Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell shaking hands with Major D. M. O'Hara who had just received a Purple Heart medal, India, mid-1942	Line drawing of the Mark XIII aerial torpedo taken from the US Navy Bureau of Ordinance (BuOrd) Ordinance Pamphlet, Jul 1942. Photo 1 of 3.

Line drawing of the Mark XIII aerial torpedo taken from the US Navy Bureau of Ordinance (BuOrd) Ordinance Pamphlet, Jul 1942. Photo 2 of 3.	Line drawing of the Mark XIII aerial torpedo taken from the US Navy Bureau of Ordinance (BuOrd) Ordinance Pamphlet, Jul 1942. Photo 3 of 3.

Lt Cmdr Howard W Gilmore, commander of the submarine USS Growler in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii upon receiving his first Navy Cross for an attack on three warships within the Kiska Island anchorage in the Aleutians, Jul 1942.	Men aboard the destroyer USS Shaw drilling on the No. 3 5”/38 caliber gun, Jul 1942 probably off San Diego. Note the open pedestal mount and the sailors at left holding the 5-inch practice shells.

North American SNJ-4 Texan advanced trainers lined up at the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, July 1942.	Private Jack David of the US Army Engineer task force scrubbing out his belongings, Liberia, Jul 1942

PT-170, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 10 (MTBRon 10), painted in “zebra” pattern designed to thwart enemy optical range finding, 1942. Photo 1 of 2	PT-170, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 10 (MTBRon 10), painted in “zebra” pattern designed to thwart enemy optical range finding, 1942. Photo 2 of 2

PT-95, a Huckins 78-foot motor torpedo boat, in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, Jul 1942. Note how lightly armed this boat is compared to later boats in the forward areas.	Richmond Turner and Alexander Vandegrift aboard USS McCawley looking at maps of the Tulagi-Guadalcanal operation in the Solomon Islands, circa Jul-Aug 1942

USS Alabama at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, Feb-Aug 1942; note Crane Ship No. 1, former battleship Kearsage, servicing Alabama	Japanese-American boys reading comic books in Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California, United States, 1 Jul 1942

Japanese-American women making camouflage nets for the US War Department, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, 1 Jul 1942	Third grade arithmetic class with no desks or other school facilities at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1 Jul 1942

USS Helena off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 1 Jul 1942	View of the camouflage netting sheds at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, 1 Jul 1942. Many of the camp’s internees worked in these sheds making Camouflage netting by hand for the Army.

Removing a Mark XVII depth bomb from SOC Seagull aircraft of cruiser Philadelphia, 2 Jul 1942, photo 1 of 2	Removing a Mark XVII depth bomb from SOC Seagull aircraft of cruiser Philadelphia, 2 Jul 1942, photo 2 of 2