Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[BravoZulu]

11 December 1942. De Havilland Mosquitos of 105 Squadron at RAF Marham, Norfolk.

 

[BravoZulu]

Boeing B-29 Superfortress 'Dat's My Boy' ditched on December 13, 1944. At least some of the crew survived and were rescued by a PB-Y. The B-29 apparently stayed afloat all night and had to be sunk by naval gunfire the next day. Reports only say “survivors rescued”

 

[BravoZulu]

An Australian infantryman enjoying a hot coffee from an Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) stall located near Longueval, France in the winter of circa 1917.

 

[Chazman]

 

[BravoZulu]

Hans-Ulrich Rudel's Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" equipped with 3.7 cm anti-tank cannons under the wings, being started with a hand crank.

 

[Redav]

The Stern reichsadler of the Graff Spee, recovered in Montevideo, Uruguay

 

[Conhoon]

View of the Polish Navy submarine ORP Orzeł leaving Rosyth - port on the east coast of Scotland, to take part in a North Sea patrol, 29th December 1939.

 

[Conhoon]

Tiger I No. 308 of the 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion in the assembly area at Dünaburg, Latvia, 1944

 

[Chazman]

 

[Chazman]

 

[NebrHogger]

French soldiers prepare their dinner in the field - 1910.

Civilian worker adjusting track tension on a Matilda tank - 1940.

 

[Conhoon]

US soldiers man a dug-in mortar emplacement near St. Vith, Belgium. Late December 1944

Colourised by Doug

 

[Conhoon]

British troops eating their Christmas dinner in a shell hole in Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France on Christmas Day, 25 December 1916.

 

[Redav]

German soldiers taking a break in the Parthenon, Athens 1941.

 

[Conhoon]

HQ Company 8th East Lancashire Regiment at 'Whizz-Bang Corner', Fonquevillers, Pas-de-Calais during the Winter of 1915.

Second from left, in the leather jacket is Major Beauchamp Henry Butler MaGrath, who was killed in action and buried at nearby Bienvillers-au-Bois on 2 June 1916 aged 43.
(Photo taken by Lieutenant Patrick Koekkoek, Royal Engineers)
(image source - National Army Museum collection)
Colourised and researched by Doug

 

[Conhoon]

M24 of the 18th Cavalry Squadron at Petit-Thier, Belgium February 1945

 

[Chazman]

An M4A3E8 and other vehicles of the 11th Armored Division crossing the Mühl River in Austria, May 1945.

 

[Conhoon]

Soldiers of the Royal Regiment of Canada resting in Blankenberge, Belgium

, 11 September 1944.

Private A. C. Phillips and Corporal Gordon Louis Wristen. The Corporal unfortunately was killed on October 3, 1944 and was buried at Schoonselhof War Cemetery, I.D.23.
Library and Archives Canada - PA-116730
Colourised by Reinout of RDB Colors

 

[Conhoon]

New Years Day 1917
Soldiers of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 15th Scottish Division in the hutments at Henencourt, Somme

Photo taken by Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant)
(Photo Source - IWM Q 4636)
Colourised by DBColour

 

[Chazman]

Eastern Front, 1942.