Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[BravoZulu]

Exhausted men and dogs of a Belgian machine gun section resting by the roadside in Louvain, during their retreat to Antwerp, 20 August 1914.

 

[BravoZulu]

U-371 crossing the Corinth Canal (Greece) sometime between Oct 1941 and April 1942

 

[uktabber]

'Molotov bread basket bomb" during the Winter War 1939-40. Unexploded aerial Soviet rotationally dispersing incendiary bomb, called 'Molotov bread basket' as Russians claimed not to be bombing Finnish cities but dropping bread on the starving Finnish citizens.
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WOW!!! That's a good one, and it leads me to what I've been saying for the last two weeks, Russia hasn't changed much in the last 70+ years!!!

 

[Conhoon]

A Morris CS9 armoured car of 'C' Squadron, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales' Own) receives attention parked in a farmyard at Villiers-Sir-Simon, 29 September 1939.
(Photo source - © IWM O 617)

On 10th May it was the first regiment to cross the Belgian Frontier and during the retreat they covered the withdrawal of the BEF, at one time holding a front of forty miles between Ypres and Nieuport. In his despatches, Lord Gort wrote,"without the Twelfth Lancers only a small part of the Army would have reached Dunkirk". After evacuation at Dunkirk the regiment assumed the role of an Armoured Division armoured car recce regiment, sailing for Africa with the 1st Armoured Division in September 1941, leaving behind a detachment that shortly after Dunkirk had been sent to act as a mobile guard for the Royal Family and members of the Cabinet. Earlier in June 1941 a cadre from the regiment was detached to form 27th Lancers.

 

[Conhoon]

Battle of Rosières (Operation Michael).
A 6-inch Mark VII gun of the Royal Garrison Artillery in action near Hédauville, Somme. 26 March 1918.
(Photo source - © IWM Q 8629)

McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Colourised by Doug

 

[Conhoon]

BEF 53rd Light AA Regt., Royal Artillery Morris-Commercial CDSW 6x4 truck on the quayside at Cherbourg after being unloaded from a ship, 29 September 1939. Note the 2nd Corps 'fish in a brook' badge on the mudguard.

(Photo source IWM O66)

 

[TIGREDELAIRE]

A Morris CS9 armoured car of 'C' Squadron, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales' Own) receives attention parked in a farmyard at Villiers-Sir-Simon, 29 September 1939.
(Photo source - © IWM O 617)

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On 10th May it was the first regiment to cross the Belgian Frontier and during the retreat they covered the withdrawal of the BEF, at one time holding a front of forty miles between Ypres and Nieuport. In his despatches, Lord Gort wrote,"without the Twelfth Lancers only a small part of the Army would have reached Dunkirk". After evacuation at Dunkirk the regiment assumed the role of an Armoured Division armoured car recce regiment, sailing for Africa with the 1st Armoured Division in September 1941, leaving behind a detachment that shortly after Dunkirk had been sent to act as a mobile guard for the Royal Family and members of the Cabinet. Earlier in June 1941 a cadre from the regiment was detached to form 27th Lancers.

duck talk:
* what do you think, nails?
* I think it could be the spark plug or a battery problem, but I'm sure the human is seeing me as too appetizing to give my technical opinion...

 

[BCNTM]

duck talk:
* what do you think, nails?
* I think it could be the spark plug or a battery problem, but I'm sure the human is seeing me as too appetizing to give my technical opinion...

6 Cylinder petrol - it will be spark plugs or something stuck in the fuel line

 

[santana]

A Martlet Mk. III on the deck of HMS Formidable, November 1942.

 

[santana]

New Zealand infantry troops of 22nd Battalion, 5th NZ Infantry Brigade, 2nd NZ Division at Kabrit, in Egypt, September, 1941

 

[Conhoon]

Canadian Infantry probably of the 1st Canadian Division having a meal in the trenches at Ploegsteert, 20 March 1916.

(Photo source - © IWM Q 443)
Colourised by Doug

 

[Conhoon]

Mk III 'Valentine' tanks taking part in an extensive exercise, moving forward down a country lane in Scotland. 21 August 1941.
On 1 September 1941 the battalion became the 66th Battalion, 16th Armoured Brigade (1st Polish Corps).

(Photo source - IWM H 12994)

 

[Conhoon]

Knocked out Valentine Tank in Russia, being examined by Wehrmacht soldiers.

 

[Conhoon]

Captured German prisoners, France, August 1914.

Color by Frédéric Duriez

 

[BravoZulu]

Barbette of 16" gun on board the USS New Jersey (BB-62). Gunner lowers breech block preparatory to loading. Nov 1944, colourised

 

[BravoZulu]

Landing Ships Tank LST 206 & LST 22 on a Leyte beach, Philippine Islands. Oct 20th, 1944

 

[BravoZulu]

A Sherman Firefly of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry drives in Geldern, 6 March 1945

 

[BravoZulu]

An M4A3 76mm Sherman of the 31st Tank Battalion, 7th Armored Division, knocked out during the fighting for Oberkirchen, Germany, April 5th, 1945

 

[BravoZulu]

Infantry pass Sherman 'Firefly' tanks of 'A' Squadron, 144th RAC, 33rd Armoured Brigade near Lebisey Wood, during Operation 'Charnwood', 8 July 1944. Troops possibly from the South Staffordshire Regt., who were supported by the 33rd Regt. during that time. (© IWM B 6639)

 

[Conhoon]

M4A2, Sherman Mk III "Cameo" (T146946) tank crew of 2nd Troop, 'C' Squadron, 13th-18th Royal Hussars, 27th Armoured Brigade rest and write letters home by the side of their vehicle, Normandy, 10 June 1944.

The 27th Brigade landed at Sword Beach as part of XXX Corps and fought in the Caen area until disbanded on 30 July 1944. They supported the British Commandos’ breakout from the Normandy Landings. Later supported the British Paratroopers at Breville.
On 11 June a squadron of 13/18th Hussars supported 6th Airborne Division's attacks along the river, and later in the month the regiment supported 51st (Highland) Infantry Division in further attacks along the river. On 8 & 9 July, 27th Armoured Bde supported I Corps' final successful attack on Caen.
13th/18th Hussars (Transferred to 8 Armoured Brigade 30 July) (Initially Sherman II DD, later Sherman III & Firefly VC)
(Photo source - © IWM B 5425)
Colourised by Doug