A Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull seaplane is recovered from the water by a U.S. Navy ship in July 1943. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Light cruiser USS St. Louis with torpedo damage to her bow after the Battle of Kolombangara, photographed while under repair at Tulagi in July 1943. USS Vestal (AR-4) is alongside. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress of the 401st Bomb Squadron makes a low level pass over a second parked B-17 of the 324th Bomb Squadron at Bassingbourn, England. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
The escort carrier USS Attu (CVE-102), loaded with Vought F4U Corsairs on the flight deck, photographed alongside the Clemson-class destroyer USS Fox, September 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Front view of the Douglas XB-19 bomber which was the largest aircraft built for the U.S. Air Force until 1946. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
North American B-25G “Blondie’s Vengeance” of the 820th Bomb Squadron during WWII in the Pacific. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A British 6-pounder antitank gun (officially Ordnance Quick-Firing 6-pounder 7 cwt) of the 86th Anti-Tank Regiment participates in a training shoot at the Royal Artillery ranges at Lydd, September 1942. (Imperial War Museum...
Top view of a Vought SB2U-1 Vindicator dive bomber on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
“Happy Landing? Don’t Let Sabotage Wreck It!” — WWII poster from Office of War Information, Domestic Operations Branch. (U.S. National Archives.)
