Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

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June 1944
German tanks and troops either on the move or dug in and waiting in the Normandy countryside consisting of bocage (hedgerows) and narrow roads.

They are camouflaged, prepared and concealed from constant Allied aerial attacks, which was the main cause of the high losses in their numbers.

 

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"One of us must keep flying"
Spoken by Irene Arckless, after she learnt that her fiancé F/Lt Thomas Mitchell Lockyer had been shot down on 22 February 1941, and parachuted into the sea off of Calais and was now a POW in Stalag Luft III.
2nd Officer Irene Arckless (1916 - 1943) of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) at the organisation's HQ at White Waltham Airfield in Berkshire, June 1942.
Irene was killed when her Airspeed Oxford (V3888) Crashed onto a house on the outskirts of Cambridge when an engine cut out during take off, on 3rd January 1943, a day after her 28th birthday.

 

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Regimental Colour Guard of the 11th Regiment of the Šumadija Division of the Serbian Army on the Salonika Front, 1916,

Colourised by Doug

 

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Italy campaign 1944

 

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King George VI inspecting Panzer VI Tiger 1 N°131 after it was knocked out and captured by the British forces.
(Photo taken in Tunis, June 1943. nb. The badge of the British First Army has been painted onto the front of the Tiger)

(Photo source - IWM NA 3693)
(Sgt. Gunn - No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit)
Colorised by Benoit

 

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June 1917
Lanchester armoured car of the Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Expeditionary Force (Russian Armoured Car Division) bogged down in the mud of Galicia, Austria-Hungary, during the Kerensky Offensive.

In 1916 No 1 Squadron, Royal Naval Armoured Car Division, returned to Russia with their Lanchesters and other vehicles, and the entire unit drove to the Caucasus, the majority of the force operating throughout the Caucasus down to the Turkish border, whilst a detachment went into north Persia. When the rainy season arrived in October, the force drove via the northern shores of the Black Sea into Romania. In June 1917 the unit moved into Galicia to support the unsuccessful Kerensky Offensive. In November 1917 the Russian Revolution had overthrown the Imperial government, putting an end to the force's operations, so in January 1918 the entire unit was evacuated out of Archangel back to England.
In December 1914, the prototype of what was to become the Lancaster armoured car was produced from a Lancaster Sporting Forty in the service of the Royal Naval Air Service
(Photo source - © IWM Q 81097)
Turner (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Colourised by Doug

 

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Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (6 September 1895 – 26 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II.

He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket programme and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre.

After the war, the US Nazi scientist recruitment programme Operation Paperclip saw him move to the US, largely avoiding punishment for involvement in war crimes, to work for some decades in high positions in aerospace, including for Bell Aircraft and Boeing.

 

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Troops of the 52nd (Lowland) Division with captured German MG 0815 machine guns. In Queant, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais, September1918

 

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German medical captured at Ochtrup, near Gronau, 3 April 1945

Colorized by warincolour
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Lead battlecruiser of her class HMS Renown and sole member of the Admiral class battlecruiser HMS Hood with their decks cleared for action, moving into position before exercises on 17 July 1935