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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A Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk of No. 450 Squadron RAAF awais a mission loaded with six 250 lb bombs mounted under the wings and fuselage in North Africa. (Australian War Memorial Photograph.)
The first nurses to arrive on Pantelleria disembark from a landing craft after their voyage from North Africa. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A damaged B-17 Flying Fortress returns from a mission over Trondheim, Norway with an engine smoking due to flak hits. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Soldiers of the 87th Fighter Squadron work on a captured Messerschmitt Bf 109G fighter in Tunisia, April 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph)
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.)
Damaged de Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI of RAAF No. 464 Squadron based at Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, parked at Friston Emergency Landing Ground, Sussex in February 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A captured Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-3 taxis at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough in August 1942 during evaluation. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
P-39Q Airacobra fighters from the 46th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group parked on Makin Island in the Gilberts in December 1943. (U.S. Army Air Force 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.)