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G4M Type 1 bomber of Japanese Navy 4th Air Group in flight, circa mid-1942	German Bf 109G fighter of JG 54 'Grünherz' fighter wing at rest, Aug-Sep 1942

Kingfisher aircraft of No. 1 Flying Boat Repair Depot RAAF at rest, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia, Aug 1942	National Youth Administration trainee Elmer Pace working on a PBY Catalina aircraft, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942

The tail of Hans-Joachim Marseille's Bf 109 fighter showing 101 kills, circa Aug 1942	US Navy ordnanceman Jesse Rhodes Waller posing with a M1919 Browning machine gun next to a PBY Catalina aircraft, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942, photo 1 of 3

US Navy ordnanceman Jesse Rhodes Waller posing with a M1919 Browning machine gun next to a PBY Catalina aircraft, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942, photo 2 of 3	US Navy ordnanceman Jesse Rhodes Waller posing with a M1919 Browning machine gun next to a PBY Catalina aircraft, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942, photo 3 of 3

Warhawk aircraft in flight, May 1942-Jan 1943	Lieutenant Commander Joseph C. Clifton in flight in a Buffalo fighter, 2 Aug 1942, photo 1 of 2

Lieutenant Commander Joseph C. Clifton in flight in a Buffalo fighter, 2 Aug 1942, photo 2 of 2	HMS Indomitable and HMS Eagle sailing behind HMS Victorious, 3-10 Aug 1942; note Hurricane and Albacore aircraft on Victorious' flight deck

Crew aboard Enterprise loaded a 500 lb demolition bomb on a SBD scout bomber for strike on Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 7 Aug 1942	Floating Japanese G4M1 bomber off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942 as seen from the destroyer USS Ellet. The bomber was shot down during an aerial torpedo attack on the Allied shipping off Tulagi. Photo 1 of 2

Floating Japanese G4M1 bomber off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942 as seen from the destroyer USS Ellet. The bomber was shot down during an aerial torpedo attack on the Allied shipping off Tulagi. Photo 2 of 2	Japanese G4M aircraft making a torpedo run against the American Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion force, 8 Aug 1942

Three Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns in the left wing of an F4U-1 Corsair fighter, Aug 11, 1942	A British DB-7B Boston Mk III bomber of RAF No. 88 Squadron over Dieppe Harbour, France, 19 Aug 1942

USS Washington off New York, New York, United States, 21 Aug 1942; note OS2U floatplane astern	Akimoto Tamotsu and Koitabashi Hiroshi flying their D3A carrier dive bomber (foreground) returning to carrier Shokaku after attacking USS Enterprise during Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942