Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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RAF 234 Squadron, Australian Flying Officer Paterson Clarence Hughes aged 22. Summer 1940

KIA 7 September 1940
Hughes contributed 14 confirmed, 1 probable, 3 shared and 1 unconfirmed shared to this total, and became the highest-scoring Australian fighter pilot in the BoB.

 

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Bf 109E-1 "Red 14" of Unteroffizier Leo Zaunbrecher, 2./JG52, at Mays Farm, Selmeston, Sussex.

 

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Troops and civilians posing with Junkers Ju 88A-1 (B3+BM) of 4./Kampfgeschwader 54, which belly-landed on Marsh Farm, Earnley, West Sussex, on the evening of 21 August 1940.

It had been intercepted by No.17 Squadron Hurricanes during an attack on RAF Brize Norton.

© IWM (HU 73745)

 

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A German Heinkel He.111 long range medium bomber with it's Navigator, Pilot and Gunner in the glazed nose.

Pilots had to look outside through the same bullet-like glazing that was used by the bombardier and navigator. The pilot was seated on the left and the navigator/bomb aimer on the right. The navigator went forward to the prone bomb-aiming position or could tilt his chair to one side, to move into the rear of the aircraft. There was no cockpit floor below the pilot's feet—the rudder pedals being on arms—giving very good visibility below. Sliding and removable panels were manufactured into the nose glazing to allow the pilot, navigator and or bomb aimer to exit the aircraft quickly, without a time-consuming retreat into the fuselage.

 

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Pilots of No. 19 Squadron confer at Fowlmere, 21 September 1940.

Left to right: Flight Lieutenant Walter 'Farmer' Lawson, Squadron Leader Brian 'Sandy' Lane (the Squadron CO) and Flight Sergeant George 'Grumpy' Unwin. The strain of battle is evident on Lane's face. © IWM CH 1366

 

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A Home Guard soldier guards the wreck of Heinkel He 111P (W.Nr 1582: G1+FR) of 7./KG 55, which was shot down during an attack on Great Western Aerodrome (now Heathrow) and crash-landed at Honeysuckle Lane, High Salvington north of Worthing, West Sussex. 16 August 1940.

Pilot: Leutnant. Rudolf Theopold 58246/199 - Captured POW.
Observer: Unteroffizier. Rudolf Hornbostel 58246/403 - Captured POW.
Radio/Op: Gefreiter. Helmut Glaser 58246/128 - Captured POW.
Flt/Eng: Unteroffizier. Albert Weber 58246/123 - Killed.
Gunner: Gefreiter. Johannes Moorfeld 58246/411 - Killed.

On the return leg of the sortie, this bomber was intercepted at 4:55pm over Brighton at 2,500 ft by three Spitfires MK1’s. These British fighters, which were being flown by 602 Squadron, City of Glasgow, Blue Section, were based at RAF Westhampnett near Chichester. Apparently,the Heinkel turned and flew in a westerly direction along the coast for approximately ten miles towards Worthing, probably trying to out manoeuvre the Spitfires, and trying to avoid the machine gun fire. (aircrewremembrancesociety)

© IWM (HU 72684)

 

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Bf 109E-1. Werkn Nr 6296F of Stab lll/Jg 26. Codes <1+1.
Pilot Oberluetnant Werner Bartels, Geschwader Technical Officer. Shot down on 24 July 1940.
On display at Fairfield car park in Croydon, August 1940.

Photo by courtesy of Andy Saunders

 

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Standing: F/Lt Robert Oxspring, P/O Crelin Bodie, F/Lt Kenneth Gillies (KIA 4/10/40)
Seated: S/L Rupert Leigh, P/O Arthur Watkinson, P/O Hugh Heron, P/O Hubert Allen, Hewitt (Adjutant), P/O J Hutton (Intelligence Officer), P/O Hugh Reilley (KIA 17/10/40). Gravesend, September '40

 

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Pilots of 249 Squadron RAF, North Weald, Essex. 21 September 1940

l-r: P/O Percival Burton (KIA 27/9/40); Flt/Lt Robert Barton; Flt/Lt Albert Lewis; P/O Terry Crossey; P/O TOM NEIL; P/O Hugh Beazley; S/Ldr John Grandy C/O; P/O George Barclay (KIA 17/7/42); Flt/Lt Keith Lofts.

