Inside a B-24 Liberator Express Transport Plane

 

Inside a B-24 Liberator Express Transport Plane during a mission, 1942. Interior view of the B-24 Liberator Express Transport Plane bringing soldiers from both the US Army Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force to the base in Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada. 1942. Photos by Ivan Dmitri / Michael Ochs Archives.

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The US Naval Battleship USS Iowa

The US Naval Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) known as 'The Big Stick' in 1943 somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. / Photos by Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives.

USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to have served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

During World War II, she carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, en route to a meeting of vital importance in 1943 in Tehran with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain andJoseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. When transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, Iowa shelled beachheads at Kwajalein and Eniwetok in advance of Allied amphibious landings and screened aircraft carriersoperating in the Marshall Islands. She also served as the Third Fleet flagship, flying Admiral William F. Halsey's flag at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. During the Korean War, Iowa was involved in raids on the North Korean coast, after which she was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the "mothball fleet." She was reactivated in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan and operated in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets to counter the recently expanded Soviet Navy. In April 1989, an explosion of undetermined origin wrecked its No. 2 gun turret, killing 47 sailors.

Iowa was decommissioned for the last time in October 1990 after 19 total years of active service, and was initially stricken from the Naval Vessel Register (NVR) in 1995, before being reinstated from 1999 to 2006 to comply with federal laws that required retention and maintenance of two Iowa-class battleships. In 2011 Iowa was donated to the Los Angeles–based non-profit Pacific Battleship Center and was permanently moved to Berth 87 at the Port of Los Angeles in 2012, where she was opened to the public as the USS Iowa Museum.

 

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The 51st Fighter Group at the U.S Airfield base in Dinjan, India (1943)

The 51st Fighter Group spent most of the Second World War defending the two ends of the "Hump", the air supply route between India and China. The unit had been activated in January 1941, nearly a year before American entered the war. It was one of the first groups dispatched from the United States after Pearl Harbor, traveling west to India via Australia and Ceylon.

In 1942 the Tenth Air Force was responsible for both India and China. The first 51st FG unit to actually see service was the 16th Fighter Squadron, which was detached to serve with the 23rd FG.

The rest of the group moved forward to Dinjan, in Assam, in September 1942, beginning operations in October. Dinjan was well within range of Japanese aircraft, and so the 51st spent part of its time defending the "Hump" and part defending its own bases. It also took part in the fighting during the Japanese offensive in northern Burma in 1943.

In October 1943 the 51st FG was transferred to the Fourteenth Air Force, and to China. Its duties now involved defending the Chinese end of the "Hump" as well as supporting the Chinese army. It also carried out attacks on Japanese shipping. The unit returned to India in September 1945, and then to the United States in November.

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