WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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May 1945 US ration booklet page 2	Members of the US 101st Airborne Division, 327th Glider Infantry pausing in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Germany for some photographs for the folks back home, before June 1945	Official White House Portrait of US President Harry S. Truman, painted by Greta Kempton in 1945	Portrait of Lieutenant Commander Joseph T. O'Callahan, Apr-Jul 1945; note the US Navy Service Dress Grey uniform

Rear Admiral Calvin T. Durgin with his staff in the ACI room of his flagship, USS Makin Island, during the Okinawa campaign, May 1945	Three PV-1 Ventura patrol planes preparing for take-off from Port Lyautey, French Morocco (now Kenitra, Morocco), May 1945. Note plane director with a red flag standing on the hood of the yellow Jeep	US Navy VF-82 F6F-5 Hellcat fighter ready for launch from USS Bennington, off Okinawa, May 1945; note the fighter's captain in foreground	US troops inspecting the hulk of an Me 262 jet fighter alongside the autobahn south of Munich, Germany, May 1945.

WAVES aircraft mechanics working on the port outboard Pratt & Whitney R-2000 engine of a R5D Skymaster aircraft, Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, United States, mid-1945	WAVES Seaman 1st Class Patricia A. Branch attending to an officer aboard a Naval Air Transport Service flight, circa mid-1945	WAVES Seamen 1st Class Billy Ikard and Barbara A. Patterson moving a battery cart into position next to a R5D Skymaster aircraft, Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, United States, circa mid-1945	WAVES Seamen 1st Class Martha Harrison and Lorrain Taylor working on the #1 Pratt & Whitney R-2000 engine of a R5D Skymaster aircraft, Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, United States, mid-1945

Eisenhower and Tedder addressed the world over radio and motion picture shortly after the signing of the German surrender documents, Rheims, France, 7 May 1945	Ivan Susloparov, Frederick Morgan, Walter Smith, Dwight Eisenhower, Arthur Tedder, and Harold Burrough after signing of German surrender documents, Rheims, France, 7 May 1945; note Eisenhower holding pens used, and Eisenhower's naval aide Harry Butcher behind Eisenhower	Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff at a luncheon at 10 Downing Street, London, England, United Kingdom, 7 May 1945, photo 2 of 2	German cruiser Admiral Hipper in dry dock at Kiel, Germany after being captured by the Allies, 19 May 1945. Note German attempts at camouflage and damage from Allied bombing.

Aerographer's Mate 2nd Class Myrtle Morley checking weather instruments atop the Station Administration building tower, Naval Air Station, Santa Ana, California, United States, Jun 1945	Carrier pigeon trainer WAVES Specialist 2nd Class Marcelle Whiteman holding a carrier pigeon, Naval Air Station Santa Ana, California, United States, June 1945	Me 262 B-1a/U1 night fighter (converted two-seat trainer), post-war	Nürnberg, Germany in ruins, Jun 1945