WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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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	Poster commemorating the 4th anniversary of the 'holy crusade' in China, published by the Japanese Army Department, Jul 1941

German soldiers with civilians of Poltava, Ukraine, summer 1941	North Carolina firing her after 16-inch guns during her shakedown cruise, 28-29 Aug 1941

North Carolina during her shakedown cruise, 22-31 Aug 1941, photo taken from a destroyer	Destroyer Division 6, Destroyer Squadron 3 ships Clark, Case, Cummings, Shaw, and Tucker at San Diego, California, United States, Oct 1941