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A TWA Boeing 307 Stratoliner on the pad at the Chicago airport now known as Chicago-Midway, Illinois, United States, 1941, photo 1 of 2; note similarity with B-17 in the wings and engine cowlings	A TWA Boeing 307 Stratoliner on the pad at the Chicago airport now known as Chicago-Midway, Illinois, United States, 1941, photo 2 of 2; note similarity with B-17 in the wings and engine cowlings

A-17A aircraft at rest in San Francisco, California, United States, 1941	A-24 Banshee aircraft in a dive, 1941

A6M Zero fighters of Japanese Navy Genzan Air Group at Genzan (now Wonsan), Korea, 1940-1941	Abukuma underway, circa 1941; note E7K1 floatplane on catapult

Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto and Matome Ugaki, 1941	Adolf Hitler in a convertible, date unknown

Aerial view looking west at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, 1940-41. Note B-18 Bolo bombers parked on the pad that would become Hangar 5.	Aerial view of RAF Hal Far while under Italian attack, Malta, 1941

Aerial view of RAF Luqa, Malta, 1941	Aerial view of the Allied War Memorial in the Bund area of Shanghai, China, 1941; the statue and the side panels were destroyed by Shanghai city administration in Sep 1943 under Japanese pressure

Aerial view of the under-construction Naval Air Station Midway, Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, 1941	Aerial view of the under-construction seaplane base at Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1941

Aerial view of the village of Giarabub, Libya, 1941	Aft gangway of battleship Bismarck, Hamburg, Germany, 1940-1941

Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett with the Royal Australian Air Force Flying Personnel Medical Research Committee, circa 1941	Air raid shelter on Gascoigne Road, Hong Kong, 1941

Air raid shelter, Hong Kong, 1941	An Allied merchant ship being shelled by a German submarine, date unknown