WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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US troops ready to board landing ships at Weymouth, Dorset for the Normandy Invasion, May-June 1944. Photo 3 of 3.	USS Honolulu at anchor in Purvis Bay, Florida Islands, Solomons, June 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 2C paint scheme, only two cruisers were painted this way.

Yeoman 2nd Class Bernice Elliot and Yeoman 3rd Class Martha Dietlin watched as Seaman 1st Class Kay Magee tried on her Overseas Cap, Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 1944-1945	US Army Rangers awaited the invasion signal in a landing craft in an English port, circa early Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2; note the bazooka and the M1 Garand rifles

US Army Rangers awaited the invasion signal in a landing craft in an English port, circa early Jun 1944, photo 2 of 2; note the bazooka and the M1 Garand rifles	Wallet certificate issued to AOM2c Neil Wirick of Torpedo Squadron VT-27 aboard the USS Princeton on the occasion of crossing the 180th meridian, which happened on 1 Jun 1944 as Princeton steamed from Hawaii to Majuro.

LST-357 at a port in southern England being loaded with DUKWs in preparation for the D-Day Normandy invasion, early June 1944.	American troops in Rome, circa Jun 1944; note the 'Rome Area Command' building on left and Victor Emmanuel II Monument in background

Canadian soldiers on Juno Beach, Bernières-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944	Canadian troops at the L'église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité in Bernières-sur-Mer, near Juno Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944

Fire further inland from the Juno Beach landing area, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944	Memorandum from Dwight Eisenhower to George Marshall, 6 Jun 1944

Traplin, Heldon, and Kennedy of the Canadian Army manning a 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun in Normandy, France, mid-Jun 1944	Alan Brooke, Winston Churchill, and Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery's mobile headquarters in Normandy, France, 12 Jun 1944. Photo 1 of 2.

New Mexico's 5in guns prepared to bombard Saipan, 15 Jun 1944	Soldiers of US 83rd Division aboard a vessel off Omaha Beach, Normandie, France, 18 Jun 1944

Wrecked German Tiger I heavy tank near Rome, Italy, 18 Jun 1944	Canadian crew of a Sherman tank south of Vaucelles, Normandy, France, Jun 1944

Major General Rod Keller of the 3rd Canadian Division, Normandy, France, 20 Jun 1944	Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Alpo Marttinen, 25 Jun 1944