Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Private J. Donald, a sniper with C Company, 4th King's Own Scottish Borderers, Holland, 11 December 1944.

Photograph taken by Sergeant Hewitt C. and was provided by The Imperial War Museum. © IWM (B 12824)

 

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I noticed the fellow holding the monkey has a bandaged hand... the monk apparently gave him "ivory acupuncture" at some point. I don't believe I'd care for one as a pet.

 

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Soviet soldiers prepare a 45 mm 53-K anti-tank gun for action

 

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Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 18 802 "Schwarze 1", Lt Joachim Kirschner, Staffelkapitän 5./JG 3, Amsterdam-Schipol, Autumn 1943.

Colourised By Colour by RJM

 

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Russian Empire, military exercises: Machine gun position - 1914

- Photographer: Karl Bulla

 

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Sapper scout Sima (Alexandra) Dneprovskaya, 1943

 

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5 November 1943
US Navy pilots, (in front) Lieutenant (jg) Henry H. Dearing of Cleveland, Ohio, Ensign Charles W. Miller of Houston, Texas and Lieutenant (jg) Bus Alder of San Mateo, California walking toward their Grumman F6F-3 'Hellcats' aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3).
These men provided fighter coverage for Avenger torpedo bombers and Dauntless dive bombers.

On November 5th 1943, in response to reports of Japanese cruisers concentrating at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, the Saratoga aircraft penetrated the heavily defended port and disabled most of the Japanese cruisers, ending the surface threat to Bougainville. Saratoga herself escaped unscathed.
(Photo by Lt. Wayne Miller of the U.S. Navy Combat Photo Unit)
(Colourised by Doug)

 

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Russian soldiers, WW1

 

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Junior Lieutenant S. E. Kazhdan destroyed in the battle near Rzhev 25 Germans and 4 machine-gun points
November 3, 1942

Photographer: A.S. Garanin

 

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Russian Scout Alekseev and his sculpture of moist sand, WWI

 

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Russian soldiers watching the sky, July 14 1916

 

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November 1943
Stuck in the deep mud. German soldiers struggle to move a Type 82 Kubelwagen of the SS Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" in the Vinnytsia region of the Ukraine.

(Colourised by Doug)

 

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"With a kneecap blown off and shrapnel in his back, Bratton grabbed a first aid kit, tied a tourniquet to his leg .... "
AOM Kenneth Bratton USNR is pulled out of the gun turret of Air Group Commander Henry H. Caldwell's Avenger torpedo bomber by Lt Julius 'Julie' Bescos, after a raid on Rabaul, 5 November 1943.

Photographer's Mate 1st Class Paul Barnett from Texas, died of wounds on the flight, he had stood in for the photographer of this image, Lt Wayne Miller.

Sports fans may know "Julie" Bescos as the eight-time USC letterman and coach who also scored on-screen time as Clark Gable's stunt double in the 1935 film version of "Mutiny on the Bounty." (he died in 2009 aged 97)

 

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Groundcrew refuelling a Hawker Hurricane Mark I of No. 501 Squadron RAF from a petrol bowser at Betheniville, shortly after its return from a sortie.

 

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T-34 crossing the Khandas-Gava River. Southern Sakhalin. 1945

 

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Germans, WWI

 

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de Havilland Mosquito B.XVIs, including the Percival-built PF563, closest to the camera. (visible serial numbers are PF563, 561 and 564)

(Color by Jecinci)

 

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Polish F/Lt. Joseph Zbigniew Żulikowski in a Spitfire Mk IXc (BS456) UZ-Z, Polish 306 'Torunski' Squadron at RAF Northolt.
November 16, 1942

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Ground crew carry out a daily inspection of Supermarine Spitfire Mark XVI, RR257 '9N-Y', of No. 127 Squadron RAF in muddy working conditions at B60/Grimbergen, Belgium.

 

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During the Third Ypres offensive, in the Battle of Broodseinde, Passchendaele Area in Belgium on the 4th of October 1917.

A German Regimental Commander, second from the left, with his Adjutant and Staff being held as prisoners of war in an enclosure at St Jean.
This group were captured in a dugout at Poelcapelle.

Broodseinde;
In the early hours of 4th of October, twelve divisions of British and Australian troops moved silently into position for the third stage of General Herbert Plumer's drive to secure the ridges to the east of Ypres. The objectives were about fifteen hundred yards away, and the advance would be covered by a creeping barrage, which would protect them while they consolidated their positions.
Before the attack began, the Australian troops were heavily shelled on their start line, losing about a seventh of their number as casualties. The Germans had chosen the same day - just fifteen minutes later - to launch their own attack, and as the Allied troops advanced, they were confronted by advancing Germans.
The Australians fought through the German advance and took their objectives, but suffered 6,500 casualties as they fought to take the well-defended German pillboxes.