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SB2U-3 Vindicator aircraft of US Marine Corps squadron VMSB-241 taking off from Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, circa late May 1942	American Volunteer Group pilots with a P-40 fighter, Xiangyun Airfield, Yunnan Province, China, 28 May 1942

Kittyhawk fighters of the American Volunteer Group flying near the Salween River Gorge on the Chinese-Burmese border, 28 May 1942	Albacore aircraft of No. 820 Squadron FAA having just taken off from HMS Formidable in the Indian Ocean, 29 May 1942; photo taken from HMS Warspite

VF-3 pilot Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach's Wildcat fighter at Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, 29 May 1942, five days before he possibly shot down Tomonaga at Midway	View forward from USS Quincy's second conning tower, while she was at the New York Navy Yard, United States, for her last overhaul, 29 May 1942; note SOC Seagull floatplanes onboard

YP-38 Lightning aircraft in flight, 28 May 1942 or shortly thereafter	A tractor pulling an SBD Dauntless dive-bomber from a pier on Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, mid-1942. Note LCVPs.

B-17E aircraft being serviced at Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, May-Jun 1942, photo 1 of 2	B-17E aircraft being serviced at Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, May-Jun 1942, photo 2 of 2

B-17E bomber of 72nd Bomb Squadron of US 5th Bomb Group, Midway Atoll, 1942	B-17E bomber taking off from Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, May-Jun 1942

Dauntless attempting to land on USS Ranger, Jun 1942	F2A-3 Buffalo of Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-112 at rest, May or June 1942, probably in San Diego, California, United States

Formation of B-25D Mitchell bombers of the US 3rd Attack Group, based in Australia in 1942	Newly arrived aviation cadets at the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, United States submitting to haircut inspection, circa 1942. Note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft.

SOC Seagull aircraft just launched from Augusta's catapult, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Jun 1942	Spitfire Mark VB fighters of No. 131 Squadron RAF at Merston, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1942

Spitfire Mk. VC aircraft aboard USS Wasp, en route to Malta in the Mediterranean Sea, mid-1942; note HMS Eagle in background	TBF-1 Avenger torpedo bomber in flight, mid-1942