Black sailors standing on snowy docks in front of destroyer escort USS Mason, one of the first US Navy ships to have a predominantly black crew.Boston, MA, US,March 20, 1944

First US Navy ship with a predominantly black crew

US Navy pilots, pleased over victory during Marshall Island. attack, give grinning group portrait across tail of F-6F Hellcat on board USS Lexington, after shooting down 17 of 20 Japanese planes destined for Tarawa.November 1943.

Navy pilots of USS Lexington

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington CV-16 photographed from the light carrier USS Cowpens CVL-25 during raids in the Marshalls and Gilberts Islands, November-December 1943. She is painted in camouflage Measure 21.November 1943