This is not US Army s/n 41-242 which was an AT-6A. It is almost certainly c/n 1242, the sixth DC-2 built, NC13716 with TWA and with Braniff Airways from 1937. Braniff's DC-2 fleet went to the Defense Supply Corporation (DSC) as of 1 June 1942. NC13716 was converted to a C-32A and was taken on charge by the USAAF on 18 June as 42-61095. The photo was apparently taken in the same month. Is the emblem worn associated with Braniff? The letters underneath read ASC or ASG, not DSC. Does anyone know more? Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

First Canadian built Anson. Struck off charge in August 1946. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Part of the same original as photo 398840 which shows a Messerschmitt Bf 109 with a swastika applied over an RAF fin flash. The P-40 was destined for the RAF as a Kittyhawk IA, ET350, but retained by USAAF instead. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Oberfeldwebel Karl Hier of I/JG 76 had to land his Bf 109E at Wœrth, Alsace on 22 November 1939. It was test-flown by the French at Orléans - Bricy, then handed over to the RAF on 2 May 1940. In 1942 it was shipped to the USA for testing at Wright Field. Note the faux swastika painted on by the Americans - they liked to dress up captured aircraft and amazingly, even in this stage of the war it was apparently not a safety concern. We found information that the photo was taken at LGA during the filming of a propaganda reel. P-40E 41-25026 is seen on the right and a P-39 Airacobra, probably 41-7249, on the left. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution