Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Boeing B-17F Fortress “Little Audrey” flying with other bombers of the 306th Bomb Group based at Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, May or Jun 1943. Note the unusual camouflage paint scheme.	Bow view of USS Cabrilla during her sea trials, Jun 1943

British General Bernard Montgomery and American Lt General George Patton shake hands at a Tunisian airstrip prior to the Sicily Invasion, mid 1943. I Armored Corps Deputy Commander Geoffrey Keyes is at left.	Chinese soldiers defending a position in Yunnan, China along the Nu (Salween) River, circa Jun 1943

Element of the 62nd Fighter Squadron fly their P-47 Thunderbolts over the English countryside, Apr-Jun 1943; these fighters were based at RAF Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England, UK.	F4U-1 Corsair, an F4F Wildcat, and two TBF-1 Avengers run up their engines prior to launch from the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, mid-1943.

HMS Victorious moored at Nouméa, New Caledonia, summer 1943 during the period Victorious was operating with the US Fleet.	John Kennedy aboard PT-109, Tulagi, Solomon Islands, circa mid-1943. Photo 2 of 2.

Lt George Gay in the cockpit of a TBM Avenger with Torpedo Squadron 11 on Guadalcanal, Jun 1943. As Ensign Gay, he was the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 at Midway in 1942.	Starboard side view of the carrier Yorktown (Essex-class) with an F6F-3 Hellcat fighter of VF-1 on the fight deck above the athwartship hangar deck catapult, June 1943.

Submarine USS R-1, Jun 1943	Sun Li-jen addressing Ramgarh Training Center graduates about to return to the front lines, circa mid-1943

Toroa Island, Maloeap Atoll, Marshall Islands seen through the periscope of USS Pollack, May-Jun 1943	United States Coast Guard beach patrols drill with their sentry dogs at Hilton Head, South Carolina, United States, circa 1943.

USS Cabrilla running trials, Jun 1943	USS Marlin underway, Jun 1943

USS Yorktown (Essex-class; CV-10) circa mid-1943, with a TBF Avenger flying over her bow	F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-1 being catapulted from the hangar deck catapult on the carrier Yorktown (Essex-class) off Trinidad, 3 Jun 1943.

On the flight deck of USS Card in front of a TBF Avenger, US Navy Rear Admiral Frank Lowry (center) is flanked by two Rear Admirals of the French Navy, C.A. Ronarc’h (left) and Jacques Missoffe, Casablanca, 4 Jun 1943.	US Navy PV-1 Ventura aircraft dropping a Mk XIII torpedo over Saratoga Passage, Washington, United States, 4 Jun 1943. Note the torpedo's wooden tail shroud.