Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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US Navy ordinancemen loading a Mark XIII torpedo into the bomb bay of a TBM Avenger aboard USS Lexington (Essex-class) while steaming south of Hawaii, 12 Sep 1943. Note the hand operated winches lifting the torpedo.	USS Ancon (background), HM LST-404, and other ships off Salerno, Italy, 12 Sep 1943

USS Ancon off Salerno, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	US Army infantrymen fighting in the jungles of Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 13 Sep 1943

Lieutenant General Millard Harmon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Admiral William Halsey in New Caledonia, 14 Sep 1943	Launching of submarine Pintado, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States, 15 Sep 1943

Rear Admiral Alan Kirk inspecting the crew of USS Ancon, Sep 1943	USS Yorktown (Essex-class) steaming across San Francisco Bay with a deck load of Jeeps, Dodge WC51 weapons carriers, and other vehicles, 15 Sep 1943.

WAVES Specialist (S) 3rd class Aspasia Phoutrides and Specialist (S) 3rd class Doris Saunders at their barracks at the Advanced Naval Training Station, Seattle, Washington, United States, 16 Sep 1943	Japanese ship aground at Kiska harbor, Aleutian islands, US Territory of Alaska, 18 Sep 1943

Specialist (S) 3rd class Aspasia Phoutrides inspecting WAVES barracks at the Advanced Naval Training Station, Lake Union, Seattle, Washington, United States, 18 Sep 1943	African-American men of US 34th Construction Battalion constructing prefabricated steel warehouse at Halavo Seaplane Base, Florida Island, Solomon Islands, 19 Sep 1943

Launching of USS Gabilan, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 19 Sep 1943	United States Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox greeting Naval officers aboard USS Ranger at Scapa Flow, Scotland, 21 Sep 1943.

A company of African American soldiers of the US Army working at a makeshift office located at an ancient Neptune temple in Italy, 22 Sep 1943	WAVES enlisted personnel eating a meal in the United States, 22 Sep 1943

African-American MS2c Percy Hope, S1c Lilton Walker, and SC1c Jack Kelsen of USN 34th Construction Battalion trading with natives of Malaita at Halavo, Florida Island, Solomon Islands, 23 Sep 1943	Captain Roscoe Bowman aboard USS Corregidor, 23 Sep 1943

Private Paul Oglesby of US 30th Infantry Regiment standing before an altar in a damaged Catholic Church at Acerno, Italy, 23 Sep 1943	The 4th Fighter Group’s control tower at RAF Debden, Essex, England, UK, Sep 25 1943. Front to Back: BGen Frederick L Anderson, Jr; Mr Donald Nelson, Chief of US War Production; LCol Chesley Peterson, 4th Fighter Group Commanding Officer.