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

US crewmen stand on their M4A3E8 Sherman tank stranded trying to ford the Pukhan River, April 7th, 1951.



A recovery vehicle pulled it out of the water and the tank and crew were soon back in service.

In this photo wounded U.S. paratroopers are helped by fellow soldiers to a medical evacuation helicopter during combat on Oct. 5, 1965

Private Wally Walacott and Ian 'Aussie' Thompson of 8 Platoon C Company, 3rd Bn The Parachute Regiment ( 3 PARA) pose for a impromptu photo. Estancia House area, Falklands. Date between late May early June 1982.


photographer- Unknown
Info kindly provided by Tony Bojko ( 3 PARA)

Members of E Troop, 2nd Squadron, Special Air Service (SASR) perform a final equipment/weapons check before embarking on 9th Squadron RAAF helicopter to location. Team will be inserted to set up ambushes or concentrate on gathering information including VC bases location and strength. Nui Dat, Phuoc Tuy Province, Republic of Vietnam. March 1968.


Photographer- Bob Coveney(190th AHC)
( 190th US Gunship escorts for 9th Squadron)

Vietnam War Huey

Royal Marines of 40 Commando prepare to depart for the Falkland Islands, 1982.

Woman and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire, 1 January 1966.
Paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (background) escorted the civilians through a series of firefights during the US assault on a Viet Cong stronghold at Bao Trai, about twenty miles west of Saigon.



Photographer Horst Faas was born in Berlin on April 28, 1933, and like other young men of his generation, was forced to join the Hitler Youth organization in his neighborhood. He said his overarching childhood memories were of food shortages, evacuations and “the fascinating spectacle of antiaircraft action in the sky”.

He joined the Associated Press in 1956 and covered wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Algeria in the late 1950s before being sent to Vietnam in 1962. Though seriously wounded in a jungle rocket attack in 1967, he remained in what he called “this little bloodstained country” until 1973, shortly before the American military withdrawal.

Faas earned Pulitzers in 1965 for combat photographs from Vietnam and in 1972 for his coverage of the conflict in Bangladesh. He passed away, aged 79, in 2012.

Photographer: Horst Faas/ AP

M-18 Tank Destroyers of the Greek Armored Forces.


Greece received the first M-18s in 1952,equipping the newly created Tank Destroyer Regiments,until 1954 received a total number of 127.In 1963 all M-18s were scattered in various units across the country,used mainly in the role of light tanks and not as tank destroyers.In the late of 60s the M-18s were withdrawn from service,except of a small number which remained for training tasks until the mid of 70s.
Photo source unknown.

soviet private from reconnaissance squad of 56th Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade in Afghanistan circa 1984

The confederate flag waves from top of pup tent of SFC Eugene L. Bursi, of Memphis , Tenn., an artilleryman with the 136th Field Artillery Battalion U.S. Eighth Army, in Korea on April 27, 1951.




(AP Photo) AP1951

Marines of F Company, led by Captain Lems from the 1st Infantry Battalion, Dutch Marine Brigade move inland on the beach of Pasir Putih during the first police action in East Java, 21 July 1947.

Avro Vulcan, 1965.



Image: © IWM RAF-T 5730

BEAUTIFUL...........Vulcan!!

Private George E. Richards, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), of Mildura, Victoria (Australia), sorting rations - in this case, tins of Carnation milk, Korea, 4 March 1954.


The scene was captured by British Commonwealth Forces Korea (BCFK) Public Relations photographer Phillip Hobson (1922-2006), whose original caption to the image provides invaluable insight into Richards, who would celebrate his 22nd birthday the week the photograph was taken.
George Richards was from Riverlea, Yannathan, near Lang Lang in Gippsland, Victoria, where his brothers were share farming on a diary property.
Born at Mildura, he went to Melbourne at an early age and did his schooling at Canterbury and Balwyn. When he left school he joined the Postal Department and was stationed at Tallangatta in north-east Victoria for three years before moving to Yannathan and working with his brothers.
In 1952 he joined the Army and went to Japan in January 1953 before subsequently being posted to Korea. He was still there in July when the cease fire was announced, which, for Richards, would become the one of the most outstanding memories of his time in Korea.
At the time he was a regimental stretcher bearer with D company on "The Hook" feature, scene of some of the fiercest fighting in the closing stages of the hostilities.
"It seems hard to believe that it was all over at first", Richards recounted, "most of all the sudden quietness, no guns firing, and no need to keep under cover. That was something I will always remember."
He had no regrets joining the Army or serving in Korea. In fact, Hobson noted in 1954, he was prepared to serve a further term in Korea.
"It has been a wonderful experience", Richards acknowledged, "and I've met some marvellous mates. There's something about Army life that's really worthwhile".
George E. Richards would turn 89 this year; does anyone know if he's still with us or has family?
Photographer: Phillip Hobson (1922-2006)

Conhoon said:

Private George E. Richards, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), of Mildura, Victoria (Australia), sorting rations - in this case, tins of Carnation milk, Korea, 4 March 1954.

