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...
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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.)
Churchill tanks of 6th Guards Tank Brigade carry U.S. Army paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division forward in Germany in March 1945. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
GI’s advance past the wreck of an M4 Sherman tank of the 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division in Normandy. (U.S. Army Photograph.)
U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Biloxi (CL-80) launches a Curtiss SO3C Seamew floatplane during her shakedown cruise in October 1943. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy FM-2 Wildcat fighter flies a combat air patrol over the escort carrier USS Santee (CVE-29) during the Leyte Invasion in October 1944. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Thumper” appears at Boeing Plant No. 2 in August 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A U.S. Coast Guard Grumman J4F Widgeon amphibious aircraft flies on patrol over New York City in 1939. (U.S. Coast Guard Photograph.)
The fuselage of the veteran “Montana Sheep Herder,” a B-25D Mitchell of the 446th BS, 321st BG, is trucked into a 15th Air Force salvage yard in North Africa. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)