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 7 Sep 1940	Two Do 17Z-2 bombers of German wing Kampfgeschwader 3 over Beckton Gas Works, flying southward toward Woolwich Arsenal, London, England, United Kingdom, 7 Sep 1940	Japanese Ki-21 bomber dropping bombs on Chongqing, China, China, 14 Sep 1940; note Yangtze River	Gun camera footage from a Spitfire Mk I fighter of No. 609 Squadron RAF, showing its tracer ammunition hitting a German He III aircraft over Filton, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, 25 Sep 1940

Formations of German He 111 bombers flying over Britain, seen through the the gun camera of British Pilot Officer J. D. Bisdee's Spitfire fighter of No. 609 Squadron RAF, 26 Sep 1940	German Bf 109 fighter after force-landing on a French beach, 1940-1941; this might have been Hans-Joachim Marseille's fighter that crashed on 28 Sep 1940	A flight of German Do 17 Z bombers of Kampfgeschwader 3 over France or Belgium, possibly en route to Britain, Sep-Oct 1940	A flight of German Do 17 Z bombers over France or Belgium, possibly en route to Britain, circa 1940

Captured Italian SM.81 transport aircraft at a British airfield, Aden, circa late 1940	G.50 aircraft in flight above Albania or Greece, circa late 1940	German Me 110 aircraft of ZG 26 'Horst Wessel' refueling in France, Oct 1940	Secondary training aircraft at Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, 1940. Foreground: Vultee SNV-1 Valiant; Background: Beech SNB-1 Kansan and two North American Texans, one Navy SNJ and one Army AT-6