Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Italy 44-45
Captured German boat armament two 2cm Flak 30

 

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Ground crew make a final check-up as ordnance men "fin" 2000 lb. bombs prior to loading into a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress at a base in England.

Attaching the fins stabilizes the bombs as they drop.

 

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View of a massive piece of German coastal artillery in a concrete casement on the Atlantic Wall, France.

A German soldier stands in front of the artillery piece

 

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American WAC (Women's Army Corps) non-commissioned officer T/4 (Technician Fourth Grade) Geraldine Horne takes notes from military commander Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark (1896 - 1984) at an outdoor table near the Italian front, September 1, 1944.

 

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American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) (left) lights a cigarette as he speaks with Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin (1878 - 1953) during a break in a photo-op session at the Yalta Conference held at the Livadia Palace, Livadiya (near Yalta), Soviet Union (later Ukraine), February 1945.

 

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Portrait of Marshall Josip Broz Tito (1892 - 1980), leader of the Partisan resistance to the German occupation of Yugoslavia.

 

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View of a Northrup P-61 Black Widow, nicknamed Tabitha (serial number 25569) and from the 422d Night Fighter Squadron (9th AAF), as a grounds crewman works on it, England, 1944. Note the crewmans bicycle on the ground.

 

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View along the flight deck of the USS Lexington (CV-16), during the Gilbert Islands campaign, November 1943.

In the foreground, a Grumman TBF Avenger taxis along the deck, while in the background, a Grumman F6F Hellcat comes in for a landing.

 

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The crew of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, nicknamed 'Lonesome Polecat Jr, line up to board the plane prior to a mission, China, 1944.

 

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View forward from the bridge of an unidentified American Balao-class submarine across the deck and over the 4"/50mm gun, 1943.

 

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View of American Staff Sargeant Walter R. Newbury in the top turret gunner's bubble of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber (from the 8th Air Force), England, 1944.

 

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The crew of a Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber pose with Corporal Anne Buta and Private June Grantz in front of their plane, England, 1945.

The crew is Lieutenant Arthur R. Hannia, Lieutenant John R. Shaughnessy, Techincal Sergeant Gordon Birdwell, Techincal Sergeant Eli King, Corporal David Kaufman, and Captain Rennie Kelly.

 

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Three soldiers stationed in the Aleutians keep their guns clean and well oiled while on the island.

Here they sit in front of their tent and give their firearms a cleaning inspection.

 

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Portrait of American Corporal Ruth Quinby and Corporal William Zamieszcy as they sit together in a bicycle taxi, Paris, France, 1945.

 

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American soldier Private Sisto Ganz, of the 3rd Division, US 5th Army, sits in the lap of a statue in the courtyard of the Palazzo di Giustizia(aka the Palazzaccio, or Hall of Justice) shortly after the liberation of Rome, June 1944.

The text around the base reads, in part, 'Q. Ortensio,' possibly a reference to Roman lawyer and orator Quinto Ortensio Ortalo (114 bc - 50 bc).

 

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British Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891 - 1969) (left), commander of Allied Armies in Italy, shakes hands with American Brigadier General Edgar E. Hume (1889 - 1952), of the US 5th Army, in Bologna, Italy, spring 1945.

 

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Close-up of shirtless Private First Class Paul Kaiser as he loads a Bofors 40mm gun in an anti-aricraft emplacement, loader of Bofors Anti-Aircraft gun in England, 1944.

 

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View of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's delegation at the Casablanca Conference, January, 1943, Casablance, Morocco.

 

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US Lt General John Reed Hodge fought in the Phillipines and Okinawa in WWII

 

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Portrait of American Lt. Gen Lewis H. Brereton as he stands next to a plane named 'Mild & Bitter,'