Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Claire Chennault with Chinese officers at an airfield, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, 1942-1943; note P-40 fighters	Colonel Offley, Major General Gillem, Colonel Fitch, and Colonel Pierce of US Army 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment with Vice President Sergio Osmeña, Camp San Luis Obispo, California, United States, 1942-1944

Colonel Oveta Hobby (right) speaking with Auxiliary Margaret Peterson and Captain Elizabeth Gilbert at Mitchel Field, New York, United States, 1943	Convoy of CCKW 2 1/2-ton troop transports, date unknown

Crowd of British factory workers checking out the Valentine tank named 'Stalin' during Russian Ambassador Ivan Maisky's visit, England, UK, circa 1943	D3A2 dive bombers in flight, 1942-1943

Dead Japanese soldiers and wrecked Daihatsu-class landing craft on Buna beach, New Guinea, 1943	Destroyed Japanese A6M Zero fighters near Lae, New Guinea, 1943

Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes of USS Nautilus' torpedo attack on carrier Kaga; note this war time depiction did not resemble Kaga	Drawing of the Mark XIII aerial torpedo showing the wooden tail shroud and the plywood drag ring on the nose. Both were designed to stabilize the torpedo during the drop and then break off on impact with the water.

Dry Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 1940s	Dwight Eisenhower, Constance Rivington Russell, and John Winant, 1940s

Émile Bertin at sea, date unknown	Entertainment provided for Tirpitz's men

F1M1 seaplane flying over Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands, 1942-1944	F2A-3 Buffalo fighters during a training flight near Naval Air Station Miami, Florida, United States, 1942-1943

F4F-4 Wildcat fighters of a Marine Fighting Squadron at rest on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomons, 1942-43.	F4U-1 Corsair bouncing up on the flight deck of USS Bunker Hill during an landing attempt, 1943; seen in Feb 1969 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

F4U-1 Corsair fighter in flight, 1942-1943	F6F Hellcat fighters going through launch procedures aboard the carrier Saratoga, off Gilbert Islands, early 1943.