Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[Kadir93]

French soldier posing for a photograph inside the Fort de Vaux at Verdun, November 22, 1916.

 

[Kadir93]

Soviet soldiers posing in front of destroyed Panther A.

 

[Conhoon]

Gerhard Barkhorn's Bf 109, commander of II./JG52, at Anapa on the Black Sea, Autumn 1943

Image - Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-649-5355-02

 

[RisingStar]

Republican snipers at the Aragon Front of the Spanish Civil War (September 11, 1936)

 

[Conhoon]

Signalmen of the Royal Navy and the Polish Navy get acquainted with each other and with their instruments on the bridge of the Polish Navy destroyer ORP Piorun. The Poles are wearing Marynarka Wojenna and ORP Grom caps, and the Britons wear caps from the HMS Drake, 1940.

 

[Conhoon]

German Panzerkampfwagen III.

 

[santana]

German prisoners and their American guard crouch behind an M-10 Tank Destroyer ("Cynthia Eileen") for protection from a barrage of German self-propelled guns. The prisoners were captured by Infantrymen of the 4th Infantry Division, U.S. Third Army in the Prüm Valley, Germany on February 28, 1945.​

 

[santana]

German soldiers of the 24th Panzer Division during the fighting for the southern station of Stalingrad, September 15, 1942.​

 

[santana]

A GI mortar team prepares to fire on the retreating Germans From a foxhole in the Snowy Hellhole of St. Vith, Belgium. January 1945.​

 

[santana]

German Infantry Launch an Assault in Stalingrad, September 1942​

 

[Conhoon]

Crew help free a PBY-5A 'Catalina' s from the frozen waters in Kodiak Bay.

 

[Conhoon]

2 February 1945
Royal Navy Trainees with camouflage painted faces, wearing American fatigue caps and carrying American 'Tommy' guns, during training at the Eastern Warfare School at Brockenhurst, Hampshire, UK, where they learn jungle tactics for the Pacific War.

(Photo source - © IWM A 27307)
Colourised by Doug

 

[santana]

Crew of the Tuskegee Airmen load up a fuel drop tank on their Mustang.

 

[Kadir93]

SS-Obersturmbannführer (rank at the time) Johannes Mühlenkamp, Kommandeur of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5/5. SS-PzD 'Wiking' in his Panzer V 'Panther' Nº R02, and Grenadiers of the 131.Infanterie-Division at the Battle of Kowel, Ukraine.
6th of April 1944.

 

[Kadir93]

Adjudant Oberleutnant Heinrich 'Heinz' Burkhard standing atop a Befehlswagen III Ausf. H belonging to I./Pz.Rgt. 35, 4th Panzer Division. Würzburg, January 1944. The vehicle sports the red bear of the Regiment and the words ‘Bärenfuhrer’: Bear leader.

The PzBefWg III was a command version of the Pzkpfw III with a dummy gun and extra radio equipment. The metal rack behind the turret is the main radio antenna. 175 Ausf. H were built between late 1940 and early 1942 and served to war’s end.

Burkhard was awarded the German Cross in Gold, 29/10/1943
The Gold Cross was awarded to military personnel for 6-8 exceptional acts of bravery or achievements in combat.

(Source H. J. Zeis)
(Colorisation by Rui Manuel Candeias)

 

[BravoZulu]

Over the body of a dead comrade, Canadian infantrymen advance cautiously up a narrow lane in Campochiaro, Italy, on November 11, 1943.

 

[BravoZulu]

New Zealand artillerymen firing an 18 pound gun in snowy conditions on the Butte, Belgium. January 1, 1918

 

[Redav]

The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS St. Louis (CL-49) at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, circa 1943. The bow of the fleet oiler USS Lackawanna (AO-40) is visible at the extreme right.

 

[NebrHogger]

British monitor HMS Lord Clive. Fired at German positions along the Belgian coast in WW1 - to little effect.

HMS Lord Clive - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Redav]

Fw190 A-5s of JG54