Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Four P-51 Mustangs from the 375th FS, 361st FG, from RAF Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, known as "The Bottisham Four", 26 July 1944.

 

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On the left a Type XIV supply submarine (Milk Cows) U-459, supplying U-594, U-572, U-69 and U-558 with oil, torpedoes and food in the Mid-Atlantic on April 29, 1942.

 

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The three large Japanese I-400-class submarine cruisers alongside an American Fleet-class submarine at the Sasebo Naval Base after the surrender of the Japanese Empire. The large Japanese I-400-class submarines were the largest in the world and were designed to carry attack aircraft in a pressurized hangar.

 

[Conhoon]

31 July 1917
The Battle of Pilckem Ridge. British soldier giving a cigarette to a badly wounded German lying in a ditch at Pilckem.
(The British soldier appears to be carrying the German's Gew98 8mm Mauser Rifle.)

(Photo source - IWM Q 2629)
(Colourised by Joshua Barrett)

 

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30 July 1944
#1 Cromwell tanks move forward for the new attack today. (IWM (B 8182)

#2 Cromwell tanks of the HQ Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division pass a French farmer with his horses, while moving up at the start of Operation 'Bluecoat', the British offensive south-east of Caumont, Calvados. 30 July 1944.

Allied offensive preparations
Operation Bluecoat: Cromwell tanks of the 7th Armoured Division move up in the morning of 30 July 1944
The boundary between the British Second Army (Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey) and the US First Army was moved, the British taking over from the US V Corps, against which were lightly-armed but well dug in German infantry, which gave an opportunity for a new operation to keep tying down German armour. The VIII Corps headquarters and the 7th, 11th and Guards Armoured divisions were moved westwards toward Caumont on the western flank of XXX Corps. Dempsey planned to attack on 2 August but the speed of events forced him to advance the date.
German defensive preparations
From 21 July the 2nd Panzer Division had been withdrawn from the area south of Caumont and relieved by the 326th Division, which took over a 10 mi (16 km) front from the east of Villers-Bocage, next to the 276th Volksgrenadier Division, westwards to the Drôme river, the boundary between the LXXIV Korps of Panzergruppe West and the 7th Army. The 326th Division, south and east of Caumont, was up to strength and took over a large number of field defences and camouflaged firing positions, behind extensive minefields in the ideal defensive terrain of the Suisse Normande bocage.
Photo source - © IWM B 8183
Hardy, Bert (Sergeant)
No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
Colour added by Doug

 

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Warsaw Uprising began 1 August 1944
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

(Colorised by Mikołaj Kaczmarek )

 

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Warsaw Uprising began 1 August 1944
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

(Colorised by Mikołaj Kaczmarek )

 

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Warsaw Uprising began 1 August 1944
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

(Colorised by Mikołaj Kaczmarek )

 

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Warsaw Uprising began 1 August 1944
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

 

[Conhoon]

Warsaw Uprising began 1 August 1944
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

 

[uktabber]

WOW, those were great pictures from the WWII, some great history there!! THANKS for posting!!

 

[BravoZulu]

'E Company' of the Hertfordshire Regiment leaving Letchworth train station, Hertfordshire in August 1914.

 

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Focke Wulf Fw190 captured during WWII

 

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Lt. Ervin Nelson. 354th Fighter Squadron. P-51D 44-73156 WR-B "Wolverine".

 

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North American B-25C Mitchell named 'Dirty Dora'. a veteran with more than a hundred mission under her belt, she kept flying until Dec' 22nd 1944 when was replaced with a new B-25J named by crew 'Dirty Dora II'

 

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P 40 "Kittyhawk" in north africa 1942

 

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De Havillard Mosquito B IVs of No, 139 (Jamaica) Squadron RAF Bomber Command.
February 10th, 1943.

 

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A pair of M8 'Greyhound' Armored Cars of 'C' Company, 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd US Armored Division, turn from Rue de Vire into Rue de la Forêt, Saint-Sever-Calvados, Normandy. 3 August 1944

 

[BravoZulu]

The crew of a Light Tank Mk VIB cook their Christmas dinner besides their vehicle, Libya, 31 December 1940.

 

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Australian soldiers with the captured German A7V tank Mephisto abandoned at Villers-Bretonneux, August 1918