Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,513 items in this album on 476 pages.


A training flight of TBF-1 Avengers lining up to drop practice torpedoes, late 1942, off the east coast of the United States. Photo 1 of 4.	A training flight of TBF-1 Avengers lining up to drop practice torpedoes, late 1942, off the east coast of the United States. Photo 2 of 4.

A training flight of TBF-1 Avengers lining up to drop practice torpedoes, late 1942, off the east coast of the United States. Photo 3 of 4.	A training flight of TBF-1 Avengers lining up to drop practice torpedoes, late 1942, off the east coast of the United States. Photo 4 of 4.

A-20 Havoc aircraft of US V Bombing Command targeting Japanese airfield of Ki-48 bombers, at Hollandia, New Guinea, 1942	Acres of Dodge WC54 3/4-ton field ambulances outside a factory, Detroit, Michigan, United States, Aug 1942

African-American soldiers of the US Army drawing rations, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Aug 1942	American officers LtCol Richard H Carmichael, 19th Bomb Group CO, MGen George C Kenney, 5th Air Force CO, and BGen Kenneth N Walker, V Bombing Command CO at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942

As work finishes up on the side-wheel aircraft carrier USS Wolverine, work begins on converting the Greater Buffalo, left, into the second side-wheel aircraft carrier USS Sable, Buffalo, New York, United States, Aug 1942	Close-up of the nose of a PBY Catalina aircraft being serviced at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942

Lunga Point Airfield/Henderson Field, seen from USS Saratoga aircraft, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	Major General George C. Kenney, commander of US 5th Air Force, and Brigadier General Kenneth N. Walker, commander of US V Bombing Command at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942

Minelayer USS Oglala, sunk in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, at the piers of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard in late 1942 soon after being refloated, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.	Shipyard caulker/chipper working on a submarine, possibly the future USS Puffer, at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, Aug 1942

Shipyard workers installing engine parts onto a submarine, possibly the future USS Puffer, at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, Aug 1942, photo 1 of 2	Shipyard workers installing engine parts onto a submarine, possibly the future USS Puffer, at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, Aug 1942, photo 2 of 2

Sidewheeled steamship Seeandbee being converted into the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine In Buffalo, New York, United States, Aug 1942. Note the conspicuous absence of a propeller.	United States Marine preparing to throw a Mark II “pineapple” grenade on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942. Note Browning Automatic Rifle at left.

US Army Sergeant Vineyard showing his rifle to civilian welder George Woolslayer and US Navy enlisted man John Evans at Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, Aug 1942	USS Ranger underway in 1942 painted in the unusual Measure 12 paint scheme.