Sailors man 20mm Oerlikon antiaircraft guns on the catwalk of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) in February 1945. (U.S. National Archives and Records Admin. Photo.)
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Sailors sleep at their quad 40mm gun position on the USS New Jersey (BB-62). (National Archives Photograph.)
Curtiss XP-42 prototype created from a P-36A with a extended, streamlined nose. (NASA Photograph.)
A U.S. Marine observation plane flies over Naha, Okinawa. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
Douglas TBD Devastators of the U.S. Navy Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6) prepare for launching from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Midway, June 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The Bell XP-59A Airacomet jet aircraft lifts off from the surface of Rogers Dry Lake in October 1942. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Engines are heated on a Lend-Lease Douglas A-20G in Alaska in preparation for delivery to Russia. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Overturned German Jagdpanther destroyed by air attack near Altenkirchen, Germany. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Curtiss CW-24B is tested in the 30×60 wind tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia in 1942. (NASA Langley Research Center Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Atlanta (CL-51) steaming at high speed during her sea trials, circa November 1941. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)