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FM2 Wildcat of Composite Squadron VC-93 after getting caught in the crash barrier cables aboard escort carrier USS Steamer Bay 850 miles southeast of Japan, 9 July 1945.

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American carrier-based dive bombers SB2C "Helldiver" (Curtiss SB2C Helldiver) on Falalop Island in the Ulithi Atoll area. December 1944

Maintenance personnel roll out a Douglas SBD-4/5 Dauntless dive bomber after it landed on the aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22). The bomber pictured belongs to Composite Squadron 22 (VC-22). April 30, 1943

Italian pilot Ottone Sponza with a torpedo from a Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 "Sparviero" torpedo bomber. 132nd Torpedo-Bomber Group (132 Gruppo Autonomo Aerosiluranti). Winter 1941–1942.

Macchi MC.200 "Saetta" (Lightning) fighters of the 386th Squadron of the 22nd Air Group. Summer 1942

A pilot and airfield staff during the gunnery adjustment of a Spitfire Mk I fighter from No. 602 Squadron RAF. 1940

U.S. Marine Aircraft Group 31 aircraft mechanics service the weapons of a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter jet at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa. Pictured left to right: Privates 1st Class Elroy J.C. Karl and Joe L. Levy, Sergeant Herbert W. Curtis, and Corporal Leland L. Wheeler. May 1945

RAF Buccaneer in descent to its operational altitude

The crew of a Martin Baltimore of No. 69 Squadron RAF, disembark from their aircraft at Luqa Malta, following a reconnaissance sortie 1942.