Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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B-29 Superfortress “Gravel Gertie” with the 882nd Bomb Squadron squats on the runway after suffering a main landing gear collapse, Isley Field, Saipan, Aug 6 1945	Carrier Wasp in the western Pacific Ocean, 6 Aug 1945	Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. waved from the cockpit of Enola Gay, 6 Aug 1945	Mushroom cloud rising over Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945. Taken by SSgt George R. 'Bob' Caron, the tail gunner on the B-29 'Enola Gay' using a Fairchild K-20 aerial camera.

Lieutenant George Elsey, Captain James Vardaman, and Warrant Officer Edwin Hoying aboard USS Augusta, 7 Aug 1945	Small Taiwanese vessel being stafed by PB4Y-2 aircraft of US Navy VPB-104, just off Dongji Island, Pescadores Islands, 7 Aug 1945	Raymond Spruance, Bruce Fraser, and Chester Nimitz at Nimitz's headquarters on Guam, Aug 1945	Battleship Massachusetts bombarding Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan, 9 Aug 1945

Captain McVay of Indianapolis spoke of the sinking at Guam, Aug 1945	Japanese B7A aircraft crashing into the sea off the starboard bow of USS Wasp, off Japan, 9 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 2; note two Fletcher-class destroyers in foreground	Japanese B7A aircraft crashing into the sea off the starboard bow of USS Wasp, off Japan, 9 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 2; note two Fletcher-class destroyers in foreground	Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, 9 Aug 1945, photo 9 of 9

New York Times reporter William Laurence and Army information officer Major George Monyhan in front of a B-29 bomber on Tinian, Mariana Islands, 9 Aug 1945.	Henry Stimson arriving at the White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945	Henry Stimson at the White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 2	Henry Stimson at the White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 2

Soldiers at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club in Paris, France displayed their copies of Paris Post special edition announcing Japanese surrender, 10 Aug 1945	US President Harry Truman with his cabinet, White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 5	US President Harry Truman with his cabinet, White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 5	US President Harry Truman with his cabinet, White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 3 of 5