Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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An ordnanceman aboard USS Wasp (Essex-class) placing tape over the gun ports on F4U Corsairs to keep dust and salt spray out of the guns before they are fired, 1945.	Armorers load belts of .50 caliber ammunition into a P-51D Mustang of the 45th Fighter Squadron, Saipan, Mariana Islands, before flying to Iwo Jima, Mar 1945.	At the Naval Hospital at Bethesda Maryland, United States, Captain Dixie Kiefer (center) signs the cast of Captain George Mentz as Captain Thomas Inglis looks on, early 1945.	B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 29th Bombardment Group assembled at North Field, Guam, Mariana Islands, 1945. Note the large Square-O on the tails that painted over the tail numbers.

C-47 or R4D aircraft delivering mail to US Marines in southern Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945	Captain Edward Steichen, head of the Navy’s combat photography and Director of the Naval Photographic Institute, right, speaking with US Marine Corporal William Damato on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Mar 1945	Catholic mass atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, for American Marines, circa Feb or Mar 1945	Clifton Cates in conference with his staff officers and regimental commanders, aboard a ship off Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945

Damaged and abandoned LVTs sink into the sand as beach activity continues on Iwo Jima, Feb 1945.	Damaged LVT(A)-4 on the beach of Iwo Jima, Feb-Mar 1945	F4U Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-222, Guiuan Airfield, Samar, Philippines, 1945. Note the oversized squadron decals on the cowls.	Flag-raising ceremonies at US Marine Headquarters on Iwo Jima, Mar 1945

Four American Marines carried a wounded comrade, Iwo Jima, Mar 1945	Hand of a buried Japanese soldier showing through the remains of a collapsed defensive position, Iwo Jima, Mar 1945	Japanese POW taken at Iwo Jima, Mar 1945	Lieutenant General Holland Smith congratulating Major General Graves B. Erskine, Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945

LST-1041 loaded with Higgins 78-foot PT-Boats (PT-626, PT-627, PT-628, & PT-634) in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, Mar 1945. These boats were taken to Puget Sound where they were transferred to the USSR	M1 mortar team on near the Rhine River, Germany, 1945	M26 Pershing heavy tank of US 9th Armored Division, near Vettweiss, Germany, Mar 1945	Major General Edward Almond of the US 92nd Infantry Division inspecting his African-American troops, Italy, circa Mar 1945