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

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Vietnam. 1966-08-19.

Left to right, Sergeant Jack Thompson, Mortar Fire Controller of D Company, the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), and Captain (Capt) Ian McLean-Williams, Second in charge of D Company, squatting in a rubber plantation as they examine a map the morning after the Battle of Long Tan. Capt McLean-Williams is taking a sighting using a compass.
Colorized by Marcel Gold

 

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Lance Corporal Gene Davis, a sniper from “Delta” Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, armed with an M40, aligns his sights on an Viet Cong position during an operation in Hue City, February 22, 1968.

Colorized by Doug - DBColour

 

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US Marines riding atop an M-48 tank cover their ears as the 90mm gun fires during a road sweep southwest of Phu Bai, 4/3/1968

Color by Doug - DBColour

 

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U.S troops interrogate a Viet Cong prisoner during Operation Badger Catch

Operation Napoleon/Saline(Badger Catch) was a multi-Battalion operation conducted by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army along the Cửa Việt River south of the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The operation ran from 20 January to 9 December 1968.
Colorized by Gavin - G.D.W Color

 

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Two Douglas A-4C Skyhawk of Attack Squadron 146 (VA-146) "Blue Diamonds" fly past the anti-submarine aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CVS-33).

VA-146 was deployed as part of Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) on board the USS Constellation (CVA-64) to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 5 May 1964 to 1 February 1965. Planes of CVW-14 took part in the August 1964 strikes against North Vietnamese PT-boat bases as a result of the Tonkin Gulf Incident. One of the aircraft in the photo was later converted to the A-4L standard and in 1982 sold to Malaysia as a A-4PTM.
Colorized by Gavin

 

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Members of U-Brigade Group prior to a patrol in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. November 1946.

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Does the left guy have a MP40? I know some former Dutch Waffen-SS went to Indonesia after the war but that they also used German weapons I didn/t know

 

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Yes, it's the German MP40. The Dutch military used a nice mix of uniforms, gear and weapons at this time. As for weapons, they were mainly British and American weapons, but sometimes you can also spot German weapons (mainly pistols and submachine guns).

 

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New Zealander Kate Webb (1943-2007) broke through the khaki ceiling and showed the world that women could be just as effective as men as frontline war reporters. As a 24-year-old reporter in Sydney, she bought a one-way ticket to Vietnam in 1967 to cover the biggest story of the times. By 1970, she had become bureau chief for United Press International’s Phnom Penh bureau. In 1971, she was taken prisoner by North Vietnamese soldiers and presumed killed. Her obituaries were written. She stumbled out of the jungle after 23 days. After Vietnam, she reported from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East and Afghanistan.

 

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A wounded US paratrooper grimaces in pain while waiting for medical evacuation at base camp in the A Shau Valley near the Laos border in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, 19 May 1969.

Colorized by Royston Leonard

 

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A US 25th Division Infantryman pauses for a smoke. Name, and location unknown, 1967/68

Photo taken by Charlie Haughey
Charlie Haughey was drafted into the US Army in 1967, and served a tour of duty in Vietnam with the 25th Infantry Division 2nd Battalion 12th Infantry, as a rifleman. While serving as a point-man for a rifle company, Charlie was commissioned to be the new battalion photographer, and ended up shooting nearly 2,000 poignant photos over the course of 13 months while he served with his rifle company.
Colorized by Gavin Wieszala

 

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Turkish Brigade private Rıza Işık sharpen his bayonet during the Korean War before engaging the enemy.

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The Turkish Brigade (code name North Star, Turkish: Şimal Yıldızı or Kutup Yıldızı) was a Turkish Army Infantry Brigade that served with the United Nations Command during the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. Attached to the U.S. 25th Infantry Division, the Turkish Brigade fought in several actions and was awarded Unit Citations from Korea and the United States after fighting in the Kunuri Battle. The Turkish Brigade developed a reputation for its fighting ability, stubborn defense, commitment to mission, and bravery.

 

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A long refreshing drink from a water bottle as Australian Private (Pte) Paul Large, 12 Platoon, D Company, 6 RAR, of Coolah, NSW, pauses during digging in on Operation Enoggera, the first mission by the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), against the Viet Cong. 25 June 1966

Pte Large was later killed in action on 18 August 1966 at Long Tan.
Colorized by Marcel - 'History Alive in Colour'

 

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PFC. Melvin “Frenchie” Bourgeois, a wounded US Marine of 1/5 Delta Company, had been shot in the hip by the enemy beside the wall of the Citadel at Huế, Vietnam. February 1968.

