Long Beach CA- As this swift and deadly attack bomber rolled off production lines of Douglas Aircraft Companys blackout plant here, the first for 1942, Douglas employees tagged it: With New Years greetings to Emperor Hirohito from 130,000,000...
Months ahead of schedule, the Vega Aircraft Corporation plant in Burbank CA is now in full mass production of B-17 Flying Fortresses for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Vega was the first to make deliveries of these heavy bombers under a pooled...
This is one in a series of the first released wartime aircraft production photographs, showing the Boeing Aircraft Companys all out, 24 hour a day, seven day week effort to keep em flying. That this effort has succeeded is evidenced by the recent...
Text from back of image: "Curtis (P-40) Warhawk excells its predecessors which have already …history in China, Libya, and Russia. Having a speed within the …this Allison powered fighter is equipped with a Curtiss propeller …of carrying an...
Text from back of image: "Sometimes called the Super Fortress, this Titan of the air had a wing spread 45 feet greater than the Y1B-17. The XB-15 weighed 13 tons more, was 20 feet longer and three feet higher. Because of its extreme weight (35...
Text from back of image: "Five months unrelenting search through the mountains of California and Arizona for Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut. Charles Webber, ended when their wrecked airplane and the bodies of the two men were found in densely...
Text from back of image: "Five months unrelenting search through the mountains of California and Arizona for Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut. Charles Webber, ended when their wrecked airplane and the bodies of the two men were found in densely...
Text from back of image: "Six army planes left San Francisco on Saturday to aid in the search for Clare A. Vance (above), U.S. airmail pilot, missing since Friday. Nothing has been heard from Vance since he left San Francisco for Reno, Nev. Airmail...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Maj. Frederick Martin, world flight commander and his mechanic, Sergt. Harvey, as they appeared, ragged, dirty and careworn on their arrival at Port Moller, Alaska, May 10th, after ten days wandering in the...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Major Frederick Martin, his wife and son, on board the S.S. Catherine D. on the Major's arrival at Bellingham, Washington, from Port Moller, Alaska. A big crowd was at the dock to greet the famous pilot after...
Text from back of image: "The story of Lieutenant Locatelli's rescue from the icy waters of the North Atlantic has already been received. These first and exclusive photos tell the story pictorially of his success in reaching Reykjavik, Iceland,...
Text from back of image: "Commander John Rodgers of the Pacific Flight expedition, wearing several wreaths placed around his neck at reception given the fliers on arrival in Honolulu. Gov. Farrington of Hawaii led the cheering for the heroic...
Text from back of image: "Gov. Farrington of the Hawaiian Islands, receiving message from Commander John Rodgers, on the arrival of the missing Pacific flyers, at Honolulu. The fliers were given a great reception. Photo taken at the Capital...
Text from back of image: "The crew of the navy seaplane PN9-1 having been lost at sea for 9 days and finally picked up by the submarine P4 were given a fitting welcome upon their return to S. F. today aboard the U.S.S. Idaho. Photo shows from left...
Text from back of image: "Top photograph shows the Montana 'cowboy' pilot beside the plane at Harbor Grace, N.F., shortly before the take-off. Lower view shows the actual start of the tragic flight in which Diteman hoped to reach Europe. Search for...
Text from back of image: "The airplaine 'Seattle,' Major Frederick L. Martin's flagship, which is reported lost again with the commander of the U.S. round-the world squadron and his mechanic, Sergt. Alvah Harvey. The photo of the plane is one of...
Text from back of image: "The waters of Timor Sea or the wild uninhabited shores of Northwestern Australia, on May 20th, cloaked the whereabouts of two English aviators, Flight Lieutenant J. Moir and flying officer H. Owen. The two flyers left...
