Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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German tankers eating a meal by their winter-camouflaged Tiger, Russia, Jan-Feb 1944.

 

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Private L. C. Byrd from Tuscaloosa, Alabama photographed manning a 50. cal of an M4 Sherman of the 761st tank battalion near Nancy, France on the 5 November 1944.

 

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Private L. C. Byrd from Tuscaloosa, Alabama photographed manning a 50. cal of an M4 Sherman of the 761st tank battalion near Nancy, France on the 5 November 1944.

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Byrd was killed on November 9, 1944.

“Staff Sergeant Harvey Woodard and his tank crew were killed under mysterious circumstances. Not a single man inside the tank had been hit by a shell fragment or by a machine gun bullet. When the tank was opened, every man in the crew was sitting in his assigned position, with eyes staring, pupils dilated, and no fear showing on their faces. But every man in the crew was dead. The tank was buttoned up and had no damage to the exterior or interior. All was in order. What snuffed out Woodard and his crew? That was the question that nobody could answer with certainty. The cause could have been concussion from a burst of HE (high explosive) just over the turret top, which sucked out all the air and sent shock waves through the tank. More than likely it was carbon monoxide exposure, which was common in those tanks.”

 

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January 24th, 1941, Belgian soldiers apparently carelessly pose with an aerial bomb. Near Chimay, in the Ardennes, against the French border, the Germans force them to clear explosives.

The Munitions Destruction Service (Dienst voor Vernietiging van Munities - DVM) of the 'Groot Legerpark' (GLP, the manager of the Belgian ammunition depots) is kept in uniform after the capitulation and deployed as a clearing squad of explosives.
Demobilized soldiers and prisoners of war must search all over Belgium for bombs, grenades and land mines and defuse them. The deminers had to carry out this life-threatening work until August 1941, while often, fatal accidents occurred. In the early autumn of 1941 most soldiers are discharged and the prisoners of war are released.
Colourised PIECE of JAKE
Photo: courtesy Walter van Opstal

 

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M26 Pershing of the 14th Tank Battalion 9th Armored Division near Vettweiss, Germany, March 1945.

 

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Gleaves class destroyer USS Kearny (DD-432) in port at Reykjavik, Iceland, on 19 October 1941, two days after she had been torpedoed by the German submarine U-568. Sister ship USS Monssen (DD-436) is alongside. Note the torpedo hole in Kearny's midships starboard side.

 

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Snipers of the Bavarian 23. Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment which at this time saw service in Siebenburgen, deep in the Carpathian borderlands. 1917

 

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British Infantry moving up for the First Army attack on Longstop Hill, Tunisia, April 1943.

 

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A Finnish machine gun nest 100 metres from enemy. Photograph taken around 5 kilometres north of Lemetti on the 21 February 1940.

 

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Men of the 1/4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment in a sap-head of a front line trench at Givenchy, 28 January 1918.

(Photo source - © IWM Q 6473/Q 7265)
Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
(Colourised by Jecinci and Doug)

 

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During Operation 'Epsom' on June 26 1944 Lance Corporal Lodge of the 278th Field Company, Royal Engineers, examines a German hollow charge magnetic anti-tank mine.

 

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Finnish soldiers on guard near the Svir power plant. Photograph taken on the 11 January 1942..

 

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MG.08 machine gun team of the Kgl. Bayer. 2. Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment near Arras, April 1915

 

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The lunch of Kptlt. Günther Krech (U-558).

 

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A Kriegsmarine sailor from U-381 with a little friend.