A 1943 album page documents Army Air Forces training activity in Santa Barbara, California. The upper photo shows a flight line of aircraft parked at the airfield, while the lower image captures a young airman posed on the wing of a P-47 Thunderbolt, one of the war's most rugged single-seat fighters. The updated star-and-bar national insignia on the aircraft helps date the photograph to mid-1943 or later, during the height of stateside pilot and ground crew training for the air war in Europe and the Pacific. Project: 218187