Marines gather informally on a stateside air station parade ground in this 1945 photograph from an album belonging to VMF-214, the legendary 'Black Sheep' fighter squadron. Dressed in khaki service uniforms, the men pause between formations against a backdrop of Spanish Mission Revival architecture typical of Marine Corps air stations in prewar and wartime California. Photographs like this document the personnel and daily routine of one of the Marine Corps' most storied fighter squadrons in the closing months of World War II. Project: 218393