Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[Conhoon]

Phone in the trench, 1915
Russian Imperial Army, 4th battery of the 10th Artillery Brigade of the Western Front

Color by Olga Shirnina (Klimbim)

 

[BravoZulu]

Ruins of the Reichstag in Berlin June 3, 1945. Only weeks after Germany surrendered.

 

[Conhoon]

Portrait of Colour Sergeant Andrew Taylor( 72nd Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot.
Aldershot 1856.

Royal Archives, Windsor Collection.
Colourised by Fredrick Duriez

 

[Conhoon]

USS Miami ( Federal 730-ton Gunboat).
Members of the ships crew on the forecastle,circa 1864-1865.

Frank W. Hacket, a former officer of the ship wrote in 1910: The Officer standing in the background, at the extreme prow of the ship is W.N.Wells, Executive Officer.
The man in the foreground with his arm on the nine inch gun is White,the gunner.
Sergeant of Marines, Stanley is sitting in the Fore-ground,near the capstan.
Anti-Boarding nettings are rigged on each side of the Ship but rolled up in way of the bow guns.
Schooner in background (unnamed) for coaling the Miami( either pre or post which explains rolled up netting) location is possibly near Roanoke Island, North Carolina Sounds.
USS Miami started out in the Gulf of Mexico to participate in the campaign against New Orleans. Once that city was captured, Miami operated on the Gulf and the Mississippi River until September until 1862, when she transferred to the Atlantic.
During the next two years,Miami was employed in the North Carolina Sounds area, participating in a number of actions.
On April 19 1864, she engaged the Confederate ironclad Ablemarle, which resulted in the death of the commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Charles W. Flusser.
Late 1864, Shifted to James River, Virginia, and spent the remainder of the Civil War in that area. Decommissioned May 1865.
Photograher- Mathew Brady
Source- US Naval Historical Center(NH#60873)
Colourised by Jecinci

 

[Conhoon]

Officers of the 69th "Fighting Irish" State Militia posing atop a M.1845 24 pounder barbette-carriage in Fort Cocoran, Virginia, early July 1861.

Officer at far left is the 69th Regimental Commander Col Micheal Cocoran.
Officer with arm in sling in Cocoran's second in command Lt Col Robert Nugent( injury from fall from horse).
Fort Cocoran was one of the 33 earthen fortifications in the Arlington line, Virginia.
and part of a complex to defend the aqueduct bridge over the Potomac river.
Originally designed to hold twelve heavy pieces and a Garrison of 180 artillery men within its 576 yard enclose( numbers varied)
Note: In a obviously posed photo this Gun may have been chosen for photograph for one of the two reasons( or both).
The 69th Regimental Chaplain Father Thomas Mooney baptized the guns and this may have been taken to capture moment afterwards.
or When President Lincoln visited ( Close friends with Cocoran) 69th gave him a firepower demonstration with one of the guns with grapeshot (aginst a tent). Lincoln was so impressed that the gun used was named "Uncle Abrams Gun".
photosource
Library of Congress-LC-B8184-B
Photographer- Brady, Mathew.
Colourised by Jecinci

 

[BravoZulu]

Italian battleship Roma

 

[BravoZulu]

US Coast Guard crew of cutter Spencer watched as a depth charge exploded near U-175, North Atlantic, 500nm WSW of Ireland, 17 Apr 1943. U-175 was sunk in this engagement

 

[BravoZulu]

An M4A3 Sherman of B Company, covered in sandbags, on top, US Army Captain Willard V. Horne, communications officer, hands the receiver of a mobile radio to LT. Stanley James, Alsace, France 1945

 

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African-American Union soldiers at Dutch Gap, Virginia in November 1864. Free black men and former slaves joined the Union Army ranks as the war progressed and the Union lifted restrictions barring the raising of "colored" regiments due to the need for more men who were willing to fight. In total, more than 180,000 black men served in the U.S. Army, with another 20,000-plus black sailors serving in the U.S. Navy.

