Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Ukraine in Summer 1942

 

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Waffen-SS POW of Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler

A column of German occupation troops paraded in the streets of Paris after change of the guard ceremony

 

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Heldengedenktag, Kassel, 1935

Heldengedenktag. SS parade on Reichs Veterans Day in Kassel, 4. June 1939

Josef Goebels, Nationalgalerie, Berlin

December 1941, war is declared on USA

 

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German motorcycle couriers, Soviet Union, 1941

Marksmanship training while wearing a gas mask

44th Infantry in Russia in 1941.

 

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Oberleutnant Walter Grasemann (23 July 1917 - 26 November 2007), Staffelkapitän of 9.Staffel / III.Gruppe / Kampfgeschwader 27 (KG 27) "Boelcke", in front of a Heinkel He 111 with the code 1G+BT after receiving the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes (Knight's Cross of the Iron Crosses) in 9 October 1943. Grasemann was awarded the decoration for his successes against railway targets and industrial facilities. The Staffel letter "T" and the yellow aircraft letter "B" identify the aircraft in the background as belonging to 9. Staffel. The first two letters of the manufacturer's code in front of the Balkenkreuz were only thinly overpainted, rendering the black characters of the unit code "1G" barely visible. The He 111 is an H-20 with the DL 131 rotating turret in the dorsal position. The aircraft are in the process of being refueled and a fuel truck may be seen on the extreme left of the photograph.

Panzerbefehlswagen (Command Tank) III Ausf H(U) Tauchfahrig (Submersible Motor Vehicle)

German soldiers wearing captured telogreika. Telogreika (Russian: "body warmer") or vatnik is a Russian kind of warm cotton wool-padded jacket

A Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.F1, wearing it's standard grey paint scheme, Battle of Moscow in the end 1941

 

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An armoured column (visible are Sd.Kfz.251 and Panzer II) of the 11. Panzer-Division "Gespenster Division" passes the disabled vehicles and burning trucks of the Yugoslav 5th Army in the Serbian town of Niš, near Morava river. Four days later, after initially easy and then also heavy and exhausting battles, the division entered the Yugoslav capital. The picture was taken in 9 April 1941 by Kriegsberichter Artur Grimm from Propaganda-Kompanie (PK) 691.

This Messerschmitt Bf 109G-1 "Weisse 10" (Werknummer 19881) of I.Gruppe / Jagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52) is undergoing maintenance by its ground-crew on an airfield at Gostagayewskaya, north-east of Anapa in the southern part of Heeresgruppe Süd (Army Group South), summer of 1943. We can see a Daimler-Benz DB 605 Engine imside the open cowling, and also the RLM 77 Hellgrau camouflage pattern

Some of the 1,096 German prisoners of war who have arrived on HM Landing Ship Tank (LST-165) at Gosport, Hampshire, June 1944. This is the first transport with prisoners from the Allied invasion of Normandy. They will be interrogated and distributed to various camps according to their classification. Man with the blanket under arm is wearing the ribbon of Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (Ostmedaille) in his uniform. Probably counting himself as a lucky survivor of the war. The picture was taken by Reinhard Schultz

Dispatch rider from a Luftwaffe Field Division stands next to his DKW NZ250 krad

 

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Evacuation of wounded militiamen during the "Siege of the Alcázar de Toledo " (Toledo, Central Spain ), September 1936.

 

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October 7, 1920 Poland signed the Suwalki Treaty with Lithuania, recognizing the Vilnius region as part of Lithuania. However, two days after the signing of this treaty, Poland broke the agreement and seized Vilnius and the Vilnius region, which it ruled until 1939.

October 27-29, 1939, after 19 years of occupation of the Vilnius region, the Lithuanian army entered the Lithuanian capital.

 

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Italian sailors relax on top of a CB-class midget submarine moored next a German S-boat, Crimea, 1942

 

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October 7, 1920 Poland signed the Suwalki Treaty with Lithuania, recognizing the Vilnius region as part of Lithuania. However, two days after the signing of this treaty, Poland broke the agreement and seized Vilnius and the Vilnius region, which it ruled until 1939.

October 27-29, 1939, after 19 years of occupation of the Vilnius region, the Lithuanian army entered the Lithuanian capital.

The interesting part is that the Soviet Army seized the city from Poles, handed it over to Lithuanians, and then annexed Lithuania in its entirety a few months later.

 

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A British Sherman Firefly patrolling the Meuse at Namur, 1944

 

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Glider troops of "D" Company, 2nd Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who had been on their way to DZ-W to collect supplies, pose for a photograph with a local French girl on a German DKW NZ 350 motorbike in Bénouville, Calvados. 15 June 1944

Left to right: Private Musty (with a German MP40 machine gun), CQMS Smith, Captain Brian Priday, an unknown 12th Devonshires man, L/Cpl William Lambley and Private Frank Gardner.

(The Hotel/Bar is still there and is now named 'La Glycine' in Place du Commando)

(Photo source - © IWM B 5585)
Mapham, James (Sergeant)
No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
Colour by Doug

 

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Sherman tank of the 9th Royal Deccan Horse, 255th Indian Tank Brigade, Burma 1945

 

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A US Marine reaches through the barbed wire of a civilian containment area to give a young Japanese boy candy during the Battle of Tinian. 1944

 

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A Soviet vehicle burns fiercely after being destroyed by German anti-tank gunners using a 3.7cm PaK, 1941

 

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A medic from the 1st Infantry Division helps a wounded German soldier in Normandy. July 1944

A medic and infantryman from the 70th Infantry Division take cover from German artillery. February 17, 1945

An M4A3E8 and other vehicles of the 11th Armored Division crossing the Mühl River in Austria, May 1945.

 

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"FLATFOOTFLOOGIE", a M4A3E8 of the 41st Tank Battalion, 11th Armored Division, 24 March 1945 Germany

M4A3(76) 31st Tank Battalion 7th Armored Division

 

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Soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division fighting on the Streets of Manila -1945, Dewey Blvd

 

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Reconnaissance operation in the area of Sinyavino, 1944

Colour by Olga Shirnina (Klimbim)

 

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Waffen-SS POW of Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler

With regards the above picture the German was being questioned by the British Military Police with regards the large amount of cash he had on him when taken P.O.W.