Labeled 'Stage B, Third Navy Group,' this album page preserves portraits of two Naval Aviation Cadets, Billy Palmer Ferguson and George Aaron Ling Jr., photographed beside their primary trainer aircraft during the V-5 program's flight instruction phase in the early-to-mid 1940s. Cadets exchanged such photographs, complete with hometown addresses, as mementos of the friendships formed during the intense, high-attrition training pipeline that produced Navy and Marine Corps pilots for World War II. The additional photograph of two women in matching uniforms beside an automobile reflects the broader wartime community - family, civilian staff, or support personnel - that surrounded training bases across the country. Project: 218579