Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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TDN-1 drone in manned flight, 1943	The absence of an extended tailhook as this SNJ-3 Texan passes over the arresting wires suggests a touch-and-go aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.

The Landing Signal Officer watches just before a TBF-1 Avenger traps aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.	The training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine steams past two sailboats on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.

The XSB2D-1 prototype in flight, 1943. Only two were built. This was the prototype that was developed into the BTD Destroyer.	Three British Spitfire Vb fighters in flight over Djerba Island, Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia, early 1943

Tirpitz camouflaged in the Flehke Fjord, Norway	United States Army 155mm Gun M1 crew training in England, United Kingdom, date unknown

United States Navy aviation maintenance area in the South Pacific servicing several PBY Catalinas as well as other seaplanes in the background, 1942-43.	United States Navy sailors constructing submarine nets with floats, Tiburon Naval Net Depot, Tiburon, California, United States, circa 1943.

US Army African-American Sergeants Jackie Wilson and Ray Robinson at Mitchel Field, New York, United States, circa 1943	US Army M3 Gun Motor Carriage with African-American crew, circa 1943

US Army M4 High Speed Tractor towing a 155mm Gun M1, date unknown	US Army Signals Intelligence Service cryptanalysts at Arlington Hall, Arlington, Virginia, United States, circa 1943

US Army two-and-a-half ton prime mover towing a 105 mm Howitzer M2 on the Algerian beach, North Africa, 1943	US Coast Guard Cutter Duane exchanging blinker signals with a US Navy K-class airship, 1943. Both crafts were serving as convoy escorts in the North Atlantic.

US Coast Guardsmen Joseph Andy, Casiano Aquino, Vincent G. Igoe, George Trigony, Carlton Lee, and Daniel Riley using a payphone Scotland, date unknown; note the mixing of ethnicities	US M3 Gun Motor Carriage, date unkonwn

US Navy Lt Fred Hunter piloting an OS2U-3 Kingfisher of Cruiser Scouting Squadron 1 as it is catapulted off the cruiser USS Detroit in the Aleutians, 1943-44	US Navy Lt Steve Corneliussen piloting an OS2U-3 Kingfisher of Cruiser Scouting Squadron 1 with his observer, Petty Officer Paul Proffer, as they are catapulted off the cruiser USS Detroit in the Aleutians, 1943-44