Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Not from the war but also interesting i guess

1938 World Cup in France. After the 1-1 draw in the Round of 16, Germany and Switzerland had to meet again five days later.
The play-off was won by the Swiss 4-2 and the German defeat left this stark picture of Ludwig Goldbrunner and Jakob Streitle. The latter (bleeding), aged 21, had made his debut that evening in Paris in the German national team, replacing Austrian Willibald Schmaus (*).
*Austria had qualified for the World Cup, but on 12 March, 84 days before the start of the tournament, it was invaded by German troops who annexed its territory: it was transformed from a ‘country’ into a province of the German Reich, called Ostmark. Nine Austrian players were in the German squad.

 

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Grand Admiral's Doenitz baton and car pennants
By Mark Felton in youtube

 

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Colourized picture of WW2 French Panzer IV named BIR.ACKEIM of Unit Besnier. This image looks like spring 1945. By this time all captured German equipment had been painted green. The process of re-painting started in October 1944 when the FFI were all sworn into the French Army. Unit Besnier like many of the FFI units wore a mixture of French Mle 35, Mle 41, and US uniforms, etc. Some German tanks were captured intact, but many were made up from scrap yards scattered around France.

 

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An SAS jeep (Sr/Nº4822478) in the Gabes-Tozeur area of Tunisia, January 5th, 1943. The vehicle is heavily loaded with jerry cans of fuel and water, and personal kit. The ‘gunner’ is manning the .50 cal Browning machine gun, while the driver has a single Vickers ‘K’ gun in front, and a twin mounting Vickers behind. 1943.

 

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“Hit and wounded by Soviet fire, a German medic gives on the spot aid to his comrade in Potschlowaj, Ukraine. August 1942
(Colorised by Mike Gepp from Australia)

 

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A trainee tank driver at the controls of a ‘Crusader’ Mk.II tank of the 6th South African Armoured Division in the desert at Khataba, north west of Cairo, September 1943.

 

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US 4th Infantry Div. troopers and German POWs. take cover from crossfire beneath an M10 tank buster somewhere in Germany, early 1945

 

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Fallschirmjäger ‘posing’ with a Granatwerfer (8 cm GrW. 34) – Monte Cassino, 1944

 

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PzKpfw V. ‘Panther’ Ausf. A early, Sd.Kfz. 171, I./Pz.Rgt. 4, between Florence and Ravenna in Italy, March 1944

 

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Private L.V. Hughes, 48th Highlanders of Canada, Cdn.1st Division sniping a German position near the Foglia River, on the Gothic Line in Italy. Late August 1944. He looks to be using a Nº4 Mk.1(T) Lee Enfield Sniper Rifle with a Canadian made Nº32 R.E.L. Mk.III Telescopic Sight.

 

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A US soldier says farewell at Penn Station (Pennsylvania Station, New York), before being posted abroad in December 1943.

 

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Troops from the 101st Airborne with full packs and a bazooka, in a C-47 just before take-off from RAF Upottery Airfield to Normandy, France for “Operation Chicago. 5th June 1944.
Additional ID: (F-Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division underway to Normandy aboard their C-47 #12. At 01.20 hours they jumped over DZ “C” (Hiesville). L to R: William G. Olanie, Frank D. Griffin, Robert J. “Bob” Noody, Lester T. Hegland. This photo took on a life of its own after publishment. In the picture Bob remembers he must have weighed at least 250 lbs, encumbered with his M-1 rifle, a bazooka, three rockets, land mines, and other assorted “necessities”.)

 

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A Maquisard carrying a German MP.40 (Machinenpistole) at the time of the Liberation of Paris during August 1944.
Photo © Izis Lithuanian born photographer, Izraelis Bidermanas “Izis”, found refuge in the region of Limoges during the Second World War where he joined the French Resistance fighters. During the Liberation in August 1944 he made portraits of his fellow “Maquisards”.

The maquis increased fast with the reinforcement of many young men trying to escape the invasion by German troops in November 1942 and the STO(Service du travail obligatoire) in early 1943. Maquis operations changed from sabotages in 1943 to massive attacks against occupation troops in 1944. At its peak, the Limousine maquis is estimated to have reached between 8,000 and 12,000 fighters.

 

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Fallschirmjäger in Florence, Italy. Mid August 1944

 

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Wehrmacht troops on the Eastern Front (c.1942) They are seen here carrying the Maschinenpistole MP.40.

 

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A 7.2-inch howitzer of the British Army’s 75th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery being towed through the narrow Via Giuseppe Mazzini by the corner of Via Oreste Bandiniin in the commune of Borgo San Lorenzo, Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. 12th of September 1944.

 

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Stanisław Franciszek Sosabowski CBE (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf sɔsaˈbɔfskʲi]; 8 May 1892 – 25 September 1967) was a Polish general in World War II. He fought in the Battle of Arnhem (Netherlands) in 1944 as commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade.

 

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July 1943. Greenville, South Carolina. “Air Service Command. Men of the Quartermaster Truck Company of the 25th Service Group having a card game in one of the barracks.”

 

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Two medics, one a Feldwebel and the other a Gefreiter, helping an injured comrade in Colombelles, Normandy, France in July 1944.

 

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Garapan, Saipan, Mariana Islands. 3rd of July 1944.
“Marine infantrymen move fast to take up new positions in Garapan, principal city of Saipan. Japanese buildings and installations were set afire by supporting artillery barrages and the ‘Leathernecks’ (Marines) entered the town to engage the enemy in street fighting for the first time in the Pacific theatre.”

Garapan, on the west coast of Saipan, was captured by the 2nd Marine Division. About 2,100 Japanese out of the original garrison of 29,000 on Saipan were taken prisoner. American casualties were approximately 3,100 killed, 300 missing, and 13,100 wounded