U.S. Navy sailors repair torpedo damage to the heavy cruiser USS Chicago (CA-29) near Guadalcanal after the Battle of Savo Island in August 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCG-1 waits off Omaha Beach on the morning of D-Day tied up alongside an LCT. (U.S. Coast Guard Photograph.)
The sole Curtiss XP-42 prototype — modified from a Curtiss P-36A Hawk — photographed while being used for stabilator tests at Langley Field. (NASA Photograph.)
A formation of Royal Air Force Airspeed Oxford Mark I aircraft serving with No. 6 Flying Training School at Little Rissington, Gloucestershire photographed in flight in 1942. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
U.S. Army troops of the 28th Infantry Division march down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris in a Victory Parade after the liberation of Paris. (U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph.)
An Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M5 “Zero” fighter captured on a Japanese airfield on Saipan in the Mariana Islands in 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo in the markings of Fighting Squadron 3 (VF-3) photographed at the factory of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. in Long Island, New York. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The prototype Brewster XSBA-1 scout-bomber awaits flight testing at the NACA Langley Research Center, Virginia in May 1943. (NASA Photograph.)
U.S. Navy mechanics at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas refuel a Curtiss SNC-1 Falcon trainer in August 1942. (United States Library of Congress Photograph.)
A de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito restored for the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)