Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[Musashi]

A trully russian face

Do you really think your comment was necessary here?

 

[TIGREDELAIRE]

I think the same, just remember that by the time the Soviet Union had time zones almost as for each country, staff of so many nations and races; unnecessary comment.

 

[BravoZulu]

Do you really think your comment was necessary here?

I think the same, just remember that by the time the Soviet Union had time zones almost as for each country, staff of so many nations and races; unnecessary comment.

Thanks for bringing this up lads, I didn't see that comment in the thread. Post deleted

 

[Jaybe]

Russian infantry during gas attack, 1916

 

[Talibanhunter]

cool

Winchester Mod 1895 7,62 x 54R perfect gun for this time period !

 

[berkut76]

Russian infantry during gas attack, 1916

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If you stumble upon more photos like that, please post them. Greatly appreciated.

 

[Jaybe]

If you stumble upon more photos like that, please post them. Greatly appreciated.

Jawohl

 

[digrar]

October, 1916, London: Why soldiers played Australian footy in a time of crisis

New colourised footage sheds light on toughest exhibition game

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Colourised footage of what is most probably the first game of Aussie Rules played outside of Australia. With two near full strength rep squads made up of diggers. Sadly 6 of the players would be killed in the months after the game.

 

[Conhoon]

August 15, 1944. U.S. paratroopers from the 517th PIR after landing in Southern France during operation Dragoon.

 

[Fish&Chips]

Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; at the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, Sept-Oct 1862

Abe was a genius. The top hat and his long coat made him look even taller than he was already.

 

[Fish&Chips]

Diggers and a nurse in 1917

 

[Conhoon]

August 15, 1917: Canadian soldiers launched the successful offensive to capture Hill 70, a strategic German asset overlooking the occupied city of Lens, France. Canadian soldiers defended their position against 21 German counterattacks using machine guns and hand-to-hand combat. The Battle of Hill 70 eventually concluded on August 25 and was deemed a remarkable success for Canada with six Canadians being awarded the Victoria Cross.

 

[Jaybe]

May 7, 1945 in Los-Angeles

 

[Jaybe]

Funeral somewhere on Eastern front

 

[Conhoon]

"The Hardest Day" Sunday 18, August 1940

RAF aircraftmen guard the remains of Dornier Do17Z-2 (F1+HT) 9 Staffel/Kampfgeschwader 76, shot down during a low-level attack on Kenley aerodrome, 18 August 1940. The aircraft crashed in Golf Road, Kenley at 1.20pm.

This aircraft was hit by A.A. defences during a low level attack on Kenley aerodrome, and crashed in flames on a bungalow known as "Sunnycroft" on the perimeter of the airfield. All five crew members perished in the aircraft.

Pilot: Feldwebel. Johannes Petersen (Born 18.06.1914 – Killed.
Observer: Oberleutnant. Hans-Siegfried Ahrends (Born 03.01.1915 – Killed.
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier. Karl Greulich (Born 29.06.1911 - Killed
Gunner : Feldwebel. Hans Dietz (Born 01.04.1916 – Killed.
Oberst. Dr. Otto Sommer (Born 22.10.1891 – Killed.
(Burial details: Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Cannock Chase; Block 5, Row 3, Graves 66-70)
'The Hardest Day' is a name given to a Second World War air battle fought on 18 August 1940 during the Battle of Britain between the German Luftwaffe and British Royal Air Force (RAF). On this day, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command.

 

[Jaybe]

Vomag 88 on Eastern front, Kuban', USSR, April 14 1943

 

[Conhoon]

Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner, of Rockford, Illinois, Class 43-W-6 WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) at the controls of a Martin B-26 'Marauder' medium bomber. Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas. 1943 (Aged 22)

Elizabeth "Libby" Gardner 1921 - 2011 - died aged 90

 

[Conhoon]

Soviet Test Pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki at the helm of the “flying tank” Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik attack aircraft. ( Владимир Коккинаки за штурвалом «летающего танка» ИЛ-2)

Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki was a test pilot in the Soviet Union, notable for setting twenty-two world records (born 12 June 1904 – died 6 January 1985)

(Color by Klimbim)

 

[Conhoon]

Yevdokia Bershanskaya, commander of the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, instructs the crew - Yevdokia Nosal and Nina Ulyanenko, 1942

(Color by Klimbim)

 

[Conhoon]

An Australian soldier, possibly from 26 Brigade, 9th Division (Australia) with a captured German MG.34 in a machine gun post near the strategic high ground around Tel el Eisa, north-west of Alamein, Egypt. 25th of July 1942.