Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[BravoZulu]

Battlecruiser HMS Hood on speed trials off the Isle of Arran, 1920

 

[BravoZulu]

Tirpitz firing a salvo in 1941

Tirpitz anchored at Kätjord, Norway in 1943

 

[Conhoon]

3 April 1918
Soldiers of the Army Service Corps working on an overturned Maudslay lorry. An infantry working-party marching past them. Near Arras.

(Photo source - © IWM Q 8660)
Colourised by Doug

 

[BravoZulu]

Here rests

An unknown English Lieutenant

fallen in aerial battle

on

June 14, 1941

 

[BravoZulu]

1st Marine Division forward position post in the Pusan Perimeter, Korea. August 7, 1950

 

[santana]

USS Nautilus (SSN-571) circa 1955, leaving the Groton Submarine Base for initial sea trials.
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my friend are you right that picture belongs to this thread, or will be go better in the thread of From Korea to the Falkland Islands - colourised images of conflicts after World War II???

 

[santana]

Westland Whirlwind

 

[santana]

DeHavilland Sea Hornet.

 

[santana]

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses

Replacement Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses lined up on an English airfield to replace squadron losses for the U.S. Eighth Air Force.

 

[santana]

Martin PBM Mariner.

 

[santana]

Paris 1944

 

[santana]

Admiral Scheer was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser (often termed a pocket battleship) which served with the Kriegsmarine (War Navy) of Germany during World War II.

The vessel was named after Admiral Reinhard Scheer, German commander in the Battle of Jutland.

She was laid down at the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven in June 1931 and completed by November 1934.

Originally classified as an armored ship (Panzerschiff) by the Reichsmarine, in February 1940 the Germans reclassified the remaining two ships of this class as heavy cruisers

 

[santana]

Hungarian train

Hungarian train derailed by Soviet partisans. On the left is the body of the deceased. 1942.

 

[santana]

Original Color Pictures of Italian Troops on maneuvers - 1940
LIFE Magazine Archives

 

[santana]

Officers of the USS Sanborn.

 

[santana]

An Imperial Japanese Navy minelayer under attack from US Navy Bombing Squadron aircraft, in Philippine waters, March 1945.

 

[santana]

23rd May 1945. Two Spit LF.IX of RAF 456 Sqn, (Czechoslovakia) at DB.

 

[santana]

JU 87

 

[santana]

Fritz Todt

Fritz Todt was a German construction engineer and senior Nazi who rose from the position of Inspector General for German Roadways, in which he directed the construction of the German autobahns, to become the Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition.

 

[santana]

21st March 1943, Germany commemorates 'Heldengedenktag' (Heroes' Remembrance Day).

On this occasion, a state ceremony took place in the Berliner Zeughaus (Berlin armory), in which Hitler also took part.

Seated in the front-left row, from left to right:

Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock (Führerreserve), Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch (Generalinspekteur der Luftwaffe), Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (Chef der SS und deutschen Polizei), Großadmiral Karl Dönitz (Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine), Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel (Chef Oberkommando der Wehrmacht), Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe), and Adolf Hitler (Führer und Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht). Seated in the front-right row, from left to right: Reichsminister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Reichsminister Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister Dr. Wilhelm Frick, SS-Oberstgruppenführer und Generaloberst der Polizei Kurt Daluege, unknown, Reichsleiter Robert Ley, and SS-Obergruppenführer Dr. Philipp Bouhler.