Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Destroyer USS Shaw transferring survivors of sunken destroyer USS Porter to battleship USS South Dakota (foreground) while underway toward Efate, New Hebrides, 28 Oct 1942.	First aircraft landing aboard USS Bogue, 30 Oct 1942 in Puget Sound, Washington, United States. The plane is a Curtiss SOC-3A Seagull flown by Bogue’s first Air Officer, Commander Jack Monroe.

Grumman TBF-1 Avenger aircraft of US Navy Torpedo Squadron 4 dropping Mark XIII practice torpedo in training flight, location unknown, 30 Oct 1942	WAVES Ensign May Herrmann recruiting two women at the Officer Procurement office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 30 Oct 1942

African-American troops of the US Army 92nd Division undergoing training exercises at Fort McClellan, Alabama, United States, Nov 1942	African-American US Army Lt. B. Holmes instructing bayonet combat, Fort McClellan, Alabama, United States, Nov 1942; trainees L to R: T/Sgt. Leroy Smith, Pvt. George W. Jones, and Sgt. Leo Shorty

Allied convoy sailing across Atlantic Ocean for Casablanca, Morocco, circa Nov 1942	Eleanor Roosevelt talking with woman machinist during her goodwill tour of the United Kingdom, Nov 1942

Major General George Patton on the decks of the USS Augusta while crossing the Atlantic en route to the North African landings of Operation Torch, Oct-Nov 1942	Mechanics check the engine of a SNJ at Kingsville Field, Corpus Christi, Texas, Nov 1942

Montgomery observing the field, Egypt, Nov 1942	P-38F Lightning aircraft of 50th Fighter Squadron, USAAF 14th Fighter Group at Camp Tripoli airfield, Iceland, Nov 1942

Portrait of President Manuel Quezon, Nov 1942	Quad-mount of 1.1”/75 anti-aircraft guns aboard USS Ranger during Operation Torch off the coast of West Africa, Nov 1942.

South Dakota, DD Mahan, DD Lamson repaired by USS Prometheus at Nouméa, New Caledonia, Nov 1942	TBF-1 Avenger of Marine Squadron VMSB-131 at Guadalcanal, 1942

TBF-1 Avenger of Marine Squadron VMSB-131 at Guadalcanal, 1942	TBF-1 Avengers and SBD Dauntless bombers running up their engines aboard USS Ranger off West Africa during Operation Torch, Nov 1942. Note one F4F Wildcat without its engine running.

United States Coast Guard landing craft and barges delivering supplies to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, late 1942	US Army sentry at the partially capsized Vichy-French ocean liner SS Porthos in the harbor at Casablanca, French Morocco, 8 Nov 1942. The Porthos was damaged by 16-inch shells fired from the USS Massachusetts.