 This B-29 crash-landed on Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, after returning from a bombing run against Tokyo, 10 Mar 1945.

B-29 crash-landing

The repeal of America's Neutrality Law enabled the Allies to order aircraft from American firms, and on the very day that the Bill was signed orders amounting to approximately $220,000,000 for planes and equipment were confirmed. Above, reconnaissance bombers from the Lockheed Company's California factory receiving final touches. Below, a Navy dive bomber is being towed across the border into Canada, as is required by American neutrality regulations, for shipment to Great Britain.

AIR AID FROM AMERICA 1939

Late 1942 or early 1943 photo of Lt. John G. Rosta, (1914-2008) U.S. Army Air Corps, from New Brunswick, NJ, standing next to an airplane at an air base somewhere in North Africa