WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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Line of OS2U Kingfisher float planes running up their engines prior to a practice flight at a training base in the United States, 1939-40.	Side view of the SMK prototype heavy tank, Dec 1939

B-23 Dragon aircraft in flight, 1939-1940	Chinese Hawk III fighters at Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, circa 1940s

German Navy Grand Admiral Raeder holding his baton at a rally, date unknown	German soldier recovering a mired KS600 motorcycle, 1940s

Hjalmar Siilasvuo and Alpo Marttinen in snowy terrain, Finland, 1939-1940	Ki-49 bomber of the flight school at Hamamatsu Airfield, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in flight, circa 1940s

Merchant ship Vale nearing completion on Slip I of Nordseewerke Emden shipyard, Emden, Germany, 1940	N3N-3 aircraft (Bureau Number 2885) in front of building 57, Naval Air Station Anacostia, Washington DC, United States, 1940; note JRF-4 Goose (Bureau Number 3852) in background

Overhead view of a taxiing He 115 aircraft, date and location unknown	PBM-1 Mariner aircraft of US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-56 in flight, 1940

Portrait of Gerd von Rundstedt, circa 1940	USS Pollack entering Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 1939-1940

Do 17Z bombers over the Low Countries, May 1940	Known as “The study of the Führer,” this was Hitler’s office in the Reich Chancellery that he rarely used, Berlin, Germany, circa 1940. Photo 1 of 2.

German military camera crew filming in Dunkerque, France shortly after the conquest, Jun 1940	Draft registration card for Roddie Edmonds, front and back, completed 16 Oct 1940.

G.50 aircraft at a makeshift airfield in Libya, circa 1940-1941	XSB2C prototype aircraft in flight, late 1940