Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Lt General George Kenney and Maj General Ennis Whitehead, US Fifth Air Force Commander and Deputy Commander respectively, 1944.	Navy Bombing Squadron 11 performing a formation fly-by in their SB2C Helldivers over their carrier, the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944.

One of the trucks in an US Army 'Red Ball Express' convoy stuck in the mud, Europe, date unknown	P-47D Thunderbolt “Big Squaw” and another P-47 of the 19th Fighter Squadron make a low level pass over East Field, Saipan, Oct 1944. Note IH M-5 Truck and T/5 James B Lazar from the 805th Aviation Engineer Battalion.

Port bow view of destroyer USS Hoel in her Measure 21, Design 1D paint scheme, about Oct 1944.	Sailor standing watch at a 40mm Bofors gun mount aboard USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944

Sailors on and around the conning tower aboard USS Spot, 1944-1945	Spare and surplus USAAF aircraft at Bari Airfield, Italy, Oct 1944.

Starboard bow view of large cruiser Guam, circa late 1944	Starboard bow view of the USS Hornet (Essex-class) under way showing her Dazzle MS33/3a paint scheme, 1944.

Starboard view of USS Blackfin, 1944	Submarine Springer, off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, Oct 1944

TBM-1C Avengers with Torpedo Squadron 87 on a training flight from NAS Oceana, Virginia, Sep-Nov, 1944.	Twin mounted 5-inch/38 caliber gun turret aboard an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer. Note expended casings in netting beside the turret.

United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Richard Sutherland, on the flag bridge of USS Nashville during the Leyte landing operations, Oct 1944.	US Army M4 Sherman tank fitted with a crane lifting a pre-fabricated bridge tread section in France, mid-late 1944.

US Navy Captain Harold Martin greeting VAdm John McCain, Sr. after a trap landing aboard light carrier San Jacinto, late 1944; seen on page 113 of US Navy War Photographs	US Navy Captain Herbert W. Taylor of USS Cowpens awarding African-American Stewards Mate 3rd Class Fred Magee, Jr. with commendation of the Secretary of the Navy, Oct 1944

US Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator patrol bomber flying over the Pacific, 1944-45.	USS ABSD-2 at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, Apr-May 1945. Note the Liberty-class ship and seaplane tender in the dock. This shows almost the same angle of approach during the torpedo attack on the drydock on 29 Apr 1945.