
Lille, Grand Isle. Aroostook County, Maine. September, 1940.
Mrs. Eloise Cote soothes her baby in the rocking chair, while her husband was out picking potatoes on their small farm.
Image courtesy of the U.S. Farm Security Administration Archive, Library of Congress.

Ordnance for distribution over Japanese occupied territory in the South-West Pacific being brought up on the low trailers to load onto the bomb racks of aircraft of No. 80 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF at a forward operational base on Kamiri Airstrip.

Most C-47s used in the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift were World War II veterans, some bearing D-Day invasion stripes. (Bundesarchiv)