Not war, but you can see it from here

Some 85 years ago this week. Somewhere in the U-boat-filled North Atlantic. Convoy to Iceland, September 1941: the New Orleans-class heavy cruiser USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) hoists in a Curtiss SOC scout-observation plane after a patrol. View looks aft on the cruiser’s starboard side, with midships’ 5″/25 guns in the foreground. Another SOC is resting on the starboard catapult. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph – NH 47007 Tuscaloosa at the time was part of RADM William R. Munroe’s TF 15 during Operation Indigo III, the passage of 5,000 men of the U.S. Army 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Engineers, 46th Field Artillery Battalion, and various service units to Iceland. There, the Joes would replace the men of the First Marine Brigade (Provisional), which had started arriving the previous July. While the U.S. was not “officially” in the war, by relieving the British in Iceland, which had been there since May 1940 after Denmark and Norway had been occupied by the Germans. The 9,950-ton…