2,731 items in this album on 137 pages.
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Destroyer USS Ward off Mare Island, California, Sep 1939. Two years later, this ship would go on to fire the United States’ first shot of the Pacific War. | German American Bund parade on East 86th Street, New York, New York, United States, 30 Oct 1939 | USS Spearfish passing Fort Griswold on the Thames River, Groton, Connecticut, United States, circa late 1939. | Line of OS2U Kingfisher float planes running up their engines prior to a practice flight at a training base in the United States, 1939-40. |
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Former US President Herbert Hoover, Dr. van Loon, and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia raising funds for Finland for the Winter War, Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, United States, 20 Dec 1939 | Electric Boat Company workers laying the keel of future submarine Gar, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 1000 hours on 27 Dec 1939 | A-17A aircraft at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia, United States, date unknown | A-17A aircraft at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia, United States, date unknown |
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A-17A aircraft at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia, United States, date unknown | Aerial view of Naval Aircraft Factory at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, date unknown | Cockpit of a B-24 Liberator bomber, circa 1940s | F4F-3A Wildcat as it is being accepted from the factory at NAS St Louis, Missouri, USA, 1940. This particular aircraft was later destroyed by friendly fire near Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii the night of Dec 7 1941; the pilot was killed. |
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M7 self-propelled artillery vehicle being tested for desert warfare near Iron Mountain, California, United States, circa 1940; the men were Corporal Downing (left, manning machine gun), Corporal L. Roberts (center, manning howitzer), and Lieutenant M. Hutchison (right); photo 1 of 2 | M7 self-propelled artillery vehicle being tested for desert warfare near Iron Mountain, California, United States, circa 1940; the men were Corporal Downing (left, manning machine gun), Corporal L. Roberts (center, manning howitzer), and Lieutenant M. Hutchison (right); photo 2 of 2 | N3N-3 aircraft (Bureau Number 2885) in front of building 57, Naval Air Station Anacostia, Washington DC, United States, 1940; note JRF-4 Goose (Bureau Number 3852) in background | The Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company’s sidewheeled steamship Seeandbee underway on the Great Lakes, United States in 1940. This ship would later be converted into the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine. |
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Three N3N aircraft in flight over Naval Air Station Glenview, Illinois, United States, early 1940s; seen in Mar 1980 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News | USS O'Brien, off the east coast of the United States, circa 1940 | Wheeled version of an OS2U-2 Kingfisher being prepared for test flights at the Vought factory in Stratford, Connecticut, United States, 1940. | Oiler Patoka off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 16 Jan 1940; note SOC floatplane amidships, with its wings folded |
2,731 items in this album on 137 pages.