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• Rose Valland, at the Jeu de Paume museum, colorized by me.

- Rose Valland, whose real name was Rosa Antonia Valland, was born on November 1, 1898 in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs (Isère). In the 1920s, she took art history courses at the École pratique des hautes études, the Ecole du Louvre and the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie. From 1932, as a volunteer attaché at the Museum of Foreign Paintings and Sculptures at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in the Tuileries, in Paris, she enriched the catalog of the collections.

From 1940, when the Nazis occupied her museum to store the works looted from Jewish families, she meticulously recorded the list of these first-class trinkets. Her investigations, conducted secretly and at the risk of her life, would lead to the repatriation and restitution of at least 45,000 works.

Finally, she hid several hundred works and informed the resistance fighters of the timetables of trains leaving for Germany, allowing the railway workers to stop the convoys and in particular to save more than 900 paintings by Gauguin, Degas, Modigliani and Renoir as well as 64 works by Picasso.

After the liberation of Paris in 1944, Rose Valland continued her work, helping to find and restore works of art. She was appointed heritage curator and worked for the Commission de récupération artistique (CRA). She also wrote a book, “Le Front de l’art”, published in 1961, which recounts her experiences during the war. She also met Joyce Heer, a secretary-interpreter at the United States Embassy, ​​who became her companion until her death. The two women shared an apartment at 4 rue de Navarre in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. Rose Valland would reserve a place for her next to her in the family vault.

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• Caption on rear of photo reads : Staff of the Office of the District Director, W-R, 3ND, from left to right: Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth B. Crandall; Lieutenant Verona James; and Elaine Werhman, Yeoman 1st Class, Colorized by me.

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• Radio operator Marie Scott provided a link to D-Day beaches at age 17.

• Marie Scott experienced British forces landing on the Normandy coast through her earphones.

Stationed in an underground tunnel below the south coast of England, Scott was safe from the carnage.

« You realize the reality of war, what it really involves. It's not a word. It's an action that affects thousands, millions of people. »

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• Maggie Gee, she was one of two Chinese-Americans aviator in the Women's Air Force Pilots, circa 1942-1944, colorize by me.

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• Corporal Lydia Alford, LACW Myra Roberts and LACW Edna Birkbeck were the first 3 women to land in Normandy on 12th June 1944 to evacuate casualties. They were the first of the Flying Nightingales. Colorized by me.

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• Eight WASP pilots assigned to Greenville AAF, Greenville, Mississippi, United States, Aug 1944. Deanie Bishop is in the front row, second from the right, colorize by me.

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• Photograph of a smiling Women Airforce Service Pilots standing in a flight suit on the port wing of a AT-6C trainer, colorize by me.

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• Photograph of 1er Lt. Mary L.Hawkins, colorize by me.

1st Lt. Mary L. Hawkins was an air evacuation flight nurse who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II. Ella evacuated 24 patients from the fighting at Palau to Guadalcanal when the C-47 she was aboard on board ran out of fuel and was forced to crash land on the island of Bellona.

During landing, a propeller ruptured the fuselage and severed a patient's windpipe. Hawkins made a suction tube from several items, including the inflation tube from a « Mae West » life jacket and kept the man's throat clear of blood until help arrived 19 hours later. All of his patients survived.

For his actions, Hawkins was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

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• Photograph portrait of Women Airforce Service Pilots Gaye Snell, colorize by me.

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• Photograph of Women Airforce Service Pilots Pam L. Carr from class 44-W-10, june 20, 1944, colorize by me.

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• Portrait Of Lt. Elise Grant, Army Nurse Corps, Colorize by me.

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• Portrait of Margaret Bourke White in War Correspondents, U.S. Air Force as War Photographer for Life, 1942, Colorize by me.

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• Maryse Hilsz, French pilot, photograph in memory of her visit to Rochefort on March 29, 1938 (Aéro-Club-Charentais), colorized by me.

• Maryse Hilsz holds numerous speed and distance records by plane; in 1931, she took off to connect Paris-Saigon aboard a Moth with a Gipsy engine. In 1939, she joined « le corps féminin de l'armée de l'air » until its dissolution on September 1, 1940, but in 1941, she joined the resistance, she was a second lieutenant and was assigned to the "Groupe de liaisons aériennes ministérielles "(GLAM). On January 30, 1946, she died when she crashed in the Bourg-en-Bresse region following bad weather.

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• Portrait of a WAVES, Joyce M.Colestock, dentalman, colorize by me.

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• Portrait photograph Of Women Airforce Service Pilots Ethel Lytch, colorize by me.

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• Seven WACs, including Ann Heyer (front left), stand in formation, possibly at MacDill Airfield in Tampa, Florida, circa 1943, colorize by me.

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• Full-length portrait of Coralee Burson Davis in the Coast Guard SPAR blue enlisted service dress uniform, garrison cap, and handbag, taken in 1944, colorize by me.

• Uniforms : http://www.blitzkriegbaby.de/homepage.htm

• Sources : https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/wvhp%3A8274