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Converted TWA Stratoliner 'Apache' (USAAF #42-88626) after becoming the first aircraft to land at Bluie West Eight (Kangerlussuaq), Greenland, 20 Apr 1942	British Martlet IV (Wildcat) fighter at Naval Air Station, Anascotia, Washington DC, 21 Apr 1942, photo 1 of 2

British Martlet IV (Wildcat) fighter at Naval Air Station, Anascotia, Washington DC, 21 Apr 1942, photo 2 of 2	US Navy J2F-5 Duck aircraft in flight during anti-submarine patrol, 23 Apr 1942; note Mark XVII depth charges

F2A-3 Buffalo fighter possibly of USMC squadron VMF-212 being serviced in a camouflaged revetment, Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, US Territory of Hawaii, 25 Apr 1942	American airmen posing with the side machine gun of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, May 1942

American YB-17 bomber crew receiving last minute instructions before taking off on a mission, Langley Field, Virginia, United States, May 1942	Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo being lifted aboard aircraft transport USS Kitty Hawk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, May 1942. Note open hangar bay in the stern of the ship.

British Spitfire fighters on the flight deck of USS Wasp, circa Apr-May 1942	British Spitfire V fighter took off from Wasp for Malta, May 1942

Fulmar aircraft of No. 803 Squadron FAA landing on HMS Formidable in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, late Apr or early May 1942	Fulmar aircraft of No. 803 Squadron FAA landing on HMS Formidable in the Indian Ocean off Madagasgar, late Apr to early May 1942

George McCraw, worker at Vega Aircraft Corporation, applying nose art on a PV-1 Ventura aircraft, Burbank, California, United States, circa May 1942	Grumman TBF-1C Avenger in flight, Jan-May 1942, location unknown. Photo 1 of 2.

Grumman TBF-1C Avenger in flight, Jan-May 1942, location unknown. Photo 2 of 2.	Halifax B.II Series I bomber of No. 10 Squadron RAF in flight, circa Apr-May 1942

Ki-43-II Hayabusa fighter at rest, circa 1942	Martlet fighter of No. 888 Squadron FAA from HMS Formidable in flight over the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, late Apr to early May 1942; note HMS Warspite in background

Martlet fighters on the catapult of HMS Formidable, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, late Apr to early May 1942	N-3PB aircraft of No. 330 (Norwegian) Squadron RAF being used to transport a sick civilian woman, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 1942