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Prototype of Re.2003 reconnaissance aircraft, which was based on the Re.2002 Ariete design, 29 Jun 1941, photo 2 of 3	Prototype of Re.2003 reconnaissance aircraft, which was based on the Re.2002 Ariete design, 29 Jun 1941, photo 3 of 3

Australian troops with captured Morane-Saulnier MS.406 fighters and a Potez 630 bomber, Syria, Jul 1941	Captured French Potez 63.11 aircraft, Aleppo, Syria, 1941

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

A Dornier Do-217 bomber on an airfield in Finland with reindeer in the foreground, 26 Jul 1941.	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