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Japanese D3A dive bomber being shot down over USS Enterprise during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942	A Wildcat lifted from APV Kitty Hawk to ACV Long Island, Fila Harbor, New Hebrides (now Port Vila, Vanuatu), 28 Aug 1942

Bombs being brought to a TBF Avenger of United States Navy Torpedo Squadron VT-11 flying from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1942. Note the pierced steel Marsden matting.	Captured A6M 'Akutan Zero' fighter with US markings flying over San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942

Captured A6M Zero fighter 'Akutan Zero' flying over San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942	Douglas A-20A Havoc “Little Hellion” of the 89th Bomb Squadron flying over eastern New Guinea, Sep-Oct 1942

Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber over Stalingrad, Russia, Sep 1942	Ordnancemen loading belted cartridges into SBD-3 at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942

PBY-5A Catalina on the ramp probably at NAS Isla Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug or Sep 1942.	Profile of captured A6M 'Akutan Zero' fighter with US markings in San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942

RAAF Squadron Leader Keith W “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942.	SB2U Vindicator dive bombers of Scouting Squadron VS-41 turning toward the carrier USS Ranger in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, United States, Sep 1942.

SBD aircraft destroyed in an air attack on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942	Six B-17E bombers, the entire heavy bombing strength of the US 5th Air Force at the time, took off for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 1942

TBF Avenger torpedo bombers flying in formation above Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942	Three Lockheed A-29 Hudsons fly past Mt McKinley, Territory of Alaska, circa 1942

US Marine Corps Wildcat fighter taking off from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa Sep 1942	US Navy Lieutenant Commander Eddie Sanders taxiing the captured Japanese A6M Zero fighter 'Akutan Zero', Naval Air Station San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942

US Army B-34 bomber in flight, 4 Sep 1942	United States Navy Captain Miles Browning, Captain William Harrill, Captain F.B. McCrary, and Vice Admiral William Halsey at Naval Air Station Alameda, California, 6 Sep 1942. Note SNJ Texan aircraft.