Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Heinkel He111 H-2 coded V4+HV of Kampfgeschwader 1 which was force landed at Haxted Farm, Lingfield, in Surrey at 11:35 am on 30 August 1940.

 

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Fatigued Whermacht motorcycle scouts riding with their BMW R12 motorcycle with sidecar belonging to 2Motorcylce Infantry Company 8th Panzer Division somewhere .

 

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Bf-109G-8 piloted by Heimo Emmerstorfer, a German Recon Pilot. The day after WW2 ended he narrowly escapes the Soviets and flies his Bf-109 into Austria, safely belly landing his Bf-109 on a field in Haibach, Austria and walks to his parents house.

 

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The Polish Navy submarine ORP Orzeł in the Royal Navy base at Rosyth, January 1940.

 

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RNZAF ground crew working on the engine of a P-40 Kittyhawk. Palikulo airfield, Espiritu Santo, 1943.
Kittyhawk is probably from No. 14 Squadron.

RNZAF photo

 

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A group of local men take an interest in a Valentine tank from the 3rd New Zealand division, 2nd NZEF.
Nissan Island, Papua New Guinea. 1944

Kiwi troops can be seen in the background wearing custom painted uniforms
Alexander Turnbull Library ref - 5547-030

 

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Luftwaffe soldiers from the Jagdgeschwader 53 (JG 53) fighter wing, also known as "Ace of Spades," rest at an airfield in front of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 with an open cowling. In the background, a Junkers Ju 52 can be seen.

 

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Gunners of a Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery (R.C.A.) manning a 40mm Bofors gun on guard against "tip-and-run" raids by Fw-190s, positioned opposite the Grand Hotel on the Kings Road promenade in Brighton, Sussex. March 1943.

Library and Archives Canada

 

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Women's Army Corps members at gas attack training, Des Moines, Iowa - 1942

 

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Two early production Stug III Gs secure a road towards Lysyanka in frozen wastelands of the Korsun-Cherkassy pocket in February 1944. The two assault guns belong to the 5. SS-StuG.-Abt. (Wiking) - then part of the famous ‘Gruppe Stemmermann’.

Colour by RJM

 

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The German Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant

 

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A young Sturmmann of the 12th SS Panzer Division (HJ). Normandy, 1944.

 

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Apollo class 2nd class protected cruiser HMS Iphigenia used as a blockship, stripped of her guns and lying in the Zeebrugge channel after The Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918 (colourised)

 

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A special attack aircraft exploding on the flight deck of Essex class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11) as seen from the catwalks, off the Philippine Islands, 25 Nov 1944

 

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21 August 1918
The Attack on Moyenneville. A Scots Guardsman giving a wounded German prisoner a drink. Near Courcelle-le-Comte.
1st Btn Scots Guards, with the 2nd Guards Brigade were in the assault on Moyenneville. The village of Courcelles-le-Comte was taken by the 3rd Division on 21 August 1918

(Photo source - © IWM Q 6983)
Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Colourised by Doug

 

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Before ww2 but i think interesting anyways..

The grand hangar in Santa Cruz, in Rio de Janeiro, which still exists today, was used only nine times, five times by the Graf Zeppelin and four times by the Hindenburg. photos of the Hindenburg in the hangar.

 

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Midnight swearing-in of the $$ troops, Feldherrnhalle in Munich (1938).

 

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In 1945 eager to witness history, the crew of USS Missouri perched wherever they could to watch the Japanese surrender ceremony. However, many Missouri sailors missed the proceedings because they were manning antiaircraft batteries in case there was a final kamikaze attack. ADM Spruance did not attend, likely because ADM Nimitz wanted someone to lead the Navy in the Pacific if the surrender ceremony turned out to be a trap.

 

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Corporal G.E. Mallery, equipped with a No4 MK1 Lee Enfield sniper rifle, provides cover for fellow members of the Scout Platoon from the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada as they advance toward the Fort of Brasschaat in Belgium on October 9th, 1944.