Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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German airship L20 crashed 1916

British MG position Gallipoli 1915

Eaton college students mobilized - 1915 (squared away top hats!)

Royal Marines cleaning rifling on a 15 inch gun 1916 - unknown what ship

Italian Arditi with body armor 1917

Experimental MkIV amphibious tank 1917 (that has bad idea written all over it!)

Royal flying Corps aerial gunnery practice Egypt 1918

Dump of captured artillery pieces Paris 1919

 

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Royal Marines cleaning rifling on a 15 inch gun 1916 - unknown what shipView attachment 531383

Possibly HMS Royal Oak

 

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26 Jun 1918.
Austrian soldiers in the trenches near the Piave river, Northeast Italy
The Italian Royal Army considered the Piave as an insurmountable limit not to be crossed by the K.U.K. Army.

 

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26 June 1944
Men of 12 Platoon, 'B' Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 15th (Scottish) Division, take cover in Saint-Manvieu-Norrey in Calvados, during 'Operation Epsom'.

"The thin rain and fog were to mix with the smoke and dust from the barrage to create a fog bank in places. Aircraft in Britain were kept grounded by poor visibility so British forces were without one of their major advantages. As the barrage fell they moved forward to their start line, ahead of them the Royal Scots Fusiliers had begun the attack ....."
(Robert Woollcombe, platoon commander with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers (K.O.S.B.).
On 26th June, Montgomery launched 'Operation Epsom', a major attack aimed at the town of Caen, the major obstacle to British expansion in the east of the Normandy battlefield. The attack was led by the 44th (Lowland) Infantry Brigade and the 46th (Highland) Infantry Brigade of the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division with a number of famous regiments taking part including the Royal Scots, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Cameronians, the Seaforth Highlanders and the Gordon Highlanders.
(IWM - No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit)

 

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Soldiers from 92nd Infantry ('Buffalo') Division pursue the retreating German soldiers, Italy, April, 1945

 

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Two French soldiers in a trench somewhere in the Somme, France, ww1.

Colorized by: Marina Amaral

 

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Working on the tail fuse of a AN-M64 "Carpetbagger" General Purpose 500lb bomb in the forward bomb bay of a B-29 Superfortress.

 

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28 June 1944
A Churchill tank of 7th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Brigade, supporting infantry of 8th Royal Scots during Operation 'Epsom', Normandy.

© IWM B 6124
Stewart (Maj)
No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit