Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Battleship Tirpitz

 

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German Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) with a KS750 motorcycle, Italy, September 1943.

 

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The end of the Graff Spee

 

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Captain* Borys Karnicki (33 y.o), the CO of the Polish Navy submarine ORP Sokół, taken when she was officially handed over to the Poles by the British Government, January 1941.

He was commander of the ORP Wilk (from April to August 1940) and ORP Sokół (from January 1941 to July 1942, with a short break from February to March 1942).
Successes: Italian merchant Balilla (2469 BRT) sank 2 November 1941 about 20 nautical miles north-west of Capo San Vito, Sicily and Italian auxiliary patrol vessel (schooner) Giuseppina (392 BRT) sank 12 February 1942 with gunfire about 30 nautical miles south of Sfax, Tunisia.
Boris Karnicki was born on 25 September 1907 in Vladivostok. Died in London on 15 February 1985.

Edit:

*As @robson68 rightly pointed out to me, the description of the photo is incorrect, it should be Captain Borys Karnicki, not Lieutenant. The error results from a change in the designation of ranks in the Polish Navy that took place after the war. Unfortunately, I cannot change the photo caption.

 

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The Polish Navy light cruiser ORP Conrad after the war, 1946.

 

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Infantrymen of 'B' Company, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th US Armored Division while crossing the street, pass the body of Pfc. Robert Vardy Wynne (aged 19 from Texas) who had just been mortally wounded by a sniper.
April 4 1945 in Sperlingsberg, Oberdorla, Mühlhausen/Thüringen, Germany. The 2nd image is the same location in modern times.

 

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October/November 1914
Photographer Sgt Christopher Pilkington of the Artists' Rifles, 28th Battalion of the London Regiment was attached to the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards and deployed to France with them in early October 1914. Pilkington took various photographs of the Battalion onboard the transport ship as it crossed The Channel. He remained with the Battalion until at least 15 January 1915, taking many photographs of their early involvement with the BEF, and he was still in France in late February when he photographed the funeral of Brig-Gen Sir John Gough VC. His photographic collection is now held by the IWM.
The Scots Guards left the Tower of London on 15 September 1914, 1000 strong and after passing through the thickest of the fighting, by March 1915 they could hardly raise 100 of their original strength.

(Photo source - © IWM Q 57231)
Pilkington, Christopher (Sergeant) (Photographer)
Colourised by Doug

 

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German anti-aircraft gun posted on the Eiffel Tower in Paris on June 17, 1940.

 

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Paris 1943

 

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Type VIIC U-97 from St. Nazaire on its third combat voyage on May 1, 1941. It is easily recognizable by the seahorse, the emblem of U-97, and the commander in the conning tower is Kapitänleutnant Udo Heilmann.

 

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Type IIB U-9 passes through the Laboe monument.

Successes:
7 ships sunk, total tonnage 16,669 GRT
1 warship sunk, total tonnage 552 tons
1 warship damaged, total tonnage 412 tons

Fate:
Sunk at 1030hrs on 20 August 1944 in the Black Sea at Constanza, in position 44.10N, 28.41E, by bombs during Soviet air raid (VVS VMF).
Wreck raised on 22 October 1944 by Soviets and towed to Nikolaev. On 19 April 1945 renamed TS-16 for a planned reconstruction, but declared a total loss on 12 December 1946 and broken up.

 

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German pilot Kurt Monnington aboard his Albatros D. V. while serving with Jasta 15, 1917/18

 

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23 October 1917
Soldier of the Gordon Highlanders (51st Division) tending to his trench garden, Héninel, south east of Arras.

(Photo source - © IWM Q 6131)
Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Colourised by Doug

 

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German soldiers posing for a photograph in the trenches, c.1916.

 

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29 October 1918.
#1 New Zealand gunners firing Ordnance QF 4.5-inch howitzers in an orchard near Le Quesnoy, France.

#2 A New Zealand 18-pounder field gun in action near Le Quesnoy.

(National Library of New Zealand)

 

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Exhausted French soldiers photographed resting at a train station in Paris, France in 1916.

Credit: timcolorization on Instagram

 

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French MS.406 fighters assigned to the Polish Montpellier Group in France, March 1940

 

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Type VIIC U-203 - first U-boat to enter the new U-bunker at Saint-Nazaire

 

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Somewhere in Salzburg

 

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A soldier belonging to Gotland's infantry regiment (I 27) trying to contain his laughter during a group photo outside the barracks at Visborg plain, Gotland, Sweden in c. 1900.