Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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PBM-3S Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol bombing squadron VPB-211 flying over the Brazilian naval dockyard at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec 1943	Rear Admiral Ralph Christie, Commander of Submarine Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, reading the Presidential Citation to the captain and crew of USS Bowfin, Fremantle, Australia, Dec 1943.	Submarine USS Bowfin arriving at Fremantle, Australia, probably from her second war patrol in Dec 1943.	Three US Navy PBY-5A Catalina aircraft of VP-52 in flight in the southwest Pacific area, Dec 1943

Unidentified man (left edge of photograph), George Marshall, unidentified man (in background between Marshall and Keer), Clark Keer, Harry Hopkins, unidentified Russian interpreter, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov at Tehran, Iran, Dec 1943	US Marine Corps F4U-1 Corsair fighters in flight, late 1943; seen in Jul-Aug 1984 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	USAAF reconnaissance photograph of Mako harbor, Pescadores Islands, Dec 1943	View over the bow of USS Washington during Gilbert Islands campaign, Dec 1943

Wreckage of a D3A dive bomber in the Gilbert Islands, late 1943; US souvenir hunters were most likely the reason for the missing fuselage panels	USS Tang off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 Dec 1943, photo 1 of 2	USS Tang off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 Dec 1943, photo 2 of 2	A B6N2 torpedo bomber exploding in mid-air after direct hit by 5-inch shell from carrier Yorktown, off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 4 Dec 1943

Japanese light cruiser Isuzu hit by an aerial Mark XIII torpedo dropped from a TBF-1 Avenger flown by Lt(jg) E.F. Ternasky flying from USS Lexington (Essex-class), Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 4 Dec 1943	Crew of USS Snook holding up the submarine's scorecard, Midway, 7 Dec 1943	US Navy K-class airship K-84 is being moved into the hangar at Santa Cruz, Brazil, 7 Dec 1943. K-88 is seen at lower left. This hangar was originally built by Luft Hansa for the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg.	Generals George Patton, Henry “Hap” Arnold, and Mark Clark at the Castelvetrano Airfield, Sicily, Italy, awaiting the arrival of President Roosevelt, 8 Dec 1943.

USS North Carolina bombarding Nauru, 8 Dec 1943; note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft in foreground	Marine Pfc C.H. McClure servicing the three Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns in the right wing of an F4U-1 Corsair fighter on Bougainville, Dec 9, 1943	P-40N Warhawk fighter with the 45th Fighter Squadron at Nanumea Airstrip, Gilbert Islands, Dec 10 1943	US F4U-1 Corsair, US F6F-3 Hellcat, US SBD Dauntless, and New Zealand Kittyhawk Mk. IV aircraft at the Barakoma airfield at Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 10 Dec 1943