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Female US Marine working on an aircraft engine, circa 1943	Grumman factory photo showing how five of the new F4F-4 “Sto-Wing” Wildcat fighters fit in the same space as two of the previous F4F-3 rigid wing fighters, Bethpage, New York, 1941. In practice, the ratio was more 3-to-2

Men working on M3 tanks at the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, Warren, Michigan, United States, circa 1940-1942	Museum ship Oregon, Portland, Oregon, 1941-1942

N3N and N2S aircraft at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, 1941-1942	Navy SNJ-1 and NJ-1, early variants of the North American Texan, lined up at NAS Pensacola, Florida, United States, 1941.

North Carolina fitting out at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, early 1941	OS2U Kingfisher float plane being shot off a catapult mounted on a dock for training purposes at Pensacola, Florida, United States, pre-war 1941.

Riveters working on battleship Alabama, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 1940-1942	Ship fitters working on battleship Alabama, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 1940-1942

US Marine holding M55 Reising folding-stock (left) and M50 Reising (right) submachine guns, Marine Corps Base Quantico, near Triangle, Virginia, United States, date unknown	US Marines in training at Marine Corps Base Quantico, near Triangle, Virginia, United States with M55 Reising folding-stock (left) and M50 Reising (right) submachine guns, date unknown

US Navy R3D transport in Oakland, California but assigned to Anacostia Naval Air Station in Washington DC, 1941	US Soldier in a Willys MA Jeep, United States, 1941. Note the fender-mounted headlamp of the MA rather than the more familiar behind the grille mount of the MB. Note also the soldier’s blue armband from a war game.

USS R-5, probably at New London, Connecticut, United States, 1940-1941	Workers putting tracks onto a M3 tank at the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, Warren, Michigan, United States, circa 1940-1942, photo 1 of 2

Workers putting tracks onto a M3 tank at the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, Warren, Michigan, United States, circa 1940-1942, photo 2 of 2	XFL Airabonita prototype aircraft in flight, 1941; seen in Dec 1980 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

N-3PB aircraft of Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service in flight over Lake Elsinore, California, United States, early 1941	OS2U Kingfisher at the edge of the seaplane ramp at NAS Pensacola, Florida, United States, early 1941. Note Consolidated P2Y flying boat laying off shore, photo 1 of 2 (b/w)