Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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A soldier of the US Army looks at a German half-track camouflaged with branches near Le Neufbourg, France, Aug 12 1944. The half-track SdKfz 251 Ausf D, SS 926256 is from the 1.SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. Note the soldiers M3 Grease Gun	Franklin Roosevelt under USS Cummings’ Number 1 5"/38 caliber gun mount addressing a crowd of shipyard workers at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 12 Aug 1944.	Nurses of a field hospital who arrived in France via England and Egypt after three years service, 12 Aug 1944	B-24J Liberators of the 565th Bomb Squadron bomb targets in St Malo, France, Aug 13 1944. The aircraft seen here was destroyed the next day when it crash landed and burned at RAF Hethel, Norfolk.

Church services for men of the US 3rd Division on the forecastle of LST-4, en route to the Southern France landings, 13 Aug 1944	Soldiers and sailors singing hymns during religious services on board LST-4 en route to Southern France, 13 Aug 1944	A French woman welcomed American and French troops, Alençon, Basse-Normandie, France, 14 Aug 1944	American soldiers welcomed by French citizens, 14 Aug 1944

Church in Coutances, France devastated by Operation Cobra bombing, 14 Aug 1944	African-American US Army nurses waiting to disembark from the transport that brought them to Greenock, Scotland, UK, 15 Aug 1944	Philippe Leclerc in Fleuré-Écouché region, France, circa Aug 1944	USS Kete underway in Lake Michigan, United States, 15 Aug 1944

Omaha during southern France landings, Aug 1944; cruiser Philadelphia and SOC Seagull aircraft in foreground, French destroyer and light cruiser in background, and Augusta in background	Salmon at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 16 Aug 1944	Ammunition dump explosion in Cherbourg harbor, France, 17 Aug 1944	Propellers and after-bodies of Mark XV torpedoes at the Amertorp torpedo factory, Forest Park, Illinois, United States, 17 Aug 1944.

Russian Army Captain Orset Chevstov receiving a painting from African-American merchant seaman and artist George Wright, 18 Aug 1944; note painting theme of Russo-American cooperation	Air Attack on German submarine U-1229 by Lt(jg) Bernard Sissler flying from USS Bogue, 20 Aug 1944. The submarine was sunk with 18 killed and 41 surviving. Note the raised “Schnorkel” device.	American troops posing with a captured Nazi flag and a wrecked German tank, Chambois, France, 20 Aug 1944	B-26 Marauder bomber 'Flossies Fury' hit directly by a ground-based 88mm anti-aircraft shell over Toulon, France, 20 Aug 1944.