Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,426 items in this album on 472 pages.


African-American US Army 2nd lts. Henry Harris, Frank Frederick Doughton, Elmer B. Kountze, and Rogers H. Beardon pinning on their new brass rank insignias, Ft. Benning, Georgia, US, 29 May 1942	VF-3 pilot Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach's Wildcat fighter at Naval Air Station, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, 29 May 1942, five days before he possibly shot down Tomonaga at Midway	View forward from USS Quincy's second conning tower, while she was at the New York Navy Yard, United States, for her last overhaul, 29 May 1942; note SOC Seagull floatplanes onboard	Yorktown in Dry Dock #1 of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 29 May 1942

Launching of submarine Runner, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States, 30 May 1942	20mm Oerlikon crews at the base of one of the main turrets aboard USS North Carolina, 1942; note African-American crewmen	A burial detail consisted of captured American soldiers, Luzon, Philippine Islands, May-Jun 1942	A Jeep packed with mortar shells, a mortar tube between the seats, and the mortar plate on the floor, New Caledonia, 1942.

A tractor pulling an SBD Dauntless dive-bomber from a pier on Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, mid-1942. Note LCVPs.	Aerial view of Gotenhafen (Gdynia), occupied Poland, Jun 1942, photo 1 of 2; photo taken by a British RAF aircraft; note battlecruiser Gneisenau (white arrow) and carrier Graf Zeppelin (bottom)	Aerial view of Gotenhafen (Gdynia), occupied Poland, Jun 1942, photo 2 of 2; photo taken by a British RAF aircraft; note battlecruiser Gneisenau (white arrow) and carrier Graf Zeppelin (bottom)	American troops inside a M3 Half-track vehicle during training, Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942

An ethnically Chinese soldier of the US Army posing with a Thompson sub-machinegun next to a halftrac armored car, Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942	M3 Half-track vehicle at Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942	M3 light tank in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942, photo 1 of 4	M3 light tank in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942, photo 2 of 4

M3 light tank in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942, photo 3 of 4	M3 light tank in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942, photo 4 of 4	Newly arrived aviation cadets at the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, United States submitting to haircut inspection, circa 1942. Note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft.	Scout Car S1 (American) at rest, 1940s; note Browning M2 machine gun on top and two Browning M1921 machine guns in rear