As the US Navy recovered from the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor,
the aircraft carrier earned a place alongside the battleship, and the
Navy grew its air force. Pilots were needed as fast as American industry
could build airplanes, and Indiana became the home of a naval
air-training center. After fascism's defeat with the end of World War
II, a potentially more deadly Cold War brought the need for a deterrent
force capable of surviving a nuclear attack and then completely
destroying the enemy. A vital part of that force moved into the old
Hoosier Navy Base in 1954. For more than three decades, Bunker Hill and
Grissom airmen stood on the forward wall of America's freedom. Images of
Aviation: Bunker Hill and Grissom Air Force Base tells their story
through an amazing collection of declassified US Air Force photographs.