WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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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.	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, 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	TBF Avenger torpedo bomber prepared to take off of USS Yorktown, late 1943

USS Mobile preparing to launch a Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane from her port catapult during the Oct 1943 Marcus Island raid. Note the 40mm twin gun mount and man in the gun tub holding a red flag.	USS Yorktown (Essex-class) as seen from the fantail of Light Cruiser USS Mobile, during the October 1943 raid on Marcus Island. Note OS2U Kingfisher scout planes on Mobile’s two catapults.	Chiang Kaishek shortly after being sworn in as the Chairman of Nationalist China, 10 Oct 1943; flanking him were Yu Youren, Wu Zhihui, Song Meiling, Sun Ke, and Dai Chuanxian	USS Franklin being floated out of drydock for the first time, Newport News, Virginia, United States, 14 Oct 1943. Note Navy WAVES on the dock; WAVES' Director, LtCdr Mildred H. McAfee, USNR, was Franklin's sponsor.