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The scene was captured by British Commonwealth Forces Korea (BCFK) Public Relations photographer Phillip Hobson (1922-2006), whose original caption to the image provides invaluable insight into Richards, who would celebrate his 22nd birthday the week the photograph was taken.
George Richards was from Riverlea, Yannathan, near Lang Lang in Gippsland, Victoria, where his brothers were share farming on a diary property.
Born at Mildura, he went to Melbourne at an early age and did his schooling at Canterbury and Balwyn. When he left school he joined the Postal Department and was stationed at Tallangatta in north-east Victoria for three years before moving to Yannathan and working with his brothers.
In 1952 he joined the Army and went to Japan in January 1953 before subsequently being posted to Korea. He was still there in July when the cease fire was announced, which, for Richards, would become the one of the most outstanding memories of his time in Korea.
At the time he was a regimental stretcher bearer with D company on "The Hook" feature, scene of some of the fiercest fighting in the closing stages of the hostilities.
"It seems hard to believe that it was all over at first", Richards recounted, "most of all the sudden quietness, no guns firing, and no need to keep under cover. That was something I will always remember."
He had no regrets joining the Army or serving in Korea. In fact, Hobson noted in 1954, he was prepared to serve a further term in Korea.
"It has been a wonderful experience", Richards acknowledged, "and I've met some marvellous mates. There's something about Army life that's really worthwhile".
George E. Richards would turn 89 this year; does anyone know if he's still with us or has family?
Photographer: Phillip Hobson (1922-2006)

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Cant' find any trace of him in the 2RAR association records after his service mate

AVRN troops wading through a Cambodian river in the Vietnam war.

Conhoon said:

AVRF troops wading through a Cambodian river in the Vietnam war.

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What is AVRF?

ao_sepia said:

What is AVRF?

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It should be AVRN - Army of the Republic of Vietnam. My mistake.

5th Regiment, US 1st Marines fire from behind a barricade at Communist-led North Korean forces in the streets of Seoul, the capital of Korea. September 20 1950



Photographer - Lt. Strickland
(Source - NARA FILE#: 111-SC-351391)

Winston Churchill with His Series 1 Land Rover, Garden Market Place, 1954.



Rover presented the car to Churchill at Chartwell, his country estate, on the occasion of his 80th birthday in November 1954. The Land Rover was fitted with an extra-wide passenger seat to accommodate the wartime leader's well-upholstered rump, a leather-covered, roof-mounted grab handle so he could haul himself in and a padded armrest in place of the standard, centre seat.

The 1954 Series 1 Land Rover was registered as UKE 80 in the name of the "Rt Hon Sir Winston Spencer Churchill KG. OM. CH. MP. Chartwell, Westerham, Kent".

Kent farmer Frank Quay bought the Series One pick-up for £320 in 1973 from a friend who had secured it at a farm contents sale held by Churchill's son-in-law, Christopher Soames.

For a while, Quay used the dark green pick-up for light farm duties and towing his daughter's horse trailer until the last road fund licence disc expired in 1977, at which point he stored it in a lean-to 'for his retirement'.

Sotheby's tried to sell the Land Rover on Quay's behalf back in 1999 as part of a pioneering foray into on-line auctioneering, in partnership with Amazon - but technological gremlins and a shortage of internet-savvy bidders resulted in the lot being withdrawn before the then-hoped-for price of £30,000 had been reached.

Quay subsequently put the remarkably original vehicle back into storage where it has remained ever since - despite various attempts by enthusiasts to get their hands on it, following a surge in the values of Series One Land Rovers, the best of which (without Churchill provenance) can fetch in excess of £20,000.

Perhaps the most intriguing feature, however, is a wooden box specially fitted into the pick-up bed which Quay believes was intended to accommodate a trowel and a bag of mortar, so that Churchill could indulge in his fondness for bricklaying.

Still only displaying 12,932 miles (just one more than when it was offered in 1999) and in completely original condition - save for a truck cab and footwell heater added during Churchill's ownership - the Land Rover was been given a pre-sale estimate of £50,000 - 60,000 but finallly sold at auction in Cambridgeshire for £129,000 - more than twice its estimate.

Colour by Jake