Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,500 items in this album on 475 pages.


Tirpitz fitting out, 2 Feb 1940	View of Admiral Graf Spee's foredeck from atop the forward 280mm gun turret, showing the main deck awash, 2 Feb 1940

View of Admiral Graf Spee's open forward control position on the superstructure, 2 Feb 1940; note the fire damage	Oiler Patoka at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, 11 Feb 1940; note two SOC floatplanes amidships

Roosevelt and his Naval Aide, Captain Daniel J. Callaghan, taking the salute of a composite Battalion of the 14th Infantry at Gatun Locks, Panama Canal Zone, 18 Feb 1940	Aerial view of the piers and drydocks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 1940.

Naval Aviation Cadets from the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi practicing formation flying in Chance-Vought OS2U Kingfisher float aircraft, Texas, United States, circa early 1940.	USS New Mexico, circa spring 1940, photo 1 of 2

USS New Mexico, circa spring 1940, photo 2 of 2	Captain Albert C. Read inspected Saratoga's Marine detachment, 15 Mar 1940

Result of Lieutenant Jimmy Thach's landing accident aboard USS Saratoga, 19 Mar 1940	Straight down aerial view of the piers and drydocks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States full of battleships and one carrier, USS Enterprise, 1940.

South Dakota under construction at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, United States, 1 Apr 1940	J. Edgar Hoover in his office, Washington DC, United States, 5 Apr 1940

Königsberg under British aircraft attack, Bergen, Norway, 9 April 1940	Damaged ships at Narvik, Norway, Apr 1940, photo 2 of 2

USS New Mexico at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 24 Apr 1940	Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Ford Island Naval Air Station, Oahu, Hawaii, May 2, 1940.

Aerial view of Ford Island and Pearl Harbor’s East Loch anchorage, 3 May 1940. Note 8 battleships along Battleship Row and 2 more across the channel at the 1010 Dock. Note also carrier Yorktown (Yorktown-class).	Aerial view of Hickam Field looking toward Honolulu, Hawaii, 3 May 1940. The Pearl Harbor entrance channel is along the bottom of the photo and the Submarine Base can be seen at the upper left.