Photos From Korea to the Falkland Islands - colourised images of conflicts after World War II.

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Taking cover behind their M4A3E8 Sherman tank escort, one man of this Ranger patrol of the 5th Regimental Combat Team, US 24th Infantry Division, uses his M1918A2 BAR to return the heavy Chinese Communist small arms and mortar fire which has them pinned down on the bank of the Han River. At left another soldier uses a field radio to report the situation to headquarters. 23 February 1951

(Source - NARA FILE#: 111-SC-358782)

(Colorised by Doug)

 

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US Cpl. James W. Rezek of Lake Andes, South Dakota (rear) keeps a lookout for communist sharpshooters, while Sgt. First Class Ralph I. Rubio of Tuscaloosa, Alabama ducks down to change positions in their trench on Korea’s central front in January 1952.

(Colourised by Royston Leonard UK)

 

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Troops of 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), show special interest in the fold-up bayonet fitted to a Russian made AK50 automatic assault rifle captured from the Viet Cong (VC) during a successful ambush on Operation Coburg. South Vietnam. February 1968

EKT/68/0088A/VN

 

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Dutch Army officers of the First Division "7 December" (Eerste Divisie 7 December) at the bar on Batavia (now Jakarta), January 1947.

 

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Israel forces in the 80s

 

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70 years old soldier during-iran-iraq war

 

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Guardia Civil agents patrolling roads on foot armed with “Naranjero” submachineguns ( spanish copy of the Schmeisser MP28) . Photograph by Dmitri Kessel. Spain, 1949.

 

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In the photo from 1955, officers of the Royal Netherlands Army, under the watchful eye of an instructor from the KCT, practice the horizontal rope climbing part on the old rope track of the KCT in Roosendaal.

The photo was colored by the Netherlands Institute for Military History

 

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18 May 1968, Da Nang, South Vietnam

 

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Rain-drenched US Marines resting on the side of the road. Location: Korea (South). March 1951

On March 14, 1951, UN forces retook Seoul. In April, UN forces were again crossing the 38th parallel, not to take possession of the North but in pursuit of the enemy.

Photographer: Carl Mydans

 

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Marines from Mike Company, 3/9 (3d Battalion 9th Marines) patrol through the dense jungle near the DMZ 1968.

Photographer- 2lt Robert l. Drieslein.
(2d Platoon, Mike Co, 3/9)
photosource- Robert l.Drieslein Collection
(Coll/5643) Archives Branch, USMC History Div.

 

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Marine Sergeant Frank Praytor adopted the Kitten after her Mother was Killed in a Mortar barrage near Hill 800 (Bunker Hill) 1952.

Her name was Miss-Hap.
Sgt Praytor explained her name;
"Because she was born at the wrong place at the wrong time".

 

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Freedom fighters, somewhere in Tunisia, between 1952/54.

Photographer unknown
Colors by Mohamed Bayouli

 

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French Foreign Legion, Algieria war, c.a. 1957

Photographer unknown

 

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Men of Battery C, 936th Field Artillery Battalion, U.S. Eighth Army, fire the 100,001st and 100,002d shell at Chinese Communist position near Choriwon, Korea. 10 October 1951. Korea. Signal Corps Photo #8A/FEC-51-39822 (Kostner)

 

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The soldier depicted is a French paratrooper photographed during the Algerian War (1954-1962).

 

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Operation "Castor", started on November 20, 1953, is a military operation of the French army entrusted to General Gilles, whose goal was to take over the Dien Bien Phu region.

 

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On a man's mission, Pál Pruck, 15, was one of the many brave teenagers who fought in the revolution. He is standing in a rubble-strewn Budapest street. 1956

Pál Pruck (December 1942 - 2000) was a Hungarian revolutionaire during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. Raised in a state caretaking institution (most likely some sort of orphanage) and lived in Rákospalota, he become a college student. During October to November of 1956, he joined the Revolution at the Corvin Cinema on October 23, 1956. Photographer Michael Rougier, who was working for the American magazine LIFE, took a photograph of him carrying a rifle.
Pruck later returned to the industrial student house, for his role in the revolution was not investigated and he wasn't held accountable as a result. He continued his life as a student and got married in 1970, have three children and worked for a construction company. He died of lung cancer in 2000
Image source: nlc.hu
Photographer: Michael Rougier
Caption source: ICP website
Date: 1956
Location: Budapest

 

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A KNIL soldier poses in an attacking position, with a raised klewang on his right hand and a Thompson on the other, Kebajoran, 1946

Image source: Nationaal Archief (gahetna.nl)
Date: 1946
Location: Kebajoran, Dutch-occupied Indonesia (now Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta)

 

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Portrait of a KNIL soldier in camouflage uniform, 1947

Following World War II, the KNIL was used in two large military campaigns in 1947 and 1948 to re-establiah Dutch control of Indonesia. The KNIL and its Ambonese auxiliaries have been accused of commiting war crimes during this "police action"
Dutch efforts to re-establish their colony failed and Dutch recognition of Indonesian sovereignty came on 27 December 1949
On 26 January 1950, elements of the KNIL were involved in an abortive coup in Bandung planned by Raymond Westerling and Sultan Hamid II. The coup failed and only accelerated the dissolution of the federal Republic of the United States of Indonesia
The KNIL was finally disbanded on 26 July 1950, its indigenous members were given the option to join the newly-formed Indonesian military or to demobilise. The rest was either demobilised or joined the Royal Netherlands Army (KL) (Source: Wikipedia with some changes)
Date: 1947
Location: Somewhere in Indonesia, possibly Java or Sumatra
Image source: National Archief