Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[Conhoon]

Bombardier of an He-111 somewhere over Poland 1939.
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Bombing of Warsaw in September 1939.

This girl went out for a while to a friend who lived next door, when she returned there was no trace of her apartment or 8 members of her family. Only a huge pile of rubble remained. There is a dog...
The first bombs fell on the Polish capital already on September 1, there were the first wounded and dead. Bombs were deliberately dropped on hospitals and cemeteries, and German planes flew very low over the city to be able to shoot people with machine guns....
Photo: Julien Bryan
Colour: Mikołaj Kaczmarek

 

[NebrHogger]

French Foreign Legionnaire with mascot, 1940

 

[Conhoon]

Exhausted men and dogs of a Belgian machine gun section resting by the roadside in Louvain (Leuven), August - September 1914
Colourised by Doug

 

[uktabber]

Man those dogs look tired.....UGH!!

 

[BravoZulu]

S/Sgt. Robert L. Taylor, an Eighth Air Force waist gunner, poses in full flying gear at his position in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress; 1943.

 

[Conhoon]

Three German soldiers on a muddy road, probably on the Eastern Front. (Photo by J. Kurtz)

 

[BravoZulu]

Russian soldiers attending the burial of a fallen comrade, c.1916

 

[BravoZulu]

Arming a Hawker Sea Hurricane fighter on board HMS Indomitable during Operation Pedestal. August 1942

 

[BravoZulu]

The crew of a USN Vought OS2U Kingfisher belonging to the battleship USS Missouri steps out of the plane after returning from a scouting sortie. August 1944.

 

[Conhoon]

General Anthony McAuliffe is decorated by Patton with the Cross of Merit Distinguished by the defense of Bastogne. December 30, 1944

 

[BravoZulu]

Boulton Paul Defiant Mk Is of No. 264 Squadron RAF based at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940.

 

[Conhoon]

Pilots of No. 134 Squadron RAF work out their tactics in the shade of some small trees, in front of their Republic Thunderbolts parked on the airstrip at Ratnap, Burma.
November 1944-April 1945

(Photo source - © IWM CF 222)
Rider (F/O)
RAF official photographer
Colourised by Doug

 

[Redav]

 

[santana]

General Rommel

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel

With the Afrika Korps, Panzer Army, Africa

 

[BravoZulu]

October 1940 A symbolic photograph of a British soldier standing guard on a beach in southern England. Colourised by Doug

 

[santana]

German Kriegsmarine Submarine in WWII

 

[santana]

Combined Fleet Commander-in-Chief Isoroku Yamamoto and Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Matome Ugaki photographed on the bridge of the battleship Nagato.

 

[santana]

IJN Battleship NAGATO

 

[BravoZulu]

Austin armoured cars setting out on a reconnaissance mission at Biefvillers during the Second Battle of the Somme. 25 Aug 1918

 

[BravoZulu]

German soldiers posing for a photograph in the trenches, c.1916.

Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks (c. 1917)

German transport driver wearing a gas mask with his horses, who are using feeding sacks.