A Curtiss CW-24B is tested in the 30×60 wind tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia in 1942. (NASA Langley Research Center Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Atlanta (CL-51) steaming at high speed during her sea trials, circa November 1941. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The New Orleans-class cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-36) refuels from a U.S. Navy oiler at sea during the Marshall Islands campaign in January 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) photographed docked in an Advanced Base Sectional Dock (ABSD) in the Pacific during 1944. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The first production Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK-1 dive and torpedo bomber photographed on the ground carrying a drop tank and radar in 1945. Only five prototypes of the XBTK were built before the program was cancelled. (U.S. Navy...
The remains of a destroyed German Panther tank sit on the roadside near Trarivi, Italy in September 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
The sole prototype of the Grumman XF5F Skyrocket fighter/interceptor flies past the cameraman to show its unique design. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Photograph.)
Sailors perform engine maintenance on a Grumman F6F Hellcat on the USS Yorktown somewhere in the Pacific. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
In France, Allied soldiers unload a jeep from a Douglas C-47 Skytrain military transport aircraft. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Dog Breath” of the 452nd Bomb Group receives a touchup on its nose art in England in April 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
