WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane being hoisted aboard the battleship USS Missouri during her Atlantic shakedown cruise, Aug 1944.	Canadian troops posing with a captured German flag, near Hautmesnil, France, 10 Aug 1944; note Sten gun and Lee-Enfield rifle

Major General Roy Geiger, Admiral Raymond Spruance, Lieutenant General Holland Smith, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Lieutenant General Alexander Vandegrift at Guam, 11 Aug 1944	WAVES personnel at the bow of Missouri, Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States, during her shakedown period, 19 Aug 1944

WAVES Yeoman Second Class Blanche Oswald and Yeoman Third Class Betty Martin in a 5in twin gun turret aboard Missouri, Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States, 19 Aug 1944	WAVES Yeoman Third Class Betty Martin exiting the rear door of a 5in twin gun turret aboard Missouri, Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States, during her shakedown period, 19 Aug 1944

German prisoners of war, Saint-Malo, France, late Aug 1944	Wounded aircrewmen are helped off B-24H Liberator “Liberty Lib” of the 752nd Bomb Squadron at RAF Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England, UK after a raid on the Dornier factory at Lubeck, Germany, Aug 25 1944. Note the WC54 Ambulance.

French 2nd Armored Division troops and vehicles parading through the Arc de Triomphe down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, 26 Aug 1944	Oliver Leese, Winston Churchill, and Harold Alexander at Leese's headquarters near Monte Maggio, Italy, 26 Aug 1944, photo 1 of 4

Oliver Leese, Winston Churchill, and Harold Alexander at Leese's headquarters near Monte Maggio, Italy, 26 Aug 1944, photo 2 of 4	Oliver Leese, Winston Churchill, and Harold Alexander at Leese's headquarters near Monte Maggio, Italy, 26 Aug 1944, photo 3 of 4

Oliver Leese, Winston Churchill, and Harold Alexander at Leese's headquarters near Monte Maggio, Italy, 26 Aug 1944, photo 4 of 4	Simone Segouin with MP 40 submachine gun, Paris area, France, late Aug 1944

USS Missouri resting at anchor in the Gulf of Paria off Port of Spain, Trinidad during her shakedown cruise, Aug 26, 1944. Note K-class airship overhead.	B-17G Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group are escorted by a P-51B of the 354th Fighter Squadron, Summer-Fall 1944. Photo 1 of 2.

B-17G Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group in flight, Summer-Fall 1944. Photo 2 of 2. Far aircraft was named “Sleepy Time Gal.”	P-47D “Tony” of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron at Boxted, England, United Kingdom, late 1944. Note the ‘WW’ on the tail indicating ‘War Weary’ aircraft. Only ‘WW’ planes were used in Rescue Squadrons

WAVES Yeoman 3rd Class Ellen Figg posing by the entrance to the Old Capitol Grounds, Milledgeville, Georgia, United States, circa Sep 1944	P-40 Warhawk fighter 'Little Joe II' at the Kunming airfield in Yunnan, China, 1 Sep 1944