WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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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

Captured Me 323 aircraft, Gardelegen Airfield, Germany, 14 Apr 1945	Color photo of work underway at the Marinship yard, Sausalito, California, United States, 15 Apr 1944. Oil tanker Mission San Carlos has her bow draped in bunting for her launch later that day.

US Army DUKWs on the beach at Anzio, Italy, 15 Apr 1944.	Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring at the demonstration of the newly developed Hetzer tank destroyer at a closed highway near Schloss Klessheim west of Salzburg, German occupied Austria, 20 Apr 1944; note Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz (left of photo, showing full face), Wilhelm Keitel (left of photo, red lapel), and Ferdinand Porsche (right of photo, black hat) in background

General Henry Wilson and Lieutenant General Oliver Leese, Mignano Monte Lungo, Italy, 30 Apr 1944, photo 1 of 4	General Henry Wilson and Lieutenant General Oliver Leese, Mignano Monte Lungo, Italy, 30 Apr 1944, photo 2 of 4

General Henry Wilson and Lieutenant General Oliver Leese, Mignano Monte Lungo, Italy, 30 Apr 1944, photo 3 of 4	General Henry Wilson and Lieutenant General Oliver Leese, Mignano Monte Lungo, Italy, 30 Apr 1944, photo 4 of 4

Lieutenant General Oliver Leese at his field headquarters near Mignano Monte Lungo, Italy, 30 Apr 1944	Avengers warming on on Enterprise's flight deck, May 1944