Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Aerial View of the ammunition loading facilities at Port Chicago, California, United States, Apr 1944. The curved pier at left is where the 17 Jul 1944 explosion took place.	African-American US Navy Chief Steward Robert Nargrove leading his trainees on a march, Steward's Mates School, Naval Air Station Seattle, Washington, United States, Apr 1944	An United States Coast Guard 'Seahorse' landing craft unloaded troops during an exercise at Algiers, North Africa in preparation for a landing in Italy, Apr 1944	Armorer cleaning the bore of a 75mm cannon mounted in a B-25G Mitchell bomber of the 820th Bomb Squadron, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands; Mar-Apr 1944

B-24J bomber 'Old Sack' and crew, of USAAF 493rd Bombardment Group, at RAF Debach, England, United Kingdom, spring 1944	Elements of Task Force 58 of the US Navy 5th Fleet at anchor, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, probably Apr 1944	Escort carrier USS Card in Measure 32, Design 4A paint scheme approaching New York Harbor, Mar 1944. Photo taken from Navy Airship K-20.	F6G-3 Hellcat from the Escort Carrier USS Sangamon flying over Lake Sentani, New Guinea, in support of the Aitape landings, Apr 1944.

German prisoners-of-war captured at Anzio are offloaded from LST-351 at Naples, Italy in early 1944.	Men of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-222 resting on the wing of a F4U-1 Corsair fighter, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Apr 1944	Navy photographers mates prepare aerial cameras for installation in a PB4Y-1P Liberator reconnaissance variant, circa Apr 1944, probably Momote Field on Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands.	Overhead view of B-17 Fortress bombers flying from Italy on a raid to bomb the rail yards at Weiner Neustadt near Vienna, Austria, Apr 1944.

P-51A Mustangs do a low pass over a forward air field of the 1st Air Commandos, Burma, Apr 1944. Note also a B-25H Mitchell and an L-1 Vigilant	Posed photo of a WASP pilot in flight gear and leather flying jacket showing WASP “Fifinella” patch, 1944, location unknown but probably Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, United States.	PT Boat PT-564 being tested in the Gulf of Mexico, 1944. Note the Mark XIII aerial torpedoes on the deck. The smaller, lighter, faster PT-564 design was not put into production.	SB2C Helldivers of Bombing Squadron VB-2 flying from USS Hornet above Saipan, early 1944.

SSgt Norman A Sampson from the 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group in the ball turret of a B-17 Fortress; RAF Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, Apr 1944	The helm of PT-295, a Higgins 78-foot motor torpedo boat, 1944. Note the mast in the lowered position, two twin Browning .50 caliber machine gun mounts, and a 20mm Oerlikon gun forward.	Troops of the Soviet 62nd Stalingrad Army marching in Odessa, Ukraine, Apr 1944; note two female soldiers in foreground	Two F6F-5N Hellcat of Marine Night Fighting Squadron VMF(N)-541 escorting a TBM-1C Avenger near Palau, 1944.