Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

Conhoon · Jul 14, 2023

RFC Captain (MC medal) using a telescope on a stand improvised from a front wheel of a bicycle on a wooden tripod. Nº2 Aircraft Repair Depot at Rang du Fliers, Pas-de-Calais, France. 12 July 1918.

Aircraft, l-r SE.5a B8424, DH.9 D1720
(Photo source - © IWM Q 12083)
McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Colourised by Doug

Conhoon · Jul 14, 2023

US Army Sniper with a M1903A4 Springfield sniper rifle in the Philippines near Capas, Tarlac - January/February 1945 .

Colourised by Benoit

Conhoon · Jul 15, 2023

Group portrait of the Polish soldiers, defenders of the Hel peninsula 1939.

Conhoon · Jul 17, 2023

Knocked out British MkII (female) tank "586" near Bullecourt.
The tank is from British unit No. 11 Company, D Battalion and took part in the Battle of Bullecourt on 11 April 1917. Although some sources claim this tank had penetrated as far as Reincourt and Hendecourt, it is now known to have been disabled near the German trench lines.

Conhoon · Jul 17, 2023

17 July 1944
Lt John Fothergill, Cpl Stan Walmsley, Tr. Jim Swain and L/Cpl David Thomas of 'B' Squadron, 5th Btn., 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps, 34th Tank Brigade, on their Mk. IV Churchill "Briton" tank, in a bivouac area behind the front lines, south west of Caen.

(Photo source -© IWM B 7634)
Colourised by Doug

TIGREDELAIRE · Jul 18, 2023

Conhoon said:
RFC Captain (MC medal) using a telescope on a stand improvised from a front wheel of a bicycle on a wooden tripod. Nº2 Aircraft Repair Depot at Rang du Fliers, Pas-de-Calais, France. 12 July 1918.

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Aircraft, l-r SE.5a B8424, DH.9 D1720
(Photo source - © IWM Q 12083)
McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Colourised by Doug

Have any of you seen my bike?

Conhoon · Jul 21, 2023

The Battle of Anzio in Italy, during January-June 1944
Two captured German paratroopers carry a wounded British soldier who has lost a foot in a mine explosion near Anzio, Italy, May 22, 1944.

The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that took place from January 22, 1944 (beginning with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle) to June 5, 1944 (ending with the capture of Rome).
(Photo source - © IWM NA 15295)
Radford (Sergeant) (Photographer)
No. 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit (Undefined)
Colourised by Benoit

TIGREDELAIRE · Jul 21, 2023

quite graphic image of the action of a mine, in Colombia we stopped seeing it daily thanks to the intervention of the Demining Brigade of Military Engineers, despite the fact that the FARC did not comply with the commitment to say where they had buried the mines

Conhoon · Jul 22, 2023

A German Machine Gun Team, armed with a MG34 (with a Leitz Wetzlar ZF12 optical sight mounted), takes position (for what is likely a propaganda shot) near a FLAK-battery, Hoogvliet, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (Date unknown)

The MG 34 is mounted on a Lafette 34 tripod. For the medium machine gun role the MG 34 Lafette 34, included a number of features, such as recoil absorbing buffer springs, MG Z 34 or MG Z 40 periscope-type telescopic sight containing special sighting equipment for indirect fire or the late World War II MG Z 44, designed for direct fire only.
The legs could be extended with a Lafetteaufsatzstück to allow it to be used in the low level anti-aircraft role, and when lowered, it could be placed to allow the gun to be fired "remotely" while it swept an arc in front of the mounting with fire.
Mounted to the Lafette and aimed through the telescopic sight the effective range of the MG 34 could be extended out to 3,500 m (3,828 yd) when fired indirectly.
Another unique feature of German World War II machine guns was the Tiefenfeuerautomat feature on the Lafette 34 tripod. If selected, this feature mechanically controlled the rise and fall of the gun, elevating the gun for five rounds and then depressing it for four rounds. It lengthened the beaten zone by walking the fire in wave like motions up and down the range in a predefined area.
In the later stages of World War II ballistic correction directions were added for overshooting friendly forces with S.m.E. – Spitzgeschoß mit Eisenkern (spitzer with iron core) ammunition of which the external ballistic behaviour started to significantly deviate from 1,500 m (1,640 yd) upwards compared to the s.S. Patrone (s.S. ball cartridge).
Colourised PIECE of JAKE
Source: NIMH

uktabber · Jul 23, 2023

Conhoon said:
The Battle of Anzio in Italy, during January-June 1944
Two captured German paratroopers carry a wounded British soldier who has lost a foot in a mine explosion near Anzio, Italy, May 22, 1944.

View attachment 440758
The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that took place from January 22, 1944 (beginning with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle) to June 5, 1944 (ending with the capture of Rome).
(Photo source - © IWM NA 15295)
Radford (Sergeant) (Photographer)
No. 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit (Undefined)
Colourised by Benoit

Look closely at the photo...it appears that the German carrying him on the left is missing his left foot as well.....?

Conhoon · Jul 23, 2023

The only information for this image on the Canadian Library & Archive page was the simple sentence, "RCAF Curtiss Kittyhawk's in formation flight!"

Photo: Canadian Library & Archives. Ref. SAI539
Image Repair & Colourisation - Nathan Howland

Conhoon · Jul 23, 2023

23 July 1916
Back at rest after the taking of Pozieres, by the 1st ANZAC Division. An Australian soldier having a shave while wearing a captured German pickelhaube (helmet) .

(Photo source - © IWM Q 4041)
Colourised by Doug

Conhoon · Jul 24, 2023

Under Spanish skies, Legion Condor ground personnel toil on one of the legions BF 109 fighters. 1936

colourised for the latest issue of Iron Cross Magazine.

Conhoon · Jul 24, 2023

British Cruiser Mk IV (left) and Light Tank Mk VIB ('Athos' of 'A' Squadron) of 3rd County of London Yeomanry, 1st Armoured Division, during an exercise in Houghton in West Sussex, 5 February 1941.

The scout car in the background belongs to the 22nd Armoured Brigade Headquarters.
(Photo source - © IWM H 7028)
Puttnam, Len A. (Captain)
War Office official photographer
Colourised by Doug

Conhoon · Jul 25, 2023

British troops using a German Maxim MG 08
THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE MARNE, JULY-AUGUST 1918

Conhoon · Jul 29, 2023

Missis Vénus, mascot of HMS VANSITTART, 1941.

BravoZulu · Jul 31, 2023

In November of 1944, Corporal Carlton Chapman of the 761st Tank Battalion poses for the camera in his M4 tank near Nancy, France. Four days after this picture was taken, Cpl. Chapman was killed in action

BravoZulu · Aug 1, 2023

24 July 1918. British, French and Italian wounded at a dressing station in the Bois de Reims during the Battle of the Tardenois.The Brits are from the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) and the RAMC.

BravoZulu · Aug 1, 2023

80 years ago today, 21-year old Soviet fighter pilot Lydia Litvak is killed in action over Ukraine at the controls of her Yak-1

Conhoon · Aug 1, 2023

The ship’s cat has been common feature on many trading, exploration and naval ships dating to ancient times. They were used to attack and kill rodents which would cause damage to ropes, woodwork, food, and stores, and would spread disease.
These two kittens lived aboard HMS Hawkins, a heavy cruiser built by the Royal Navy during the First World War, though not completed until 1919. The kittens are pictured inside the barrel of a 7.5 inch gun.

The Royal Navy banned cats and other pet animals from all ships on the ocean in 1975 on hygiene grounds, however cats are still common on many private ships.
© Colourised by Tom Marshall (PhotograFix).

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