Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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The USS Bunker Hill, burning from two special attack aircraft crashing through the flight deck off Okinawa, 11 May 1945. Note cruiser Wilkes-Barre at extreme left and carrier Randolph at right.	The USS Bunker Hill, burning from two special attack aircraft crashing through the flight deck off Okinawa, is assisted by cruiser Pasadena, 11 May 1945.	The USS Bunker Hill, burning from two special attack aircraft crashing through the flight deck off Okinawa, is assisted by destroyer Charles S Perry and cruiser Wilkes-Barre, 11 May 1945.	Transfer of wounded from USS Bunker Hill to USS Wilkes Barre, who were injured during fire following suicide dive bombing attack off Okinawa, 11 May 1945

Wreckage of Kiyoshi Ogawa's aircraft after his special attack on USS Bunker Hill, off Okinawa, Japan, 11 May 1945	Bodies of victims piled in a cart, awaiting proper burial, Gusen Concentration Camp, Muhlhausen, near Linz, Austria, 12 May 1945	Prisoner of war camp in Sinzig, Germany, 12 May 1945	Starving inmate of Camp Gusen, Austria, 12 May 1945

USS New Mexico hit by a special attack aircraft at dusk off Okinawa, Japan, 12 May 1945; photo taken from cruiser USS Wichita	F6F Hellcats of the United States Navy Fighting Squadron VF-12 flying from USS Randolph firing HVAR air-to-surface rockets at targets in western Kyushu, Japan, May 1945.	Fatalities of a special attack on USS New Mexico on the prior day, 13 May 1945	A6M Zero, damaged by concentrated anti-aircraft fire, diving on USS Essex, 14 May 1945

Aerial view of bridges over Daitokei River (now Dadu River) in Shoka (now Changhua), Taiwan, 14 May 1945	An A6M Zero special attack aircraft crashed through the flight deck of USS Enterprise and lodged in the forward elevator pit. 250kg bomb exploded and propelled the elevator several hundred feet in the air, 14 May 1945	As seen from the USS Essex, the USS Enterprise burns furiously after a Japanese Special Attack aircraft struck the carrier at the forward elevator off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945	As seen from the USS Hornet (Essex-class) anti-aircraft shells burst above the USS Bennington southeast of Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945. Note Hornet’s F6F Hellcats in the foreground.

German submarine U-858, the first to be boarded by US forces after Germany’s surrender, arriving at the Delaware Capes, Delaware, United States, 14 May 1945. Note Sikorsky HNS-I Helicopter and K-class airship.	Kibi Sugar Refinery in Kizan, Takao Prefecture (now Qishan District, Kaohsiung), Taiwan under attack by B-25J bombers of USAAF 38th Bombardment Group, 14 May 1945	Nagoya, Japan during attack, seen from an American aircraft, 14 May 1945	Russian former prisoner liberated by US 3rd Armored Division pointing out former Nazi guard who brutally beat prisoners, possibly at Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, 14 May 1945