Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[santana]

Capt. McAllister with his Mustang F-6A (recon P-51A) at Lemolay airdrome, France. August 1944.

 

[Redav]

Messerschmitt Bf 109F4 9.JG54 Yellow 8 belly landed Russia 1942
(Photo- Colour by RJM)

 

[Redav]

Anti-ship B-25 (USMC PBJ). Look at that 75mm cannon!

 

[Redav]

US soldier with a flower gifted to him by an Italian civilian takes his lunch, south of Rome, May 1944

 

[Redav]

Fw-190 fighters await recycling at the Flensburg airfield in Germany August 2nd, 1945.

 

[uktabber]

Anti-ship B-25 (USMC PBJ). Look at that 75mm cannon!
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WOW, what firepower those yielded!!!

 

[uktabber]

Fw-190 fighters await recycling at the Flensburg airfield in Germany August 2nd, 1945.View attachment 469631

Terrible to have destroyed these like they did.........love to see some fly today!!

 

[BravoZulu]

French soldiers of the 49th Infantry Regiment playing cards in the trenches in the winter of 1916

 

[Conhoon]

Bf-109G6 flown by Gunther Hannak force landed in Malta. May 5th, 1943.

 

[Redav]

An Me 262, seconds before a Mustang finished it off.

 

[Newtonk]

Churchill tanks on exercise, England. Unknown whether original colour or colourised, credit to whomever did it.

 

[Conhoon]

Pilot Officer Arthur O'Brien Weekes of St. George, Barbados and Flight Sergeant Collins Alwyn Joseph of San Fernando, Trinidad (KIA 31/12/44) flying Spitfires in the 132 'City of Bombay' Squadron. 1944.

(Photo source - © IWM CH 11976)
Colourised by Doug

 

[Redav]

The photo is not from ww2 but the building in the back is

What an incredible place to play football, infront of this World War 2 flak tower in St Pauli, Germany.

The Feldstraße Bunker, now known as “the media bunker”, has been restored and now houses a luxury hotel, nightclubs and concert venues

 

[Redav]

April, 1945. A captured Me-262 jet at the KUNO 1 "Forrest Factory"

 

[BravoZulu]

February 27th - 3 March 1945. A 17 Pounder Sherman of the 21st Armoured Regiment (The Governor General's Foot Guards), 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade during the Battle of Hochwald Gap, near Wissel, Rhineland. (Extended end connectors can be seen on the tracks)

 

[Redav]

Battleship USS Idaho bombarding Okinawa 1 April 1945

 

[Redav]

Berlin 1945

 

[santana]

D-DAY. American troops wade ashore several days after the invasion, when German resistance had been pushed well inland

 

[santana]

US Troops from the 101st Airborne with full packs and a bazooka, in a C-47 just before take-off from RAF Upottery Airfield to Normandy, France for “Operation Chicago". June 5, 1944.

 

[santana]

US Rangers relax in a destroyed German defensive position at Pointe du Hoc, as they watch capture German prisoners being led past in the background.