Sublime

As a measure of the industrial might of the United States in 1944 and 1945, the subsequent whirl of destruction told a better story than a thousand pages of statistics. If a plane needed minor repairs, it was pulled off the flight line and junked, and a shiny new replacement unit flew in to take its place. Hundreds of airplanes were flown into rem

able to outsmart, outhunt and outlast the bigger, stronger and faster members of the animal kingdom.

6 – The attack, or gunship, version of the two-pilot Little Bird helicopter used exclusively by 1st Battalion of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

Besides the intolerable destruction of ships, there was also a terrible human cost-50,000 Allied seamen died during the war.