Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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A TBM Avenger trailing smoke returning to the carrier USS Essex after being damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire during a strike on Minami Daito Jima in the Okinawa Operation, 28 Mar 1945.	War Correspondent Ted Stanford of The Pittsburgh Courier interviewing African-American US Army Sergeant Morris O. Harris of the 784th Tank Battalion of the 9th Army, 28 Mar 1945	Battleship Colorado bombarding Okinawa, Japan, 29 Mar 1945; cropped photo	British Sergeant Edward Hill, captured by the Germans at Dunkerque, France in 1940, smiling as he was librated in late Mar 1945

Destroyed buildings of Lipa City, Luzon, Philippine Islands, after 29 Mar 1945	US Army African-American Privates George Cofield and Howard Davis manning an anti-aircraft weapon near a bridge under construction over the Rhine River, 30 Mar 1945	USS Makin Island at anchor at Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 31 Mar 1945	45th Fighter Squadron P-51D Mustangs flying from Iwo Jima flying with a B-29 Superfortress from the 498th Bomb Group, Mar-Apr 1945

45th Fighter Squadron P-51D Mustangs flying from Iwo Jima flying with a B-29 Superfortress from the 498th Bomb Group, Mar-Apr 1945	A French Jew at a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, Apr 1945	A group of US Navy flight nurses walking away from a Douglas R5D Skymaster aircraft, Guam, Marianas, Apr 1945	A pile of human remains at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, Apr 1945

Aerial view of Tokashiki Island, Okinawa, Japan, 1945	American analysis of bombing damage upon Tokyo, Japan, 1945	American Marines examined the wreck of a G4M bomber at one of Iwo Jima's two operational airfields, Mar-Apr 1945	American soldiers inspecting a crematorium stuffed with several bodies, location unknown, Apr 1945

Australian Destroyer HMAS Nizam alongside carrier USS Shangri-La for refueling, April 1945. Note Corsairs of Air Group 85 spotted on the flight deck.	B-17G 'Big Yank' of the 483rd Bomber Group, circa 1945	Cathedral at Cologne, Germany with the collapsed Deutz Suspension Bridge beyond, Mar 1945.	Commander of USAAF 78th Fighter Squadron Major James B. Tapp checking the fuses on his HVAR air-to-surface rockets mounted to his P-51D VLR Mustang ‘Margaret-V’ 44-73407 at South Field, Iwo Jima, spring 1945.