The Snapshots in Time Collection
Sailor Posed Before a Numbered Training Aircraft at a Naval Air Station
A young sailor in Navy dungarees and a 'dixie cup' cap poses beside a numbered primary training aircraft, likely a Boeing-Stearman N2S of the type used to introduce Naval Aviation Cadets to flight during World War II. Photographs like this, taken casually on the flight line, capture the everyday pride cadets and enlisted men felt working alongside the aircraft central to the Navy's wartime pilot training pipeline. Project: 218579