Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Messerschmitt Bf 109

 

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Bren Gun mounted tripod of the British arm forces.

 

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A fun day, including meals and a movie, provided by US GIs, for London orphans, during WWII - 1943

 

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Soldiers of the 660th German Infantry Regiment (Infanterie-Regiment 660) 1940.

 

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Pzkpw 38 (t) Operation Barbarossa 1941.

 

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This photograph was taken by Hugo Jaeger on 5th October 1939, and it shows Heinrich Himmler (Reichsführer-SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei) chats with unknown Orpo (Ordnungspolizei) officer - possibly with the rank of Major - during the German victory parade at Warsaw, Poland.


In the background is a column of Mercedes-Benz W31 type G4 cars.


There seems to be a confusion which Polizeibataillonen were actually in Warsaw at that time. According to NARA T 312 R 39 (AOK five of them - under command of Oberst Rietzler (or Ritzer) - were sent to Warsaw right after capitulation.


Polish IPN report has these: Pol.Btl. 2 (Major Küster), 5 (Major Jenke), 6 (Major Wenzel) and 7 (Major Vollmar). Wolfgang Curilla's book also mentions: 3 (Major Höcke) and 4 (Major Kasten) as being moved to Warsaw right before a parade.


It's possible Pol.Btl. 6 had not arrived until mid-October, so it was not in Warsaw during the parade.

 

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C-46 Commando's under assembly at one of the Curtiss-Wright factories in Buffalo, New York.

 

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British Hellcat

 

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Italia, Aeronáutica - Macchi MC202 "Folgore".

 

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Future Medal of Honor recipient David McCampbell waves his Landing Signal Officer (LSO) paddles while giving flight path guidance to an approaching aircraft on the USS Wasp (CV-7), probably in the North Atlantic during June 1942.

The carrier was lost to a Japanese submarine on September 15th 1942.

McCampbell became an “ace in a day” on June 19, 1944, during the “Marianas Turkey Shoot,” and then set a U.S. combat record on October 24, 1944, when he shot down nine Japanese aircraft in a single engagement, earning him the Medal of Honor.

 

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Original color portraits of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel (Oberbefehlshaber Panzerarmee "Afrika") which was taken by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann on 30th September 1942 when Rommel was presented his marschallstab (Marshal baton) by Hitler at Neue Reichskanzlei, Berlin.

These would be 100% agfacolor color 35mm slide film taken by Hoffmann.

Then the agfacolor film would have been converted to the standard color printing process of the time.

 

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A little sunshine for these German submariners attempting to write letters on the deck of the U Boot type IXD2 U-875.

 

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An exhibition game between Reprezentacja Marynarki Wojennej RP w piłce nożnej and the Royal Navy Football Association, 1933

 

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A little sunshine for these German submariners attempting to write letters on the deck of the U Boot type IXD2 U-875.

Big sub ?

 

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British troops coming out of the trenches near Guillemont, 27 November 1916.
(Guillemont is a commune approximately 13 km east of Albert in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.)

(Photo source - © IWM Q 58340)
Colour by Doug

 

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Loading a 4000lb "cookie" headed for Berlin. De Havilland Mosquito

 

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A U.S. Navy Vought F4U-4 Corsair of Bombing Fighter Squadron 82 (VBF-82) "Checkmates", piloted by Bud Geer, is preparing to take off from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Randolph (CV-15). VBF-82 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 82 (CVG-82) for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 22 October to 21 December 1946.

During that cruise, VBF-82 was redesignated VF-18A and CVG-82 was redesignated CVAG-17 on 15 November 1946.

 

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A US Marine Corps Sniper, member of the 3rd Marine Division, photographed on the island of Guam in 1945.

 

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The return of King Ferdinand and Queen Maria to Bucharest - December 1, 1918

 

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Romanian soldiers on the WW1 front.