40mm Gun Crew member ("Deck Talker") on the US Destroyer Escort 'USS Edsall (DE-129) ca.1943

(Color by Jecinci)

Source: WW2 Colouried photos


Taking 5

U.S. soldiers and Army nurses  at Naples, Italy, wading ashore from LCI-242. The nurse in the foreground carries her boots around her neck for keeping it dry; Naples, Italy, November 4, 1943. 

Soldiers and nurses coming ashore

The American carrier-based torpedo bomber Grumman TBF-1 Avenger of torpedo squadron VT-5, takes off from the deck of the USS Yorktown (CV-10) aircraft carrier located in the Pacific Ocean. Note the hayrake antenna is visible on the underside of the starboard wing. They were mounted under both wings; April, 1944.
