Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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'Germans, defend yourselves, do not buy from Jews' sign posted in Germany, 1 Apr 1933	Book burning in Berlin, Germany, 10 May 1933

Memphis catapulted an O2U Corsair floatplane during fleet maneuvers, 10 May 1933	Cruiser USS Augusta entering Pearl Harbor, Hawaii passing the Ford Island seaplane hangars and minesweeper Avocet, 1933.

Houston dressed with flags, off Tsingtao China, 4 July 1933; note the four-star flag of Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor flying at her forepeak	Augusta off Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, 21 Jul 1933

Training ship Hiei in port, Japan, Aug 1933; note bedding airing on lifelines, lack of 6-in buns, and some missing armor plating	Furutaka with her rails manned, probably during the naval review off Yokohama, Japan, 25 Aug 1933; stripes on smokestake noted her membership in the 6th Sentai (Squadron)

Portrait of US President Franklin Roosevelt, 27 Dec 1933	All three of the United States Navy’s aircraft carriers at the time, Langley, Saratoga, and Lexington, along with battleships and cruisers at anchor in Colon, Panama Canal Zone, roughly 1935.

Barham in the mid-1930s, following her 1931-34 reconstruction	Cuttlefish underway, circa 1934

Diagram of RGD-33 grenade	Hitler inspected an accident site in an unidentified German city, 1933-1934

Kaga, Hiei, Kasuga, and a Takao-class cruiser in harbor, 1932-1934	Königsberg firing salutes while flying the British Royal Navy's White Ensign, 1934

Königsberg with cruiser Leipzig and a British C-class light cruiser, 1934	Lieutenant Burke aboard USS Argonne while serving as Assistant Officer in Charge of the US Navy Battle Force Camera Party, mid-1930s

Lieutenant Burke recording gunnery results with a motion picture camera aboard a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser, circa 1934-1935	Light cruiser Ninghai, China, 1934