WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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PBM-5 Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol bombing squadron VPB-27 at Tanapag, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Apr 1945. Page 1 of 2.	PBM-5 Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol bombing squadron VPB-27 at Tanapag, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Apr 1945. Page 2 of 2.	US battleships New Mexico, Idaho, and Tennessee off Iwo Jima or Okinawa, Feb-Apr 1945	WAVES Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Winifred Perosky X-Rayed USMC Private First Class Harold Reyher, who was wounded at Iwo Jima, Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, United States, spring 1945

WAVES Specialist 3rd Class Nora Scott and Specialist 3rd Class Virginia Chenoweth at work at the control tower of Naval Air Station, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, spring 1945	Medics of US 3rd Army conferring at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near a wagon full of camp victims, Weimar, Germany, 11 Apr 1945	Wagon full of Buchenwald Concentration Camp victims, Weimar, Germany, 11 Apr 1945	Supervised by American soldiers, German civilians from the town of Nordhausen, Germany bury the corpses of prisoners found at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in mass graves, mid-Apr 1945

Audie Murphy's Croix de Guerre citation, 16 Apr 1945	M24 Chaffee light tank of US Army 1st Armored Division in Bologna, Italy, late Apr 1945	Church service on carrier Franklin's ruined hangar deck, in or near New York Harbor, New York, United States, circa 28 Apr 1945	Franklin anchored in New York Harbor, New York, United States, 28 Apr 1945

Soviet and US officers at Torgau, a city on the Elbe River, Germany, 28 Apr 1945; note left Soviet officer's TT-33, center Soviet captain's Luger in belt, right US Lieutenant Dwight Brooks's holstered Colt 1911 and in-hand Walther P38	USS Franklin in New York Harbor, New York, United States, 28 Apr 1945	USS Franklin in New York Harbor, New York, United States, circa 28 Apr 1945; note Manhattan skyline in background	USS Franklin sailing past USS Marblehead in New York Harbor, New York, United States, 28 Apr 1945

A recently-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp survivor, Weimar, Germany, Apr-Jun 1945	Aviation Ordinancemen loading a Mark XIII torpedo into the bomb bay of a TBM Avenger aboard USS Bennington, May 1945. Note the torpedo’s plywood drag ring on the nose and wooden tail shroud.	B-25 Mitchell of the 17th Reconnaissance Squadron (Bombardment) at Lingayen Field, Luzon, Philippines, Apr-May 1945	May 1945 US ration booklet cover