Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,412 items in this album on 471 pages.


African-American welder Ernest Enloe Cotton learning from a more experienced colleague while building Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington, California Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Los Angeles, California, United States, Sep 1942	Bombs being brought to a TBF Avenger of United States Navy Torpedo Squadron VT-11 flying from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1942. Note the pierced steel Marsden matting.

CalShip journeyman welder Jesse Kermit Lucas and his apprentice, Rodney Gail Chesney, while they were working on Liberty-ship Booker T Washington, Los Angeles, California, United States, Sep 1942.	Captured A6M 'Akutan Zero' fighter with US markings flying over San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942

Crew of USS S-44 around the deck gun, Brisbane, Australia, Aug-Sep 1942	Douglas A-20A Havoc “Little Hellion” of the 89th Bomb Squadron flying over eastern New Guinea, Sep-Oct 1942
	$Mousetrap rocket controller box, Key West, Florida, Sep 1942. It is fairly simple on the front but it is a complex tangle of wires inside designed to ignite each rocket in sequence with a fraction of a second in between$
Liberty-ship Booker T Washington on the ways at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, Sep 1942. Note the pre-fabricated double-bottom sections ready for the next ship to be laid down on these ways (Robert C Grier).	Mousetrap rocket controller box, Key West, Florida, Sep 1942. It is fairly simple on the front but it is a complex tangle of wires inside designed to ignite each rocket in sequence with a fraction of a second in between

Ordnancemen loading belted cartridges into SBD-3 at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942	Profile of captured A6M 'Akutan Zero' fighter with US markings in San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942

Sailors with a loaded Mousetrap rocket array, probably fall of 1942 at Key West, Florida, United States.	SB2U Vindicator dive bombers of Scouting Squadron VS-41 turning toward the carrier USS Ranger in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, United States, Sep 1942.

Six B-17E bombers, the entire heavy bombing strength of the US 5th Air Force at the time, took off for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 1942	TBF Avenger torpedo bombers flying in formation above Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942

The bow section of the sunken destroyer USS Tucker sticking out of the water off Malo Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, circa Sep 1942.	Three Lockheed A-29 Hudsons fly past Mount McKinley, Territory of Alaska, circa 1942

Unloading a 37 mm Gun M3 from a transport aircraft, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States, Sep 1942	US Marines resting in the field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa Aug-Dec 1942; note Springfield M1903 rifles and a Browning Automatic Rifle gunner on far right

US Navy Lieutenant Commander Eddie Sanders taxiing the captured Japanese A6M Zero fighter 'Akutan Zero', Naval Air Station San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942	USS Indiana off Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942