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223 Japanese Air Force For Wwii Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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Flying Tigers was the popular name of the 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941-1942. The pilots were United States Army ,...

American Liberator bomber flies over Flying Tiger P-40 fighters, Kunming, c1942.

As a pool of foam from a near miss spreads out, smoke rises from a direct hit on a Japanese submarine chaser by bombers of the Fifth US Army Air...

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

Parachute bombs about to land and explode on a Japanese plane, camouflaged with branches and covered in graffiti, on the ground during a low-level...

White Phosphorus Bombs dropped by aircraft of the United States Army Air Force Fifth Air Force explode above two Imperial Japanese Army Air Service...

World War Two: The Pacific 1943

North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber from the 38th Bombardment Group of the Fifth United States Army Air Force attacks Imperial Japanese...

World War Two Pacific 1943

Dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese industrial port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the...

Atomic Bomb dropped in Nagasaki

Japanese Aviator Receives his Diploma ultimately resulting in building the Japanese Air Force for WWII

Japanese Aviator Receives his Diploma

World War II era political cartoon postcard, dated 1942, depicting Japanese Admiral Yamamoto fleeing from incoming American forces. Yamamoto was...

"The Yanks Are Coming" Cartoon

Aerial view from aircraft of the 308th Bombardment Wing from the United States Army Air Forces 5th Air Force as they attack transport boats and...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

Flying Tigers was the popular name of the 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941-1942. The pilots were United States Army ,...

A Chinese KMT soldier guards a line of American P-40 fighter planes, painted with the shark-face emblem of the Flying Tigers, SW China, 1942.

World War II. Japanese Mitsubishi Zero aircraft. Drawing by Robert Roux.

World War II. Japanese Mitsubishi

Captured Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero during an flight evaluation by the U. S. Army Air Force World War II. The Japanese fighter was a formidable opponent...

Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero Fighter in Flight During USAAF Evaluation

In South East Asia Japanese invasion of Burma from January 1942: bomber pilots of the Japanese Air Force receiving mission orders before their flight...

WW II in South East Asia Japanese invasion of Burma from January 1942: bomber pilots (Bomber Mitsubishi Ki 21) of the Japanese Air Force receiving mission orders before their flight to Rangoon - January/February 1942

This file photo dated 1945 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima in days after the first atomic bomb was dropped by a US Air Force B-29, 06 August...

END OF THE WAR/HIROSHIMA PHOTO PACKAGE (

Attack by Japanese air force in 1941, on Pearl Harbor. Taken from SDf Library in Tokyo, Japan, filed 12/6/1970. Original Caption. UPI b/w photograph.

Attack On Pearl Harbor

Kamikaze attack aircraft carrying a torpedo under the body of the plane takes off at the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force Kanoya Air Base circa May...

Kamikaze Attack

Japanese representatives and the U.S-led allied force members discuss at the Kanoya Air Station on September 3, 1945 in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan. The...

U.S. Army Lands Kyushu After Japan's Surrender

Army soldiers wade through the surf carrying their rifles in the air. Others force ashore a field gun, to use in their offensive against the Japanese...

Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bomber attack aircraft from the 387th Bomb Squadron, 312th Bombardment Group of the Fifth United States Army Air Force...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

Portrait of American military officer Major General Claire Lee Chennault , commander of the 14th Air Force in China, as he sits at his desk and...

Maj. Gen. Chennault At His Desk

Dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese industrial port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the...

Atomic Bomb dropped in Nagasaki

The wreck of the Japanese heavy cruiser Tone lies half-sunk at Kure harbor in Japan's Inland Sea after air raids by US Navy planes in July 1945. This...

Sunken Cruiser Tone

The U.S. 5th Air Force's B-25 Mitchell bombers drop "parafrag" bombs on a Japanese air strip near Dagua, New Guinea on February 3, 1943.

B-25 Bombers Over Japanese Airstrip

Photograph of camouflaged Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21-IIb bomber seconds before its destruction by parafrag bombs dropped by a U.S. Army Air Force...

A Mitsubishi Ki-21 under attack on airfield.

Made from an accompanying plane of the US Task Force that blasted Japanese held Wake Island by Air and Sea, this photo shows one of the Navy Dive...

Navy Plane Preparing to Dive Bomb

Japanese men clad in outdated military costumes march in to pay respects to the country's war dead at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on August 15,...

70th anniversary of the end of World War II

Japanese men clad in outdated military costumes march in to pay respects to the country's war dead at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on August 15,...

70th anniversary of the end of World War II

Aircraftmen set up a torpedo underneath the body of an aircraft at the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force Kanoya Air Base circa May 1945 in Kanoya,...

Kamikaze Attack

Aircraftmen set up a torpedo underneath the body of an aircraft at the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force Kanoya Air Base circa May 1945 in Kanoya,...

Kamikaze Attack

Japanese representatives and the U.S-led allied force members shake hands at the Kanoya Air Station on September 3, 1945 in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan....

U.S. Army Lands Kyushu After Japan's Surrender

An aircraft carrying the U.S-led allied force members arrive at the Kanoya Air Station, where the surrendered Japanese Army and Navy officials wait...

