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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 World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.
Martin XB-51 attack bomber: 1949: retired prototype: 2: 4,700: McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II attack aircraft: n/a: abandoned 1983 project: 0: 2,300: McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II attack aircraft: 1978: operational: 323: 4,200: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber: 1958: retired 2016: 5,195 [notes 2] 8,500: McDonnell Douglas ...
Aircraft Manufacturer Type Role Entered Service Number in Service Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina [3]: Consolidated Aircraft: Amphibious flying boat: Various 1941 114
The Douglas A-20 Havoc (company designation DB-7) is an American light bomber, attack aircraft, night intruder, night fighter, and reconnaissance aircraft of World War II. Designed to meet an Army Air Corps requirement for a bomber, it was ordered by France for their air force before the USAAC decided it would also meet their requirements.
Italian Piaggio P.108 bomber in 1942. A list of aircraft used by Italy during World War II until its capitulation to the Allies in September 1943. After that Italy was divided in two states, the Axis Italian Social Republic in the north and the Allied Kingdom of Italy in the south.
The aircraft was tested for almost two years, beginning in 1942; while the system proved extremely effective, no production models were built that used it before the end of World War II. Many surviving warbird-flown B-25 aircraft today use the de-icing system from the XB-25E (number made: 1, converted). ZXB-25E XB-25F-A
Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London: Studio, 1946. ISBN 1-85170-493-0. Brown, Kenneth. Marauder Man: World War II in the Crucial but Little Known B-26 Marauder Medium Bomber. Pacifica, California: Pacifica Press, 2001. ISBN 0-935553-53-3. Donald, David, ed. American Warplanes of World War II. London: Aerospace Publishing, 1995.
The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM [1] for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air and naval aviation services around the world.