WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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USS President Adams (foreground) and USS Quincy (background), Nouméa Harbor, New Caledonia, 4 Aug 1942; note many Marines aboard USS President Adams	Floating Japanese G4M1 bomber off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942 as seen from the destroyer USS Ellet. The bomber was shot down during an aerial torpedo attack on the Allied shipping off Tulagi. Photo 1 of 2

USS President Jackson (foreground) and HMAS Australia (background) maneuvering between Tulagi and Guadalcanal, 8 Aug 1942; photograph taken by personnel aboard USS Ellet	Chicago maneuvered off Tulagi, 9 Aug 1942, as seen from destroyer Ellet

Battleship Iowa being prepared for launching, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, late Aug 1942	Battleship Iowa being fitted out at New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, fall 1942

German soldier taking a break at the steps in front of a house, near Stalingrad, Russia, Sep 1942	PBY-5A Catalina on the ramp probably at NAS Isla Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug or Sep 1942.

Preparing 16-inch guns for installation on USS Iowa, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, fall 1942	Shipyard worker working on a turret aboard battleship Iowa, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, fall 1942

Submarine Tribune underway, Sep 1942; photo taken from atop the conning tower	Upward bulge in the flight deck of USS Enterprise as the result of a bomb exploding below decks. The damage occurred in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 Aug 1942 but the photo was taken 2 Sep 1942 at Tongatabu, Tonga Islands. Note the cruiser USS San Juan.

President Franklin Roosevelt being presented with a Japanese flag captured by US Marines on Makin Island by Marine Corps Commandant LtGen Thomas Holcomb, White House, Washington DC, 17 Sep 1942.	Damaged buildings in southern Stalingrad, Russia, 23 Sep 1942, photo 1 of 2

Damaged buildings in southern Stalingrad, Russia, 23 Sep 1942, photo 2 of 2	German troops in a vehicle observing a prairie fire near Stalingrad, Russia, 23 Sep 1942

The launching of the USS Lexington (Essex-class) at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, 26 Sep 1942. Note that the island structure is yet to be built.	General Bernard Paget in a Crusader tank of British 42nd Armoured Division during an exercise near Malton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, 29 Sep 1942; note Covenanter tank in background

A female North American Aviation employee working on a section of the leading edge of an aircraft horizontal stabilizer, Inglewood, California, United States, Oct 1942	A man and a woman working on an aircraft at the Douglas Aircraft plant, Long Beach, California, United States, Oct 1942