First production "C" wing with 20mm cannons. Used for trials. Converted to an F9 and used for more trials including service trials with 64 Squadron. Scrapped in 1945. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

One of the Spitfires flown off the HMS Eagle on March 7, 1942 to bolster the defence of Malta. AB344 was shot down by a Bf109 on April 20, 1942. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Snapped in 1942 - Ship 41, the DC-3 preserved in the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. She was Delta's second DC-3 to enter service, and flew to Meacham Field from Atlanta on her first revenue trip one year earlier on 19 January 1941. Photo by: Arthur Rothstein / Library of Congress

Training for the war effort. NC17361 cancelled in 1982 and preserved in the San Diego Air & Space Museum. NC16036 is on the right. Photo by: Arthur Rothstein / Library of Congress

'Les Bowman, director of civilian pilot training school.' NC16036 built in 1936. N16036 cancelled in 1953, then registered to Memphis Flying Service, Germantown, Tennessee. Photo by: Arthur Rothstein / Library of Congress

Took off from Binbrook in the night of 20 January 1942 for a raid against Emden. Shot up by a German night fighter, the bomber crash-landed on the north beach of Terschelling Island near Pole 20. Two of the crew were killed, four taken prisoner. Individual aircraft letter Y is unconfirmed. Photo from: Groninger Archieven