Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[BravoZulu]

Somme 1916 - 36th Ulster Division

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Both my grandfathers fought through the Somme. My paternal grandfather was a British army regular who went to France in late 1914 with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers along with his brother in law. They both fought through to the Armistice with my great uncle fighting in Russia in 1919-20 in the expeditionary force. We will never see their like again ?

 

[Conhoon]

Fallschirmjägers - German paratroopers in the Dodecanese islands in Greece, WWII.

 

[Conhoon]

Both my grandfathers fought through the Somme. My paternal grandfather was a British army regular who went to France in late 1914 with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers along with his brother in law. They both fought through to the Armistice with my great uncle fighting in Russia in 1919-20 in the expeditionary force. We will never see their like again ?

Fallen in Russia?

 

[NebrHogger]

I've been to Little Big Horn and walked the battlefield, Custer was a tactical moron with a death wish to seek a fight on that ground

Also very arrogant. His scouts told him he was a dead man, but he ridiculed them... and died for it.

 

[BravoZulu]

Fallen in Russia?

No mate he went home when the British forces withdrew in 1920. My great uncle fought pretty much from 1914-1920. He emigrated to Australia in the 50s with my dad's family. He and my grandfather were pretty inseperable

 

[Conhoon]

Three Falangist soldiers during the Spanish Civil War, 1937

The Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FE de las Jons), was a fascist political party founded in 1934 as a merger of the Falange Española and the Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista
The Falange Española de las JONS, which became the main Fascist group during the Second Spanish Republic, ceased to exist as such when, during the Civil War, General Francisco Franco merged it with the Traditional Communion in April 1937 to form the similarly named Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS, which became the sole legal party in Spain until its dissolution in 1977
Image is provided from Academia Colecciones and is donated by Publio López Mondéjar in 2012. All rights reserved
Photographed by Albert-Louis Deschamps

 

[Conhoon]

No mate he went home when the British forces withdrew in 1920. My great uncle fought pretty much from 1914-1920. He emigrated to Australia in the 50s with my dad's family. He and my grandfather were pretty inseperable

I'm glad. At first I got it wrong (my English fails sometimes). An interesting story.

 

[Conhoon]

Private B. Jones of the 5th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 43rd (Wessex) Division, during the assault on Geilenkirchen in Germany, 18 November 1944.

Photograph taken by Sergeant C. H. Hewitt. © IWM (B 11927)

 

[Conhoon]

The First Battle of Ream's Station was fought on June 29, 1864, during the Wilson-Kautz Raid of the American Civil War.

Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. William Mahone and Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee defeated Union cavalry raiding Confederate railroads south of Petersburg, Virginia.
Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson and staff of nine. Capt. Louis Seibert, Capt. Perkins, Capt. Sayles, Maj. C.E. Hackley, Lieut. Hull, Lieut. J.W. Andrews, Lieut. Yard, Capt. Edward H. Noyes, Capt. Russell. This picture was taken just before the Reams Station Raid.

 

[colin traveller]

Pilots of No. 43 Squadron sitting round the stove at readiness in their dispersal hut, at the RAF station just north of the Village of Dream in East Lothian, Scotland 25 April 1941.

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Drem North Berwick ... Where the Fenton Barns is across from that i think is where the Airfield was

 

[uktabber]

Fallschirmjägers - German paratroopers in the Dodecanese islands in Greece, WWII.
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What are they climbing onto?? That's some sort of German floatplane??

 

[Conhoon]

What are they climbing onto?? That's some sort of German floatplane??

In my humble opinion it looks like the Fokker T.VIII or Heinkel He 115.

Fokker - because the planes captured in the Netherlands (the construction of which was completed by the Germans and incorporated into the Luftwaffe) were used during operations in the Mediterranean.

Heinkel He 115

 

[BravoZulu]

A wounded Belgian lancer is given a drink by an English newspaper correspondent as his fellow comrades try to make him comfortable near Audergham in August 1914

 

[BravoZulu]

P-40

 

[Conhoon]

April 8, 1945
PFC Urban R. "Frenchy" Vachon (Laconia, New Hampshire) is having a little rest after hours of fierce fighting during the deadly Battle of Okinawa.
Frenchy faced death multiple times, but he survived the war and returned to New Hampshire.

He passed away on April 27, 1998, and is now resting in peace at Pine Grove Cemetery in Gilmanton Ironworks, New Hampshire.
On the picture, sitting behind Frenchy, is the legendary war correspondent Ernie Pyle who was killed by Japanese machine gun fire only ten days later, on April 18th, 1945.
Colour by Jake Colourised PIECE of JAKE
Source: USNA

 

[Conhoon]

Canadian Sergeant William Gerard Hussen (Fort Garry Horse, Winnipeg) is sitting on a destroyed Sherman tank, showing the impact of a projectile on the side of the turret, Bayeux, France, June 14, 1944.

 

[santana]

P-40
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The Famous Flying Tigers???

 

[BravoZulu]

The Famous Flying Tigers???

Yes mate

 

[santana]

Yes mate

Did was "Pappy Boyington" a Squad Leader of the Flying Tigers in China???

 

[Conhoon]

Infantry of the Canadian Regiment de Maisonneuve moving through Holten to Rijssen, both towns in the 'middle east' of the Netherlands. 9 April 1945.

On 7 July 1944, the battalion landed in France as part of the 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. It suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of the Scheldt, and was notably depleted by the time of the Battle of Walcheren Causeway.
The unit recovered during the winter and was again in action during the Rhineland fighting and the final weeks of the war, taking part in the final campaigns in northern Netherlands, the Battle of Groningen, and the final attacks on German soil.
The overseas battalion was disbanded on 15 December 1945.
The mill is the Looker Mölle and was built in 1899.
In 1942 there was a crude oil engine and the mill still had a wooden shaft and rods. The grain meal company had expired, the mill was out of operation but still in good condition and there was a sawmill located.
In 1949 the mill was restored and streamlined but burned down completely on a Saturday evening, June 17/18, 1961.
Colourised PIECE of JAKE
(Photo source - National Archives and Records Administration, (NAID) 541913.)