The battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), left, transfers supplies and personnel to the USS Iowa (BB-61), right, off the Japanese coast in August 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Wreckage of a U.S. Navy Grumman TBF-1 Avenger of Torpedo Squadron VT-8 photographed on Guadalcanal, November 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A U.S. Navy Grumman XF4F-3 Wildcat prototype photographed during flight testing in 1939. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A North American PBJ-1D Mitchell bomber of squadron VMB-611 on the deck of the escort carrier USS Manila Bay during transport, August 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter is transferred from USS Kitty Hawk to USS Long Island at Fila Harbor, New Hebrides in August 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A De Havilland Mosquito flown at NACA Langley Research Center, Virginia for longitudinal stability and control studies in January 1945. (NASA Langley Research Center Photograph.)
Color photograph of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 401st BS, 91st BG. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A 240mm howitzer of Battery B, 697th Field Artillery Battalion prepares to fire near Mignano, Italy during WWII. (U.S. Army Photograph.)
U.S. Army Air Force Republic P-47N Thunderbolts loaded on the flight deck of the escort carrier USS Casablanca (CVE-55) in July 1945. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 8th Air Force prepare to takeoff from an air base in England on a bombing mission over Germany. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
