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Swordfish aircraft of No. 824 Squadron Fleet Air Arm going down the lift aboard HMS Activity, date unknown	TBF Avenger aircraft in flight, May 1942-Jun 1943

TBF-1 Avengers on the flight deck of USS Ranger while a K-class Airship flies overhead on anti-submarine watch, 1943	TBM Avenger being tested with Rocket Assisted Take-Off (RATO), 1943. Location unknown.

TDN-1 drone in flight, 1943; seen in Jan 1981 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	TDN-1 drone in manned flight, 1943

The absence of an extended tailhook as this SNJ-3 Texan passes over the arresting wires suggests a touch-and-go aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.	The Landing Signal Officer watches just before a TBF-1 Avenger traps aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.

The only A-36A Mustang aircraft in the RAF in flight, date unknown; note the open dive brakes	The original waist gunners of the B-17 bomber 'Memphis Belle', left waist gunner Clarence Wichell and right waist gunner Casmir Nastral, at their battle stations, Europe, Nov 1942-Jun 1943

The XSB2D-1 prototype in flight, 1943. Only two were built. This was the prototype that was developed into the BTD Destroyer.	Three British Spitfire Vb fighters in flight over Djerba Island, Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia, early 1943

Three German Ju 87D Stuka dive bombers of Sturzkampfgeschwader 77 in flight over the Soviet Union, 1943	Two British Spitfire Mk IX fighters of No. 611 Squadron based at RAF Biggin Hill, London, England, United Kingdom, 1943

Two crew members loading ammunition for their A-26 bomber's M2 Browning machine guns, date unknown	United States Navy aviation maintenance area in the South Pacific servicing several PBY Catalinas as well as other seaplanes in the background, 1942-43.

US Army Air Force student pilot in a T-6 Texan trainer practicing an attack on a B-34 bomber, circa 1942-1943	US Army B-34-VE bomber in flight, 1943

US Army B-37 bomber at rest, 1943	US B-25 bombers dropping parafrag bombs over a Japanese airfield at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 1943