WWII photos, enhanced for Veterans Day

Seven photographs of American service members from the Library of Congress, run through Clara. Drag across each photo to compare the original scan with the enhanced version.

Enhancement sharpens detail and can redraw fine features, so every original is linked below its photo.

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Edward C. Gleed, Tuskegee pilot, 1945
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Photographed by Toni Frissell in March 1945. Move your cursor across the photo.
Original: Library of Congress
Tuskegee airman Edward M. Thomas, 1945
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Photographed by Toni Frissell in March 1945. Move your cursor across the photo.
Original: Library of Congress
Edward C. Gleed with a crewman, 1945
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Gleed, of Lawrence, Kansas, Class 42-K, with a crewman at his aircraft. Toni Frissell, March 1945. Move your cursor across the photo.
Original: Library of Congress
Col. Benjamin O. Davis and Edward C. Gleed, 1945
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In flight gear beside an airplane. Toni Frissell, March 1945. Move your cursor across the photo.
Original: Library of Congress
Col. Benjamin O. Davis briefs his pilots, 1945
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Seated with his pilots at a briefing in Italy, March 1945. Move your cursor across the photo.
Original: Library of Congress
Dorie Miller receives the Navy Cross, 1942
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Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, pins the Navy Cross on Doris "Dorie" Miller on May 27, 1942. Move your cursor across the photo.
Original: Library of Congress
A Marine Corps lieutenant, Parris Island, 1942
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From the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection, 1942. Move your cursor across the photo.
Original: Library of Congress