This photo combination shows digital colorization, top, by Anju Niwata and Hidenori Watanave, and its original black and white U.S. Navy photo that the heavily listing USS Franklin, center, is provided assistance by USS Santa Fe after the aircraft carrier had been hit and set afire by a single Japanese dive bomber, during the Okinawa invasion, on March 19, 1945. Niwata and Watanave are adding color to pre-war and wartime photographs using a combination of methods. These include AI technologies, but also traditional methods to fill the gaps in automated coloring. These include going door to door interviewing survivors who track back childhood memories, and communicating on social media to gather information from a wider audience. The team has brought to life more than a thousand black-and-white photographs that illustrate the pre-war lives of ordinary people and chronicles the onset and destruction caused by World War II. (U.S. Navy/Anju Niwata & Hidenori Watanave via AP)
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