Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Soldiers of the Swedish Volunteer Corps clear out Soviet bunkers on the Hanko Front, August 29, 1941.

 

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M4A3 Sherman tanks of the 9th US Armored Division in Westhausen, Germany on April 10, 1945.

 

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Propaganda image of Soviet soldiers prepare a 45 mm 53-K anti-tank gun for action.

 

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Kamikaze pilots at Chōshi airfield, Japan, November 1944.

 

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An M3 Stuart Tank of the 'B' Squadron of the Indian 7th Light Cavalry, 254th Indian Tank Brigade, IV Corps, XIV Army in Imphal, India. 1944.

 

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An original colour photo of Private Alfred Campin, 6th Bn Durham Light Infantry, during basic training in March 1944. Alfred was killed 13 weeks later in Normandy, aged 24. He is buried at the Bayeux War Cemetery.

 

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The aft deck, also known as the aircraft handling deck, taken on Yamato class battleship Musashi's shakedown cruise on June 7, 1942. The boat to the left side of this image is another of the ship's 12 m motor launches. The aircraft handling deck was covered with concrete.

 

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'Clearing the way for our advancing troops.'
An explosion taking place on the Somme. According to the existing caption it is a controlled explosion set up by the Royal Engineers, to clear the way for the advance. A uniformed soldier, possibly a member of the Royal Engineers, sits on a wooden post watching the explosion.
A retreating army often laid obstacles and sabotaged any equipment or weapons they left behind, in an attempt to hinder any advance. Royal Engineers, as well as taking part in the fighting, were also responsible for 'combat engineering'; finding solutions to engineering problems on the battlefield.

© Colourised by Tom Marshall (PhotograFix)

 

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Bad Day at the Job

 

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The Third Battle of the Aisne. A German field battery (7.7 cm Feldkanone 16) in action against the British IX Corps in the ruins of a village near Fismes, Marne in north-eastern France. May 1918.

 

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A raiding party of the 10th (Service) Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) waiting in a 'sap' for the signal to go. Lt. John Warwick Brooke, the official photographer, followed them in and a shell fell short killing seven men. Near Arras, 24 March 1917.

 

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Battle of the Scarpe. Gunners of the Royal Horse Artillery in a German 5.9-inch howitzer emplacement on the Arras-Cambrai Rd, April 1917

 

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The Mayor of Jerusalem, Hussein Salim Al-Husseini (with walking stick and cigarette), with his party under a white flag-of-truce, attempts to deliver the surrender document signed by the Ottoman Governor Izzat Pasha just outside Jerusalem’s western limits on the morning of 9 December 1917 to Sergeants James Sedgewick and Frederick Hurcomb of 2/19th Battalion of the London Regiment (fourth and seventh from left in the picture). The surprised sergeants, who were scouting ahead of General Sir Edmund Allenby's main force, refused to take the letter, as did several more arriving troops. The Mayor was accompanied by a number of officials including his nephew Toufiq Saleh Al-Husseini, police inspectors Abdelqadir Al-Alami and Ahmad Sharaf (Second from right in the picture), policemen Hussein Al-Assaly and Ibrahim Al-Zaanoun, as well as a group of young men among whom were Rushdi Mohamed Al-Muhtada, Jawad Ismail Al-Husseini, and Hanna Iskandar Al-Lahham, who carried the white flag. The Mayor was also accompanied by a young photographer named Lewis Larsson, who later became Swedish Consul in Palestine, and whose role was to record the ceremony. It began to look to the Jerusalemites as if nobody would let them surrender, until Brigadier-General C.F. Watson, commanding 180th Infantry Brigade entered the town, accepted the documents, and Larsson could photograph the event properly”

 

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Two Australian regimental cooks cutting up meat for a stew in a support line in front of Zillebeke, 21 Sept 1917

 

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"to hell happily..."

 

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Finnish Air Force pilot Heimo Olavi Lampi and a unit of Brewster B-239 "Buffalo" fighter aircraft. Russia, September 1942

 

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Aboard aircraft carrier USS Lexington, Lt. JG. Alexander Vraciu holds up six fingers to signify his "kills" during the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" on 19 June 1944

 

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Relieved after taking a Japanese emplacement, a group of Marines from the 1st Marine Division rest while they await what is next on Guadalcanal. The 746th FEAF Band recorded the only known album by a frontline band unit in the jungles of the Pacific. This page is

 

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Polish Navy destroyer ORP Piorun hoisted 21'' torpedo from whaler rowing boat which latter will be fired out during the exercises.

 

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Ohio entering grand harbour in Malta 15 August 1942