WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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Horst Grund and other photo journalists atop a flak tower at the Strait of Messina, Italy, Aug 1943	Horst Grund filming, circa Aug 1943

Lieutenant David McClintock, Commander David White, and Lieutenant Charles Nace dining in the wardroom aboard USS Cero while the submarine was at Groton, Connecticut, United States, Jul-Aug 1943	Me 323 Gigant heavy transport at rest, circa 1940s; aircraft in background appeared to be He 111 medium bombers

Officers sighting guns atop an anti-aircraft tower at Messina, Sicily, Italy, circa Aug 1943	PB4Y-1 Liberator from a US Navy patrol squadron based in the United Kingdom in flight, Aug 1943. Photo 1 of 2.

US Navy PV-1 Ventura aircraft of Bombing Squadron VB-135 and PBY-5A Catalina from another squadron at the Adak Island airfield, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, summer 1943	Launching ceremony of carrier Wasp, Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, 17 Aug 1943

Franklin Roosevelt, the Earl of Athlone, Mckenzie King, and Winston Churchill on the terrace at the Citadelle, Quebec, Canada, Aug 1943	B-17 Fortresses of the 91st Bomb Group nearing the Dornier Assembly Plant at Meulan, France at dawn, 31 Aug 1943.

US Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander James H. Flatley's F6F-3 Hellcat fighter warming up on the deck of USS Yorktown, preparing to attack Marcus Island, 31 Aug 1943	A British WREN and an US sailor removed the US markings off of a Wildcat destined to become a British Martlet V, Naval Air Station, Quonset, Rhode Island, Sep 1943

An American flag flew on a convoy ship while underway, location unknown, circa 1943-1945	B-24 Liberator 'Rapid Robin' of the 431st Bomb Squadron parked under camouflage netting at Bellows Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, Aug or Sep 1943

Fw190G-3 No.160057 was captured Gerbini Airfield Sicily in Sep 1943. It was painted in a striking white and red color scheme. Camouflage netting was to keep the Luftwaffe from destroying it.	Guns and other topside weight being removed from the damaged cruiser USS St. Louis before removing the damaged bow section altogether, Sep 1943, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States.

USS Gherardi (center) and USS Luce (left) at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, Jun-Sep 1943	USS Gherardi (center), USS Luce (left, bow only), USS Butler (right, stern only), USS Doyle (right background), and a British light cruiser (left background) at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, Jun-Sep 1943

Wrecked A6M3 Zero aircraft at Munda Field, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Sep 1943	Light cruiser Philadelphia and a motor minesweeper making a smoke screen to cover the landing area from German air attack, Salerno, Italy, 9 Sep 1943