The Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Cabot (CVL-28) departs Pearl Harbor with the aircraft of Carrier Air Group 32 (CVG-32) on board, en route to Eniwetok. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A signalman atop the Wickes-class destroyer USS Bernadou (DD-153) sends a semaphore message while at sea during the Invasion of North Africa, November 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Bloch MB.175 light bomber of the French Air Force photographed at an airfield in North Africa. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
This Consolidated B-24D Liberator, nicknamed “Ripper the 1st”, nosed over while landing after returning from a raid on Rome, Italy. The B-24 belonged to 515th Bombardment Squadron, 376th Bombardment Group of Ninth Air...
Victory Waits On Your Fingers – Keep ‘Em Flying, Miss U.S.A., Office for Emergency Management, Office of War Information. (National Archives and Records Administration Collection.)
Captain Glenn Miller plays the trombone with the Aviation Cadet Orchestra during a concert at Maxwell Field, Alabama on Christmas Eve, 1942. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Seabee Caterpillar D7 medium bulldozer goes to work at the Construction Battalion Training Center, Camp Endicott, Davisville, Rhode Island, in the fall of 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Pilots from the 85th “Flying Skull” Fighter Squadron, 79th Fighter Group discuss air tactics in front of a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Mechanics perform maintenance work on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, converted to an F-13 photographic reconnaissance variant, on Guam in the Mariana Islands. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Piper L-4 Grasshopper liaison aircraft, nicknamed “Elizabeth”, prepares to takeoff from the USS Ranger (CV-4) during Operation Torch in November 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
