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Japanese G4M aircraft making a torpedo run against the American Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion force, 8 Aug 1942	Three Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns in the left wing of an F4U-1 Corsair fighter, Aug 11, 1942	A British DB-7B Boston Mk III bomber of RAF No. 88 Squadron over Dieppe Harbour, France, 19 Aug 1942	USS Washington off New York, New York, United States, 21 Aug 1942; note OS2U floatplane astern

Akimoto Tamotsu and Koitabashi Hiroshi flying their D3A carrier dive bomber (foreground) returning to carrier Shokaku after attacking USS Enterprise during Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942	Japanese D3A dive bomber being shot down over USS Enterprise during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942	A Wildcat lifted from APV Kitty Hawk to ACV Long Island, Fila Harbor, New Hebrides (now Port Vila, Vanuatu), 28 Aug 1942	Bombs being brought to a TBF Avenger of United States Navy Torpedo Squadron VT-11 flying from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1942. Note the pierced steel Marsden matting.

Captured A6M 'Akutan Zero' fighter with US markings flying over San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942	Captured A6M Zero fighter 'Akutan Zero' flying over San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942	Douglas A-20A Havoc “Little Hellion” of the 89th Bomb Squadron flying over eastern New Guinea, Sep-Oct 1942	Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber over Stalingrad, Russia, Sep 1942

Ordnancemen loading belted cartridges into SBD-3 at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942	PBY-5A Catalina on the ramp probably at NAS Isla Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug or Sep 1942.	Profile of captured A6M 'Akutan Zero' fighter with US markings in San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942	RAAF Squadron Leader Keith W “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942.

SB2U Vindicator dive bombers of Scouting Squadron VS-41 turning toward the carrier USS Ranger in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, United States, Sep 1942.	SBD aircraft destroyed in an air attack on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942	Six B-17E bombers, the entire heavy bombing strength of the US 5th Air Force at the time, took off for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 1942	TBF Avenger torpedo bombers flying in formation above Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942