World War II will always bring up interesting conversations. These 27 rare color photos are sure to bring back memories and spark a cringing memory yet revive the spirit in some shape or form.
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An unidentified US pilot stands up in the cockpit of his plane on the tarmac on Midway Naval Base, Midway Islands, 1942.
A group of American soldiers inspect heavily damaged and abandoned German armor, Italy, May 1944.
A group of Curtiss P-40 Warhawks escorted a pair of Consolidated B-24D Liberators on a flight near the Aleutian islands, Alaska, 1944.
A pair of servicemen and a quartet of schoolboys sit on bridge over the Thames, Henley-on-Thames, England, May 1944.
American servicemen drive in jeeps through an unidentified and nearly completely destroyed town, Italy, May 1944.
The crew of a B-26 Marauder outside their plane, nicknamed Ginger, 1944.
Supreme Allied Commander American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, his deputy, British Chief Air Marshal Arthur Tedder , and the principal commander of Allied ground forces in Europe, British General Bernard L. Montgomery, stand in a US armored vehicle as they review a tank exercise, Salisbury, England, 1944.
The flight deck crew prepares planes for launch from the USS Lexington (CV-16), en route near New Guinea, early April, 1944.
Close-up, in-flight view of a Douglas SBD Dauntless piloted by American Lt. George Glacken (left) with his gunner Leo Boulanger, near New Guinea, early April, 1944.
Pair of American servicemen moving a large bomb at an ammunition dump in 1944.
American troops unloading supplies on the shores of Guadalcanal Island in 1943.
A soldier sleeps in the sun.
An unidentified American soldier sits and eats his meal (which includes chicken, mashed potatoes, bread, and pineapple) atop rows of a stockpiled ammunition shells, England, May 1944.
American Army trucks parked next to the St. Lucia fountain in 1943.
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