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An Airborne Early Warning Squadron 126 (VAW-126) E-2C Hawkeye aircraft approaches for a landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) during NATO Exercise DISPLAY DETERMINATION '86, 19 September 1986.

A Miles Master II (in service from November 1939), the fastest single-engine training aircraft in the world, in which RAF trainee pilots practice low-level bombing and forward-firing gunnery. 18th September 1941.

An A20? Everything from fighters to peanuts was brought to the United Kingdom by a convoy of ships, escorted partly by United States vessels, which has now arrived safely at a British port after crossing the Atlantic from America. As soon as the convoy arrived with all this lease-lend help, the...

Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi Navy Type 1 attack bombers Mitsubishi G4M drop bombs during the bombing of Chengdu on September 18, 1941 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.

The Curtiss XP-60 fighter. First flight September 18, 1941. Packard V-1650-1 Merlin, later XP-60A Model 90B. Originally ordered as XP-53 with Continental XIV-1430-3. Crashed May 6, 1943, Rome, New York. The XP-60 was found to have less potential than North American's P-51 Mustang design and...

A Luftwaffe officer checks his flare gun in North Africa on 16 September 1941.

A Stuka crew assembles its equipment in North Africa on 16 September 1941.

Marine aircrew of VMB-423 with their PBJ-1D in the Solomons, 1943. Their aircraft had been funded by a war bond drive in Oklahoma, with 35,000 students signing a 65 foot long scroll that was delivered with the aircraft.

The Handley Page Halifax, one of the new four-engine bombers of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command in flight, September 11, 1941.

An F-15 Eagle aircraft from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force lands with its air brake up during Exercise COPE NORTH 86-4, Nyutabaru Air Base, Japan, 11 September 1986. U.S. Air Force squadrons are engaging in dissimilar air combat training with Japan Air Self-Defense Force squadrons during the...

RAF officers inspect the wreckage of a Junkers Ju 88 lying in the waters of the Suez Canal after being shot down by an RAF night fighter near Kantara on the night of 9-10 September 1941.

The Soviet MiG-25 is covered after pilot Viktor Belenko landed to defect at Hakodate Airport on September 7, 1976 in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan.

Two American-made Catalina flying boats are on patrol flight over the Malayan Peninsula on September 7, 1941

Sept 6 1976. A Soviet Air Forces pilot, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, broke away from a routine training flight from the Chuguyevka Air Base in the far southeastern portion of the Soviet Union, and flew to Japanese airspace with the USSR's newest warplane, the MiG-25 "Foxbat" fighter. Intending...

American fighter pilots Richard Alexander, Gilmore Daniel, Hugh Kennard, Michael Miluck, Chesley Peterson (in the cockpit), Jimmy Grey, Colonel Reade Tilley, and Smith, all former fighter pilots of the RAF Eagle Squadron during the Second World War, pose beside a Spitfire during a reunion at the...