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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 from its base at Hickam Field, Hawaii between Dec 1941 and Apr 1942. On 5 Apr 1942 this bomber crashed into Mt 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.	United States Navy training poster depicting the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, Feb 1942. Note that the poster describes the Allied code name “Zeke” as the “MacArthur Name.”

Cruiser Salt Lake City firing her 8-in guns on either Wotje, Marshall islands on 1 Feb 1942 or Wake Island on 24 Feb 1942; note SOC Seagull floatplane onboard	Lieutenant Commander Bill Burch and Ensign Thomas Reeves flying USS Yorktown-based SBD dive bombers over Makin, Gilbert Islands, 1 Feb 1942