African-American US Army 2nd lts. Henry Harris, Frank Frederick Doughton, Elmer B. Kountze, and Rogers H. Beardon pinning on their new brass rank insignias, Ft. Benning, Georgia, US, 29 May 1942Albacore aircraft of No. 820 Squadron FAA having just taken off from HMS Formidable in the Indian Ocean, 29 May 1942; photo taken from HMS WarspiteSubhash Chandra Bose and Adolf Hitler, Reich Chancellery, Berlin, Germany, 29 May 1942; note translator Paul Schmidt in backgroundVF-3 pilot Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach
African-American US Army 2nd lts. Henry Harris, Frank Frederick Doughton, Elmer B. Kountze, and Rogers H. Beardon pinning on their new brass rank insignias, Ft. Benning, Georgia, US, 29 May 1942Albacore aircraft of No. 820 Squadron FAA having just taken off from HMS Formidable in the Indian Ocean, 29 May 1942; photo taken from HMS WarspiteSubhash Chandra Bose and Adolf Hitler, Reich Chancellery, Berlin, Germany, 29 May 1942; note translator Paul Schmidt in backgroundVF-3 pilot Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach's Wildcat fighter at Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, 29 May 1942, five days before he possibly shot down Tomonaga at Midway
View forward from USS QuincyView of aboard USS Quincy from the port side of gun turret No. 1, looking aft, New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 29 May 1942; 1 on the photograph marked the splinter protection on the pilothouse, 2 the 20-millimeter guns, and 3 the 1.1-inch gunsYorktown in Dry Dock #1 of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 29 May 1942
View forward from USS Quincy's second conning tower, while she was at the New York Navy Yard, United States, for her last overhaul, 29 May 1942; note SOC Seagull floatplanes onboardView of aboard USS Quincy from the port side of gun turret No. 1, looking aft, New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 29 May 1942; 1 on the photograph marked the splinter protection on the pilothouse, 2 the 20-millimeter guns, and 3 the 1.1-inch gunsYorktown in Dry Dock #1 of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 29 May 1942


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