A closeup view of the nose of the B-29 Superfortress named “Fleet Admiral Nimitz” after its landing at Guam, 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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A full-scale model of the Vought SB2U-1 Vindicator is used in drag reduction research in Langley’s 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel in September 1937. (NASA Photograph.)
In port, a TBF Avenger is hoisted aboard the escort carrier USS Santee. (U.S. National Archives and Records Photograph.)
The pilot of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt “Miss Mary Lou” sits in his cockpit on a grass field on Saipan, Marianas Islands, July 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Sailors on the USS Yorktown rush to aid a Northrop BT-1 bomber of Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) after a landing accident, circa 1940. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) shows a fine view of her front turrets during the Marshall Islands Campaign. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A SB2U Vindicator from the USS Ranger flies patrol over Convoy WS-12 en route to Cape Town, South Africa in November 1941. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Maximum Load” of the 314th Bomb Wing is prepared for a mission at North Field, Guam, April 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A German train destroyed while crossing a Moselle River bridge by U.S. fighter-bombers from the 9th Air Force. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A column of Churchill tanks from the 25th Tank Brigade advance to support the 1st Canadian Division in Italy, May 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)