A Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter is unloaded by crane from a ship at Queens Dock, Liverpool in January 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Air crew and ground crew pose in front of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ‘Ole’ Miss Destry of the 366th BS, 305th BG in July 1944 in England. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
USS Harrison (DD-573) transfers mail to USS McKee (DD-575) while at sea near Ulithi, Caroline Islands in March 1945. Both USS Harrison (DD-573) and USS McKee (DD-575) are Fletcher-class destroyers of the United States Navy...
Original Caption: View of the deck of a ship upon arrival at Glasgow, Scotland after heavy seas washed one plane overboard and forced two others from their lashings causing considerable damage. The planes were being transported...
A sailor on the battleship USS Alabama cleans ice and snow off the battleship’s 16-inch guns during the ship’s North Atlantic shakedown cruise, December 1942 to January 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk of No. 450 Squadron RAAF awais a mission loaded with six 250 lb bombs mounted under the wings and fuselage in North Africa. (Australian War Memorial Photograph.)
The first nurses to arrive on Pantelleria disembark from a landing craft after their voyage from North Africa. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A damaged B-17 Flying Fortress returns from a mission over Trondheim, Norway with an engine smoking due to flak hits. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Soldiers of the 87th Fighter Squadron work on a captured Messerschmitt Bf 109G fighter in Tunisia, April 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph)
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) underway with Grumman F4F-4 Wildcats, Douglas SBD-3 Dauntlesses, and a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger visible on the deck. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
