Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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USS North Carolina at anchor, New York, New York, United States, 19-20 Aug 1941	Straight down aerial view of the Pearl Harbor submarine base, 22 Aug 1941. The large C-shaped building is Fleet Headquarters where Admiral Kimmel’s office was. Note some of the fuel storage tanks are camouflage painted

View aboard USS North Carolina during trials, 22-31 Aug 1941	Carrier Shokaku at Yokosuka, Japan, 23 Aug 1941

Launching of submarine Finback, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States, 25 Aug 1941	Submarine Finback shortly after launching, off Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States, 25 Aug 1941

USS North Carolina firing her forward guns during trials, 26-27 Aug 1941	North Carolina during her shakedown cruise, 22-31 Aug 1941

OS2U Kingfisher aircraft preparing for launch aboard North Carolina during the ship's trials, 22-31 Aug 1941	Signalmen hoisting and stowing signal flags aboard USS North Carolina, 22-31 Aug 1941

African-American US Army Air Corps cadets reporting to Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., commandant of cadets, Tuskegee Field, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States, Sep 1941	Augusta near Bermuda, Sep 1941

Battleship Yamato fitting out, Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan, Sep 1941; light carrier Hosho at extreme right	Capt Carlton Wright and Knox aboard USS Augusta off Bermuda, Sep 1941

German troops preparing to execute five Soviet guerilla fighters by hanging, near Velizh, Smolensk, Russia, Sep 1941	Tuscaloosa hoisting a SOC Seagull floatplane from the sea, while en route to Iceland, Sep 1941; note another SOC aircraft on starboard catapult

Two German infantrymen fighting in Russia, fall 1941	Atlanta christened by author Margaret Mitchell during her launching ceremony, Kearny, NJ, 6 Sep 1941

Atlanta slid down the building ways at her launching ceremony, Kearny, NJ, 6 Sep 1941	OS2U Kingfisher aircraft placed on catapult aboard battleship Arizona, near US Territory of Hawaii, 6 Sep 1941; note recovery hook on underside of main pontoon