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Douglas SBD Dauntless dive-bombers fly over USS Enterprise (foreground) and USS Saratoga (background) off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, December 19, 1942. Both carriers played a vital role in the hard-fought campaign for control of the island.
The SBD Dauntless was the U.S. Navy’s workhorse dive-bomber, credited with sinking more Japanese ships than any other aircraft of the war.

 

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The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Victorious (R38) is shown operating with U.S. Navy Task Force 36 in the Solomon Islands between May and September 1943.

 

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German submarine U-278 underway.

 

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Bf-110C's of II/ZG26. Sicily, 1942.

 

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The Sunderland was heavily armed for a maritime patrol aircraft, with a twin-gun Frazer-Nash turret in the nose, a four-gun turret in the tail,

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In June 1944 on Saipan, a US Marine brushed dirt and sand from his boot while casually sitting on an unexploded 16-inch naval artillery shell.

 

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Ju-52/3M-G4E (1z+BA) of KGrzbV1, lies wrecked on Maleme airfield, Crete, May 1941.