“Let’s give him Enough and On Time” by Norman Rockwell, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.)
Archive - June 2017
Dauntless dive bombers and Grumman Wildcat fighters are parked on the deck of escort carrier USS Santee (ACV-29) during Operation Torch in November 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Pilots and airmen from the 64th Fighter Squadron of the 57th Fighter Group pose for a photograph in front of a unit fighter. (Library of Congress Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver biplane from Scouting Squadron Three (VS-3), assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), flies over San Diego, California. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
U.S. Navy Destroyer Squadron 12 (DesRon 12) salutes the dead with S-turns in Ironbottom Sound in March 1944. The destroyers are USS Farenholt (DD-491), USS Buchanan (DD-484), USS Woodworth (DD-460), USS Lardner (DD-487) and USS...
B-24 Liberator crews from the U.S. 9th Air Force receive a briefing from Major Frank W. Delong, squadron commander, before a mission over Axis territory. (Library of Congress Photograph.)
U.S. Army medics practice their French surrounded by French civilians after the liberation of Orleans, France in August 1944. (US Army Surgeon General Photograph.)