Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Troops of the US 5th Engineer Special Brigade, wade through the surf to the northern coast of France, at Fox Green Sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy. 8 June 1944.

 

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Lance Corporals A. Burton and L. Barnett of 6th Airborne Division guarding a road junction near Ranville, 7 June 1944. Each is armed with a Mk V Sten submachine gun.

 

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Corporal Victor Deblois of Le Régiment de la Chaudière guarding German prisoners on Juno Beach, Bernières-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1944.

 

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D-DAY June 6, 1944. As the beach seems 'secured' more U.S. troops get ashore and the invasion is in full effect. US Infantry and landing craft approaching the 'Easy Red' sector of Omaha.

 

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US troops surrounds a farmhouse near Vierville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, as it prepares to eliminate a German sniper, June 10, 1944.

 

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M4 Sherman tanks of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers, 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, advancing into Caen, Normandy. 10 July 1944.

 

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Maschinengewehr MG.42 unit preparing for the Allied invasion in the Normandy Bocage. June 1944

 

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Messerschmitt Me 262 V3 (3rd prototype) taking off, 1943.

 

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"Soldiers look like Finnish so this might be crash landed on Finnish side during WWII."
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From Time magazine, 12th February, 1945

 

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Men of the 5th Northamptonshire Regiment, 11th Inf. Brig., 78th Inf.Div. on the march near Coldragone, Italy. 25 May 1944.
(Photo source- © IWM NA 15513)
Colourised by Doug

 

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19 March 1944
Driver A. Beagle, an RASC despatch rider from Southall, Middx., tightening the chain case on his Matchless G3 motorcycle in Béni Mered, Algeria.

(Photo source - © IWM NA 13092)

 

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This black painted He 111H was photographed during the Night Blitz. It was later noted that the He 111H performed well as a leading aircraft.

 

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Norwegian SS Volunteers on the Eastern Front during an inspection by Norwegian Leader Vidkun Quisling on April 22, 1942.

 

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Bf-109 and pilots.

 

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Flying Officer J.C. Uhthoff RCAF stands by his Hawker Typhoon in 1944
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The launch of the Tirpitz battleship, Wilhelmshaven, April 1939.

 

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Fw190
Date and location unknown

 

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1 German and 2 Romanian Bf-109s

 

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Japanese soldiers stand in attention during sunrise in Wuchang, Wuhan, China, 1938.

The Kuomintang army’s mortar unit shifting ground during combat in the Battle of Taiyuan, October 1937.

October 1937, two Chinese soldiers firing at Japanese aircraft with machine guns at a periphery position in Taiyuan.

Japanese troops engaging in an intense street battle with Chinese troops in Zhabei, Shanghai, October 1937.

Chinese troops using a German Panzerspahwagen Sd.Kfz. 222 tank in combat against Japanese Forces.

Camouflaged Japanese soldiers lying in wait during the Battle of Shanghai, 1937.

Japanese tanks descend on Hubei province in China in the 1940

Soldiers Of The Collaborationist Chinese Army with SIG M1920 SMGs (A Swiss Version Of The MP18) in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Sharing sentry duty with the British, Hong Kong, September 1945.

Member of the Chinese Yan'an People's Militia, armed with a musket and a homemade landmine, Shaanxi, China, 1944.

Indian troops of the 20th Infantry Division search for Japanese at the badly damaged station in Prome, Burma; 3 May 1945.

Burma Campaign. Pyingyaing. January 1945. Jeeps and Sherman tanks of the British 2nd Division.