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A soldier from New Zealand resting and smoking a pipe in the Egyptian desert in 1942.


Personnel remove the protective coating from newly arrived P-51’s at an assembly station at Filton, England, April 1944. (National Archives)


A former American Volunteer Group P-40 being worked on by Staff Sergeant E.L. Sullivan of the 23rd Fighter Group, September 1942. This plane was noted as the first to bring down a Japanese plane after the 23rd Fighter Group took over after the transition. (The National Archives)