 

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About 20 minutes after the 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, known as the "Screaming Demons," hurdled over this section of wall in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on May 3, 1863, Andrew J. Russell photographed the Confederate soldiers who had died trying to hold it. In the sunken ditch between the road and the wall, several dead Confederate soldiers can be seen laying where they fell.

 

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The crew of the USS Monitor, one of the very first "ironclads" — steam-powered ships made with an iron hull — cook food on deck on July 9, 1862.U.S. Naval History And Heritage Command

 

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Corporal Francis E. Brownell, of the 11th New York Infantry "Fire Zouave" Regiment, in the Zouave uniform inspired by the elite French units of the same name. Brownell won the first Civil War Medal of Honor when he shot and killed a Confederate-sympathizing tavern owner who had just shot and killed Colonel E.E. Ellsworth, the leader of the Fire Zouaves, during the First Battle of Bull Run.Brady-Handy Photograph Collection/Library of Congress

 

[BravoZulu]

RN:
Iron Duke class superdreadnought HMS Emperor of India seen in 1919. Colourised by Irootoko Jr.

 

[Conhoon]

King George V with Brigadier General John Becke at the Bray-Dunes aerodrome, 5 July 1917. Edward, the Prince of Wales, is looking at a Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 biplane.

Colour by RJM

 

[morris]

Confederate dead lay fallen following the Battle of Antietam, which began in Sharpsburg, Maryland on Sept. 17, 1862. This particularly bloody clash produced more than 15,000 casualties in the first eight hours of fighting alone. A farm lane cutting through the battlefield, seen here, was called "Bloody Lane" because of the 5,000 who died there.
Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress

Partially titled "A Harvest of Death," this Battle at Gettysburg photo from July 1863 shows only about a dozen of the approximately 7,000 men who died during the most important battle of the entire war. After the forces of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee clashed with those of Union Gen. George Meade in this southern Pennsylvania town, the South's northward advance was forever halted and the war had reached its turning point.
Timothy H. O'Sullivan/Library of Congress

African-Americans collecting the bones of soldiers killed during the Battle of Cold Harbor, near Mechanicsville, Virginia, in the spring of 1864.
John Reekie/Library of Congress

 

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Bodies of Confederate artillerymen near Sharpsburg, Maryland after the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862 — the single deadliest day in U.S.
military history.National Parks Service

A Confederate soldier lays dead on the battlefield.
Titled "A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania," this photo and other Civil War photos like it present armed conflict in a grim, unsanitized way that markedly contrasts earlier centuries' artistic depictions of the glories of war.

 

[Conhoon]

Destroyed cannon of the 5th battery in a hidden position near the village of Tsetsery, 1915

 

[NebrHogger]

Colorized images from 1940.

German logistics advance in France, 1940

Old French tanks taken out early in the war.

British AA vs. Luftwaffe

Hungarian troops having lunch in Transylvania

Open air market in Warsaw during the invasion

Dunkirk after the fact

Rotterdam, Holland prior to the capitulation

 

[BravoZulu]

The first landing of an aircraft upon a moving vessel, Aug 2nd 1917. Commander Edwin Dunning lands his Sopwith Pup aboard HMS Furious on the 2nd of August 1917. Tragically he would lose his life attempting a second landing. Colourised by Irootoko Jr.

At the time, Furious still had her superstructure, funnel, and after turret located on the centerline. Pilots were expected to approach from astern and "sideslip" on to the deck. Obviously this was not workable in practice and she had a full carrier conversion in the 20's

 

[BravoZulu]

the German pre-dreadnought battleship "Schleswig-Holstein" bombards Polish positions in Westerplatte, from the harbour of Danzig (now Gdansk), on the early morning of September 1st, 1939. These were the first shots of WW2. Colourised by https://www.reddit.com/user/Thanarcon_Next/