Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

9,513 items in this album on 476 pages.


Elco 80-foot torpedo boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 24 (MTBRon 24) at the forward base in the southwest Pacific, mid-to-late 1945.	F4U-1D Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-422 at Ie Shima Airfield, Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, 1945. Note the nose art on both the plane and the belly tank.	Five PB2Y Coronado patrol planes of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-4 in flight, probably over southern California, Jul 1945.	Forward flight deck of USS Ticonderoga with two Grumman F6F-5 Hellcats spotted and a cruiser, either USS Pasadena or USS Springfield, off the port bow, Jul 1945 as they steamed from Leyte toward Japan.

General Dwight Eisenhower waving to the crowd at a parade, United States, 1945	Japanese freighter under air attack by two PB4Y Privateer patrol aircraft of US Navy Fleet Air Wing One, 30 miles north of Busan, Korea, Jul 1945	P-51 Mustang fighters seen through a window of a B-29 Superfortress bomber, 1945	P-51D Mustang fighter of 27th Fighter Squadron of 5th Fighter Group of Chinese American Composite Group, Chichiang Field, southern China, Jul 1945

Sailors working around the main turrets aboard USS North Carolina, circa mid-1945	Strike photo taken by US carrier planes during an air attack on Kure Naval Arsenal, Hiroshima, Japan, Jul 1945. Note anti-aircraft bursts and screening smoke in addition to bomb impacts.	Submarine Ling underway during trials, Jul 1945	TBM Avenger and SB2C Helldiver bombers dropped their load on the Japanese city of Hakodate, Jul 1945

TBM-3 Avenger of Marine Squadron VMTB-242 taxiing past USAAF P-51D Mustangs at Iwo Jima's Motoyama Airfield No 1, 1945.	United States Navy Admirals Halsey, Nimitz, and Sherman aboard a US Navy ship in the western Pacific, 1945. Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman (right) was Nimitz’ Chief of Staff.	US Navy Air Transport Squadron 12's WAVES Link trainer instructors, Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Jul 1945	USS Mingo at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Jul 1945; circles on photograph denoted additions done during this overhaul

USS Mingo off San Francisco, California, United States, Jul 1945	USS North Carolina at anchor, 1945	USS Tirante rescuing a downed USAAF pilot (circled) close to the coast of Kyushu, Japan, 1945	Japanese-American farmers operating a rotary potato planter, Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California, United States, 1 Jul 1945, photo 1 of 2