Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,499 items in this album on 475 pages.


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

US troops boarding landing barges at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Nov 1943	USAAF reconnaissance photograph of Nippon Aluminium Company facilities on the coast of Takao Harbor on the site of the former Reigaryo Airfield, southern Taiwan, Nov 1943

USS New Mexico underway, Nov 1943; note Measure 21 camouflage	USS Pennsylvania and USS New Mexico, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Nov 1943

View aboard USS Alabama, 1943	View of the flight deck of USS Saratoga, Solomon Islands, Nov 1943