Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Mugford off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2	Scene on a Iwo Jima beach, as supplies were unloaded and trucked inland, circa late Feb 1945

US Marine rocket-launching trucks in action on Iwo Jima, Japan, 28 Feb 1945; note Mk 7 rocket launcher firing 4.5-inch beach barrage rockets	US naval transports off Iwo Jima, late Feb 1945

A .30 caliber Browning water-cooled machine gun and its crew on Iwo Jima, circa Feb-Mar 1945	A Curtiss SC Seahawk floatplane on USS Nashville’s catapult, 1945. Note the radar pod under the right wing. Missing from the ship is the starboard aircraft catapult that was removed in the Mar 1945 refit at Puget Sound.

A Douglas R4D (C-47) transport plane (center) loading wounded Marines on Iwo Jima's South Field bound for a Navy hospital on Guam, Mar 1945. Note Mount Suribachi to the left.	A machine gun nest and its resting crew, Iwo Jima, circa Feb-Mar 1945

A US Marine threw a grenade at enemy sheltered in a northern Iwo Jima cave, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945	Aerial photograph taken during bombing of a Japanese forward submarine base on Okinawa, Japan, Mar 1945

Aerial view of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands with the relatively flat island plain beyond, Feb or Mar 1945 as the battle raged on. Note landing ships beached at right.	Aerial view of Tokyo, Japan after the 25 Feb 1945 raid, circa Mar-Apr 1945

African-American airman Edward M. Thomas, Mar 1945	African-American airmen of the US 332nd Fighter Group at a briefing, Ramitelli, Italy, Mar 1945

African-American crew of US Marine Corps 51st Defense Battalion posed with their artillery 'Lena Horne', Southwest or Central Pacific, circa 1945	African-American pilot of US 332nd Fighter Group signing the Form One Book, indicating any discrepancies of aircraft, prior to take off, Italy, Mar 1945

African-American sailor aboard destroyer escort Otter, circa Mar 1945	African-American US Marines Willie J. Kanody, Elif Hill, and John Alexander on a beach at Iwo Jima, Mar 1945

American troops posing atop one of two knocked-out StuG III Ausf G assault guns near Modrath, Germany, 1945; the vehicles were disabled by US 9th Air Force fighter-bombers	An F6F Hellcat landing aboard Independence-class carrier USS Cabot in the Pacific while a cruiser steams off the beam, 1945.