Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,513 items in this album on 476 pages.


Columns of troop-packed American LCI landing craft in the wake of a USCG-manned LST en route to Cape Sansapor, New Guinea, mid-1944	Convoy of US CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transport trucks moving inland after heavy equipment cleared the road, Normandy, France, 1944; note Jeeps and heavy earth moving equipment	Cruiser USS Nashville in floating drydock ABSD-1 at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides late Jun 1944. Nashville was having hull damage repaired after a close bomb near-miss in the Bismarck Sea on 4 Jun 1944.	Cruiser USS Nashville shortly after her repairs at Espiritu Santo, Jul 1944. Note the OS2U Kingfisher float planes on her catapults and her new Measure 33, Design 21D paint scheme.

Engine change for M4 Sherman tank “Hurricane” at a repair depot near the front lines, Le Teilleul, France, July 1944. Note Federal C-2 Wrecker	F-5B Lightning reconnaissance aircraft 'Stinky' at Isley Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944	F4U-1A Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-113 over Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, 1944	French resistance fighters working with American paratroopers in Normandy, France, Jun-Jul 1944

German and Italian prisoners of war from the Normandy campaign en route Britain on the battleship USS Texas, Jun 1944. Some are sitting due to seasickness. Note guard holding a Reising M50 submachinegun.	Grumman TBF Avenger firing HVAR air-to-surface rockets at a United States test range, mid-1944.	Holland M. Smith, Harry Schmidt, and Graves B. Erskine, Saipan, Mariana Islands, circa Jul 1944	Holland Smith on a Jeep on Saipan, Mariana Islands, circa Jul 1944

Lockheed P-38 Lightning at a training base in the United States, mid-1944. Note wing mounted HVAR air-to-surface rockets.	Looking aft from the signal bridge of USS Lexington (Essex-class) with 40mm Bofors mount and two 5-inch/38 mounts as F6F Hellcat approaches for a landing, Jun 1944	LVT-2 Water Buffalo bringing US Marines to the beaches of Tinian Island, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944	P-47 Thunderbolts of the 19th Fighter Squadron share the airfield with Marine Corps TBM Avengers Isely Field on Saipan, Mariana Islands, mid 1944. Note incomplete Japanese hangar.

RAF and US Navy VCS-7 pilots briefed before flying a gunfire spotting mission over the Normandy beach heads, circa Jun-Jul 1944	Republic P-47D Thunderbolt 42-28672 ‘Lois’ of the 513th Fighter Squadron armed with bombs and HVAR air-to-surface rockets, probably at Tour-en-Bessin Airfield, France, mid-1944.	Republic P-47N Thunderbolt 44-88335 armed with HVAR air-to-surface rockets at the Wright Field Test Center, Dayton, Ohio, United States, mid-1944.	SB2C-1 Helldiver bombers returning to USS Yorktown (Essex-class; CV-10), early Jul 1944