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A North American Aviation worker preparing a P-51 Mustang fighter for painting, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942; note B-25 Mitchell bombers in background	A United States Marine Corps SBD Dauntless light bomber in flight over Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, late 1942.	A6M Zero fighters at Rabaul, New Britain, late 1942	American woman riveting join sections of wing ribs that would later go into a B-17F Flying Fortress bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942

American women building a A-20 Havoc bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942	American women working in the interior of the tail section of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942	An American woman working on the landing gear of a P-51 Mustang aircraft at the North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942	An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane being prepared for wind tunnel tests at the North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942

Assembling B-25 Mitchell bombers at North American Aviation's Fairfax Airport plant in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, Oct 1942	B-25 Mitchell bomber being prepared for painting by North American Aviation's female workers, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942	B-25 Mitchell bomber being pulled outside the North American Aviation plant at Kansas City, Kansas, United States, Oct 1942	B-25C Mitchell bomber in flight over southern California, United States, Oct 1942.

Close up of the cockpit and canopy of the P-40K Warhawk assigned to Capt Jack Hamilton of the 26th Fighter Squadron at Dijan Airstrip, Assam, India, late 1942.	Consolidated Aircraft Corporation workers, Fort Worth, Texas, United States, Oct 1942; note P-51B or P-51C Mustang fighter at right	Cowling and control rods being added to engines for B-25 bombers at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942	Douglas Aircraft Company employee working on the port engine of a C-47 Skytrain aircraft, Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942

Early P-51 Mustang during a test flight near the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942	Escort carrier USS Santee in Oct 1942, probably in Bermuda, preparing to cross the Atlantic for the Operation Torch landings in North Africa. Note SBD Dauntless, F4F Wildcat, and TBF Avenger aircraft on the flight deck.	F4F Wildcat fighters of the US Navy and US Marines lined up on Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Jan 1943, photo 1 of 2	F4F Wildcat fighters of the US Navy and US Marines lined up on Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Jan 1943, photo 2 of 2