Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts
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Photo study of a sun-baked Saxon Jäger from Königlich Sächsisches Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 25 with full field equipment including a package from home.
Jägers used a grun-grau (green-grey) version of the M1910, and later M1915 feldrock piped in dark green. Exception were the Bavarian Jägers who wore feldgrau.
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Jägers used a grun-grau (green-grey) version of the M1910, and later M1915 feldrock piped in dark green. Exception were the Bavarian Jägers who wore feldgrau.
Original property of Bert Butterworth (Drakegoodman)
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"The Greatest Raid of All " - 82 years ago. The Royal Naval and Commando raid on St. Nazaire. British prisoners of war detained in a building nearby St Nazaire dockside - they look like they might be in a pub. They knew something the Germans didn't. 28 March 1942
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British and German soldiers hanging out with each other at Ploegsteert during the Christmas Truce, circa. December 24, 1914.
The famous Christmas Truce began along the Western Front. German soldiers at St. Yves in Flanders decorated their lines with candles and Christmas trees, following it up by singing Christmas carols. The British soldiers responded by singing carols of their own and soon soldiers from both sides began venturing out into no man’s land. This culminated into a full out Christmas Truce between the British and Germans, who all met each other face to face in no man’s land. The soldiers exchanged gifts such as alcohol, foods, tobacco and souvenirs. They exchanged pictures of their families, took photographs with each other, held joint burial ceremonies for their fallen soldiers, and small-scale football (soccer) matches were played.
The famous Christmas Truce began along the Western Front. German soldiers at St. Yves in Flanders decorated their lines with candles and Christmas trees, following it up by singing Christmas carols. The British soldiers responded by singing carols of their own and soon soldiers from both sides began venturing out into no man’s land. This culminated into a full out Christmas Truce between the British and Germans, who all met each other face to face in no man’s land. The soldiers exchanged gifts such as alcohol, foods, tobacco and souvenirs. They exchanged pictures of their families, took photographs with each other, held joint burial ceremonies for their fallen soldiers, and small-scale football (soccer) matches were played.
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US Marine with an experimental robot (R2 series astromech droid), designed to penetrate the Japanese defenses which included dozens of tunnelled caves dug into the hill's limestone cliffs on the island fortress of Guadalcanal in January 1943.
(Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK)
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Type VIIC U-69 was very successful, sinking over 72,000 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied shipping in a career lasting two years, making her one of the longest surviving, continuously serving, U-boats. Her most notable attack was on the civilian ferry SS Caribou, which sank off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1942, killing 137 men, women and children. She was rammed and sunk by F-class destroyer HMS Fame on 17 February 1943.
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US paratroopers of Easy Company, 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne Division together with soldiers (back row) from the Army’s 4th ID (that came from Utah Beach) in the square of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont. June 7, 1944
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4 April 1945
Royal Marine Commandos F. Mander and R. J. Angus of the 1st Special Service Brigade on look out for snipers in the ruins of Osnabruck, Germany.
(Photo source - © IWM BU 3057)
Colourised by Doug
Royal Marine Commandos F. Mander and R. J. Angus of the 1st Special Service Brigade on look out for snipers in the ruins of Osnabruck, Germany.
(Photo source - © IWM BU 3057)
Colourised by Doug
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