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CR.25 aircraft flying over the Italian Alps, circa 1941	German Fi 156 Storch aircraft preparing to take off from a country road, Ukraine, summer 1941

German Ju 87R Stuka dive bomber at rest, Pori Airfield, Finland, summer 1941	SB2U Vindicators and F3F “Flying Barrels” on the pad viewed from the tower at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii, mid-1941. Note the false color added to the photo after the fact.

TBD-1 Devastator torpedo bomber landing on Enterprise, Jul 1941	View of USS Saratoga from a TBD-1 Devastator aircraft which had just taken off from the flight deck, circa summer 1941

Wrecked French Potez 630 and Farman 220 aircraft at Baalbek, Syria, 1941	View of Rotterdam, the Netherlands during an aerial attack, 16 Jul 1941, seen from the dorsal turret of a Blenheim bomber

TBD-1 Devastator torpedo bomber of Torpedo Squadron 6 in flight over carrier Enterprise in landing pattern, as indicated by the down arrestor hook and wheel, 29 Jul 1941	Curtis Tomahawk IIA fighter named “Menace” with Flying Officer Neville Bowker of RAF 112 Squadron in North Africa, mid-1941.

Early model Boeing B-17 Fortress taking off from Hickam Field, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, pre-war, Aug 1941.	German armorer loading ammunition into a Bf 109 fighter of JG 54 'Grünherz' fighter wing, Russia, Aug 1941

German crew sighting the 20mm cannon on a Bf 109F fighter of JG 54 'Grünherz' fighter wing, near Leningrad, Russia, Aug 1941, photo 1 of 2	German crew sighting the 20mm cannon on a Bf 109F fighter of JG 54 'Grünherz' fighter wing, near Leningrad, Russia, Aug 1941, photo 2 of 2

Germans inspecting captured UT-1 aircraft (foreground) and wrecked I-16 aircraft (background), 1941	Wrecked I-16 (UTI-4 variant; foreground) and Hs 126 (background) aircraft, 1941

Six P-40 Warhawk fighters based at Hickam Field in flight over Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 1 Aug 1941, photo 1 of 2	Six P-40 Warhawk fighters based at Hickam Field in flight over Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 1 Aug 1941, photo 2 of 2

Captured German Ju 88 aircraft on display in Sverdlov Square, Moscow, Russia, 15 Aug 1941	OS2U Kingfisher aircraft preparing for launch aboard North Carolina during the ship's trials, 22-31 Aug 1941