 

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On 26 August 1940, Sergeant Cyril Frederick Babbage of RAF No.602 Squadron makes land by Bognor Regis Pier in West Sussex, UK, after bailing out of his Spitfire Mk I (X4188) LO-M from RAF Westhampnett. Picked up by local fishermen, he goes to the local hospital.

 

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Junkers Ju 88A (WNr 0333) 4D+AD of Stab 111/KG30 force-landed on the beach at Pagham, West Sussex. September 9, 1940.

It was piloted by Gruppe Kommandeur Major Hackbarth and his crew comprised Oberfeldwebel Manger, Unteroffizier Sawallisch and Gefreiter Petermann. The first two survived but the other two died in an attack almost certainly launched from Kenley, probably by 253 Squadron Hurricanes or possibly by Spitfires of 66 Squadron.

 

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Flight Sergeant George Unwin, Flight Lieutenant Walter Lawson and Sergeant David Edward Lloyd of No. 19 Squadron at RAF Fowlmere, September 1940

 

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Heinkel He111 H-2 coded V4+HV of Kampfgeschwader 1 which was force landed at Haxted Farm, Lingfield, in Surrey at 11:35 am on 30 August 1940.

It was attacking Farnborough and was shot up by a No.253 Squadron Hurricane flown by P/O John Peter Greenwood.

 

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Pilots of 19 Squadron RAF by Manor Farm at Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire. September 1940.

l-r: Sgt David E Lloyd, F/Sgt George C 'Grumpy' Unwin, unknown, F/O Hugh S L Dundas (of No. 616 Squadron RAF), F/Sgt Harry Steere and Sqn/Ldr Brian J E 'Sandy' Lane.
(© IWM CH 1370)

 

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Ground crew refuelling a Hawker Hurricane Mk I GZ+L (P2921) of No. 32 Squadron from an Albion AM463 3-Point Refueller whilst the pilot, Flt/L. Pete Brothers waits in the cockpit at Hawkinge, July 29, 1940.

© IWM HU 57450

 

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30 September 1940

Oberleutnant Karl Fischer’s Bf109E-1 (Wn.4851 9+) of 7./Jagdgeschwader 27, after a forced landing near Queen Anne’s Gate, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire.

 

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A guarded Junkers Ju 88A (WNr 0333) 4D+AD of Stab 111/KG30 which force-landed on the beach at Pagham, West Sussex. September 9, 1940.

It was piloted by Gruppe Kommandeur Major Hackbarth and his crew comprised Oberfeldwebel Manger, Unteroffizier Sawallisch and Gefreiter Petermann. The first two survived but the other two died in an attack almost certainly launched from Kenley, probably by 253 Squadron Hurricanes or possibly by Spitfires of 66 Squadron.

Photo by courtesy of Andy Saunders

 

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Canadian Flight Lieutenant Howard Peter "Cowboy" Blatchford DFC of No. 257 Squadron RAF climbing out of his Hawker Hurricane Mark I at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk. ca.1940/41

(He was killed in action - 3 May 1943 aged 31)

He became Commanding Officer of No. 257 Squadron RAF in July 1941. Blatchford was then promoted to Wing Commander in September that year, becoming Wing leader of the Digby Wing. He finished his tour of duty in April 1942, returning to operations in February 1943 and Wing Commander of the Coltishall Wing.

Leading the wing to escort bombers attacking a power station in Amsterdam, Blatchford was shot down and killed in action on 3 May 1943 by Obfw. Hans Ehlers of II Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 1. His body was never found.
He is commemorated on the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede.

Blatchford had by this time claimed 5 aircraft shot down, 3 shared aircraft shot down, 3 'probables', 4 damaged and 1 shared damaged.

(Photo source © IWM CH 1670)

 

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Junkers 88A-1 3Z+BB (Wk Nº 4136) of Stab 1./KG 77 crashed landed at Eastend Green Farm near Hertingfordbury, Herts., 3 October 1940

Pilot Oblt. Siegward Fiebig and his crew survived and were made prisoners of war.

 

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F/O Richard 'George' Arthur Barclay aged 20, RAF 249 Squadron, North Weald. September 1940.

KIA 17 July 1942