Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,499 items in this album on 475 pages.


Flight crews gather around a PBY-5A Catalina patrol plane on a Marsden Mat seaplane ramp in the Aleutians, 1944-45. Note oil splatters on the hull from the notoriously leaky radial engines.	Flight deck and controls of a B-29 Superfortress. Note the security blanket over the bomb sight.

FM-2 Wildcat prepared to launch off USS Makin Island, 1945	FM-2 Wildcat rolls down the flight deck on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.

FR-1 Fireball fighter in flight, 1945, seen in Dec 1945 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News; note HVAR rockets under wings	FR-1 Fireball fighter of US Navy squadron VF-66 at rest, Naval Air Station North Island, California, United States, 1945

FR-1 Fireball fighters of US Navy squadron VF-66 at rest, Naval Air Station North Island, California, United States, 1945	Ground crews arming a B-29 Superfortress of the 500th Bomb Group at Isley Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944-45.

Guam's bow guns firing during practice, 1944-1945	Haskell-class attack transport USS Clinton, date unknown; note the absence of most of her boats normally stowed on deck

Haskell-class attack transport USS Kershaw at anchor, date unknown	Haskell-class attack transport USS Lubbock underway, date unknown

Haskell-class attack transport USS Menifee, date unknown	Haskell-class attack transport USS Oconto, date unknown

Heinrich Himmler, 1945	High-angled view of a GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 truck converted to serve as a spectacle workshop; some 15% of US soldiers used glasses in the war

HMS King George V entering Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands, 1945	In-flight photo of a North American B-25H Mitchell assigned to Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaii, 1945.

Indianapolis' crew, circa early 1945	Japanese A6M fighters at Toyohara Airfield, Taichu (now Taichung), Taiwan, 1945, photographed by attacking US B-25 bombers