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Funeral of a German airman, Kharkov, Ukraine, Oct-Nov 1941, photo 3 of 3	Group portrait of carrier Shokaku's fighter squadron, Japan, Oct or Nov 1941; A6M Zero fighter in background

He 111-H6 medium bomber armed with two Lufttorpedo LF-5B practice torpedoes, late 1941. Note the asymmetrical design of the nose section.	Nationalist-Chinese soldiers looking at the Blood Chit on the back of an American officer at a Chinese airfield, 1942. Note the C-47 Skytrain.

Nine PBY-5 Catalina patrol planes of Patrol Squadron VP-14 in formation above Hawaiian waters, Nov 1941.	Storch aircraft at Dzerzhinsky Square (now Freedom Square), Kharkov, Ukraine, Nov 1941

B-17C Fortress I bomber in British Royal Air Force markings in flight over Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 8 Nov 1941; note Vashon and Maury Islands in background	Long Island, probably off Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 10 Nov 1941; note seven SOC-3A and one F2A aircraft on deck

Vertical aerial photograph of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 10 Nov 1941; note Battleship Row on top, USS Lexington at bottom, and PBY aircraft at upper right	SB2U Vindicator scout bomber flying anti-submarine patrol over an American convoy en route for Capetown, South Africa, 27 Nov 1941; note cruisers Vincennes and Quincy

A6M2 Zero fighter aboard carrier Akagi prior or during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 1941	British troops inspecting a Ju 87B-2 Stuka dive bomber of 5th Squadron, 2nd Group, German 2nd Dive Bomber Wing which had made an emergency landing, North Africa, Dec 1941

Buffalo Mark I fighters of No. 243 Squadron RAF and a Blenheim Mark IV bomber in flight over British Malaya, late 1941	German crew maintaining a Ju 87B-2 Stuka dive bomber, Soviet Union, winter of 1941; note ski undercarriage for use with wintry terrain

A formation of Soviet Il-2 aircraft in flight near Moscow, Russia, 1 Dec 1941	Japanese B5N torpedo bomber crews posing before a B5N aircraft aboard carrier Kaga, Pacific Ocean, 6 Dec 1941

A damaged Zero fighter left a trail of smoke above Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	A Zero fighter took off from Akagi for the attack on Pearl Harbor in the US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941

A6m and D3A aircraft prepared to launch from Shokaku to attack Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941, photo 1 of 3	Air Station personnel move a damaged PBY Catalina away from burning hangars at Kaneohe Naval Air Station, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec 7, 1941.