A Vought OS2U Kingfisher is recovered by the U.S. Navy battleship USS Texas off the shore of Iwo Jima in February 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
“Farm Scrap Builds Destroyers: 900 tons of Scrap Metal goes into a Destroyer,” WWII Poster. (Office for Emergency Management, Office of War Information.)
F4U-1 Corsair fighter of VMF-214 parked at Turtle Bay airfield on Espiritu Santo island during WWII. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
British Sherman tanks pass by a knocked-out German SdKfz 222 light armored car in Italy, January 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman from the U.S. 3rd Air Commando Group which operated in the Philippines from May 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy Curtiss SNC-1 Falcon trainer photographed at NACA Langley Research Center, Virginia in April 1942. (NASA Photograph.)
Lineup of M4 Sherman tanks of the 1st Polish Armoured Division during Operation Totalize in the Normandy Campaign, August 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers of bombing squadron VB-12 on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), October 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)
A WWII poster for Battleship “X” — the USS South Dakota. (U.S. Navy.)
TBM Avengers — of VT-4 from USS Essex (CV-9) — fly in formation, January 1945. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
