Qayyarah West Airfield, Iraq

Huts on airfield with bombs exploding

Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo taxis on Floyd Bennett Airfield, but loses control of his plane and it bursts into flames on the runway, killing de Pinedo.

Row of Gloster Gladiator planes

WAAF running down into air-raid shelter

Burma Refugees

Pilots prepare to take off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York.

A new class of WASPs graduates from their pilot training and march before the founder of the organization, Jacqueline Cochran.

Glider taking off

Italo Balbo is seen at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, where his seaplane takes off from the water

Gloster Gladiator planes taking off

Hampden bomber revving up and taxiing round

An Army basecamp in Vietnam has tents, trucks, supplies and an airstrip that a warplane takes off from

Propellers of planes lined up on tarmac

Crew approaching Hampden bomber

Mechanics wheeling plane out of hangar

Hampden bomber crews approaching

Row of six planes lined up with mechanics

Women Airforce Service Pilots march and listen as founder Jacqueline Cochran speaks on graduation day and they then board an air transport and take off from Avenger Field in Texas.

Hudson airplane

Spitfires

Tower Bridge

Military ship

Military airmen are reunited with their wives and children at an airport in Rhode Island

A group of men come home to their families after serving time posted in Antarctica during the 1960s

Information room

Military airmen are reunited with their wives and children at an airport in Rhode Island

World War II in Colour: American / Japanese Air Battle

Hiroshima Bomb Damage