WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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WAVES Yeoman 2nd Class Ann G. Fee of the US Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts wrapped Christmas presents for Navy and Marine Corps convalescents at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland, United Sta	William Dibble at Chongqing airfield, China, circa 1944

F6F Hellcat fighters warming up aboard USS Cowpens during Marshall Islands Campaign, Pacific Ocean, Jan 1944, photo 1 of 2	P-51B Mustang “Ding Hao!” and Maj James Howard (in cap) of the 356th Fighter Squadron at RAF Boxted, Essex, England, UK; early 1944. See Comment below.

USS Minneapolis being refueled at sea in the Marshall Islands area, Jan 1944	William Halsey (left of photograph), Frank Knox (center), and Ernest King in the Main Navy Building, Washington DC, United States, Jan 1944

4.5 inch gun of 214 Battery, 69 Medium Regiment, British Royal Artillery firing near Garigliano River, Italy, before dawn on 18 Jan 1944	Bradley, Ramsay, Tedder, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Leigh-Mallory, and Smith at a SHAEF conference in London, England, United Kingdom, 1 Feb 1944, photo 3 of 7

Bradley, Ramsay, Tedder, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Leigh-Mallory, and Smith at a SHAEF conference in London, England, United Kingdom, 1 Feb 1944, photo 4 of 7	Bradley, Ramsay, Tedder, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Leigh-Mallory, and Smith at a SHAEF conference in London, England, United Kingdom, 1 Feb 1944, photo 5 of 7

Bradley, Ramsay, Tedder, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Leigh-Mallory, and Smith at a SHAEF conference in London, England, United Kingdom, 1 Feb 1944, photo 7 of 7	A factory worker at General Motors’ Pontiac Assembly Plant, converted to wartime production, making adjustments to a Mark XIII aerial torpedo, Pontiac, Michigan, United States, early 1944

P-40N Warhawk fighters of the 74th Fighter Squadron (direct descendent of the AVG Flying Tigers) in China, probably Kweilin (now Guilin) 1943-44. Note rocket tubes being mounted under the wing.	Three pilots of the 332nd Bomb Group, US Army 9th Air Force posing in front of a Jeep, Great Sailing, Essex, England, UK, Feb-Sep 1944

View from the top of the Washington Monument looking at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, United States, 1944. Note the buildings of the Navy Department in the foreground that were removed after the Pentagon opened.	US Navy War Damage Report drawing for USS Helena, 1 Mar 1944

USS Proteus at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 15 Mar 1944, photo 1 of 3	A flight of Douglas SBD Dauntless scout bombers over the Caribbean, 1944. Good view of the two-tone gray and white scheme widely used in the Atlantic Command.

WAVES trainee leaning on a mop while cleaning her barracks at a Naval Training Center in the United States, circa early 1944	Brigadier General Jesse Auton, General Dwight Eisenhower, Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz, Major General James Doolittle, Major General William E. Kepner, Colonel Donald M. Blakeslee, RAF Debden, Essex, England, United Kingdom, 11 Apr 1944. VIPs were present for the presentation of Blakeslee with the Distinguished Service Cross