[Calipers measuring distance across the Atlantic Ocean]

[Calipers comparing the distance across the Atlantic Ocean to the distance across the Pacific Ocean]

[President John F. Kennedy gazing at the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Canaveral, Florida]

[Alan Shepard being hoisted from his space capsule, Atlantic Ocean]

[Allied convoy sailing across the Atlantic from the U.S. to England]

[Commodore Magee on an Allied convoy across the Atlantic from the U.S. to England]

[Two men sleeping on a Allied convoy across the Atlantic from the U.S. to England]

[A crewman signals another ship of an Allied convoy across the Atlantic from the U.S. to England]