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1,246 Wwii Aircraft Carrier Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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An US aircraft carrier rolling in the heavy seas carrying its cargo of fighter planes against the Japanese. Amongst the planes on board are Avengers...

Aircraft Carrier

Loading Of Munitions On A German Aircraft In Germany On May 8Th 1941

Loading Of Munitions On A German Aircraft In Germany On May 8Th 1941

London, England: Seaplane-Warspite. Veteran British Battleship Launches Seaplane. The British Admiralty released this photo showing H. M. S....

Military Airplane Leaving Ship

Full-length view of men unfolding the wings on a group of Douglas 'Devastator' torpedo bombers, aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier 'Enterprise,'...

Pilots clamber out of cockpits on the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, jabbering or speaking in monosyllables according to temperament, following a...

Fighters on Aircraft Carrier

Cruiser USS Santa Fe alongside Essex class aircraft carrier USS Franklin which has just been hit by a Japanese divebomber setting off the ammunition...

Parachutes fill the sky after the 12th Air Force Troop Carrier Air Division C-47s drop Allied soldiers and supplies over the beachhead between...

Airborne Landings

Burning Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku takes evasive action to avoid American bombs during the Battle of the Coral Sea. The line of her wake shows...

Japanese pilots stride towards their bombers on the deck of a Japanese aircraft carrier. Their destination? Pearl Harbour !

Japanese Bombers

Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Shokaku upon completion and delivery to the Imperial Japanese Navy, 23 August 1941.

Japan: Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Shokaku upon completion and delivery to the Imperial Japanese Navy, 23 August 1941

Navy Curtiss Helldiver prepares for a landing on an aircraft carrier after a bombing mission against a Japanese warship, World War II.

Helldiver Landing

Japanese aircraft carrier under attack during the Battle of Midway.

Battle Of Midway

An echelon of Grumman Avengers, American World War II bombers that carry a crew of three. Along with a belly tunnel gun, they carry torpedoes which...

Grumman Avengers

Anti-air gunners watching the US Aircraft carrier Yorktown burning after being bombed by Japanese aircraft during the Battle of Midway Island, 4th...

Yorktown Burning - Battle of Midway

Map showing the movements of 'HMS Ark Royal', 1939-1941, . Map of the Atlantic Ocean, western Europe and Africa, indicating journeys and principal...

Map Showing The Movements Of Hms Ark Royal

British ships carry troops withdrawn from the Malayan mainland under air cover to the island of Singapore.

Strategic Withdrawal

military ships and elements - wwii aircraft carrier stock illustrations

Military Ships and Elements

Japanese fighter plane on a kamikaze mission is shot down by anit-aircraft guns on an aircraft carrier. | Location: Near Saipan.

Japanese Fighter Shot Down

United States Navy carrier based Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless single engine scout plane dive bombers flying in formation over the Pacific during the...

World War Two: Pacific 1942

Firefighters use hoses to tackle the flames and damage to the flight deck of HMS Formidable, a Royal Navy Illustrious-class aircraft carrier...

World War Two: The Pacific 1945

African American troops of the 450th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion operate a M2 Browning heavy machine gun aboard an M3 half-track armored...

African American Troops Of The 450th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion

Commanding general of the United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Henry "Hap" Arnold presents Distinguished Flying Cross medals to the crews...

World War Two Pacific 1942

1930s USN PACIFIC FLEET AIRCRAFT CARRIERS SARATOGA AND LEXINGTON SEEN FROM FLIGHT DECK OF CARRIER RANGER BEFORE WORLD WAR II

1930s USN PACIFIC FLEET

World War Two, 18th January Asia, British Carrier-Borne aircraft Strike at Japanese Occupied Sumatra, Indonesia in the Pacific, Flight deck handling...

World War Two. 18th January, 1945. Asia. British Carrier-Borne aircraft Strike at Japanese Occupied Sumatra, Indonesia in the Pacific. Flight deck handling party sun-bathing on the wing of a hellcat fighter plane.

An American army plane spreading insecticide on a stream to destroy mosquitos which carry malaria.

Mosquito Warfare

American flight deck crew of a US aircraft carrier standing by to receive a message dropped from a scouting plane on a reconnaissance flight in the...

An American plane flying above an American aircraft carrier, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. In the background is the destroyer escort.

Aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill ablaze after being hit by two kamikaze suicide planes. Photographed from USS Bataan on the morning of May 11 while...

Japan/USA: Aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill ablaze after being hit by two kamikaze suicide planes. Photographed from USS Bataan on the morning of May 11, 1945, while supporting the Okinawa invasion. Battle of Okinawa, May 1945

Curtiss Hawk P-40F Warhawk fighter aircraft from the 60th Fighter Squadron, 33rd Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Force 12th Air Force...

World War Two North Africa 1942

World War II. Pacific front. F6 crashing on the deck of the aircraft carrier "Enterprise", November 1943.

World War II. Pacific front.

Naval rating from the escort ship HMS Daring watches the flight deck of the Royal Navy fleet aircraft carrier HMS Eagle during take off and landing...

An anti-sub coastal blimp drifts above the USS Ranger. March 1943. North Atlantic Ocean.

