LC-Lot-3465-6: Martin JRM “Mars” aircraft, XPB2M-1, 1941
![LC-Lot-3465-6: Martin JRM “Mars” aircraft, XPB2M-1, 1941. Original caption, “Seventy tons of fighting strength were added to the Navy air force when Mars, the largest ship ever to fly, was completed. A Martin-built plane, it has four 2,000 horsepower motors, a hull the size of a 15-room house, and a wing-expansion equivalent to the height of a 20-story building. Mars can fly non-stop to Europe and back. Office of War Information photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. LC-Lot-3465-6: Martin JRM “Mars” aircraft, XPB2M-1, 1941. Original caption, “Seventy tons of fighting strength were added to the Navy air force when Mars, the largest ship ever to fly, was completed. A Martin-built plane, it has four 2,000 horsepower motors, a hull the size of a 15-room house, and a wing-expansion equivalent to the height of a 20-story building. Mars can fly non-stop to Europe and back. Office of War Information photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.](/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/aircraft-us/aircraft-usn-j/jrm-mars/lc-lot-3465-6/_jcr_content/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1618927047553.jpg)
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Wars & Conflicts
Navy Communities
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