A U.S. Navy sailor poses beside the massive bronze propeller of his ship while it undergoes repairs in dry dock during World War II. Keeping the fleet operational in the far reaches of the Pacific required constant maintenance, and forward repair facilities and floating dry docks became essential to sustaining the war effort thousands of miles from home ports. The scale of the propeller blade, dwarfing the sailor beside it, offers a striking sense of the engineering feats behind every warship afloat. Project: 218696