The first production Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK-1 dive and torpedo bomber photographed on the ground carrying a drop tank and radar in 1945. Only five prototypes of the XBTK were built before the program was cancelled. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK

November 19, 2016

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The first production Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK-1 dive and torpedo bomber photographed on the ground carrying a drop tank and radar in 1945. Only five prototypes of the XBTK were built before the program was cancelled. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

The first production Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK-1 dive and torpedo bomber photographed on the ground carrying a drop tank and radar in 1945. Only five prototypes of the XBTK were built before the program was cancelled. (U.S. Navy Photograph.) — Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK-1 (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

The remains of a destroyed German Panther tank sit on the roadside near Trarivi, Italy in September 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)

Burned-out Panther near Trarivi

The U.S. Navy battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) photographed docked in an Advanced Base Sectional Dock (ABSD) in the Pacific during 1944. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)

USS Pennsylvania in ABSD

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