U.S. Marines of 2nd Marine Division take cover behind “King Kong,” an M4 Sherman tank, on the northern end of Saipan. (U.S. Marine Photograph.)
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A Grumman JRF-5 Goose amphibious aircraft used by NACA to transport workers between Langley and Wallops Island. (NASA Photograph.)
British troops inspect a destroyed German 75mm antitank gun captured near Mont Pincon, France in August 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A Cromwell tank from the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured Division drives through Vassy, France in August 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A U.S. Marine Corps Lockheed JO-2 Electra Junior destroyed at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. (USMC Archives.)
Sailors on the USS Hornet fold the wings of a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter after a raid over the Marianas, June 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Spitfire Mk VB used by 309th FS, 31st FG is parked at Membury Airdrome, England in March 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Ammunition for the 20mm nose gun in the Lockheed P-38 Lightning “Babe” is inspected by 1st Lt H. A. Blood. (U.S. Air Force Photograph)
A wrecked Curtiss P-40 Warhawk after making a forced landing in Egypt, February 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)