Three Grumman F3F-3 fighters from U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron 5 (VF-5) from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) fly over southern California in 1939. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
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A U.S. Navy Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver biplane from Scouting Squadron Three (VS-3), assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), flies over San Diego, California. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Boeing P-26 Peashooters of the 17th Pursuit Group at March Field, California in 1932. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
Final production assembly of an A-20 attack bomber at Douglas Aircraft factory in Long Beach, California in late 1942. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
Vultee BT-13 Valiant basic trainer parked at Minter Field, California, March 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
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.)
P-38 Lightning at sunset in Chico, California, December 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
NACA Northrop P-61 Black Widow flight test aircraft at Moffett Field, California, 1948. (NASA Photograph.)
Color photograph of women factory workers at work in the fuselage of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber at Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California, October 1942. (Alfred T. Palmer / Office of War Information.)
Factory workers wire the right engine of a B-25 bomber under assembly at North American Aviation in Inglewood, California, June 1942. (Alfred T. Palmer / U.S. Library of Congress.)