Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[F.L.]

Finnish Fokker XXI :

 

[Kadir93]

Photo #818: British troops on the alert

In the caption it says men from Devons regiment. The photo appears to have been taken at Wagon Hill close to Ladysmith.
A good opportunity for Lee identification

The sergeant in front has his helmet wrong way around, for better protection from the sun.

Another super photo from Neville Constantine.

 

[uktabber]

Wow, once again...Great Historical Photos mate!!

 

[Redav]

Bf-109G-8 piloted by Heimo Emmerstorfer, a German Recon Pilot. The day after WW2 ended he narrowly escapes the Soviets and flies his Bf-109 into Austria, safely belly landing his Bf-109 on a field in Haibach, Austria and walks to his parents house

 

[Redav]

From left to right U-436, U-378, U-209, and U-456. The photo was probably taken between April 3 and 7, 1942, in Kirkenes, northern Norway.

 

[Conhoon]

Photo from The Digger's View. WW1 in Colour by Juan Mahony "Catherine Hill Bay miner Private William McDougall holds court with members of the 1st Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery in a dugout billet at Ypres 28th October 1917. Australian Imperial Force official war photographer, Captain Frank Hurley captured this amazing study as the troops were relaxing away from the front line".

Note the A for Anzac brass badge prominent on the tunic sleeve of the soldier in the top row. In November of 1917, AIF members who had served at Gallipoli were authorised to wear the three quarters of an inch brass A badge on their unit colour patch.
When Hurley was photographing the image, Private William Day, the digger with the cigarette in his mouth (bottom right of photo), had his hand in his pocket which contained magnesium powder.
Hurley instructed him when to throw the magnesium on the fire to create the effect he desired for the image. Prior to the war, Hurley had been the photographer with two Antarctic expeditions, one with Sir Douglas Mawson and the other Sir Ernest Shackleton.

 

[BravoZulu]

Atomic cloud over Nagasaki Sept 8, 1945 taken 15+ minutes after the explosion seen from a distance of 15 km.

 

[Kadir93]

April 1917 A French Schneider CA1 tank and its crew of the Bossut Group during the Nivelle Offensive at Berry-au-Bac (Chemin des Dames Offensive). It had a six-man crew with a top speed of 5 mph. Main armament a 75mm Blockhaus Schneider gun and two Hotchkiss M1914s machine guns. The CA1 participated in WWI with France and Italy. Spain used them in the Riff War and the Spanish Civil War.

 

[Redav]

U48

 

[Conhoon]

Private Harry Victor Turner ( No.1221)
Born in Caltowie, South Australia,10 May 1894.
Enlisted in the 16th Infantry Battalion At Morphetville, September 14th,1914.
Wounded in Action at Gallipoli on 27th April 1915,returned to Australia died 13th December 1953.
Photosource-State library of South Australia
(B46130/1). Original Photographer- unknown.

Colourised by Frederic Duriez.

 

[Redav]

ISU-122 hunting Tigers in Berlin, 1945. The graffiti says "BERLIN remains German."

 

[Conhoon]

Tank commanders consult their maps on a Cromwell tank of 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured Division, on the D512 in Vassy, Calvados. 15th August 1944. © IWM B 9231

 

[Redav]

The gun pictured here, this is one of the 406 mm guns of Batterie Lindemann near Calais, France. This model of gun was originally designed and built by Krupp for the H-class of battleships that were meant to compliment the Bismarck and Tirpitz. They were going to be enormous. The battleships never came to fruition, so the guns were installed in batteries in France and Norway. Sadly the French battery was covered over by excavated soil from the channel tunnel, but the Norway batteries are accessible and still contain their 406 mm guns!

 

[TIGREDELAIRE]

* ...and then, we went into the krauts' bunker and stole their sausages, left them tied hand and foot in the middle of the mud and knocked out the bolts of their rifles...

 

[Conhoon]

Japanese cruiser IJN Takao, 1939

 

[Conhoon]

A Finnish White Guard and a German soldier standing across the street from the Swedish theater in Helsinki, Finland. Photograph taken on the 19 April 1918.

 

[BravoZulu]

Private John Davies, with a Bren light machine-gun, during an attack by the Australian 24th Battalion against the Japanese at the Hatai Junction on Buin Road, Southern Bougainville. 14 April 1945

 

[BravoZulu]

O-21 gets in some fresh air while surfaced. O 21, laid down K XXI, was an O 21-class submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy that saw service during World War II. During the war she sank several ships, among them the German submarine U-95.

 

[Conhoon]

11 April 1918
Battle of the Lys.
Wounded men of the 51st Division waiting for the ambulance at Merville.
Merville is a town 15 kilometres north of Bethune and about 20 kilometres south-west of Armentieres.

The Battle of Estaires^
The Battle of Hazebrouck^
On 1 April, the Division entrained for the Bethune area where it was hoped things would be quieter. Unfortunately, the enemy opened a second phase of his offensive on 9 April 1918, and the Highland Division moved into defensive positions behind Richebourg Saint Vaast, where it played a key part in beating off incessant attacks, again at great cost: another 2,500 men. Following the heavy casualties sustained during this action, a composite force consisting of troops from 152nd and 153rd Brigades, RE, 11th (Canadian) Railway Bn, 51st MGC and various other details was formed under Lt-Col. J. Fleming, the Divisional CRE. It held part of the First Army front near Robecq from 12 to 15 April 1918
^ the battles marked ^ are phases of the Battles of the Lys

(Photo source - © IWM Q 7862)
Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
(Colourised by Doug)

 

[Redav]

While patrolling the North Atlantic in 1940, a crewman on an RAF Short Sunderland is seen enjoying a meal. Distinct from other warplanes of its time, the Short Sunderland was equipped with a galley and a designated area for dining. It also featured heating to maintain crew comfort during the chilly anti-submarine missions.