Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Tuskegee Airmen at Ramitelli Airfield in Italy, 1945

 

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Stuka and crew

 

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A German “Mistel” composite aircraft (Focke-Wulf Fw 190 mounted on a Junkers Ju 88) is examined by soldiers of the 102nd Infantry Division, 9th U.S. Army, at Gardelegen airfield, Germany, circa in May 1945

 

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Briefing before the action of the Polish 1st Armored Division, 1944.

From the right: Gen. Stanisław Maczek, 2nd Lieutenant. J. Tarnowski, captain T. Wysocki.

 

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19 March 1917
Three members of the 2nd Australian Division (21st & 24th Btns., 6th Brigade) stand under the arches of the Bapaume town hall, which was relatively intact after shelling had reduced much of the town to rubble. Six nights later several men sleeping inside were killed when the building was destroyed by a delayed-action bomb that had been left behind by the retreating Germans.

(Photo source - AWM E00393)
Colourised by Doug - DBColour

 

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In 1943 the submarine U-537 delivered a secret German weather station to Canada. It was only discovered in 1981. Here the Canadian Coast Guard shore party are making the first examination of the remnants of German Weather Station Kurt on the Hutton Peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada on 21 July 1981.

 

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RAAF airmen inspect a knocked-out German Panzer VI Ausf. E Tiger tank near Tunis 1943.

 

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US ARMY SSgt. William “Bill” Guarnere

 

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In June of 1944, medical personnel from the 2nd Naval Beach Battalion & the 261st Medical Medical Battalion assist a wounded paratrooper as he steps onto the ramp of a LCVP at Utah Beach

 

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US ARMY Lt. Lynn “Buck” Compton

 

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In June of 1944, a paratrooper of the 101st Airborne Division sits in a field with his rations and carbine slung over his during the invasion of Normandy.

 

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In March of 1945, American soldiers keep a low profile with German fire focused on their landing craft during an assault across the Rhine River at Oberwesel, Germany.

 

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In 1944, F4U-1As #10 'Mary Louise Inc' & #20 'The Snorting Hog' of VMF-113 over the Marshall Islands in the Pacific

 

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A Fleet Air Arm pilot with his Hellcat aboard an aircraft carrier in the Far East.

 

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British Sten submachine gun assembly factory. 1942.

 

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Lovely mate, those are some GREAT photos, Thanks for sharing!! Love the lass in this last one......Mmmm!

 

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Aircraft mechanics of the Swiss Air Force working on a Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 at Thun Airfield in Switzerland (1940, colorized).

Switzerland took delivery of its initial batch of BF109s in 1938, with the introduction of ten Bf 109Ds. Shortly afterwards, the country purchased an additional 80 Bf109E-3s which commenced arriving from April 1939 until just prior to Germany's invasion of France in 1940

 

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Union Blue and Confederate Gray veterans reunite at Gettysburg in the year 1913 — Standing by “the Bloody Angle” where Pickett’s charge took place 50 years earlier and over 3,000 soldiers on both sides lost their lives — Now they clasp hands over the stone wall as brothers.

 

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Men of the Royal West Kent Regiment in a dugout on Monastery Hill at Cassino, Italy, March 1944.

 

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Flying Officer J B Burnside, the flight engineer on board an Avro Lancaster B Mark III of No. 619 Squadron RAF based at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, checks settings on the control panel from his seat in the cockpit.