Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Supermarine Spitfire JG726/`AN-L' of No 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, being cannibalized for parts at Gabès, Tunisia - April 1943

This Spitfire was scrapped after colliding with a Hudson during take-off on April 19, 1943.

 

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British Corporal M. Smith of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, with his M1928A1 Thompson SMG over his shoulder, in the San Angelo area of Italy - April 22, 1945

Corporal Smith, a former metal polisher from Birmingham, served in North Africa before going to Italy in early 1944. He was involved in the fighting at Cassino and on the Garigliano River.

 

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Funeral Service and burial at sea for two US Personnel on USS Lexington CV-16 off of Palau - 1944

 

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Female worker at the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Factory in Fort Worth Texas - 1942

During WW2 the factory produced B-24 bombers and C-87 cargo aircraft

 

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Flight Lieutenant W H Pentland, of No 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, starting up in his Supermarine Spitfire Mark V at Goubrine, Tunisia - April 1943

Goubrine Airfield was about 10 km south of Manzil Kāmil; 145 km south-southeast of Tunis.

 

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USS Balao SS-285 arrives at Guam on April 8, 1945 after her eighth war patrol

 

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USS Wainwright DD-419 photographed while escorting an Atlantic convoy to North Africa - Early 1943

 

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USS Lexington CV-16 Flight Deck Operations off of Palau during Operation Desecrate One - March 30-31, 1944

 

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USS Lexington CV-16 Flight Deck Operations off of Palau during Operation Desecrate One - March 30-31, 1944

 

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Kriegsende May 1945, Wilhelmshaven

 

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Kriegsmarine. One crew member of U-201, a Type VIIC Class submarine, measures the moisture content in the atmosphere with a hygrometer, while another monitors the presence of possible enemy aircraft on the horizon.
To highlight the Cabanjacke (coats) typical of divers.

 

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New Zealand soldiers washing socks in wooden tubs near the New Zealand Divisional Headquarters at Bus-les-artois, 7 May 1918

Rows of laundered socks hang on lines in the background.
The town of Bus-lès-Artois is located in the department of Somme of the french region Picardie.
Photograph taken by Henry Armytage Sanders Nº H-563
Photo source - Alexander Turnbull collection at the National Library of New Zealand.
(Colorized by Marina Amaral from Brazil)

 

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FW-190 narrowly misses the payload dropped by a B-26. Captured by a camera of a USAAF B-26 Marauder during a raid over Germany in early 1945.

 

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German troops training to use a 17cm mittlerer Minenwerfer.

Produced by Rheinmetall from 1913-18, this type of weapon was used for destroying bunkers and field fortifications otherwise immune to normal artillery. It was a muzzle-loading, rifle mortar that had a standard hydro-spring recoil system. It fired 50 kilogram (110lb) HE shells.
There is one on display in the village of Anloy (commune of Libin), Wallonia, outside of the church.
Colourised by Doug

 

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20 October 1914
Belgian Grenadier exhausted after a day's march, tries to eat something by prying open a can of food with his bayonet.
It was during the Battle of Yser, so that would make it somewhere between Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide.

 

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Battle of the Scarpe. Gunners of the Royal Horse Artillery in a German 5.9-inch howitzer emplacement on the Arras-Cambrai road, April, 1917.

'Battle of the Scarpe' (1917), refers to three battles that occurred during the Arras Offensive between 9 April and 4 May 1917 in the area of the river 'Scarpe'.
The river and its valley were important battlegrounds in WW1.

 

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Official photographer Lieutenant Ernest Brooks (left) with the official cinematographer, Lieutenant Geoffrey Malins, at a coffee stall behind the lines on the Somme, September 1916.

(Photo source - © IWM (Q 1456)
Colourised by Doug

 

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Depiction of the German Pavilion at the World Expo in Paris, 1937

 

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

(Photo- HowdiColour Image Recovery & Colour)

 

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An LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) from the US Coast Guard's USS LST-168 taking Australian troops of the 7th Division ashore during the landings at Balikpapan, southeast coat of Borneo, on 1 July 1945.

The landings, slightly north of Balikpapan itself, formed the final stage of Operation OBOE-2 and had been preceded by heavy shelling and aerial bombing by both the Australian and US Air Forces, and Navies. Like many similar Pacific battles at this late stage of the war, the Japanese forces were outnumbered and outgunned, but many adopted to fight to the death.

It was a sizeable operation with more 33,000 army, air force and navy personnel landed from 1 July 1945, in what would be the largest ever amphibious assault by Australian forces.

An oil-port, Balikpapan had seven piers, a refinery and a large number of warehouses around the docks which were quickly set alight during the initial bombardment. The smoke in the background is the result of the burning oil refinery.

Standing on the LCVP is US Coast Guard Combat Photographer James L. Lonergan, filming the action. The image itself was taken by another Coast Guard photographer, Gerald C. Anker.

Image courtesy of the US National Archives