Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[NebrHogger]

German airship L20 crashed 1916

British MG position Gallipoli 1915

Eaton college students mobilized - 1915 (squared away top hats!)

Royal Marines cleaning rifling on a 15 inch gun 1916 - unknown what ship

Italian Arditi with body armor 1917

Experimental MkIV amphibious tank 1917 (that has bad idea written all over it!)

Royal flying Corps aerial gunnery practice Egypt 1918

Dump of captured artillery pieces Paris 1919

 

[BravoZulu]

Royal Marines cleaning rifling on a 15 inch gun 1916 - unknown what shipView attachment 531383

Possibly HMS Royal Oak

 

[Conhoon]

26 Jun 1918.
Austrian soldiers in the trenches near the Piave river, Northeast Italy
The Italian Royal Army considered the Piave as an insurmountable limit not to be crossed by the K.U.K. Army.

 

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26 June 1944
Men of 12 Platoon, 'B' Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 15th (Scottish) Division, take cover in Saint-Manvieu-Norrey in Calvados, during 'Operation Epsom'.

"The thin rain and fog were to mix with the smoke and dust from the barrage to create a fog bank in places. Aircraft in Britain were kept grounded by poor visibility so British forces were without one of their major advantages. As the barrage fell they moved forward to their start line, ahead of them the Royal Scots Fusiliers had begun the attack ....."
(Robert Woollcombe, platoon commander with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers (K.O.S.B.).
On 26th June, Montgomery launched 'Operation Epsom', a major attack aimed at the town of Caen, the major obstacle to British expansion in the east of the Normandy battlefield. The attack was led by the 44th (Lowland) Infantry Brigade and the 46th (Highland) Infantry Brigade of the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division with a number of famous regiments taking part including the Royal Scots, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Cameronians, the Seaforth Highlanders and the Gordon Highlanders.
(IWM - No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit)

 

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Soldiers from 92nd Infantry ('Buffalo') Division pursue the retreating German soldiers, Italy, April, 1945

 

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Two French soldiers in a trench somewhere in the Somme, France, ww1.

Colorized by: Marina Amaral

 

[BravoZulu]

Working on the tail fuse of a AN-M64 "Carpetbagger" General Purpose 500lb bomb in the forward bomb bay of a B-29 Superfortress.

 

[Conhoon]

28 June 1944
A Churchill tank of 7th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Brigade, supporting infantry of 8th Royal Scots during Operation 'Epsom', Normandy.

© IWM B 6124
Stewart (Maj)
No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Low level He111 flying over Hetzer38 on the Eastern Front.

 

[Redav]

Two German soldiers trying to reassure a scared little girl, note that the soldier on the right gave her his own cap

 

[Conhoon]

Sgt. J Whawell (left) of London and Sgt. John Turl of Gloucester, both of the E Squadron, 2nd Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment, search for German snipers, Kneppelhoutweg, Oosterbeek, The Netherlands, September 1944

Colorized by: colourisedpieceofjake

 

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June 30, 1944
The crew of a British Sherman named 'Akilla' of 1st Nottingham Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, 8th Armoured Brigade, after having destroyed five German tanks (1 x Tiger, 2 x Panthers and 2 x Panzer IV’s) in a day, Rauray, Calvados, France

Left to right:
Sgt George Dring, Harry Hodkin (gunner), Blondie Denton - standing (lap gunner), Spike Bennett (operator), Sid Gould (driver).
IWM - Christie (Sergeant) Photographer
Colour by Doug Colourising History

 

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Groundcrew prepare to load up RNZAF Venturas from the No. 10 Servicing Unit.
Emirau, 1944

Ventura NZ4608 in the background
RNZAF photo
Colourised by Dan

 

[uktabber]

GREAT PICS mate, THANKS for posting!!

 

[Conhoon]

1 July 1916. The first day of the Battle of the Somme

Troops of the Royal Irish Rifles resting in a communication trench during the opening hours of the Battle of the Somme.
The offensive began at 7.30am on 1 July 1916. Many of the infantry who went over the top were volunteers of 1914, including Pals battalions made up of friends, relatives and workmates serving side by side. This was their first experience of a major action in the largest attack the British Army had yet conducted.
The first day of the Somme was the deadliest day in British military history – of the 57,470 British casualties, 19,240 men had been killed. But there was no question of suspending the offensive with the French still heavily engaged at Verdun. Ultimately the Battle of the Somme would continue for another four months. It became an attritional battle of limited territorial gain, but one that taught British commanders important lessons for later fighting on the Western Front.
(Photo source - © IWM Q1)
Colourised by Doug