A sailor on the battleship USS Alabama cleans ice and snow off the battleship’s 16-inch guns during the ship’s North Atlantic shakedown cruise, December 1942 to January 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) underway with Grumman F4F-4 Wildcats, Douglas SBD-3 Dauntlesses, and a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger visible on the deck. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A B-17 Flying Fortress, B-29 Superfortress, and B-52 Stratofortress fly past in formation at the 2017 Barksdale Air Force Base Airshow. (U.S. Air Force Photograph, Sr Airman Curt Beach.)
USS Minneapolis (CA-36), a U.S. Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser, is docked at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii in April 1943 after repairs. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A trio of P-51 Mustangs fly in formation with a U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon during the 2017 Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. (U.S. Air Force Photograph by Airman...
Three Grumman F3F-3 fighters from U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron 5 (VF-5) from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) fly over southern California in 1939. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The B-24D Liberator assembly ship of the 466th Bombardment Group photographed at RAF Attlebridge. (Library of Congress Photograph.)
A Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter undergoes maintenance at an air base in the United States, circa 1942-43. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
“Let’s give him Enough and On Time” by Norman Rockwell, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.)
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.)