Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Austro-Hungarian heavy armored train (Schwerer Panzerzug) in Galicia, Eastern front, June 1916

 

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Austro-Hungarian heavy armored train (Schwerer Panzerzug) in Galicia, Eastern front, June 1916
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With all the extra weight, replacing wheel bearings had to be a daily chore.

 

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In the photograph a BMW R75 motorcycle with a sidecar and an MG-34 machine gun.

 

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29 August 1918, Battle of the Scarpe.

Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division.
Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. North-east of Roeux, Troops leaving their trench.
(Photo source -© IWM Q 7007)

Stretcher-bearers (SB) of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders asleep. Near Roeux.
(Photo source - © IWM Q 7014)
Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Both Colourised by Doug

 

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Groundcrew use a manual starter to start the engine of the Dutch-designed Finnish fighter Fokker D.XXI No. FR-125 from 2/LeLv 30 07/11/1941.

 

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Royal Marine Artillery filling their water bottles at Ostend, August 1914.

The Marines of the Royal Naval Division landed at Ostend in Belgium on 27 August 1914. Sent to safeguard the town, they also protected a British seaplane base before re-embarking on 31 August for Dunkirk. Ostend was later evacuated and the Germans captured it on 15 October 1914.
(Photo source - © IWM Q 53230)
Colourised by Doug

 

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85 years since the start of the Second World War.

September 1, 1939. Germany invades Poland.

Under the pretext of an alleged attack by Polish forces on the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz (a plan drawn up by Himmler's SS), Germany invaded Poland, continuing its policy of territorial expansion, after the annexation of Austria (Anchluss) and from the Sudetenland region.
The date is generally cited as the beginning of World War II.

At 4:30 in the morning, the German battleship 'Schleswig-Holstein' began to slowly approach Westerplatte, in Danzig (now Gdansk). Fifteen minutes later, he opened fire.

 

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Surrender at Weymouth of German U-Boot U-249. The German officers guarded by sailors of the Polish Navy, May 1945.

 

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Tour de France 1940

 

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A British paratrooper from the 1st Airborne Division shares a moment with a young Dutch boy near Drop Zone Ginkelse Heide, a vast heathland by Oosterbeek, Netherlands, during the early stages of Operation Market Garden, September 17, 1944.

 

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A 1941 military A12 “Harvester” Tractor (aircraft tow) sits patiently on USS Hornet over 3 miles down in the Pacific with very low oxygen levels preserve wrecks discovered in 2019.

 

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Warsaw Uprising 1944. Polish insurgents at a shooting position at the gate of the tenement house at 5/7 Emiliana Konopczyńskiego Street.

photo by Sylwester "Kris" Braun, coloring by Mikołaj Kaczmarek

 

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Aquitania had a troop capacity of 7,400 during World War II. This would be the second world war she would serve, making her the only major liner to do so.

-Steve Walker Color-

 

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German battleship Bismarck at sea en route to Norway, circa 19-20 May 1941, prior to her Atlantic sortie. Photographed from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.

 

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The Germans inspect the battleship Strassbourg scuttled by her crew. Toulon November 27, 1942

 

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German submarine type VII C docked in the port of Lorient 1940

 

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Two Madrilenian students from the Blue Division on the eastern front. Ignacic del Castillo (left) studies architecture. His comrade Juan Hellmuth has a German father, but has been a Spanish citizen since he was a young boy in Spain.

The Blue Division, officially designated as División Española de Voluntarios by the Spanish Army and as 250. Infanterie-Division in the German Army, was a unit of Spanish volunteers and conscripts who served (1941-1944) in the German Army on the Eastern Front.

 

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Cavalry in reserve halted in the Authie River to water the horses, Auxi-le-Chateau, 17 September 1918.

(Images - IWM)
Colourised by Doug

 

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A Loyd Bren Gun Carrier belonging to the Prinses Irene Brigade Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry 18th of September 1944

 

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Tirpitz in Gotenhafen May 1941