Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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RCN:
River-class frigate HMCS Thetford Mines (K459) in 1944-45. Her main armament is a twin 4″/45 (10.2 cm) QF (Quick Fire) Mk XVI in an Mk XIX open-rear mount. Location unknown.

 

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They all appear to be the same class, why is the one in front longer?

U.S. Navy Destroyer Division Six, Destroyer Squadron Three (DesDiv 6, DesRon 3) at San Diego, California (USA), in October 1941. Ships are (from inboard): USS Clark (DD-361), Squadron flagship; USS Case (DD-370), Division flagship; USS Cummings (DD-365); USS Shaw (DD-373); USS Tucker (DD-374). Note that these destroyers are painted in at least two different camouflage schemes. A tuna boat is passing in the background.

USS Clark is a destroyer leader and a Porter class and is a bigger vessel, the others are all Mahan class destroyers.

 

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Soviet 1st Squadron of the 15th Guards Ground Attack Aviation Regiment.

Soviet soldiers at the 24 June 1945 Victory Day Parade in Moscow. These are specially made uniforms for this event only known as the "Victory Dress."

 

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German soldiers advancing near the ruins of Stalingrad Tractor Factory.

German soldiers marching down the road in Russia.

 

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Spanish Blue Division soldier at the front in 1941. The Blue Division held the Volkhov River line south of Leningrad.

 

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A German soldier with his German Shepherd.

German soldiers in the Netherlands, 1940.

 

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German soldiers at a graveyard in North Africa.

 

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A Cossack in German service.

 

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Coming ashore at Normandy, June 1944.

 

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German soldiers neutralising a Soviet sniper who was using a Degtyaryov machine gun or DP-27, 1941.

Waffen SS Troops with Halftracks and Panther V Ausf G tanks during Soviet Operation Bagration in mid-1944.

 

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Allied troops on the move (capture from combat footage).

(capture from original footage).

A late-war Allied parachute drop (capture from original combat footage).

 

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Civilians watch a German convoy late in World War II (capture from original footage).

A German squad during the Battle of Stalingrad

 

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Soviet Marines detachment of Major Caesar Kunikov, 1943.

Members of the 7th Guards Tank Corps with a T-34-85 crew in Berlin, 1945.

 

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Swedish soldiers with a KSP m/14-29 during World War II.

German Waffen-SS machinegunner.

 

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RAF plane plotters.

Imperial Japanese burial ceremony in China, 1938.

 

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Operation Barbarossa

German soldiers armed with MG-34s and KAR-98 rifles escorting two Soviet POWs (USSR 1941).

 

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A US soldier wielding an M1 Garand

US soldiers of C Company, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division seek shelter behind an M-4 Sherman tank at Geich.

 

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Roza Georgiyevna Shanina 3 April 1924 – 28 January 1945 was a Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius.
She became the first servicewoman of the 3rd Belorussian Front to receive the Order of Glory. Shanina was killed in action during the East Prussian Offensive while shielding the severely wounded commander of an artillery unit.

Soviet soldiers celebrating the relief of Leningrad, 18 January 1943.

 

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Fallschirmjäger.

 

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World War 1 Colourisation by Klimbim https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/category/world-war-1/

Russian nurse, WW1

Sisters of mercy

The arrival of Emperor Nicholas II at the location of the 1st Army of General A.I. Litvinov, January 30, 1916, Dvinsk district.

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