Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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No the guy to the right is Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.
He is shown here inspecting the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy, 30 May 1944

 

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World War II

 

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World War II

 

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World War II

 

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World War II

 

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BF-109e on Romanian AAir Force in Karpovka stalingrad area nov-1942

 

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Romanian infantry on Don" Bend , 23.01.1943

 

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romanian soldier with ZB 53 machine gun , here used as an AA gun

 

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Romanian observation post on Kuban , russia , 14..04.1943

 

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An American Combat Photographer from the 165th Signal Photo Company, points out a hole made by a shell on an abandoned PzKpfw Ausf. B, King Tiger

A German paratrooper (Fallschirmjäger) with an MG 42 (Maschinengewehr 42) machine gun positions himself to fire on Allied forces. Near Sainte-Mère-Église, Manche, Normandy, France. 21st of June 1944

27 June 1944 - Members of the 23rd Field Ambulance, R.C.A.M.C. laying flowers on graves. From left to right : Private W. Young, H. Roach, M.G. Newberry. The left grave, Private A.J. Barnes is still in the cemetery. The church is located in Basly, France.

U.S. Army soldiers of 315th Infantry Regiment,79th Infantry Division, fire on enemy German positions with an M1 Bazooka during the Battle of Normandy. Lessay, Manche, Lower Normandy, France,18 July 1944.

Dec 43 Torokina Bougainville, 75mm Howitzer H battery 3rd battalion USMC regiment

Canadian Medics aid wounded comrade in Normandy 1944

 

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The Battle of Arnhem, Nijmegen and Eindhoven (Operation Market Garden) 17–25 September 1944.

Colourisations by Johhny Sirlande, Lopatin V., Paul Reynolds, Royston Leonard and Doug

L/Cpl Paddy McGiven, Sapper Charles Grier and wounded Sapper Dick Robb all from B troop, 1 Para Squadron, Royal Engineers. This picture was taken at 1530hrs on Wednesday the 20th September 1944, in a builders yard near their last position held at the Van Limburg Stirum School in Arnhem.

Men of No 3 Platoon, R Company, 1st Parachute Battalion, 1st (British) Airborne Division armed with Bren gun and No. 4 rifles defend a large shell hole outside Arnhem, during Operation ‘Market Garden’, 17th September 1944.

Men of “E Squadron” Glider Pilot Regiment photographed at RAF Down Ampney shortly before ‘Operation Market Garden’ in September 1944.
The men pictured here piloted Horsa Gliders in to the operational area on the 17th & 18th of September 1944.

These troopers are South Staffordshires captured around the Museum in the failed attempt to break through to the Bridge on September 1944. They are standing in front of the Musis Sacrum in Arnhem, where they were filmed, and then interrogated.

Two British Airborne troopers dug in near Oosterbeek, Holland on 18th September 1944, showing the woodland fought in on the western side of the British perimeter.

1st Airborne Division soldiers use parachutes to signal to Allied supply aircraft from the grounds of 1st Airborne Division’s HQ at the Hartenstein Hotel in Oosterbeek, 23rd September 1944.

Four men of the 156th Parachute Battalion moving through a shell-damaged house in Oosterbeek, near Arnhem, Netherlands. 23rd.September 1944.

Brigadier General Gerald Higgins, assistant division commander for the 101st Airborne Division. The photo was taken in England just before the 101st dropped into Holland during Operation Market-Garden on September 17, 1944

A 3-inch mortar team of Nº23 Mortar Platoon, Support Company, 1st (Airlanding) Battalion, Border Regiment, bombarding enemy positions from the edge of the woodland to the south of Van Lennepweg.
The team are (left to right) Privates Norman ‘Jock’ Knight, Ron ‘Ginger’ Tierney and Cpl. Jim McDowell. All three were safely evacuated from Arnhem though Knight was wounded.

A British Paratrooper taking aim with an American M1 carbine from the first floor balcony of the Hartenstein Hotel in Oosterbeek, near Arnhem in The Netherlands. September 1944.

Paratroopers of 1st Allied Airborne Army receiving a final briefing before embarking on Operation Market Garden, 17 Sep 1944

 

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The Anglo-Boer War (The South African War) – 1899 – 1902

Boer Commando

Boer war Kmdt. JC Lotter – Executed by the British

Shop during Boer war

General Snuman and Commandant Botha.

