Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Dead Japanese soldiers and wrecked Daihatsu-class landing craft on Buna beach, New Guinea, 1943	Destroyed Japanese A6M Zero fighters near Lae, New Guinea, 1943	Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes of USS Nautilus' torpedo attack on carrier Kaga; note this war time depiction did not resemble Kaga	Drawing of the Mark XIII aerial torpedo showing the wooden tail shroud and the plywood drag ring on the nose. Both were designed to stabilize the torpedo during the drop and then break off on impact with the water.

Dry Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 1940s	Dwight Eisenhower, Constance Rivington Russell, and John Winant, 1940s	Émile Bertin at sea, date unknown	Entertainment provided for Tirpitz's men

F1M1 seaplane flying over Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands, 1942-1944	F2A-3 Buffalo fighters during a training flight near Naval Air Station Miami, Florida, United States, 1942-1943	F4F-4 Wildcat fighters of a Marine Fighting Squadron at rest on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomons, 1942-43.	F4U-1 Corsair bouncing up on the flight deck of USS Bunker Hill during an landing attempt, 1943; seen in Feb 1969 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

F4U-1 Corsair fighter in flight, 1942-1943	F6F Hellcat fighters going through launch procedures aboard the carrier Saratoga, off Gilbert Islands, early 1943.	F6F-3 Hellcat of Navy Fighting Squadron 33 after dropping into a bomb crater at the Barakoma airstrip, Vella Lavella, Solomons, late 1943. Fighting 33 was one of the few land based fighter squadrons, a role later taken up by Marine squadrons.	Five Japanese F1M seaplanes at Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands, 1943

Formations of US bombers with fighters in escort, date unknown	General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz, 1942-1944	Generals Walter Kreuger, William Rupertus, and Douglas MacAthur, circa 1943	George Patton in his modified M3A1 Scout Car, circa 1943, photo 1 of 2