This early-war photograph shows a Lockheed-designed twin-engine patrol bomber, likely a Hudson or Ventura variant, parked on an airfield ramp. Its plain star national insignia, used before the addition of side bars in mid-1943, dates the image to the opening years of American involvement in World War II, when these fast, twin-tailed bombers served in anti-submarine patrol and light bombing roles for both the U.S. Army Air Forces and Navy. Project: 218468