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Land-variant OS2U Kingfisher aircraft of US Navy Scouting Squadron 44 flying convoy protection and anti-submarine patrols, Hato Field, Curaçao, Dutch West Indies, 2 Nov 1942-1 Feb 1943, photo 2 of 3	Land-variant OS2U Kingfisher aircraft of US Navy Scouting Squadron 44 flying convoy protection and anti-submarine patrols, Hato Field, Curaçao, Dutch West Indies, 2 Nov 1942-1 Feb 1943, photo 3 of 3

Newly-constructed B-25 Mitchell bombers outside the North American Aviation plant at Kansas City, Kansas, United States, Oct 1942	North American Aviation factory workers completing the construction of a B-25 Mitchell bomber, Inglewood facility, Los Angeles, California, United States, Oct 1942, photo 1 of 2

North American Aviation factory workers completing the construction of a B-25 Mitchell bomber, Inglewood facility, Los Angeles, California, United States, Oct 1942, photo 2 of 2	Overhead aerial view of a Consolidated PBY Catalina patrol aircraft over the Atlantic, late 1942.

P-51 Mustang fighters being prepared for test flight, North American Aviation, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942	PBM-3 Mariner in flight, probably on a test flight over southern California, United States, late 1942.

Short Sunderland tied to a mooring buoy, probably in the Mediterranean circa late 1942.	SNJ-3 Texan training aircraft tied to the flight deck aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1942.

Two female employees of North American Aviation working on a section of a wing of a P-51 Mustang fighter, California, Oct 1942	US Army test pilot F. W. Hunter posing before an A-20 Havoc aircraft at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942

Wildcat receiving maintenance in the United States, circa 1942-1943	Women workers groom lines of transparent noses for A-20 attack bombers, Oct 1942

Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber over Stalingrad, Russia, 2 Oct 1942	US Navy K-class airship of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-11 landing at NAS South Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Oct 2, 1942. Note sailors atop the mooring mast waiting to secure the blimp.

B-17F Fortress “The Aztec’s Curse” of the 26th Bomb Squadron immediately after an attack on Ghizo Island in the Solomon Islands, 5 Oct 1942.	US P-66 Vanguard fighters at an airfield in Karachi, India, 25 Oct 1942

A D3A1 dive bomber about to crash into the sea near USS San Diego, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; seen in 15 Apr 1943 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	A6M2 Model 21 Zero fighter of Lieutenant Hideki Shingo preparing to take off from carrier Shokaku during Battle of Santa Cruz, 26 Oct 1942