Boer guns

It is estimated than more than 40 000 Boer farms were burned by the British during the Boer War

Boer Artillery

Boer Gun at Stormberg

An old black and white photo and a modern photo overlay, both of the same location, just at different times in history.

Boer ladies on horses

3 Generations of Boers

Many Americans fought alongside the Boers. They vowed not to cut their hair until the British were kicked out of the Republics.
http://www.henrileriche.com/boer-war-color-extraordinary-black-white-photos-comes-life/

 

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Great Boer war photos there mate

 

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The Anglo-Boer War (The South African War) – 1899 – 1902
Boer infantry

Boer commando 1899-1902

 

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Boer War Colourised Photographs

Boer Creusot 75mm gun on the Natal front December 1899 overlooking Colenso and the Tugela river.

Lancashire Fusiliers in barracks before departure to South Africa

Canadians climbing a Kopje

37 mm Maxim "Pom Pom"

Heliographists at the Fort in Johannesburg.

Boer Telegraphists at a temporary station

A Sergeant Major in the Lothian and Border Horse Yeomanry

Soldier of one of the British mounted regiments with his horse

 

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Boer War 1899-1902

General Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

Commandant Fouche and some of his men.

Boer camp

Small Boer boy at Pretoria railway station

British troops at Boshof

 

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Boer War 1899-1902

Lord Roberts, Supreme Commander of the British forces in South Africa

Sergeant Corneels Nel of the " De Vrijstaatsche Rijdiensmacht " near Memel, 1898

Mother with her daughters in camp (the child in the chair has died, the photo was taken prior to burial)

Cavalry sabres being painted Khaki.

British Prisoners of War Oct. 1899

Father and sons studio photograph.

Here a first hand account of farm burning by a private Tucker from his diary put in book form “Private Tucker’s Boer War Diary” 1980 ISBN 0-241-10272-3
13 October 1900
“There were several small farms situated around and General Clery gave the order for all of the houses to be destroyed.
My company was given the job of burning several farms to the left and we moved off at once. Arriving at the farms, the women and children were ordered out and after every man had taken any article he thought fit, the furniture was broken up and the houses and all the goods were set on fire. Some men were busy killing fowls, ducks, geese and pigs and getting anything that was useful. It was good sport, but hard for the women and children. After all had been destroyed we returned to the remainder of the Battalion and shared all the loot equally among the company.
In addition to the twenty head of poultry, we also drove seventy head of cattle and horses back to camp. This was the best day’s sport we had, but our blankets didn’t arrive until about 1:00 am as all our luggage had been kept well in the rear.”

British medic bringing in some Turkey

Transport to the camp

British mounted soldier (The horse seems in very poor condition)

Top to bottom William Skeoch Cumming, Ogston, McLearn and Cub, all of the 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders at a piquet at Belfast

Troops of one of the British mounted regiments watering their horses while on patrol. They are probably servicemen of the Lothians and Berwickshire Yeomanry

Drummer boy of the 5th Fusiliers

 

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Panzer Brigade Koll Colonel Richard Koll

German command tank Pz.BefWg.III from the tank brigade 'Koll' (Panzer Brigade Koll) in a village near Viaz'ma. In the turret hatch - brigade commander, Colonel Richard Koll

German tanks PzKpfw IV Ausf.F drive past downed and captured British armored 'Bren Carrier'

 

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WW1 - A French soldier wearing an Adrian Helmet taking a break

The French Adrian helmets were named after the French General Adrian who designed them. The french soldiers originally went into combat in WW1 wearing only a Kepi hat. With the advent of trench warfare and near constant artillery barrages, with shells bursting overhead, the number of head wounds sky rocketed. The french answer to this was the lightweight Adrian steel helmet. As soon as the helmet was issued to the troops on the front, the number of head wounds fell. A simpler, and stronger version of this helmet, one that was stamped from a single piece of heavier steel, was issued in 1926.

 

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Bristol Blenheim MkIVF RAF 21Sqn YHL based at Watton East Anglia 18th August 1941-01

Blenheim MkIVF RAF 21Sqn YHD Z7438 Manston 23rd Jul 1941

Blenheim MkIVF RAF 21Sqn YHL Watton 1941

Blenheim MkIVF RAF 21Sqn YHL Watton 1941

Blenheim MkIVF RAF 21Sqn YHL Watton 1941

Firefighters are quick to put out an engine fire on this Bristol Blenheim from RAF 21Sqn

German Blenheim graveyard showing various parts with RAF 21Sqn YH background