Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,513 items in this album on 476 pages.


13 Liberty Ships deliberately scuttled to form a breakwater for invasion vessels landing on the Normandy beachhead lie in line off the beach shielding the ships in shore.	19-year-old pilot Lt Edwin Wright, already with over 80 missions flown, examining flak damage to his P-47 Thunderbolt on a raid to Münster, Austria, Oct 1944. Wright returned safely to his base in Italy.

A truck of the US Army 'Red Ball Express' fell into a ditch at the side of a road; GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transports lined the road as a GMC AFKWX tractor struggled to free itself, France, 1944	African-American ground crew of US 99th Fighter Squadron 'Tuskeegee Airmen' loading a wing tank onto an US 15th Air Force P-51 Mustang fighter, Italy, late 1944

African-American pilot Lt. Andrew Marshall, shot down in Greece and kept in hiding by Greek resistant fighters, returned to tell his tale to an American pilot of the 51st Troop Carrier Wing, Oct 1944	African-American US Army soldiers of 4185th Quartermaster Service Company unloading rations from a truck, Liege, Belgium, 1944

An aircraft maintenance crewman with the 497th Bomb Group at Isley Field on Saipan, Mariana Islands securing a propeller for a B-29 Superfortress to a service trailer, late 1944. Note B-29 “Lucky Lynn” beyond.	B-17G Fortress “The Thomper” is under fighter attack and the tail gunner is returning fire, Oct 1944. Location unknown. Note right wing damage and trailing smoke.

Broadside view of destroyer USS Hoel in her Measure 21, Design 1D paint scheme, Oct 1944, possibly in Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, Admiralty Islands.	Broadside view of the port side of the USS Hornet (Essex-class) at anchor showing her Dazzle MS33/3a paint scheme, 1944, probably at Ulithi.

Captured German pilot who was shot down by anti-aircraft fire near Weisweiler, Germany, fall 1944.	Carrier Yorktown (Essex-class) in camouflage Measure MS-33/10a at Puget Sound, Washington, US, Oct 1944.

Court martial proceedings against 50 sailors charged with mutiny following the Port Chicago munitions explosion, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, California, United States, Oct 1944.	Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver making a landing approach to the USS Ticonderoga as seen from the carrier’s fantail below the level of the flight deck during training operations in the Central Pacific, Oct 1944.

F4U Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-222 at Renard Field, Russell Islands, Solomons, 1944. Note the National Insignia on the tops of both wings over a year after that practice was discontinued.	F4U-1A Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-223 at Green Island (now Nissan Island), 1944. Note the R4D Skytrain with nose art, rare on Navy or Marine aircraft.

F4U-1A Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-224 in flight, 1944	F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF-11, the Sundowners, preparing for take off from the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944.

F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF-11, the ‘Sundowners,’ following a very hard landing on the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944.	George Patton speaking to Ordnance Sergeant Maurice Baker, Oct 1944