The fighters, bombers and patrol planes that ruled the skies from 1939 to 1945 — the aircraft that carried air power to its wartime peak.
Machines of the Air

Bell
Bell
Brewster
Curtiss

Curtiss
Curtiss-Wright
Grumman
Grumman

Lockheed

North American
Northrop

Republic
Vought

Boeing (also built by Douglas and Lockheed/Veg

Boeing

Consolidated
Consolidated
Consolidated Aircraft
Curtiss-Wright

Douglas

Douglas
Douglas
Douglas
Grumman (and General Motors as TBM)

Lockheed
Lockheed
Martin
North American
Vought
Curtiss
Glenn L. Martin Company

Piper Aircraft Corporation
Vought-Sikorsky
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