WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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B-24D Liberator aircraft 'Pete the POM Inspector', Lead Assembly Ship of 467th Bomber Group, US 790th Bomber Squadron, RAF Rackheath, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Mar-Oct 1944	Blood Chit issued to United States Marine Corps fighter pilots with seven languages including French (Indochina), Korean, and Japanese, 1944.

Crew of battleship Missouri performing abandon ship drills, summer 1944; note OS2N-1 Kingfisher aircraft in background on port side catapult	Marmite cans with blood collected from rear echelon troops in England, United Kingdom were being transferred from Dodge WC54 Ambulance to waiting Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman for air transport to Normandy

Two Nuns and a French family examined the ruins of the bombed Église Saint-Malo, Valognes, France, Jul 1944	Francis Gabreski posing in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt fighter, shortly after 5 Jul 1944

The United Kingdom’s Princess Elizabeth of York holding onto her hat against the wind at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, 6 Jul 1944. She is standing with Col. George Robinson, base commanding officer.	Bernard Montgomery, Omar Bradley, and Brigadier Alexander Stanier at Montgomery's headquarters in Normandie, France, 13 Jul 1944

British and American troops join with residents of Courseulles-sur-Mer in Bastille Day ceremonies at the town’s War Memorial. Courseulles-sur-Mer was the first town in Normandy to be liberated by the Allies.	HMS Howe transiting the Suez Canal, Egypt, 14 Jul 1944, photo 1 of 2

HMS Howe transiting the Suez Canal, Egypt, 14 Jul 1944, photo 2 of 2	New Mexico firing her after 14in guns at Guam, Mariana Islands, circa 14-20 Jul 1944

Battleship USS Tennessee bombarding Guam, Mariana Islands, 20 or 21 Jul 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 1D paint scheme; only Tennessee was painted this way.	Cruiser USS St Louis bombarding Guam, Mariana Islands, 21 Jul 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 2C paint scheme; only St Louis and Honolulu were painted this way.

Bernard Montgomery showing Winston Churchill a map held by Gen GG Symonds, during Churchill's visit to Normandy, 22 Jul 1944. Behind Churchill is LGen Miles Dempsey.	Two French boys watched from a hilltop as Allied vehicles passed through the badly damaged city of Saint-Lô, France, circa Jul-Aug 1944

Alaska during shakedown, off the US east coast, Aug 1944	Alaska maneuvered in front of Missouri during their shakedown cruises, circa Aug 1944

Alaska, seen from battleship Missouri, summer 1944	Battleship Missouri firing a salvo during her shakedown period, Aug 1944