WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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WAVES trainees eating a meal, Naval Training Center, Norman, Oklahoma, United States, Feb 1943	Commissioning ceremony of USS Iowa, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, 22 Feb 1943

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States and Song Meiling of the Republic of China, Washington DC, United States, 24 Feb 1943, photo 1 of 2	First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States and Song Meiling of the Republic of China, Washington DC, United States, 24 Feb 1943, photo 2 of 2

German combat photographer Horst Grund, circa Mar 1943	PBY-5A Catalina aircraft of US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-61 in flight in the Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, Mar 1943. Photo 1 of 2.

PBY-5A Catalina aircraft of US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-61 in flight in the Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, Mar 1943. Photo 2 of 2.	Silhouette of a German military personnel aboard a ship off Tunis, Tunisia, circa Mar 1943, photo 1 of 2

Silhouette of a German military personnel aboard a ship off Tunis, Tunisia, circa Mar 1943, photo 2 of 2	This Messerschmitt Bf-109 was shot down by British ground fire in Tunisia on Mar 1 1943, recovered by USAAF 87th Fighter Squadron, and repainted in their markings, Mar 1943. Note the missing canopy.

WAVES Specialist (T) 3rd Class Dorothy Knee and Specialist (T) Genevieve Close directing air traffic at Naval Air Station, Anacostia, District of Columbia, United States, in early or mid-1943	WAVES students marching out of Morrill Hall, Naval Training Center, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States, Mar 1943; note the women were wearing raincoats and havelocks but the sky was clear

USS Essex on her shakedown cruise, 20 Mar 1943, with F6F aircraft in foreground and SBD in the back	B-24D Liberator lead assembly ship 'Barber Bob' of 93rd Bomber Group, US 328th Bomber Squadron based on RAF Hardwick, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Feb-May 1943

Horst Grund with his mother Marie Elisabeth Grund by the Isar River in Landshut, southern Germany, Apr 1943	Lieutenant Walter A. Haas in the cockpit of a F2A Buffalo aircraft, Naval Air Station Miami, Florida, United States, 9 Apr 1943

US Navy ordnanceman loading .50 caliber ammunition for a F2A Buffalo fighter, Naval Air Station Miami, Florida, United States, 9 Apr 1943	USS Minneapolis at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii after being fitted with a new bow, 11 Apr 1943, photo 1 of 2

USS Minneapolis at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii after being fitted with a new bow, 11 Apr 1943, photo 2 of 2	The colors being hoisted for the first time aboard the USS Yorktown (Essex-class) during the ship’s commissioning ceremonies, 15 Apr 1943 at Norfolk, Virginia, United States