Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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Bf-109G-8 piloted by Heimo Emmerstorfer, a German Recon Pilot. The day after WW2 ended he narrowly escapes the Soviets and flies his Bf-109 into Austria, safely belly landing his Bf-109 on a field in Haibach, Austria and walks to his parents house.

 

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No belly landing there, he's on his wheels???

 

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On 1 March 1945, a Norwegian child is carried to an ambulance from the HMS Onslaught at Gourock, Scotland. She was one of over 500 civilians rescued by the Royal Navy after having spent months hiding from the Germans on Sørøya Island, Norway.

For three months, 525 Norwegians had been hiding in caves on the snow-covered mountains of Sørøya, evading German patrols.
These civilians, along with resistance fighters, faced extreme conditions as they sought refuge from German occupation.
In a daring and risky operation, four British destroyers from the Home Fleet raced 60 miles behind enemy lines, navigating in broad daylight, to rescue the group.
The mission, undertaken with remarkable courage, brought them safely to Gourock, Scotland, where they were given medical treatment and shelter.

 

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"Captured German Gun, (unidentified type), Amiens, Aug 1918"

3rd Battalion, Canadian MGC who where support troops of the 43rd Canadian Infantry Battalion, 9th Canadian Brigade, 3rd Division who were present in the Amiens area between the 8th and 14th of August 1918.
The 'unidentified' gun could be a French Canon de 120 Modele 1878
(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 35222222)
Colourised by Doug

 

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50th Fighter Group's Thunderbolts P-47's dispersed across the forward operating field near Nancy, France. Note Cletrac. 1944

 

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The Long Range Desert Group & Special Air Service 1942/3

 

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26 June 1918. Austrian soldiers in the trenches near the Piave river, Northeast Italy

 

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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the hot desert of North Africa

 

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U161

 

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Photo taken at the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway. This is the reserve battalion Holmestrand of the Norwegian SS volunteer Legion. Notice the tiny pin(?) under the button on the Unterscharführer’s left breast pocket? From other photos I found, it appears to have something to do with Nasjonal Samling, the only legal party in Norway from 1942-1945. Their motto was “Heil og Sæl!”, “Healthy and happy!” Source: National Archives of Norway

 

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4 June, 1942: Adolf Hitler visits C. G. Mannerheim, who is celebrating his 75th birthday. This was the same day that Mannerheim was honored "Marshal of Finland", a title no one has held since. Since Mannerheim did not want to meet in his headquarters in Mikkeli or in Helsinki (as it would have seemed like and official state visit), the meeting took place near Imatra, in south-east Finland, and was arranged in secrecy. The other characters in the photos are Finnish president Risto Ryti, who accompained Hitler from Immola airfield, and the chief of the Wehrmacht Wilhelm Keitel (photo 2, behind A.H.)

 

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The photograph was taken at Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides in front of a Fortress Mark II, FL462 'W' of No. 220 Squadron RAF. The 'crew' were, in fact, an ad hoc group drawn from No. 206 Squadron RAF, and the 'captain' (3rd from right, wearing SD Cap) was Flying Officer L W Taylor RAAF, an Air Ministry public relations officer.

 

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Bf 109 F-4 ‘Yellow 4’ of 9./JG 3 ‘Udet’ flown by fighter ace Ofw. Eberhard von Boremski photographed early May 1942.

 

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Bombing up a Typhoon 1B, summer 1944

 

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Panzergrenadiers of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf inspect a Soviet IS-2 of the 50th Separate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment, outskirts of Siedlce,Poland July 29, 1944

 

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21 August 1944
Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks (looking at the camera), the newly appointed GOC of the British Army XXX Corps, in his Humber staff car chatting with American troops in Argentan, in the Orne department of northwestern France.
In June 1943, Horrocks sustained serious injuries during an air raid at Bizerte in Tunisia. Bullets from a strafing German fighter struck his upper chest and carried on through his body, piercing his lungs, stomach, and intestines. He underwent five operations and spent fourteen months recovering.
It was a year before Horrocks recovered sufficiently and was restored to the acting rank of lieutenant-general in August 1944. He was sent to France to assume command of XXX Corps during the cataclysm engulfing the trapped German 7th Army and 5th Panzer Army in the Falaise Pocket.
Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC (7 September 1895 – 4 January 1985)

 

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369th Croatian Reinforced Infantry Regiment on the Eastern front, 1942. By December 1942 the regiment had seen such intense combat that it was at 1/3 strength. Despite the harsh conditions, the German high command credited the regiment with maintaining proper and military bearing.

 

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Hans-Joachim Marseille, the “Star of Africa,” was a legendary German Luftwaffe ace in WWII, credited with 158 aerial victories, nearly all in North Africa. Famous for his dazzling flying skills and deadly accurate gunnery, he often scored multiple kills in a single sortie, including an incredible 17 in one day. Awarded Germany’s highest military honors, he was respected even by his enemies for his skill and fair treatment of captured pilots.

 

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Privates John Joyal, Henry Hayward and Donald Beebe of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry steady themselves after mortar platoon training near Miryang, February 1951.

 

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Shark-mouthed U.S. Air Force North American F-51D Mustang fighters of the 12th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing at Chinhae airfield, 1951