First to be seen on the west coast, the top-secret Martin B-26 lands at Grand Central, 1940.
Air Corps cadets and Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute students, 1941.
Crowd gathers at Grand Central Air Terminal as Air Marshall W.A. "Billy" Bishop speaks, 1941.
 
 
Grand Central Air Terminal under camouflage, 1941.
Roscoe Turner, well-known aviator and organizer of the short-lived Nevada Airlines,
c. 1942.
P-38s flying over the Grand Central Air Terminal during World War II - watercolor by Collin Campbell.
 
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