This album page pairs a leisure snapshot of servicemen sailing in a harbor with a striking image of a fighter 'pool' -- a reserve stock of replacement aircraft staged on an airfield shortly before the invasion of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Together the photographs illustrate both the quieter moments and the massive logistical buildup that characterized the final Pacific campaigns of World War II, as Allied forces marshaled aircraft and personnel for what would become one of the war's largest and costliest battles. Project: 218186