Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Escort carrier USS Bogue at anchor off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Feb 1945. Note the 1943 addition of a HF/DF antenna mast forward of the island, essential for Bogue’s mission as a Hunter-Killer ship.	Escort carrier USS Bogue in Measure 32/Design 4A paint steaming off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Feb 1945. Note TBM Avengers on deck.

F6F-5 Hellcat with Fighting Squadron VF-82 preparing for a catapult launch from USS Bennington in the Western Pacific, Feb 1945. Note the arrowhead geometrics that identify the plane as coming from the Bennington.	Gunnery practice with 40-mm Bofors MK 12 anti-aircraft guns aboard USS Hornet, Pacific Ocean, circa Feb 1945

Japanese officers Rear Admiral Minoru Ota, Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, Lieutenant General Isamu Cho, Colonel Hitoshi Kanayama, Colonel Kiuji Hongo, and Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, in numbered order, Okinawa, Japan, early Feb 1945	Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov at Yalta, Russia (now Ukraine), Jan-Feb 1945

Lieutenant Wade speaking to his men at a pre-invasion briefing for Iwo Jima, location unknown, early Feb 1945	Oerlikon guns in the catwalk of USS Hornet, Feb 1945

P-47D Thunderbolt of the 353rd Fighter Squadron flown by Maj Glenn T Eagleston, Squadron Commanding Officer and top ace of 9th Air Force with 18.5 kills, Rosieres en Haye Airbase, France, Feb 1945.	P-51D Mustang “Bad Angel” of the 4th Fighter Squadron assigned to Capt Louis Curdes, Feb 1945. Note the interesting scoreboard. See Comment.

Portrait of Vice-Admiral John S. McCain, Feb 1945. Note the pre-1941 cap emblem with the left-facing eagle. McCain was known to resist 1941 cap update.	PT-245, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 20 (MTBRon 20), southwest Pacific, circa 1945.

PT-330, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), underway in the Philippines, circa 1945. Note the smoke generator canister on the stern.	PT-331, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), in Leyte Gulf, 1945. Note shell splashes in the distance.

SB2C-4 Helldivers of Bombing Squadron VB-9 returning to the USS Lexington (Essex-class) after a strike in support of the US Marines on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Feb 1945.	Series of five photos showing a G4M2E Model 24 Tei bomber releasing a MXY7 Ohka manned special attack rocket during testing, circa 1945

Superstructure of USS Cod during overhaul, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Feb 1945	TBM Avengers and SB2C Helldivers flying from the carrier Bunker Hill, western Pacific, Feb 1945

US Army truck convoy on the Ledo Road/Stilwell Road, Burma, 1945	US Major General Edmund Hill, an unidentified British RAF Group Captain, and US ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman at Poltava Air Base, Ukraine, Feb 1945 as Harriman was traveling to the Yalta Conference.