Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Men of USS Monterey playing basketball in the carrier's forward elevator, circa Jun-Jul 1944; jumper at left was future President of US Gerald R. Ford	Mitscher aboard USS Lexington, Jun 1944

OS2U Kingfisher scout plane being recovered aboard the battleship USS Missouri, 1944-45	SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-7 coming aboard USS Hancock off the United States east coast, mid-1944

TBM-1C Avenger bombers prepared to take off from Monterey to attack targets on Tinian, Jun 1944	United States Coast Guard Captains Edward Fritzche (left) and Miles Imlay (right) examining a relief map of Omaha Beach laid out in the hold of the Attack Transport USS Samuel Chase, Jun 1944.

US Army troops drive by the people of Montebourg, Normandy, France, June 1944. Note M2 Half-Track “Dirty Gertie” and M4 Sherman Duplex-Drive tank with soldiers sitting on the folded skirt frame.	US generals Geoffrey Keyes, Robert Frederick, and Mark Clark in discussion near Rome, Italy, May-Jun 1944

US Navy Lt Robert F Doyle shaking hands with his wingman, Ens John F Mudge, after their return from a gunfire-spotting and strafing mission over the Normandy beaches, Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England, UK, Jun 1944.	US Navy sailors assisting US Army soldiers board a Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)) from an LCVP landing craft, probably in southern England, UK, early June 1944.

US Navy sailors manning an LCVP in the English Channel, mid June 1944. Note the LCVP’s plywood construction.	US Sailor removing the securing lines before launching a Mark XIII aerial torpedo from PT Boat operating from the Subchaser Training Center, Miami, Florida, United States, 1944.

US troops marching along Highway 6 toward Rome, Italy, Jun 1944	USS Escolar, possibly off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, circa Jun 1944

USS Guitarro underway, 1944-1945	USS Iowa in camouflage Measure 32, mid-1944

USS Tang at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, date unknown	View of the Poltava tent city as seen from an arriving B-17 Fortress on an Operation Frantic mission, Poltava, Ukraine, summer 1944 (still image from an Army Signal Corps movie film).

WASP pilot Margaret Phelan Taylor, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, United States, Jun 1944	Workers arriving at the CalShip yard by ferry, circa 1944, Los Angeles, California, United States. Note the fourteen CalShip shipways.