Photographer Don McCullin, "The one meaningful event I took a picture of in that battle, was of a man who had been hit in both legs, being supported by two friends. If ever I thought, in my atheistic mind, that I was looking at something religious, it was at this man, who looked like Jesus Christ being taken down from the cross".
Colororized by Doug

 

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North Korean POWs captured by 1st Turkish Brigade soldiers at the Battle of Wawon. 27-29th November 1950

In the course of the U.N. offensive and the Chinese counteroffensive, the 1st Turkish Brigade suffered 3,514 casualties, of which 741 were killed in action, 2,068 wounded, 163 missing and 244 taken prisoner, as well as 298 noncombatant casualties.
The Turks, armed and trained by American military advisers, did better than even they had hoped or expected in this, their first real combat since World War I. The American units to which they were attached respected their skills and tenacity in combat. Some comments by American officers give insight into the Turks and their abilities. ‘They really prefer to be on the offensive and handle it quite well,’ went one appraisal. ‘They are not as good at defensive positions, and certainly never retreat.’ Another report told of their patrol skills: ‘Certain Turkish patrols always reported high body counts when they returned from patrols. Headquarters always scoffed at the high numbers, much higher in fact than any other unit, until the Turks decided to bring the enemy bodies back and dump them at headquarters for the body count.’
The Turks acquitted themselves in a brave and noble fashion in some of the worst conditions experienced in the Korean War. Very little else could have been required or expected of them. Their heavy casualties speak of their honor and commitment. Their bravery requires no embellishment. It stands on its own.
(Colorised by Murathan Yilmaz from Turkey)

 

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These photographs of Medic James E. Callahan are some of the most famous photos taken during the Vietnam War.
Photographer Henri Huet captured a young medic trying to save the lives of his buddies in the midst of machine gun fire on June 17, 1967.

It is not just that which makes these remarkable images, it is the look on Callahan’s face that tells the entire heart wrenching story. A story of desperation and helplessness of sadness and loss. Arguably, the quintessential story of Vietnam.
During the three-hour battle in war zone D, about 50 miles northeast of Saigon, Huet captured Callahan on film, while the medic treated infantrymen's injuries. Thirty-one men were killed and more than 100 wounded during the guerrilla ambush on the 1st Infantry Division on June 17, 1967.

Born in 1947, he was about 20 years old when Huet immortalized him on film. James survived the war. He served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1965-69 and served as a combat medic during the Vietnam War. After the war, he was a life member and president of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Chapter 65, VFW.
Sadly, James passed away on July 29, 2008 after a motorcycle accident.
Colorized by Doug

 

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Pvt. R. Jones of the 81mm Mortars Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, is wet and cold as he takes a standing break during 'Operation Pitt'. Approximately 12 miles north of Da Nang.
December 1, 1967

2/7 was deployed to Vietnam from July 1965 until October 1970 as part of the 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. The Battalion operated in the southern half of I Corp most of the time. Qui Nhon, Chu Lai, Da Nang Air Base, Dai Loc and An Hoa. 2/7 were instrumental players in Operation Utah and Operation Harvest Moon.
Vietnam was the longest war for Marines. By its end, 13,091 had been killed in action, 51,392 had been wounded.
(Photo by L/Cpl Brunch/U.S. Marine Corps/National Archives)
Colorized by Doug

 

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Leila Khaled (born April 9, 1944 in Haifa, Palestine) is a Palestinian refugee and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).⁣

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Khaled came to public attention for her role in the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous Dawson's Field hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of Black September in Jordan. The first woman to hijack an airplane, she was later released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by other PFLP members.⁣

 

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22 Nov 1967, Dak To, South Vietnam

Men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade await evaluation from Hill 875, November 22nd, as fighting continues.

 

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The strain of battle for Dong Xoai is shown on the face of U.S. Army Sgt. Philip Rush Fink, an advisor to the 52nd Vietnamese Ranger battalion, shown June 12, 1965.
The unit bore the brunt of recapturing the jungle outpost from the Viet Cong.

He began his tour on December 13, 1967. Fink had the rank of First Sergeant. Service number assignment was 14219859. Attached to 101st Airborne Division, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, A Company.

"1SG Fink was E Company first sergeant when the 1/502 deployed to RVN in December 1967. We all relied on his previous combat experience. He was wounded during Tet 1968 and evacuated out of country. Instead of going stateside for recuperation and reassignment, he worked the NCO system and came back to our battalion as First Sergeant of A Company. He was killed in August 1968 in Quang Dien District by a booby-trapped 105 shell while clearing a village with his troops. His death was a personal loss to all of us, who admired him as a soldier and as a man. We still do."
–James Doogan served as his XO and CO in RVN Echo Company, 1/502 Inf

He died aged 41 and is commemorated on the Vietnam Wall Panel 48W Line 006

 

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US Marine of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 4th Regiment walks through a punji-staked gully. January 28, 1966.

Punji stake booby traps were made out of wood or bamboo, and placed in the ground to injure soldiers on patrol.