U.S. Navy LCdr Maxwell F. Leslie, commanding officer of bombing squadron
VB-3, ditches in the ocean next to the heavy cruiser USS Astoria, after successfully attacking the Japanese carrier Soryu during the Battle of Midway, on June 4, 1942. Leslie and his wingman Lt(jg) P.A. Holmberg ditched near Astoria due to fuel exhaustion, after their parent carrier USS Yorktown was under attack by Japanese planes when they returned. Leslie, Holmberg, and their gunners were rescued by one of the cruiser's whaleboats. Note one of the cruiser's Curtiss SOC Seagull floatplanes on the catapult at right.
A flat tire on a truck transporting used tires in Houston, Texas in March 1966.
Melon Time. Person County, North Carolina. Millworker's house six miles north of Roxboro. July 1939. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
