USS Hornet ahead of USS Bon Homme Richard during western Pacific gunnery practice, June 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Supermarine Spitfire Mark Vs of No. 322 Wing RAF parked on pierced steel planking in Algeria. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
Captured German prisoners are marched by a Churchill AVRE tank in Arnhem during Operation Anger in April 1945. (Collections of the Imperial War Museums.)
A pair of Republic P-47C Thunderbolts of the 61st Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Three U.S. Navy heavy cruisers — USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), USS Pensacola (CA-24) and USS New Orleans (CA-32) — docked together at Pearl Harbor in October 1943. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Women factory workers build assault boats for the U.S. Marine Corps, 1941. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)
A British M4 Sherman Firefly tank patrols in Namur, Belgium along the Meuse River during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. (U.S. Army Photograph.)
Original Caption: A F-16C Fighting Falcon, 457th Fighter Squadron, flies in formation with a P-51 Mustang over Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, Oct. 3, 2014. The 457th FS was activated on Oct. 4, 1944, and...
A Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighter aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) in November 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A knocked-out German Panzer IV tank dug into a hull-down position in Normandy during summer of 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)