A young U.S. Navy Ensign, newly designated as a Naval Aviator, poses beside an automobile near Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, in April 1949. Pensacola, long known as the 'Cradle of Naval Aviation,' trained generations of Navy and Marine Corps pilots. This photograph likely documents a milestone moment shortly after the subject earned his wings, in the years just before the outbreak of the Korean War. Project: 218068