U.S. Army Lands Kyushu After Japan's Surrender

Bombs from the 5th US Air Force fall on the Japanese held town of Hollandia in New Guinea. It is estimated that there are about 60,000 Japanese...

Ground crew prepare Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk fighter and ground-attack aircraft of No 76 Squadron RAAF on the coral surfaced Momote airfield captured...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

Two Indian Air Force pilots pose with their US-built Vultee A-31 Vengeance dive bombers at an air base from where they attacked the Japanese during...

Burma/Myanmar/India: Two Indian Air Force pilots pose with their US-built Vultee A-31 Vengeance dive bombers at an air base from where they attacked the Japanese during the Burma Campaign. Assam, December 1943

Army Air Force Captain Robert L. Faurot after shooting down two Japanese Zero fighters New Guinea, 1942.

USA/Japan: US Army Air Force Captain Robert L. Faurot after shooting down two Japanese Zero fighters New Guinea, 1942

Destroyed Japanese Mitsubishi A6M8 Reisen fighter, on a Pacific island, World War II.

Destroyed Japanese fighter plane on a Pacific island, World War II.

American B-25s on their way to bomb Japanese bases in Rabaul fly above an invasion convoy headed to the Green islands, 1945.

B-25s Headed To Rabaul

Japanese single-engine Nakajima Ki-43 IIa Hayabusa fighters on an airfield. Version of the Ki-43 that made its maiden flight in January 1939, it came...

Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 IIa fighters on an airfield, 1943-44.

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.

American Air force gunner firing on a Japanese target. Illustration by Henry Billings. 1945.

World War Two: American Air force gunner firing on a Japanese target. Illustration by Henry Billings. 1945.

World War II. Japanese aircrafts. On the top: Ooka kamikaze plane. Drawings by Robert Roux.

World War II. Japanese aircrafts.

World War II. Japanese Nakajima aircraft. Drawing by Robert Roux.

World War II. Japanese Nakajima

World War II. Eastern front. Japanese squadron before Pearl Harbour, December 1941.

World War II. Eastern front.

World War II. "Ooka" Japanese suicide plane diving.

World War II. "Ooka" Japanese

This rice bowl shows the effects of a nuclear explosion. Heat generated by the atomic explosion caused soil to be fused to the bowl. The Japanese...

Rice bowl from Hiroshima, 1945.

This rice bowl shows the effects of a nuclear explosion. Heat generated by the atomic explosion caused soil to be fused to the bowl. The Japanese...

Rice bowl from Hiroshima, 1945.

Visitor walks past the images and old uniforms of US Air Force's "Flying Tigers" from World War Two who were led by late General Claire L. Chennault...

CHINA-JAPAN-WAR-MUSEUM

Japanese Emperor Hirohito walks through the ruins of Tokyo following US air Force bombing in the later months of World war two.

Japanese Emperor Hirohito walks through the ruins of Tokyo in the later months of World war two.

Photograph of camouflaged Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21-IIb bomber seconds before its destruction by parafrag bombs dropped by a U.S. Army Air Force...

A Mitsubishi Ki-21 under attack on airfield.

Captured and blindfolded US Air force pilot, with two Japanese soldiers. Captured during the during Doolittle air raids on Tokyo. 1942.

World war two: Captured and blindfolded US Air force pilot.

The ground crew wade through icy Alaskan waters to bring in a Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat of the US Air Force, 27th February 1943. The...

Beaufort bombers of the RAAF are taken from the dispersal areas for interrogation upon their return to a New Guinea base, after a daylight strike on...

Beaufort Bombers

War and Conflict, Military, pic: circa 1950's, American General Curtis LeMay, who during World War Two directed the US Air Force fire bombing...

War and Conflict Military. pic: circa 1950's. American General Curtis LeMay, who during World War Two directed the US Air Force fire bombing campaign against Japanese cities and the Atom bomb attacks which brought about the surrender of Japan.

War and Conflict, Military, pic: circa 1950's, American General Curtis LeMay, who during World War Two directed the US Air Force fire bombing...

War and Conflict Military. pic: circa 1950's. American General Curtis LeMay, who during World War Two directed the US Air Force fire bombing campaign against Japanese cities and the Atom bomb attacks which brought about the surrender of Japan.

World War II, 8th December 1941, American air force planes lined up at Hickam field near Honolulu, America+s largest military air base, which is...

World War II, 8th December 1941, American air force planes lined up at Hickam field near Honolulu, America+s largest military air base, which is reported to have been bombed by Japanese planes with heavy casualties

War and Conflict, World War II, Far East, pic: circa 1944, Smoke and dust obscure the engine of a Japanese train as it is attacked by Royal Air Force...

RAF Attack Japanese Forces In Burma

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso flanked by his Iraqi counterpart Hoshiyar Zebari gives a press conference in Baghdad 03 August 2006. Aso is the...

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso (L) f

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso holds a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshiyar Zebari in Baghdad 03 August 2006. Aso is the...

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso holds

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seen on arrival at U.S. Air Force Hickam Field on December 26, 2016 in Honolulu, Hawaii. On December 27, Abe...

Japanese PM Abe Visits Hawaii - Day 1

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