Vought F-4U4 Corsair. Photo: me. More here.

Texas Military Forces Museum chlorpicrin gas poster, 1941-1945.

Posters produced by the Texas Military Forces Museum’s Art Department at Camp Barkeley, Texas. Gives means of identification and remedies for chlorpicrin gas. 

via Otis Historical Archives Nat’l Museum of Health & Medicine/flickr

Personnel on the flight deck of the carrier Belleau Wood (CVL 24) attempt to put out fires after a kamikaze struck the ship. 10/30/1944.

via naval.aviation.museum/Robert L. Lawson Photograph Collection

Army fighter planes aboard a carrier being ferried to a battlefront form a pattern, too, but a pattern of doom for the Axis. Looking like a horde of grasshoppers with wings outstretched, they wait - for action. U.S. Navy photo. In: Popular Photography, Aug 1943.

A signalman wigwags a message from the afterdeck of a carrier to the cruiser following in line. The reason a more modern means of communication, like radio, is not used is that enemy sub or warship might be listening. U.S. Navy photo. In: Popular Photography, Aug 1943.

Vought SB2U dive-bombers. Artist: John t. McCoy, Jr. In: LIFE - U.S. Navy special edition, October 28, 1940.

Consolidated PBY flying boats, patrol bombers. Below them is aircraft carrier Lexington. Artist: John T. McCoy, Jr. In: LIFE - U.S. Navy special edition, October 28, 1940.

Storing torpedoes in an Admiralty factory ready for testing. Each torpedo contained more than 6000 parts and took several months to complete. Sep 16, 1939, London, UK.

Two fliers of the 8th Bomber Command clad in high altitude flying clothes incl. sheepskin coats, helmets, oxygen masks, and sunglass goggles at airdrome in southern England.  (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)