WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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US Navy Aviation Machinist's Mate polishing the propeller of a SOC Seagull floatplane at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, United States, circa 1940-41	US Soldier in a Willys MA Jeep, United States, 1941. Note the fender-mounted headlamp of the MA rather than the more familiar behind the grille mount of the MB. Note also the soldier’s blue armband from a war game.

Wang Jingwei reading, date unknown	Watercolor by Edward Tufnell depicting Ark Royal under German bomber attack, 1941

Watercolor by Edward Tufnell depicting Hood underway, 1941	Watercolor by Edward Tufnell depicting Renown, Malaya, and Ark Royal, 1941

Blood chit carried by pilots of the American Volunteer Group 'Flying Tigers'; note serial number 0543	OS2U Kingfisher at the edge of the seaplane ramp at NAS Pensacola, Florida, United States, early 1941. Note Consolidated P2Y flying boat laying off shore, photo 2 of 2 (color)

Scharnhorst underway in North Atlantic, circa Jan-Mar 1941	Official document signed by Joachim Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, Hiroshi Oshima, and Bogdan Filov, entering Bulgaria into the Axis alliance, 3 Jan 1941

Blood chit similar to those carried by pilots of the American Volunteer Group 'Flying Tigers' (or possibly a post-war reproduction) with a 'Flying Tigers' squadron emblem beneath it.	Portrait of Rear Admiral John S. “Slew” McCain, Sr., probably shortly after is appointment to flag rank, Feb 1941.

USS North Carolina's forward turrets and conning tower, May 1941	Adolf Hitler inspecting battleship Bismarck with Admiral Lutjens and Captain Lindemann, Gotenhafen, Germany (now Gdynia, Poland), 5 May 1941, photo 3 of 3; Lutjens not seen in this photo

Painting by Claus Bergen depicting the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and battleship Bismarck firing on British warships Hood and Prince of Wales	Painting by J. C. Schmitz-Westerholt depicting Hood's loss on 24 May 1941; Prince of Wales is in the foreground

Ceremonial cover for Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 8802 signed 25 Jun 1941.	German Generaloberst Heinz Guderian holding a map during a field briefing with his division commanders in Russia in front of a PzKpfw III medium tank, summer 1941

Heinrich Himmler in passenger seat of a sedan in the ghetto of Litzmannstadt/Lodz, Poland, Jun 1941; the white-haired civilian next to the vehicle was Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Jewish Council	USS Enterprise in the Pacific turning into the wind to recover aircraft, late June 1941 before her natural wood flight deck was stained blue in July 1941.