Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Implacable with Avengers and Seafires on the flight deck, 1945. (Australian War Memorial Photograph.)
Pilots from the 354th Fighter Group inspect an M4 Sherman tank of the 4th Armored Division during a tour of the front. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Two U.S. fighter pilots from 9th Air Force examine a wrecked German Me 109 fighter. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A British Supermarine Walrus flying boat lands the deck of an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A P-47 Thunderbolt taxis at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on March 2, 2014, during training for the U.S. Air Force Heritage Flight. (U.S. Air National Guard photograph by Master Sgt. Andrew J. Moseley / Released.)
A 37mm M3 anti-tank gun and Dodge WC-4 of the 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion at inspection at Camp Carson, May 1943. (U.S. Army Photograph.)
High Speed Launch (HSL 139) of No. 251 Air/Sea Rescue Unit photographed off the coast of Algeria. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A Vought OS2U Kingfisher is hoisted aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) in the summer of 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Burned-out German Panther tank destroyed in France, August 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
U.S. Navy sailors on the escort carrier USS Kasaan Bay launch a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 74 (VF-74) during the invasion of Southern France. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)