Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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$Mousetrap rocket controller box, Key West, Florida, Sep 1942. It is fairly simple on the front but it is a complex tangle of wires inside designed to ignite each rocket in sequence with a fraction of a second in between$
Mousetrap rocket controller box, Key West, Florida, Sep 1942. It is fairly simple on the front but it is a complex tangle of wires inside designed to ignite each rocket in sequence with a fraction of a second in between	Ordnancemen loading belted cartridges into SBD-3 at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942	Profile of captured A6M 'Akutan Zero' fighter with US markings in San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942	Sailors with a loaded Mousetrap rocket array, probably fall of 1942 at Key West, Florida, United States.

SB2U Vindicator dive bombers of Scouting Squadron VS-41 turning toward the carrier USS Ranger in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, United States, Sep 1942.	Six B-17E bombers, the entire heavy bombing strength of the US 5th Air Force at the time, took off for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 1942	TBF Avenger torpedo bombers flying in formation above Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942	The bow section of the sunken destroyer USS Tucker sticking out of the water off Malo Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, circa Sep 1942.

Three Lockheed A-29 Hudsons fly past Mt McKinley, Territory of Alaska, circa 1942	Unloading a 37 mm Gun M3 from a transport aircraft, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States, Sep 1942	US Marines resting in the field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa Aug-Dec 1942; note Springfield M1903 rifles and a Browning Automatic Rifle gunner on far right	US Navy Lieutenant Commander Eddie Sanders taxiing the captured Japanese A6M Zero fighter 'Akutan Zero', Naval Air Station San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942

USS Indiana off Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942	USS Nevada in Drydock 2 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States for repairs following the Pearl Harbor Attack. Nevada was in drydock from 11 May to 30 Nov 1942.	Commissioning ceremony of USS Tunny, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 1 Sep 1942, photo 2 of 2	Commissioning ceremony of USS Tunny, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 1 Sep 1942, photo 2 of 2; note Sunfish alongside, Whale in background

The officers of the newly commissioned USS Tunny, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 1 Sep 1942	Laffey steaming alongside another American ship, South Pacific, 4 Sep 1942	United States Navy Captain Miles Browning, Captain William Harrill, Captain F.B. McCrary, and Vice Admiral William Halsey at Naval Air Station Alameda, California, 6 Sep 1942. Note SNJ Texan aircraft.	USS Indiana off Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 8 Sep 1942, photo 1 of 5; note No. 1 and No. 3 turrets turned to starboard