Browse Items (4058 total)
- Subject is exactly "World War, 1939-1945"
![Three Hundred Fifty Eighth Fighter Squadron, Three Hundred Fifty Fifth Fighter Group / squadron historians, Lt. Myron H. Vent ... [et al.]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/031b42ac87b8d54cf2115641edfbd7f2.jpg "Three Hundred Fifty Eighth Fighter Squadron, Three Hundred Fifty Fifth Fighter Group / squadron historians, Lt. Myron H. Vent ... [et al.]")
[Kamikaze aircraft on collision course with USS Essex]
![[Kamikaze aircraft on collision course with USS Essex]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/f8d2124c9489373ca166cffa46150c66.jpg "[Kamikaze aircraft on collision course with USS Essex]")
Photograph of a kamikaze aircraft on a collision course with the USS Essex (CV-9), November 25, 1944.Inscription on verso: "12:56 pm Nov. 25, 1944 / 100 miles E. of Luzon. / Jap Kamakazi [sic] one second before he hit Essex / Photographer -- C. S.…
[Servicemen extinguishing fires from kamikaze strike]
![[Servicemen extinguishing fires from kamikaze strike]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/40b2c74589a635772c170fbcca985e0c.jpg "[Servicemen extinguishing fires from kamikaze strike]")
Photograph of U.S. Navy servicemen extinguishing fires from a kamikaze strike, USS Essex (CV-9), November 25, 1944.
Inscription on verso: "Nov. 25, 1944 / Flight deck scene after kamakazi [sic] hit."
Part of a disassembled album containing materials…
[Identification cards and card holder issued by United States Army Air Corps to Thomas Walter Jackson, circa 1930s]
![[Identification cards and card holder issued by United States Army Air Corps to Thomas Walter Jackson, circa 1930s]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/63c6d4a26a991096af128fc93fc439cc.jpg "[Identification cards and card holder issued by United States Army Air Corps to Thomas Walter Jackson, circa 1930s]")
Identification cards and card holder issued by the United States Army Air Corps to Thomas Walter Jackson, circa 1930s.
[Servicemen playing Chinese checkers]
![[Servicemen playing Chinese checkers]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/598e0ea869d2e4e4ad396245dcad48a2.jpg "[Servicemen playing Chinese checkers]")
Photograph of U.S. Navy servicemen playing Chinese checkers, Naval Air Station Squantum, Massachusetts, circa 1930s.
Inscription on verso: "Squantum / 1930's."
[Servicemen at Naval Air Station Squantum]
![[Servicemen at Naval Air Station Squantum]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/9400bd1c5543bb206512bb97e025ea23.jpg "[Servicemen at Naval Air Station Squantum]")
Photograph of U.S. Navy servicemen at Naval Air Station Squantum, Massachusetts, circa 1930s. One of the men is reading "Commence Shooting," a manual on war photography.Inscription on verso: "Squantum / 1930's."
Jacket, Flight/RAF, Leather
RAF leather flight jacket with wool lining. Brown leather with zipper down front and belt with buckle at waist. At cuffs, vertical zippers. Wide collar with leather strap and buckle. Collar is lined with wool. At collar, metal chain. No visible…
Helmet, Flight/RAF, Mathewson, Leather
RAF brown leather flying helmet, Type C, no markings. Around facial opening, round metal snaps and clasps. Interior is lined with lighter colored leather. At ears, hole opening for earphone on each side made from black rubber. On back of helmet,…
Goggles, Flight/RAF, Mark VIII, Mk VIII
RAF Mk VIII flight goggles with reddish/brown leather lining. Goggles have gray metal frames with two separate gray lenses; lenses are bent. Silver-tone metal loops are attached to gray elastic and reddish/brown leather strap on both sides of lenses.…
Mask, Oxygen/RAF, Type H
RAF Type H oxygen mask. Mask is olive green rubber, covering nose, mouth and chin. Interior lined with brown leather. Circular vent at side and at center, valve with on/off switch. Attached to valve is cloth covered cord with plug at end. On each…