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Stukas in flight heading towards their target over coastal territory between Dniepr and the Gate of the Crimea on November 6, 1941.

6th November 1941. Three flying cadets sit beneath floodlights at Randolph Fields, Texas.

an F-15 Eagle aircraft, an A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft and an F-16 aircraft in formation over Hoover Dam, 5 November 1986. The F-16 is carrying AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on its wing tips. The aircraft are from the 57th Fighter Weapons Wing.

Test pilot Ralph Burwell Virden. On 4 November 1941, he perishes while testing the first Lockheed YP-38 Lightning, US Army Air Force serial 39-689. The plane breaks apart during a power dive as it approaches supersonic speeds and crashes in Glendale, California.

U.S. Navy SB2U Vindicator dive bombers of VS-42 and VS-41 aboard USS Ranger (CV-4), November 1941.

Only a month to go before war. And the giant is stirring. Lieutenant Colonel A. Robert Ginsburgh addresses workers at Vega Airplane Plant Number 1 (Lockheed), Los Angeles, California, 3 November 1941.

8th Pursuit Group pilots scramble to P-39Ds, Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York, November 1941.

An A-7E Corsair II aircraft approaches the stern of the aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66) for a landing, 1 November 1976.

An Airborne Early Warning Squadron 126 (VAW-126) E-2 Hawkeye aircraft flies past the Statue of Liberty, 1 November 1986.

German Flettner Fl 282 V2 helicopter with fully glazed cockpit. First flight was made on October 30, 1941.

General Władysław Sikorski, the C-in-C of the Polish Armed Forces, addressing pilots and ground crew of No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron after decorating them with Crosses of Valour at RAF Northolt, 28 October 1941.

An F4F-3 Wildcat undergoing maintenance in USS Enterprise's hangar deck, 28 October 1941.

Major Günther Lützow, acting Kommodore of JG 51, shown with his plane which shows his 100 victories ca. 26 October 1941. Lützow was the second pilot to ever record 100 victories, a feat which he achieved on 24 October 1941.

A Fairey Fulmar taking off from the flight deck of HMS Victorious, Scapa Flow, 23-26 October 1941.