Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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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	The captain’s compartment aboard the captured German Type IXC submarine U-505, Jun 1944.	The electric motor control panel aboard the captured German Type IXC submarine U-505, Jun 1944.	The forward torpedo room aboard the captured German Type IXC submarine U-505, Jun 1944.

United States Navy Captain Daniel Gallery and Lt(jg) Albert David on the bridge of escort carrier USS Guadalcanal in the Atlantic following the capture of the German U-505, Jun 1944.	US Army troops disembarking onto Saipan, Mariana Islands, circa Jun-Jul 1944	US Generals Eisenhower and Bradley speaking with a member of the French resistance, Normandy, France, summer 1944	US Marines attacked Garapan with a captured Japanese Type 92 Battalion Gun, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944