Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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TBM-3 Avenger of Marine Torpedo Squadron 242 at Motoyama #2 airstrip, Iwo Jima preparing for Anti-Submarine Patrol, Feb-Mar 1945	United States Navy Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, 1945

US 4th Marine Division cemetery on Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945; note DUKW and jeep driving in background and wrecked Japanese aircraft beyond	US Marines at Ridge 362 in northern Iwo Jima, Mar 1945

US Navy 62nd SeaBees engaged in moving steaming volcanic rock and ash on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Mar 1945. Note International Harvester two-and-a-half-ton truck.	US Navy PBM Mariner using Rocket Assisted Take-Off packs (RATO) at Port Lyautey, French Morocco, 1945. Note OS2U Kingfisher float planes on the fantail of a battleship at left.

US Navy TBM-3 Avenger over Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945; note Mount Suribachi in center of photo and Allied ships to northwest (left)	USS Spot, USS Sea Fox, and USS Queenfish at Saipan, Mariana Islands, Mar 1945

Vice Admiral Richmond Turner aboard USS Eldorado off Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Mar 1945	Wounded Marines waiting to be transported to Guam, Iwo Jima, Mar 1945

Wrecked T26E3 heavy tank 'Fireball', Elsdorf, Germany, late-Feb or early-Mar 1945; note penetration by a 88mm German Tiger shell on turret	Bulldozer, Jeep, and other vehicles on an Iwo Jima beach, circa late Feb or early Mar 1945

M4 Sherman tank of 745th Tank Battalion, US 1st Infantry Division at Gladbach, Germany, 1 Mar 1945	Post office of the US 4th Marine Division, Iwo Jima, 1945

B-24J Liberator with the 458th Bomb Group with a collapsed front wheel due to a landing accident at Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England, 2 Mar 1945.	General Douglas MacArthur and Philippine President Sergio Osmeña aboard US Navy PT-373 for transportation to Corregidor, 2 Mar 1945.

LSM-264 unloading on Red Beach One, Iwo Jima, Japan, 2 Mar 1945	US Navy WAVE Hospital Apprentices 2nd class R. Isaacs, K. Horton, and I. Patterson were the first African-Americans at the Hospital Corps School, Bethesda, Maryland, US, 2 Mar 1945

A US Marine ran past a dead Japanese soldier, Iwo Jima, Japan, 3 Mar 1945	Two US Marines with an empty stretcher ran past a dead Japanese soldier, Iwo Jima, 3 Mar 1945