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.)
Tag - 1942
USS Mustin (DD-413), a U.S. Navy Sims-class destroyer, pictured at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in June 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter of Fighting Squadron 41 (VF-41) photographed in flight in 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Douglas TBD-1 Devastators of torpedo squadron VT-4 on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) while anchored in Cuba in 1942. (U.S. Navy Photographs.)
A B-17F Flying Fortress undergoes final assembly and inspection in a hangar at Douglas Aircraft factory in Long Beach, California in 1942. (U.S. National Archives Photograph / Alfred T. Palmer.)
Allied troops inspect a wrecked German Heinkel He 111 bomber and Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter on a landing field in Egypt, 1942. (U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph / U.S. Library of Congress.)
The Landing Signal Officer (LSO) on the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) waves off a Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft, June 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, via National Archives.)
Maintenance work is performed on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Yankee Doodle” commanded by Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker on the first B-17 bombing mission against Europe, August 1942. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)