Archive - October 2015
The escort carrier USS Attu (CVE-102), loaded with Vought F4U Corsairs on the flight deck, photographed alongside the Clemson-class destroyer USS Fox, September 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Front view of the Douglas XB-19 bomber which was the largest aircraft built for the U.S. Air Force until 1946. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
North American B-25G “Blondie’s Vengeance” of the 820th Bomb Squadron during WWII in the Pacific. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A British 6-pounder antitank gun (officially Ordnance Quick-Firing 6-pounder 7 cwt) of the 86th Anti-Tank Regiment participates in a training shoot at the Royal Artillery ranges at Lydd, September 1942. (Imperial War Museum...
Top view of a Vought SB2U-1 Vindicator dive bomber on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
“Happy Landing? Don’t Let Sabotage Wreck It!” — WWII poster from Office of War Information, Domestic Operations Branch. (U.S. National Archives.)