Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator “Little Warrior” with the 861st Bomb Squadron explode over Fallersleben, Germany after anti-aircraft hit, Jun 29 1944. Photo taken by Clifford A Stocking, waist gunner on “Green Hornet.”	Starboard side view of USS Ticonderoga as she steamed off Puerto Rico toward Trinidad on her shakedown cruise, Jun 29, 1944. Note original length of the flight deck short of the bow, extended to cover bow 2 months later.

Carrier USS Ticonderoga conducting flight operations during her shakedown cruise while en route Trinidad, 30 Jun 1944. Note landing F6F Hellcat and two Coast Guard escort boats. Photo 1 of 2.	Carrier USS Ticonderoga conducting flight operations during her shakedown cruise while en route Trinidad, 30 Jun 1944. Note landing F6F Hellcat and two Coast Guard escort boats. Photo 2 of 2.

Cruiser USS Portland as seen off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California after overhaul, 30 Jul 1944. She is painted in Measure 32, Design 7D. Photo 1 of 2	Cruiser USS Portland as seen off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California after overhaul, 30 Jul 1944. She is painted in Measure 32, Design 7D. Photo 2 of 2

Major General J. Lawton Collins described to Lieutenant General Omar Bradley how Cherbourg was taken, circa late Jun or early Jul 1944	Medics helping injured soldier, France, 1944

Unfinished German submarine pen at Cherbourg, France, 30 Jun 1944	1944 plan for camouflage Measure 33, Design 4Ab for USS Enterprise fleet carrier.

A French field full of German helmets after their original owners, captured by the Americans, marched them to a prisoner of war camp, Normandy, France, 1944	A squadron of PV-1 Ventura patrol planes on the ramp at Ault Field, NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, United States, mid 1944.

A TBF-1C Avenger over Tinian, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944 during an attack on the Japanese Ushi Point Airfield, later to become North Field.	A-20 Havoc bomber of US 410th Bomb Group based at RAF Gosfield, England, United Kingdom, circa late 1944

A-20 Havoc bombers of US 410th Bomb Group based at RAF Gosfield, England, United Kingdom, circa late 1944	Admiral Chester Nimitz presenting the Presidential Unit Citation pennant to USS Bowfin commanding officer Commander John Corbus at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Jul 1944.

An American officer and a French partisan with a Sten sub-machinegun crouched behind a car during a street fight in a French city, Jun 1944	B-24J Liberator bombers, C-47 Skytrain transports, and B-29 Superfortress bombers at Kagman Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944

Blood and plasma moving from Britain to the front lines in France, 1944; note C-47 Skytrain aircraft and GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 short wheel-base truck	CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 of the American Red Cross exiting landing craft during the Normandy campaign, France, 1944