The Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Cabot (CVL-28) departs Pearl Harbor with the aircraft of Carrier Air Group 32 (CVG-32) on board, en route to Eniwetok. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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A signalman atop the Wickes-class destroyer USS Bernadou (DD-153) sends a semaphore message while at sea during the Invasion of North Africa, November 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Bloch MB.175 light bomber of the French Air Force photographed at an airfield in North Africa. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
This Consolidated B-24D Liberator, nicknamed “Ripper the 1st”, nosed over while landing after returning from a raid on Rome, Italy. The B-24 belonged to 515th Bombardment Squadron, 376th Bombardment Group of Ninth Air...
Captain Glenn Miller plays the trombone with the Aviation Cadet Orchestra during a concert at Maxwell Field, Alabama on Christmas Eve, 1942. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Pilots from the 85th “Flying Skull” Fighter Squadron, 79th Fighter Group discuss air tactics in front of a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Mechanics perform maintenance work on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, converted to an F-13 photographic reconnaissance variant, on Guam in the Mariana Islands. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Piper L-4 Grasshopper liaison aircraft, nicknamed “Elizabeth”, prepares to takeoff from the USS Ranger (CV-4) during Operation Torch in November 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) fires her 8 inch/55 caliber guns while bombarding a Pacific island in February 1942. The cruiser’s Curtiss SOC Seagull floatplane is shown in the foreground. (U.S. Navy...
With the flight deck crowded with aircraft, the U.S. Navy Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Cowpens (CVL-25) underway in the Pacific in July 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)