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The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during ... Allied Aviation XLRA: United States: 1943: 2 ...
Stinson O-49/L-1 Vigilant - Observation/liaison aircraft; Stinson O-62/L-5 Sentinel - Liaison aircraft; Supermarine Spitfire - Fighter/reconnaissance; Taylorcraft O-57/L-2 Grasshopper - Observation/liaison aircraft; Vultee A-31/A-35 Vengeance - Dive bomber; Vultee BT-13/BT-15 Valiant - Basic trainer; Vultee XP-54 - Prototype fighter; Vultee P ...
French Aircraft of the First World War. Mountain View California: Flying Machines Press. ISBN 0-9637110-4-0. Durkota, Alan; Darcey, Thomas; Kulikov, Victor (1995). The Imperial Russian Air Service — Famous Pilots and Aircraft of World War I. Mountain View, California: Flying Machines Press. ISBN 0-9637110-2-4. Lamberton, W.M. (1960).
Cheesman, E.F. (ed.) Fighter Aircraft of the 1914–1918 War. Letchworth, UK: Harleyford, 1960; The Great War, television documentary by the BBC. Gray, Peter & Thetford, Owen German Aircraft of the First World War. London, Putnam, 1962. Guttman, Jon. Pusher Aces of World War 1: Volume 88 of Osprey Aircraft of the Aces: Volume 88 of Aircraft of ...
A captured Messerschmitt Me 262, the most numerous jet fighter of World War II. World War II was the first war in which jet aircraft participated in combat with examples being used on both sides of the conflict during the latter stages of the war. The first successful jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, flew only five days before the war started ...
The Origins of the Second World War. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-20470-1. Wilson, Stewart. Aircraft of World War II (Aerospace Publications, 1988), with photos, production data, service histories, countries of origin, and specifications for most World War II fighters, bombers and cargo planes.
By the end of the war US factories had produced 300,000 planes, [2] [3] and by 1944 had produced two-thirds of the Allied military equipment used in the war [citation needed] — bringing military forces into play in North and South America, the Caribbean, the Atlantic, Western Europe and the Pacific.
The Nieuport 17, a French biplane fighter aircraft of World War I. While "ace" status was most often won by fighter pilots, bomber and reconnaissance crews, and observers in two-seater aircraft such as the Bristol F.2b ("Bristol Fighter"), also destroyed enemy aircraft. If a two-seater aircraft destroyed an aircraft, both crew members were ...