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SOC-3A Seagull parked on escort carrier Long Island's snowy deck, off Argentia, Newfoundland, Jan 1942	US Army Air Force pilot Captain Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr. climbing into a Vultee AT-6 Texan aircraft, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States, Jan 1942

US Sailors examine wreckage of Japanese Aichi D3A “Val” dive bomber that crashed during Pearl Harbor attack, Dec 1941	View of Naval Air Station Ford Island, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, Jan or Feb 1942; note J2F Duck, JRS, OS2U, and R3D (tail only) aircraft, USS Curtiss, and Northampton-class cruisers

Canadians pulling the wreckage of a Digby Mark I aircraft out of Freshwater Bay at Dover, Dominion of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), after the plane crashed into the bay on 2 Jan 1942	Captured Ju 87B dive bomber in a hangar at Benina, Libya, 15 Jan 1942

German troops in the Demyansk Pocket unloading supplies from a Ju 52 transport, Russia, Jan 1942	Broadside view of Biscayne in her original configuration with a large crane and clear fantail, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States, 19 Jan 1942; note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft on tail

Port bow view of Biscayne in her original configuration with a large crane and clear fantail, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States, 19 Jan 1942; note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft on tail	Port quarter view of Biscayne in her original configuration with a large crane and clear fantail, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States, 19 Jan 1942; note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft on tail

A flight of three A-36A Mustang attack aircraft on a training flight near Savannah, Georgia, United States, 1942; the lead plane was destroyed in a landing accident 8 Jan 1943	A PBY-5 Catalina taxiing across Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, in Feb 1942. Photo taken from the carrier USS Enterprise.

A-36A Mustang aircraft on a training flight near Savannah, Georgia, United States, 1942; this plane was destroyed in a landing accident 8 Jan 1943	Aircraft carrier USS Hornet (Yorktown-class) at Pier 7, Norfolk Operating Base, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, Feb 1942. Note F4F-3 Wildcats of Fighting Squadron 3 and SBC-4 Helldiver I’s from Bombing Squadron 8.

B-17E Fortress in flight over Puget Sound, Dec 1941; note Mount Rainier in background. On 5 Apr 1942 this bomber crashed into Mount Keahiakahoe on Oahu while returning from a patrol killing all 11 aboard.	Bomb dollies bringing bombs to an RAF Boston Bomber at an air base in Britain, Feb 1942

German Luftwaffe Ju 52 transport aircraft bringing supplies to the German 16th Army in the Demyansk Pocket, Russia, circa Jan-Feb 1942	H8K prototype No. 2 taking off, Feb 1942

Lieutenant Edward O'Hare in his F4F Wildcat, Spring 1942	United States Coast Guard OS2U-3 Kingfishers armed with aerial depth charges preparing for a convoy escort flight from Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Massachusetts, United States, early 1942.