WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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

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	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.

German gunboat with 8.8 cm FlaK gun on the Black Sea off Constanta, Romania, Jul 1941, photo 1 of 4	German gunboat with 8.8 cm FlaK gun on the Black Sea off Constanta, Romania, Jul 1941, photo 2 of 4

German gunboat with 8.8 cm FlaK gun on the Black Sea off Constanta, Romania, Jul 1941, photo 3 of 4	German gunboat with 8.8 cm FlaK gun on the Black Sea off Constanta, Romania, Jul 1941, photo 4 of 4

German officers observing the firing of 8.8cm guns from a gunboat on the Black Sea off Constanta, Romania, Jul 1941	Hungarian anti-aircraft crew operating a 40-mm Bofors AA gun, Russia, circa mid-1941

SB2U Vindicators and F3F “Flying Barrels” on the pad viewed from the tower at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii, mid-1941. Note the false color added to the photo after the fact.	Texas in North Atlantic on convoy duty, summer 1941