Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,413 items in this album on 471 pages.


A formation of A-20 Havoc bombers in flight, circa 1943	A formation of OS2U Kingfisher aircraft in flight, 1943	A Jeep loaded with radio and telephone equipment being used as a forward command post for a US Army artillery division, Territory of Alaska, 1943	A Mark XIII aerial torpedo being launched from a PT Boat by simply dropping it over the side during tests in the Rendova area of the Solomon Islands, 1943.

A PT boat patrolled off New Guinea, 1943	A section of the A-20 Havoc bomber being loaded onto a transport ship, 1943	A-20 Havoc bombers of US 410th Bomb Group based at RAF Gosfield, England, United Kingdom, date unknown	Abandoned A6M3 aircraft on a South Pacific island, early 1943; from the 15 Apr 1943 issue of US Navy Naval Aviation News

Abandoned A6M3 Model 32 Zero fighter (Lt. (jg) Kazuo Tsunoda), Buna, New Guinea, circa 1943; the four characters below the serial number noted Bang Uiseok, name of the Korean who funded this aircraft	Above-ground oil tank farm at Pearl Habor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 1940s	Actress Carole Gladly entertaining officers and men of US Army 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment, 1940s	Aerial view of Midway Atoll, 1943

Aerial view of US battleship Massachusetts, 1943; note OS2U Kingfisher float planes on the fantail catapults	African-American factory workers Cecil M. Coles and Juanita E. Gray working on a lathe machine, which the latter was being trained to use, Washington, DC, United States, date unknown	African-American pilots of the US Army 15th AAF squadron, date unknown; The Three Minute Egg Club denotes they had returned to base from combat with less than 3 minutes' worth of fuel at least once	African-American sailor George C. Fields, formerly Franklin Roosevelt's valet, showing his honor certificate from US Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, United States, circa 1943

African-American swing musician Earl 'Fatha' Hines with US Army Private Charles Carpenter, his former manager, Camp Lee, Virginia, United States, date unknown	African-American Theodore R. Poston, head of the Negro Press Section of the US Office of War Information, date unknown	African-American troops of the US Army performing daily rifle calisthenics, Field Artillery Replacement Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States, Feb 1943	African-American US Army pilots being briefed for a practice bombing raid, Selfridge Field, Michigan, United States, 1943