WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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Alaska, seen from battleship Missouri, summer 1944	B-24D Liberator bomber 'Little Gramper', Lead Assembly Ship of 491st Bomber Group, US 852nd Bomber Squadron, RAF Metfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, summer 1944

Battleship Missouri firing a salvo during her shakedown period, Aug 1944	Battleship USS Missouri on her Atlantic shakedown cruise, Aug 1944.

Bridge watch aboard the USS Missouri during the battleship’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, Aug 1944: commanding officer Capt William M Callaghan, Officer of the Deck Lt Morris R Eddy, and Yeoman 1st class Arthur Colton	Bristol Beaufighter Mk X number NE255 / EE-H of Coastal Defence Maritime Patrol No. 404 Squadron at RAF Davidstow Moor, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, mid-Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 2.

British soldier with Sten gun on a Soviet-built F-22 USV gun which had recently been captured from German troops, France, 1944	Catapult crew of battleship Missouri launching an OS2U Kingfisher aircraft, circa Aug 1944

Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank in action, Aug 1944	Crew of Battleship Missouri recovering an OS2U Kingfisher aircraft, circa Aug 1944

Electrician’s Mate First Class Kenneth McNally and Seaman First Class George Skiratko, kneeling, operating USS Missouri’s 36-inch searchlight during the ship’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, Aug 1944.	F6F Hellcat fighter landing on USS Hancock, circa 1944; note Hancock's camouflage Measure 32, Design 3a

Fire Controlman First Class E.M. Smith, gun captain of one of the USS Missouri’s nine 16-inch main guns, opens the gun’s highly polished breech plug during the ship’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, Aug 1944.	Missouri's 40mm quad anti-aircraft machine crew at battle stations atop turret number two during her shakedown, Aug 1944; Alaska in background

Navy Chaplain Lt Rival Hawkins conducting Sunday services on the USS Missouri’s fantail during the ship’s shakedown cruise in the Trinidad area, Aug 1944. The censored ship at right is the USS Alaska.	P-51 Mustang fighters of the US Army Air Force 375th Fighter Squadron flying in formation, Europe, 7 Jul-9 Aug 1944

P-51D Mustang aircraft 'Tika IV' of the US Army 361st Flight Group, Jul-Dec 1944	Staff Sergeant Brush posing with his Fairchild K-20 aerial camera, circa 1944.

US Army convoy making its way through the devastated ruins of St. Lô, France, Aug 1944	US Navy personnel Anna Welsh, Jackie Welsh, Evalyne Olsen, and Harold Howey, Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, circa 1944