Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Admiral William Halsey having Thanksgiving dinner with the crew of battleship USS New Jersey, his flagship, 30 Nov 1944	Pvt Walter Prsybyla of B Btry, 37th Field Artillery Regt, US 2nd Inf Div writing Christmas cards for friends and family from an artillery ammunition storehouse, Heckhalenfeld, Germany, 30 Nov 1944	USS North Carolina (in early pattern Ms32/18d camouflage) receiving fuel from USS Neches (in measure 32 design 5AO camouflage), Pacific Ocean, 30 Nov 1944	A still image taken from a US Navy training film showing the tail ring modification to the Mark XIII torpedo with a sailor holding a break-away wooden tail shroud that will go around it, 1945.

A young child clutched the leg of his father, an American soldier home for Christmas, while the father lifted and kissed his wife, Dec 1944	Admiral William F. Halsey and Vice Admiral John S. McCain aboard battleship USS New Jersey, Dec 1944	Admiral William Halsey at his desk aboard his flagship, USS New Jersey, on his way to operations against the Philippines, Dec 1944	American soldiers and French civilians inspecting an abandoned Tiger I heavy tank, Marle, Aisne, France, late 1944

As seen from of the USS Hancock, the USS Lexington and USS Yorktown (both Essex-class) are anchored close aboard at Ulithi, late Dec 1944. Note Hancock’s 20mm anti-aircraft guns lining the flight deck.	B-24H Liberator bomber of 783rd Bomb Squadron, 465th Bomb Group, US 15th Air Force exploding in mid air after being hit by anti-aircraft fire over Germany, 1944	B-29 Superfortress taking off from Saipan, Dec 1944.	Captain Dixie Kiefer of USS Ticonderoga presenting VT-80 pilot Clyde Grow a cake for making the 6,000th landing on the carrier ('trap'), late 1944

Captured German position on the Gothic Line, Italy	Captured German troops at Castel del Rio, Italy, 1944	Chance-Vought F4U Corsair fighter powering up for takeoff from the USS Essex east of the Philippines, Dec 1944. Note the vapor streaks spinning off the propeller tips due to high humidity.	Crew of USS Makin Island attempted to pull an upended FM-2 Wildcat from the flight deck's edge, circa 1944-1945

Crew of USS Snook holding up the submarine's scorecard, Dec 1944	Ensign Frances Wills and Lieutenant (jg) Harriet Ida Pickens eating lunch at Northampton, Massachusetts, United States, circa Dec 1944; they were US Navy's first African-American officers	Fantail of the carrier USS Hancock in the western Pacific, Dec 1944. Note SB2C Helldiver on the after flight deck and the aircraft’s horseshoe tail geometric identifying it as from Bombing Squadron 7 from the Hancock	Female students of the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States marching, Dec 1944