Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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General George Marshall visits General Mark Clark, commander of the US 5th Army, at his Command Post near Tuscania, Italy where the two generals discussed “Operation Anvil.” June 1944	General Joseph Stilwell holding a roadside conference with Brigadier General Lewis Pick whose engineers were instrumental in the completion of the Burma Road, Burma, 1944.	George Bush in the cockpit of his TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, mid-1944	German troops withdrawing from Rome, Italy by horse-drawn carts, Jun 1944

In a port in England, a loaded LCVP Landing Craft from the Attack Transport USS Joseph T. Dickman brought troops to the ship for the crossing to Normandy, June 1944. Note Rhino barge loaded with WC54 Ambulances	Indianapolis under Japanese shore bombardment off Saipan, Jun 1944	Liberty ship unloading two CCKW trucks and other supplies onto a Rhino cargo barge off the Normandy beaches, Jun 1944.	Men of USS Monterey playing basketball in the carrier's forward elevator, circa Jun-Jul 1944; jumper at left was future President of US Gerald R. Ford

Mitscher aboard USS Lexington, Jun 1944	OS2U Kingfisher scout plane being recovered aboard the battleship USS Missouri, 1944-45	SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-7 coming aboard USS Hancock off the United States east coast, mid-1944	TBM-1C Avenger bombers prepared to take off from Monterey to attack targets on Tinian, Jun 1944

United States Coast Guard Captains Edward Fritzche (left) and Miles Imlay (right) examining a relief map of Omaha Beach laid out in the hold of the Attack Transport USS Samuel Chase, Jun 1944.	US Army troops drive by the people of Montebourg, Normandy, France, June 1944. Note M2 Half-Track “Dirty Gertie” and M4 Sherman Duplex-Drive tank with soldiers sitting on the folded skirt frame.	US generals Geoffrey Keyes, Robert Frederick, and Mark Clark in discussion near Rome, Italy, May-Jun 1944	US Navy Lt Robert F Doyle shaking hands with his wingman, Ens John F Mudge, after their return from a gunfire-spotting and strafing mission over the Normandy beaches, Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England, UK, Jun 1944.

US Navy sailors assisting US Army soldiers board a Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)) from an LCVP landing craft, probably in southern England, UK, early June 1944.	US Navy sailors manning an LCVP in the English Channel, mid June 1944. Note the LCVP’s plywood construction.	US Sailor removing the securing lines before launching a Mark XIII aerial torpedo from PT Boat operating from the Subchaser Training Center, Miami, Florida, United States, 1944.	US troops marching along Highway 6 toward Rome, Italy, Jun 1944