Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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F6G-3 Hellcat from the Escort Carrier USS Sangamon flying over Lake Sentani, New Guinea, in support of the Aitape landings, Apr 1944.	German prisoners-of-war captured at Anzio are offloaded from LST-351 at Naples, Italy in early 1944.	Men of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-222 resting on the wing of a F4U-1 Corsair fighter, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Apr 1944	Navy photographers mates prepare aerial cameras for installation in a PB4Y-1P Liberator reconnaissance variant, circa Apr 1944, probably Momote Field on Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands.

Overhead view of B-17 Fortress bombers flying from Italy on a raid to bomb the rail yards at Weiner Neustadt near Vienna, Austria, Apr 1944.	P-51A Mustangs do a low pass over a forward air field of the 1st Air Commandos, Burma, Apr 1944. Note also a B-25H Mitchell and an L-1 Vigilant	Posed photo of a WASP pilot in flight gear and leather flying jacket showing WASP “Fifinella” patch, 1944, location unknown but probably Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, United States.	PT Boat PT-564 being tested in the Gulf of Mexico, 1944. Note the Mark XIII aerial torpedoes on the deck. The smaller, lighter, faster PT-564 design was not put into production.

SB2C Helldivers of Bombing Squadron VB-2 flying from USS Hornet above Saipan, early 1944.	SSgt Norman A Sampson from the 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group in the ball turret of a B-17 Fortress; RAF Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, Apr 1944	The helm of PT-295, a Higgins 78-foot motor torpedo boat, 1944. Note the mast in the lowered position, two twin Browning .50 caliber machine gun mounts, and a 20mm Oerlikon gun forward.	Troops of the Soviet 62nd Stalingrad Army marching in Odessa, Ukraine, Apr 1944; note two female soldiers in foreground

Two F6F-5N Hellcat of Marine Night Fighting Squadron VMF(N)-541 escorting a TBM-1C Avenger near Palau, 1944.	Underside view of an Eastern Aviation TBM-3 Avenger armed with FFAR rockets, the predecessor of the HVAR air-to-surface rockets, early 1944.	United States Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz, 1944, location unknown.	US Navy F6F-3 Hellcats and USAAF B-25 Mitchell bombers of the 41st Bomb Group share the Mullinix airstrip on Tarawa Island, Gilbert Islands, Jan-Apr 1944.

USS Shamrock Bay in measure 33 design 10A camouflage at Astoria, Oregon, United States, Apr 1944	VC2-S-AP3 ships Lincoln Victory, Panama Victory, Joplin Victory, and Columbia Victory on the ways at CalShip yards, Los Angeles, California, United States, spring 1944.	WASP Cadet Class 44-W-4 “Baymates” (barrack mates). Back Row: Dorothy Allen, Jane Baessler, Deanie Bishop. Front Row: Ina Barkley, Jo Naker. Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, United States, Apr 1944	WASP pilot Lillian Yonally seated in the cockpit of an A-25A Shrike at Camp Irwin airstrip, California, United States, 1944