28,746 items in this album on 1,438 pages.
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Aerial view of Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1945 | Aerial view of the airstrip facilities on Falalop Island, Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 1945. Falalop was the center of the aerial patrol efforts to protect the US Navy’s forward anchorage at Ulithi. | Aerial view of Tokyo, Japan, early 1945 | Aerial view of Tokyo, Japan, early 1945 |
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African-American men of USCG Horse Patrol Unit atop their steeds in New Jersey, United States, date unknown; left to right: Seamen 1st Class C. Johnson, Jesse Willis, Joseph Washington, Frank Garcia | African-American US Coast Guard Radioman 3rd Class Joseph K. Noel performing work aboard a frigate in the North Pacific, date unknown | African-American US Coast Guard Steward's Mate 3rd Class Dorall Austin manning his 20-mm Oerlikon autocannon aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, date unknown | African-American US Coast Guardsmen aboard a cutter in the Atlantic, date unknown; L to R: Atwood Taylor, Richard Mitchell, R. E. Bird, Robert Woldon, Grover Taylor, Jacob Lawrence |
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African-American US Coast Guardsmen studying the assembly of a 20-mm AA gun aboard a ship, date unknown | African-American US Marines in training with cargo nets, Camp Gilbert H. Johnson, Montford Point, Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States, 1945 | African-American US Maritime Service Captain Clifton Lastic of Liberty Ship SS Bert Williams talking with President of National Maritime Union Joe Curran, date unknown | African-American US Maritime Service trainee Clifford R. Jenkins, Jr. at the base at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, United States, date unknown |
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African-American US Merchant Marine Boatswain Maxie Weisbarth learning navigation from Chief Mate Earl Stanfield aboard a Victory Ship, Pacific Ocean, date unknown | African-American US Navy WAVE Apprentice Seaman Frances Bates inspecting an engine for a Wildcat fighter aircraft, US Naval Training School, Bronx, New York, United States, 1945 | After an attempted landing on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable, an F6F Hellcat barely hangs onto the catwalks. Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. | Aichi B7A Ryusei torpedo bomber (Allied code name 'Grace') armed with torpedo, circa 1945, location unknown. |
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Air crew preparing a B-29 Superfortress bomber for a mission, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944-1945; note another B-29 in flight overhead | Air Marshal Arthur Coningham inspecting the WAAF Central Voluntary Band at B-160 Kastrup Advanced Landing Ground (Copenhagen Airport), Denmark, post war | Aircraft mechanics of the USAAF 398th Bombardment Group change a B-17 engine, Nuthampstead, England, United Kingdom, May 1944 to Apr 1945 | Aircraft tires being loaded onto Avro York C Mark I MW137 aircraft of No. 511 Squadron RAF, RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, 1944-1945 |
28,746 items in this album on 1,438 pages.