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Curtiss A-12 Shrike attack/light bomber: 1933 retired 1942: 46: Curtiss XA-14 attack/light bomber: 1935 retired prototype: 1: Curtiss A-18 Shrike attack/light bomber: 1935 retired 1943: 13: Curtiss B-2 Condor heavy bomber: 1929 retired 1934: 13: Curtiss BF2C Goshawk fighter-bomber: 1933 retired 1949: 166: Curtiss CS torpedo bomber: 1923 Retired ...
Boeing PB Flying Fortress - Heavy bomber; Boeing P2B Superfortress - Heavy bomber; Boeing 314 Clipper - Impressed flying boat transport; Boeing XF8B - Prototype carrier-based fighter-bomber; Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger - Flying boat/patrol bomber; Brewster F2A Buffalo - Carrier-based fighter; Brewster SBA/Naval Aircraft Factory SBN - Carrier-based ...
Assembling B-25 Mitchell medium bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, October 1942. America's manufacturers in World War II were engaged in the greatest military industrial effort in history.
United States: dive bomber: 1943: 7,140: Australia, United Kingdom ... List of aircraft of the United States during World War II; References. Notes Citations ...
A bombardment group or bomb group was a unit of organizational command and control group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. A bombardment group was normally commanded by a colonel. The table of allowances (TOA) for personnel, aircraft and equipment grew steadily over the course of the war doubling from 35 aircraft ...
The USSR received 862 B-25s (B, C, D, G, and J types) from the United States under Lend-Lease during World War II [29] via the Alaska–Siberia ALSIB ferry route. A total of 870 B-25s were sent to the Soviets, [ 30 ] meaning that 8 aircraft were lost during transportation.
A Marauder of 25 Squadron SAAF, shot down on the unit's last mission of World War II on 4 May 1945, was the last Marauder lost in combat by any user. [35] The British and South African aircraft were quickly scrapped following the end of the war, the United States not wanting the return of the Lend-Lease aircraft. [33]
The Consolidated B-32 Dominator (Consolidated Model 34) was an American heavy strategic bomber built for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.A B-32 was involved in the last air combat engagement of the war, resulting the war's last American air combat death.