Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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WASP pilot Violet Wierzbicki on the wing of a Vultee BT-13 Valiant, 1943. Location unknown.	WAVES Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class C. F. Funk polishing a SNB or JRB aircraft, date unknown; note Pratt & Whitney R-985 radial engine	WAVES Aviation Metalsmith 3rd Class Robie Young working at a grinder in the Assembly and Repair Department, Naval Air Station, Seattle, Washington, United States, circa 1943	WAVES Ensign Emma D. Shelton received salute from a US Marine sentry s she enters an apartment building that served as temporary WAVES quarters, circa 1943

WAVES in double bunks in their barracks, circa 1943	WAVES officers marching at the intersection of Garden and Chauncy Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, circa 1943	WAVES Parachute Rigger working in a Naval Air Station's parachute loft, date unknown	WAVES Parachute Riggers 3rd Class Pearl L. Pittelkow and Virginia Sibbald repacking a parachute, Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, circa 1943, photo 1 of 2

WAVES Parachute Riggers 3rd Class Pearl L. Pittelkow and Virginia Sibbald repacking a parachute, Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, circa 1943, photo 2 of 2	WAVES petty officers wearing their new rating badges after completion of specialized training, circa 1943	WAVES recruit company during WW2, date unknown	WAVES Specialist (Teacher) Sheila Macksey checking a radio range chart, while serving as a Link trainer instructor at Naval Air Station, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, circa 1943

WC-4 trucks towing 37 mm Gun M3 pieces, 1943	Welders S. L. Ramsey and Benny Chen worked on the Liberty Ship SS Frederick Douglass at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 1943	Willa Beatrice Brown, trainer for the US Army Air Forces, was the first African-American woman to receive commission as lieutenant in US Civil Air Patrol; note male-style coat and Germanic pilot wings	William Halsey presenting Willis Lee with the Navy Cross medal, circa Jan 1943

Workers loading uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor's concrete face, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, circa 1943	Wreck of two G4M bombers at Lae, New Guinea, 1943	XSB2D-1 Destroyer prototype on a test flight, 1943.	XSB2D-1 Destroyer prototype taking off on a test flight, 1943.