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

Giant seawall under construction by Seabees of 76th Construction Battalion, 30-ton boulder getting hauled to dumping spot.Apra Harbor, Guam(rudeerude)

Seabees of 76th Construction Battalion

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