Students receive instruction in the Airplane Mechanics Course at Foster Field, Texas in October 1942. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
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A P-38 Lightning leads an aircraft formation of an F-22 Raptor and F-86 Sabres during the 2015 Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. (U.S. Air Force Photograph by S/Sgt...
A newly built B-17 Flying Fortress sits on Boeing’s airfield in Seattle awaiting flight tests. (Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.)
New B-25s and P-39s, bound for Russia as part of the Lend-Lease program, wait on the runway at Ladd Field, Alaska in September 1942. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Lockheed Y1C-23 used as a transport by the The Lockheed Y1C-23 was based on the Altair 8D and later designated C-23. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Hall PH-2 flying boat operated by the U.S. Coast Guard before and during World War II for search and rescue, patrol, anti-submarine missions. (U.S. Coast Guard Photograph.)
USS Mustin (DD-413), a U.S. Navy Sims-class destroyer, pictured at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in June 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Panzer IV on a railcar destroyed by Allied air attack near Dasburg, Germany. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
U.S. Navy sailors repair torpedo damage to the heavy cruiser USS Chicago (CA-29) near Guadalcanal after the Battle of Savo Island in August 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCG-1 waits off Omaha Beach on the morning of D-Day tied up alongside an LCT. (U.S. Coast Guard Photograph.)