Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[santana]

Front View of Turrets A and B of the Destroyer USS Halford DD-480 1943-45

 

[santana]

German aircraft in Kastrup airport during the occupation. Junkers Ju 52/3, Junkers Ju 86.
Taken by German flight instructor Josef Rotty, who was stationed in Kastrup from April 1941. Denmark

 

[Redav]

Parade celebrating Hitler 's 50th Birthday
Berlin, 20 April 1939
84 years ago yesterday

 

[BravoZulu]

Smoke from the burning Ruhrchemie AG synthetic oil plant fills the sky behind as a Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank of the 31st Armoured Brigade, 79th Armoured Division of the British Army, moves past a church at Oberhausen in the Ruhr, Germany, April 1945.

 

[Conhoon]

A Spitfire stands amidst the midday rain and fog of RAF Tangmere, winter 1940 - Spitfire Mk IIa P7856 YT-L of No. 65 Squadron.

 

[BravoZulu]

The Battle of Arras - Apr/May 1917. Forward scouts of the 9th Hodson's Horse (Bengal Lancers), Indian Army, pause to consult a map, near Vraignes-en-Vermandois, Somme, France, April 1917.

 

[BravoZulu]

In November of 1944, Corporal Carlton Chapman of the 761st Tank Battalion poses for the camera in his M4 tank near Nancy, France. Four days after this picture was taken, Cpl. Chapman was killed in action.

 

[Conhoon]

23 April 1918
The Battle of the Lys (Operation Georgette). Gunners of the 29th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery getting a 6 inch Mark VII gun into position near Caëstre in northern France.

(Photo source - © IWM Q 6565)
Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Colourised by Doug

 

[Conhoon]

One of the first Mosquito II night-fighters, seen after a demonstration flight during a visit by the Duke of Kent to the de Havilland plant at Hatfield in November 1941 The nose-mounted transmitter aerial and wing-mounted receiver aerials for the aircraft's AI Mk IV radar are visible.

 

[Conhoon]

RAF armourers clean the barrel of a Hispano cannon removed from a Bristol Beaufighter NF Mark VI of No. 96 Squadron RAF, as WAAFs unload boxes of 20mm cannon shells by the aircraft at Honiley, Warwickshire.

 

[Conhoon]

Kiwi soldiers bow their heads in prayer at an Anzac Day service in El Saff, Egypt on the 25th of April, 1940.

The first Anzac Day was observed as a half-day holiday on 25 April 1916 to mark the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.
Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, but now commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations and the contribution and suffering of all those who have served.

Alexander Turnbull Library photo

 

[Bombardier]

Last image is very poignant today mate

 

[Conhoon]

Australian soldiers mingle with a section of the crowd gathered in Martin Place during the Victory in the Pacific celebrations, Sydney, 15 August 1945.

The date commemorates Japan’s acceptance of the Allied demand for unconditional surrender a day earlier. For Australians, it meant that the Second World War was finally over.
Today, on the centenary of the Gallipoli landings that gave rise to the ANZAC identity, we remember all those Australian and New Zealand soldiers, in all wars, who never made it home.
(Colourised and researched by Benjamin Thomas)

 

[santana]

Professor Ernst Heinkel shows his youngest son a model of a He 111 bomber. May 22, 1941.

 

[santana]

Aircaft of the Italian Air Force during WWII

 

[NebrHogger]

Paint scheme on the biplane above was called "sand and spinach" by Italians.

 

[santana]

Paint scheme on the biplane above was called "sand and spinach" by Italians.

Seems that it worked!!!

 

[uktabber]

GREAT Pics mate, thanks for posting them!!

 

[Conhoon]

1 May 1945.
The Daily Express cartoonist Carl Ronald Giles, sketches as Royal Armoured Corp crewmen work on their Cromwell tanks, near Lüneburg in Germany.

After the successful invasion of northern France in June 1944, Giles was keen to experience life at the Front first hand. He asked his editor if he could go over as a war correspondent, but it was considered too dangerous at first to risk sending him.
However, by September Giles was given his war correspondent’s licence alongside the rank of captain, with orders to proceed by military aircraft to Brussels to represent the Daily Express with the 2nd Army. Indeed, Express Newspapers was so happy with his work that it raised his annual salary nearly four-fold.
Giles, died in August 1995 aged 78
(Photo source - © IWM BU 4925)
Sgt. Hardy, No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
Colourised by Doug

 

[Conhoon]

Part of the crew of the Polish Navy destroyer ORP Garland, 1941.