Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[Conhoon]

British Mark IV tank, 1917.

 

[BravoZulu]

Wren Air Mechanics feeding ammunition into the Browning guns of a Hawker Sea Hurricane aircraft at the Fleet Air Arm airfield at Yeovilton, Somerset. Original colour

 

[Conhoon]

Draining Trenches. 22nd Infantry Battalion (French Canadian). July, 1916.

The 22nd Battalion (French Canadian), CEF, was a battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War.
The battalion was authorised on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Great Britain on 20 May 1915. It disembarked in France on 15 September 1915, where it fought as part of the 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion was disbanded on 15 September 1920
(Photo source - Dept. of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada/PA-000396)
Colourised by Bob Hossack

 

[NebrHogger]

Churchill tank testing a device for climbing seawalls - 1944.

Demonstration of the newly designed Maus super heavy tank via a model. Wolf's Lair 1943.

French partisans with newly acquired German kit. Corsica 1944.