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Ca.331 OA prototype aircraft, Italy, early 1940s	Crew of a Ju 88 A-1 bomber of I./KG 51 'Edelweiß' preparing for flight, Belgium or France, 1940

German Bf 109E fighters in flight over Kent, England, United Kingdom, 1940; note 'Chain Home' radar towers in background	German He 111 Doppel-Blitz bomber of KG 53 in flight over Belgium or France, Sep-Oct 1940

German Luftwaffe Do 17 bombers of KG 3 on an airfield, Belgium or France, Sep-Oct 1940	M.14 Magister aircraft of No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School preparing for flight at Woodley Aerodrome, Woodley, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Sep 1940

TBD-1 Devastator showing damage to fuselage after a landing accident on Yorktown, 3 Sep 1940	US Navy pilot C.M. O'Brien's TBD-1 Devastator aircraft crashed into Yorktown's starboard catwalk in a landing accident, 3 Sep 1940

German He 111 bomber in flight northbound over Surrey Docks, London, England, United Kingdom at 1700 hours on 7 Sep 1940, photo 1 of 2	German He 111 bomber in flight northbound over Surrey Docks, London, England, United Kingdom at 1700 hours on 7 Sep 1940, photo 2 of 2

The first aircraft, an N3N-3 Canary, to have landed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 7 Sep 1940	Two Do 17Z-2 bombers of German wing Kampfgeschwader 3 over Beckton Gas Works, flying southward toward Woolwich Arsenal, London, England, United Kingdom, 7 Sep 1940

Japanese Ki-21 bomber dropping bombs on Chongqing, China, China, 14 Sep 1940; note Yangtze River	A Dornier Do-17 bomber dropping a string of bombs on London, England, United Kingdom, 20 Sep 1940

Gun camera footage from a Spitfire Mk I fighter of No. 609 Squadron RAF, showing its tracer ammunition hitting a German He III aircraft over Filton, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, 25 Sep 1940	Formations of German He 111 bombers flying over Britain, seen through the the gun camera of British Pilot Officer J. D. Bisdee's Spitfire fighter of No. 609 Squadron RAF, 26 Sep 1940

German Bf 109 fighter after force-landing on a French beach, 1940-1941; this might have been Hans-Joachim Marseille's fighter that crashed on 28 Sep 1940	A flight of German Do 17 Z bombers of Kampfgeschwader 3 over France or Belgium, possibly en route to Britain, Sep-Oct 1940

A flight of German Do 17 Z bombers over France or Belgium, possibly en route to Britain, circa 1940	Captured Italian SM.81 transport aircraft at a British airfield, Aden, circa late 1940