Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[Redav]

German soldiers in the “hell of Stalingrad”, autumn 1942.

 

[BravoZulu]

Troops of 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers near Poperinghe, December 1914-May 1915. Credit embedded

 

[BravoZulu]

31 October 1918
Two New Zealand soldiers with a captured German Maxim MG08/15 machine gun that still has its ammunition belt attached. The soldiers use a German helmet and a funnel to fill the water cooler on the gun. Part of another machine gun appears bottom left. Sapignies, France, (about 4kms NNE of Bapaume)

 

[BravoZulu]

Men of the RAF Regiment share their early morning breakfast rations with a little Greek boy shortly after arriving in Greece on October 5, 1944.

 

[BravoZulu]

B-24 Liberators from the 93rd Bomb Group flying over two cargo ships.

 

[BravoZulu]

British troops returning from leave, Mailly Maillet, Somme. November 1916.
The group of soldiers includes men of the Lancashire Fusiliers, York and Lancaster Regiment, and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).

 

[Conhoon]

HMS Howe passing through the Suez Canal on its way to the Pacific in July 1944.

 

[Conhoon]

October 12-16, 1943. British Soldiers of the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, advance through the mud in the Volturno Italy area.
- IWM - Lambert, Ronald Pinckney Photographer, © IWM NA 7876.

To set up the Gustav line, the German military command decided to create a further barrier south of Cassino, to allow the work teams to complete the fortifications. In an attempt to delay the advance of the Allies, Kesselring organized a resistance along the Volturno river trying to take advantage of the bad weather conditions.
The Volturno is a real natural obstacle that lends itself excellently to a line of defence, since the long rains create periods of flood and make the surrounding land impassable.
The Volturno became the decisive point for the realization of the German plan for strategic reasons, since along this line the Germans controlled the coasts of the Tyrrhenian Sea, near the mouth of the river, creating a barrier towards the Adriatic, where the Apenninesprevented contact with English troops advancing north. To block the advance of the Anglo-Americans until mid-October, Kesselring defended the Volturno line by controlling the front in three sectors.

 

[Redav]

A great colourisation by Steve Walker of the 1939 Mauretania in her wartime paint scheme. Mauretania is possibly depicted at Sydney….?

Colourisation by Steve Walker

 

[Conhoon]

A crew from the German Panzer III of the SS 2nd Panzergrenadier Division 'Das Reich' takes a breather near Belgorod, Russia, in July 1943.

 

[Kadir93]

Paraguayan Army soldiers group photo after capture of Ballivian fort during Chaco War in November 1934.

 

[Kadir93]

A group of Soviet soldiers (l-r with shoulder boards are a Colour Sgt., Sgt., a Private and another Sgt.) relax with their PPSh-41 submachine guns, the one second from right is holding a German MP 40.

 

[Conhoon]

A German Heinkel He 177 heavy bomber of Kampfgeschwader 40 at Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, France, January 1944.

 

[Conhoon]

Battle of the Ancre. Serving hot drinks to wounded. Hamel, November 1916.

Image: IWM (Q 4547)
Colourised by Doug

 

[BravoZulu]

Battle of the Ancre. Serving hot drinks to wounded. Hamel, November 1916.

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Image: IWM (Q 4547)
Colourised by Doug

Both my grandfathers went through that horror from start to finish.

 

[santana]

This is Harry Hudec, a 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper who was a Regimental Boxing Champion during WW2.

 

[Conhoon]

Men of the Pioneer Corps sit around a fire and enjoy cups of tea during a pause in their labours on December 8, 1940.

These men are engaged in the work of salvaging material from damaged buildings for use again. The men share a joke as they warm their hands and feet by the improvised fire.

 

[Conhoon]

A French soldier and his dog outside of a ruined house in Candor, a commune in the Oise department of northern France. circa 1917.

(Bibliotheque nationale de France - Nº48986)
Colourised by Doug

 

[Conhoon]

Finnish fighter ace Hans Wind, credited with 75 victories. August of 1943.

 

[Redav]

Type VIIC U-553 after entering St. Nazaire on September 17, 1942. U-553 has been missing in the central North Atlantic since January 20, 1943 for periscope problems reasons.