US Navy Blimp Flys Over Aircraft Carrier

Destroyer comes to the aid of the listing aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, which was hit by Japanese bombs and torpedoes during the Battle of Midway....

USS Yorktown After Japanese Attack

Sergeant Pilot John Joseph Mooney of Long Island City with Pilot Officer Donald William McLeod of Blackstone, Massachusetts. Both are members of the...

Airmen of the Second Eagle Squadron

Squadron of Douglas "Devastator" torpedo bombers unfold their wings for a takeoff abroad the USS Enterprise during the battle of Midway, June 3rd to...

View of Military Carrier with Planes Aboard

Airplane factory in Stratford, Connecticut, World War II, which produced over 6,000 Corsairs- fighter planes with fold-up wings for use on board...

F4U Corsair Production Line

Japanese Kamikaze plane misses hitting a U.S. Aircraft carrier after being damaged by the carrier's guns.

Flaming Kamikaze Plane

Radar information is charted aboard an Essex class aircraft carrier stationed in the Pacific during strikes against Japan in early 1945.

Charting Radar Information

Battlecruiser HMS 'Repulse', 1937. Launched in 1916, HMS 'Repulse' saw action in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November 1917. Deployed to...

Battlecruiser HMS 'Repulse', 1937.

American aircraft carrier USS Enterprise sailing in the Pacific Ocean.

View of clouds of black smoke rising from the USS 'Bunker Hill' aircraft carrier after it was hit twice by Japanese Kamikaze planes during World War...

USS Bunker Hill Burns

American paratroopers from the 101st Airborne division of the United States Army seated in a Waco CG-4 military troop carrying glider as they wait to...

Invasion Of The Netherlands

Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Akagi leaving Sulawesi in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia, 26 March 1942. In the background are other...

Japan: Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Akagi leaving Sulawesi in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia, 26 March 1942. In the background are other carriers and battleships of the IJN carrier strike force

Navy Grumman TBM-3 Avengers and Curtiss SB2C Helldivers from the aircraft carrier USS Essex dropping bombs on Hakodate, Japan, in July 1945.

Japan/USA: U.S. Navy Grumman TBM-3 Avengers and Curtiss SB2C Helldivers from the aircraft carrier USS Essex dropping bombs on Hakodate, Japan, in July 1945

Curtiss Hawk P-40F Warhawk fighter aircraft from the 60th Fighter Squadron, 33rd Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Force 12th Air Force...

World War Two North Africa 1942

United States Navy Vought SB2U Vindicator carrier-based dive bombers of Scouting Squadron VS-41 flying in formation as they prepare to land on the...

Vought SB2U Vindicator dive bombers

United States Navy Curtiss SB2C Helldiver carrier-based dive bomber during a training flight circa December 1942 location unknown. .

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver carrier-based dive bomber

1930s 1940s 1935 AERIAL VIEW OF US NAVY SHIP WWII AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS SARATOGA WITH BIPLANE AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLED ON FLIGHT DECK

1930s 1940s 1935 AERIAL...

Japanese heavy combat aircraft carrier Zuikaku, 1941-42. Built by the Nagasaki shipyards of the Kawasaki industrial group, completed on September 25...

Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku.

Elevated view of B-25 bombers on the deck of the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, April 1942. The planes were being prepared for a Tokyo raid to be led...

B-25s On USS Hornet

The British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal turns into the wind to prepare for three Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber planes...

Swordfish Aircraft Over Ark Royal

World War Two, January Asia, British Carrier Borne Aircraft strike at Japanese occupied Sumatra in the Pacific, A Hellcat fighter pilot ready in his...

World War Two. January, 1945. Asia. British Carrier Borne Aircraft strike at Japanese occupied Sumatra in the Pacific. A Hellcat fighter pilot ready in his plane.

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve pilot Lieutenant C J Lavender of Enfield, stands beside his Fleet Air Arm Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft on the...

Aboard A Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier

World War II, January 1945, Indonesia, Asia, British Carrier Borne Aircraft strike at Japanese occupied Sumatra, Picture shows pilots sitting in...

World War II. January 1945. Indonesia, Asia. British Carrier Borne Aircraft strike at Japanese occupied Sumatra. Picture shows pilots sitting in front of pom pom gun waiting for the next strike.

Supermarine Seafire fighters of the Fleet Air Arm on board an aircraft carrier, circa 1942.

Supermarine Seafires

British Aircraft Carrier, HMS, Ark Royal, Docked at Pier, Porsmouth, England, 1939.

Hms Ark Royal World War Ii World War II Ship

The American aircraft carrier USS Yorktown takes a hit while being bombed in the Battle of Midway, June 1942.

USS Yorktown Takes a Hit

Crew members work to put out a blaze started aboard the USS Belleau Wood following a kamikaze attack. In the background, smoke pours from another...

Crew Members Putting Out Fire Aboard Aircraft Carrier

United States Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat carrier-based fighters from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown fly in formation on their mission to attack...

Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat

An American Flying Fortress carrying out a bombing sortie against Japanese bases on the Solomon Islands during World War II.

U.S. Flying Fortress, WWII

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