Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Germany's own T-34 "Battalion." Unlike the Allies, who typically scrapped or used captured enemy equipment for target practice, the Germans often utilized trophy weapons and vehicles. While not sustainable due to a lack of spare parts, they made the most of what they had.

 

[Conhoon]

Battleship HMS Prince of Wales (53) front and battlecruiser HMS Repulse (34), date unknown​

 

[Conhoon]

7 June 1918
The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division headed by a British band marching past Major-General Arthur Solly-Flood, GOC 42nd Division, on a road near Famechon, Somme.

(Photo source - © IWM Q 8903)
McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Colourised by Doug

 

[BravoZulu]

Battleship HMS Prince of Wales (53) front and battlecruiser HMS Repulse (34), date unknown​

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These are models @Conhoon. Chris Flodberg is an incredible model maker

 

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These are models @Conhoon. Chris Flodberg is an incredible model maker

I must say that he is really good as a modeler and as a photographer.

 

[Conhoon]

Sailors of the Polish Navy destroyer ORP Piorun during a convoy WS-11X with supplies for Malta, 1941.

 

[Conhoon]

An Australian stretcher bearer helps a wounded German soldier at the Battle of Messines.

During operations at Messines between 7 and 11 June 1917 the Australian Army Medical Corps personnel of the 3rd Australian Division assisted some 3000 ‘walking wounded’ cases. When these men reached so-called ‘collecting posts’ well behind the front line they were given hot drinks and something to eat and then moved on as quickly as possible out of the operational area.
(Photo source - AWM E00481)
Colourised By Doug

 

[Conhoon]

German prisoners from the battles at Vimy and Polygon Wood. April & September 1917

Colourised by 'PieceofJake', Frederic Duriez and Julius Jääskeläinen

 

[Conhoon]

German prisoners from the battles at Vimy and Polygon Wood. April & September 1917

Colourised by 'PieceofJake', Frederic Duriez and Julius Jääskeläinen

 

[Redav]

These are models @Conhoon. Chris Flodberg is an incredible model maker

Wow i would never say those were models

 

[Conhoon]

Panzergrenadiers in SdKfz 251 armoured halftracks go out a mission while a plume of smoke rises in the background Nurzec Stacja area, Poland, July 1944

 

[Conhoon]

An ‘Old Hare’ moves among the rubble of Stalingrad. Autumn, 1942
Supposedly, this soldier belonged to Infanterie-Regiment 208, 79. Infanterie-Division, and the photo was shot in the metallurgical plant ''Red October'', October 1942.

The bearing and appearance of this seasoned German soldier portraits well the titanic struggle that was taking place in the Soviet Union at the time.
Given that he is carrying two rifles and a mg ammo case, this soldier was most probably part of a mg 34 team.

Original property of: IWM (HU 5144)

 

[Connaught Ranger]

An ‘Old Hare’ moves among the rubble of Stalingrad. Autumn, 1942
Supposedly, this soldier belonged to Infanterie-Regiment 208, 79. Infanterie-Division, and the photo was shot in the metallurgical plant ''Red October'', October 1942.

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The bearing and appearance of this seasoned German soldier portraits well the titanic struggle that was taking place in the Soviet Union at the time.
Given that he is carrying two rifles and a mg ammo case, this soldier was most probably part of a mg 34 team.

Original property of: IWM (HU 5144)

or he is carrying the rifle of the guy taking the picture.

 

[Conhoon]

Westland Lysander II, RCAF (Serial Nos. 418, 419, 416), No. 110 (AC) "City of Toronto" Squadron preparing for a winter training flight from RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, Jan 1940. These early-production aircraft were built under licence by the National Steel Car Corporation at Hamilton, Ontario, fitted with Bristol Perseus engines supplied from Britain.

Photo: Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN REF: 3642473
Image Repair & Colourisation - Nathan Howland @ HowdiColourWorks.

 

[santana]

Pictured below is Richard Dick Winters famous for commanding Easy Company 2nd Battalion 506th PIR Parachute Infantry Division 101st Airborne

 

[BravoZulu]

Bristol Beaufort Mk. I (Serial No. N1030), coded N, No. 149 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron, RCAF, on patrol over Patricia bay, British Columbia, 18th June 1943.

 

[BravoZulu]

A Royal Air Force air gunner sits inside the rear quad Browning .303 machine gun turret of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley twin-engine bomber of No. 10 OTU (Operational Training Unit) at Abingdon before a raid on Germany on 15th April 1941 at Abingdon, United Kingdom.

 

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Beam view of the Polish Navy destroyer ORP Błyskawica, 1943.

 

[Conhoon]

Battle of Saipan between 15 June and 9 July 1944.
On June 15, 1944, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II (1939-45), U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the strategically significant Japanese island of Saipan, with a goal of gaining a crucial air base from which the U.S. could launch its new long-range B-29 bombers directly at Japan’s home islands. Facing fierce Japanese resistance, Americans poured from their landing crafts to establish a beachhead, battle Japanese soldiers inland and force the Japanese army to retreat north. Fighting became especially brutal and prolonged around Mount Tapotchau, Saipan’s highest peak, and Marines gave battle sites in the area names such as “Death Valley” and “Purple Heart Ridge.” When the U.S. finally trapped the Japanese in the northern part of the island, Japanese soldiers launched a massive but futile banzai charge. On July 9, the U.S. flag was raised in victory over Saipan.

Colourised by Royston, 'Piece ofJake', 'Jecinci' and Doug

 

[Conhoon]

Battle of Saipan between 15 June and 9 July 1944.
On June 15, 1944, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II (1939-45), U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the strategically significant Japanese island of Saipan, with a goal of gaining a crucial air base from which the U.S. could launch its new long-range B-29 bombers directly at Japan’s home islands. Facing fierce Japanese resistance, Americans poured from their landing crafts to establish a beachhead, battle Japanese soldiers inland and force the Japanese army to retreat north. Fighting became especially brutal and prolonged around Mount Tapotchau, Saipan’s highest peak, and Marines gave battle sites in the area names such as “Death Valley” and “Purple Heart Ridge.” When the U.S. finally trapped the Japanese in the northern part of the island, Japanese soldiers launched a massive but futile banzai charge. On July 9, the U.S. flag was raised in victory over Saipan.

Colourised by Royston, 'Piece ofJake', 'Jecinci' and Doug