WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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US Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander James H. Flatley's F6F-3 Hellcat fighter warming up on the deck of USS Yorktown, preparing to attack Marcus Island, 31 Aug 1943	A British WREN and an US sailor removed the US markings off of a Wildcat destined to become a British Martlet V, Naval Air Station, Quonset, Rhode Island, Sep 1943	An American flag flew on a convoy ship while underway, location unknown, circa 1943-1945	B-24 Liberator 'Rapid Robin' of the 431st Bomb Squadron parked under camouflage netting at Bellows Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, Aug or Sep 1943

Fw190G-3 No.160057 was captured Gerbini Airfield Sicily in Sep 1943. It was painted in a striking white and red color scheme. Camouflage netting was to keep the Luftwaffe from destroying it.	Guns and other topside weight being removed from the damaged cruiser USS St. Louis before removing the damaged bow section altogether, Sep 1943, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States.	US Marines on New Georgia, mid-1943; note wrecked Ki-45 aircraft	USS Gherardi (center) and USS Luce (left) at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, Jun-Sep 1943

USS Gherardi (center), USS Luce (left, bow only), USS Butler (right, stern only), USS Doyle (right background), and a British light cruiser (left background) at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, Jun-Sep 1943	Wrecked A6M3 Zero aircraft at Munda Field, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Sep 1943	Light cruiser Philadelphia and a motor minesweeper making a smoke screen to cover the landing area from German air attack, Tyrrhenian Sea, off Salerno, Italy, 9 Sep 1943	LCT-222 landed a jeep onto Salerno beach, Italy, Sep 1943; note LST-1 in background

LST-1 landing troops onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	LST-1 landing US Army jeeps onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	LST-1 landing US Army trucks and field guns onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	With LST-1 in background, US Army Engineers hauled a roll of wire mesh into position to make a beach roadway, Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943

Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard a US Navy transport at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, circa Oct 1943	B-24J Liberator with the 90th Bomb Group, the Jolly Rogers, at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1943.	Olive-drab painted B-29 bombers, late 1943	Raymond Spruance, Chester Nimitz, and Holland Smith at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Oct 1943