This photo combination shows digital colorization, top, by Anju Niwata and Hidenori Watanave, and original black and white photo that U.S. Army and Coast Guardsmen stand at attention as the American flag is raised over Akashima, Japan on April 2, 1945, the little island, only a few miles from Okinawa. The flag is from a Coast Guard LST. 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. Coast Guard/Navy Radiophoto/Anju Niwata & Hidenori Watanave via AP)
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