Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,513 items in this album on 476 pages.


Japanese style tea garden in one of the recreation aeras at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.	Japanese-American internees walking through the snow after leaving a Buddhist worship service at the Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.

Lexington pilots celebrated a successful attack on the Marshall Islands, Nov 1943	LtCdr Edward Steichen with his camera on an island catwalk above the flight deck of the USS Lexington (Essex-class), Nov 1943, probably off Hawaii. Note F6F Hellcats on the flight deck.

Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, winter of 1943	Memorial Tower at the cemetery of the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.

Mr. & Mrs. Hirata on the steps of the YMCA recreation hall at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.	PB2Y-3 Coronado sometime after Sep 1943, location unknown. Note the unusual Navy practice of painting the airplane’s Bureau of Aeronautics serial number (BuNo) on the tail similar to the Army practice.

PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Squadron VP-63 at Pembroke Dock, South Wales, United Kingdom, late 1943. Note backward firing anti-submarine rockets, part of their new Magnetic Anomaly Detection warfare.	Portside view of USS Gar off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Oct-Nov 1943

Potato fields at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943. Note Mt. Williamson in the background.	Roy Takeno, editor of the Manzanar Free Press (left), with Yuichi Hirata and Nabuo Samamura in front of the newspaper office at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, 1943.

School children at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.	Science Class at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.

Snow covered barracks at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.	TBF Avenger running up its engines before launching from escort carrier USS Santee in the Atlantic, Nov 1943. Note the catapult bridle attached to the landing gear.

TBF Avengers on the ramp at Kahului Naval Air Station on Maui, Hawaii, shortly after the station opened, Nov 1943.	The entrance to the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.

Two sailors of Liscome Bay buried at sea from the deck of an US Coast Guard assault transport, Nov 1943	US Army troops looking at a wrecked H8K flying boat, Makin, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943