Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[BravoZulu]

USAAF Armorers working on the ANM2 .50 cal Browning machine guns from a Curtiss P-40K Warhawk in Tunisia or Algeria - Early 1943

 

[Redav]

P-51 gun camera footage showing a Messerschmitt Me 262 closing in on another Mustang over Germany, 1944.

 

[Redav]

MESSERSCHMITT Bf110

IMAGE 1 is a Copyrighted Photo by Richard James Hollgy
IMAGE 2 is a Copyrighted Photo by Sofia Vrazdebna
IMAGE 3 is a copyrighted Photo by R. Candelas
IMAGE 4 is a Copyrighted Photo by N.H. Color

 

[Kadir93]

French soldiers relaxing and celebrating recieving awards and medals, WW1.

 

[Redav]

Messerschmitt Bf 109

 

[BravoZulu]

February 1944. Lieutenant (junior grade) Alexander Vraciu kneeling on his Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat VF-6 aboard the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11). On February 17th 1944 he shot down three Zeros and a Nakajima A6M2-N Rufe floatplane during Operation Hailstone.

 

[BravoZulu]

March of 1945, a soldier of the 87th Infantry Division steps on a picture of Adolf Hitler in Koblenz, Germany

 

[Conhoon]

Young German anti-aircraft gunners "Flakhelfer" prisoners, captured by units of the US 9th Army in Germany in the spring of 1945.

 

[Redav]

Heinkel He162 assigned to the Kommodore of JG 1, Oberstleutnant Herbert Ihlefeld.

 

[uktabber]

Great pics gents.......thanks for posting!

 

[santana]

New Orleans-class heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-36) refueling at sea from Cimarron-class fleet oiler USS Platte (AO-24), during the Marshall Islands operation, January 1944.

 

[santana]

Severely damaged Essex class carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) arrives in New York to undergo repairs. The ship had been hit with two Japanese bombs while planes that were gassed and armed were preparing to take off. The resulting fire caused tremendous damage to the ship killing around 800 men and wounding another 500. Franklin entered Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 28, 1945, for repairs but never returned to active service. Omaha-class light cruiser USS Marblehead (CL-12) can be seen in the foreground.

 

[Redav]

Allied crews inspect a captured Focke-Wulf 200 Condor shortly after war's end, Brunswick-Waggum Airfield, Germany. Note the radar antennae on the nose.

 

[Redav]

Saint Nazaire
Date unknown

 

[Redav]

Heinkel he111

 

[Redav]

A Messerschmitt BF 109 painted in desert camouflage flying in the Libyan Desert, 1940s. It seems the photo in question is a piece of German propaganda from that era. Like many propaganda images, it was meticulously staged for maximum impact. From what I've gathered, the camouflage paint scheme was either remarkably effective in a specific desert region or, curiously, only effective during a particular time when the shadows aligned perfectly.

 

[Redav]

Messerschmitt Me262, Austria, May 1945.

 

[Redav]

A German captured T-26.

 

[Conhoon]

View of the Polish Navy light cruiser ORP Dragon, March 1944.
In first photo - HMS Mauritius of the Royal Navy in the background.

 

[Kadir93]

A member of the First Special Service Force a.k.a. the 'Black Devil’s' with a BAR outside of Rome - June 4, 1944.

He's carrying an M1918 BAR instead of the M1918A2. Commando type units preferred the older version as they were lighter and not as maintenance intense.