Naval Aviation Cadets C.C. Lasseigne, Joe M. Drouet, and Richard P. Delaney pose together in front of a primary training biplane during their instruction under the Navy's V-5 program. Photographs like this one, taken informally on the flight line, document the close bonds formed among cadets as they progressed through the rigorous stages of wartime pilot training in the early 1940s. Project: 218571