Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[Conhoon]

Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko who, by the end of World War II, was credited with 309 kills (which included 36 enemy snipers), making her the most successful female sniper in history.

(armed here with a Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic (3.5X) rifle)

Pavlichenko was among the first to volunteer after the German invasion of the USSR, and she was assigned to the Red Army's 25th Rifle Division. She made her first kills at Belyayevka.
Most of her remaining kills were made near Odessa.

Of the 2,000 female snipers in the Red Army, only 500 lived to see the war's end.

Pavlichenko was born on 12th July in 1916 and died in 1974.

(Colorised by Olga Shirnina from Russia)

 

[Conhoon]

Warsaw insurgents Henryk Ożarek "Henio" (left) holding a Vis wz.35 Pistolet and Tadeusz Przybyszewski "Roma" (right) firing a Błyskawica submachine gun, from "Anna" Company of the "Gustav" Battalion fighting on Kredytowej-Królewska Street. October, 1944.

 

[santana]

Air war

 

[Conhoon]

28 September 1944

The three Army Film and Photographic Unit Photographers who took the graphic still and cine pictures of the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. The picture, which shows them with their cameras, was taken at the AFPU Centre at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire on 28 September 1944, the day that they arrived back. Smith was wounded in the shoulder.

(Photo source - © IWM BU 1169)
Barker, Jack E. (Lieutenant)
Army Film and Photographic Unit

(Colorised by Erwin Zeemering)

 

[BravoZulu]

T-34-85 Soviet medium tank of the 55th Guards Tank Brigade, 7th Guards Tank Corps, 3rd Guards Tank Army, carrying troops across a river in Poland. February 1945

Artillery section of 45-mm anti-tank gun M-42 is fighting under cover of a smokescreen. The Central Front, 1943

Soviet Infantry Marching on the Eastern Front (Date Unknown)

 

[BravoZulu]

KV-1

 

[Conhoon]

A Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun position manned by the 2/9th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, on the main fighter runway at Gili Gili airfield (Turnbull Field, 1942–1944) Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.
September 1943.

A P-40D Kittyhawk fighter can be seen coming in to land.

(Photo source & caption: AWM, 026629 (Thomas Fisher)
(Color by Cassowary Colorizations)

 

[Conhoon]

Bf-109E of 8./JG53 (Black 7+I) Piloted by Walter Fiel (WNr 5901) which crash-landed at Peckham, Kent on October 2nd 1940 is put on display to help raise funds for the war outside St Nicholas church in Durham market place during their war weapon week - 16-23 Novemebr War Weapons Week raised over £174,000 from the Durham City, Brandon and Spennymoor districts.

 

[Conhoon]

The end of the Warsaw Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) 1 August – 2 October 1944

The Uprising was fought for 63 days with little outside support. It was the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II.

The capitulation order of the remaining Polish forces was finally signed on 2 October. All fighting ceased that evening.

 

[Kadir93]

First Balkan War 1912-1913, Greek Gendarmerie troopers right after Liberation of Thessaloniki, (Salonica) back then.

 

[Conhoon]

3 October 1943 - Trooper Albert Andre Coulombe H/100590 (aged 20) from Benard, Manitoba, Canada of the 14th Armoured Regiment (The Calgary Regiment), resting on his Norton 16H motorcycle in Volturara, Italy.

Sadly, he was killed at Monte Cassino, May 12 1944 and lies at the Cassino War Cemetery, Cassion in the Province of Frosinone, 139 kms from Rome.

 

[Conhoon]

October 4 1944 The jeep shown here, mired in the mud of Germany, is getting help from, left to right - Corporal Oscar G. Cook, Detroit, Michigan; Private Fred Holmquist, Elizabeth, New Jersey; and Sergeant Chester A. Block, Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The driver is Sergeant Bernard Newman (165th Signal Photo Company), Los Angeles, California.

(Photo source - US Army Signal Corps SC 194738-S)

 

[Dixon66]

October 4 1944 The jeep shown here, mired in the mud of Germany, is getting help from, left to right - Corporal Oscar G. Cook, Detroit, Michigan; Private Fred Holmquist, Elizabeth, New Jersey; and Sergeant Chester A. Block, Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The driver is Sergeant Bernard Newman (165th Signal Photo Company), Los Angeles, California.

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(Photo source - US Army Signal Corps SC 194738-S)

As a Jeep fanatic, I absolutely love this photo. Thank you for posting.

 

[berkut76]

Pyotr Kirsanov, fighter pilot (called hunters back in the day) of 4th Siberian Squadron Imperial Russian Air Service posing in front of his Nieuport IV

 

[Conhoon]

6 October 1943 Private J.E. McPhee of The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, armed with a Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk 1(T) sniper rifle, comes under German mortar fire at Foiano di Val Fortore, Italy.

The battalion was still clad in khaki drill summer uniforms at this time; on 8-9 October, they exchanged the tropical uniforms for their winter issue of battle dress.

(Photo source - Library and Archives Canada)
Photographer: Terry F. Rowe

 

[Jaybe]

M4 and M10 near tower of Pisa, 1944

 

[Conhoon]

Valentine tanks of 29th Armoured Brigade, 11th Armoured Division in the village of Rottingdean in East Sussex, UK. 25 June 1942.

(Photo source - © IWM H 20818)
Tanner (Lt) War Office official photographer

 

[BravoZulu]

Valentine tanks of 29th Armoured Brigade, 11th Armoured Division in the village of Rottingdean in East Sussex, UK. 25 June 1942.

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(Photo source - © IWM H 20818)
Tanner (Lt) War Office official photographer

I see you are lurking in the IWM vaults @Conhoon , fantastic resources there mate!

 

[Conhoon]

"Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl'

Veronica Foster, (b.1922 - d.2000) popularly known as "Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl", was a Canadian icon representing nearly one million Canadian women who worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and materiel during World War II.

Foster worked for John Inglis Co. Ltd producing Bren light machine guns on a production line on Strachan Avenue in Toronto, Ontario.

She became popular after a series of propaganda posters were produced; most images featured her working for the war effort, but others depicted more casual settings like Foster dancing the jitterbug or attending a dinner party.
After the war, she worked as a singer with Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen, where she met trombonist George Guerrette, whom she subsequently married.
Colourised by Paul Reynolds.

 

[Conhoon]

I see you are lurking in the IWM vaults @Conhoon , fantastic resources there mate!

Not only IWM, I lurk in many places and I bring pictures here.
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Edit:
Submachine gun above is probably PPD-40