Photos Colour and Colourised Photos of WW2 & earlier conflicts

[Conhoon]

British Mark IV tank, 1917.

 

[BravoZulu]

Wren Air Mechanics feeding ammunition into the Browning guns of a Hawker Sea Hurricane aircraft at the Fleet Air Arm airfield at Yeovilton, Somerset. Original colour

 

[Conhoon]

Draining Trenches. 22nd Infantry Battalion (French Canadian). July, 1916.

The 22nd Battalion (French Canadian), CEF, was a battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War.
The battalion was authorised on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Great Britain on 20 May 1915. It disembarked in France on 15 September 1915, where it fought as part of the 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion was disbanded on 15 September 1920
(Photo source - Dept. of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada/PA-000396)
Colourised by Bob Hossack

 

[NebrHogger]

Churchill tank testing a device for climbing seawalls - 1944.

Demonstration of the newly designed Maus super heavy tank via a model. Wolf's Lair 1943.

French partisans with newly acquired German kit. Corsica 1944.

 

[Conhoon]

A French section of Machine Gunners take position during the Battle of the Aisne, ww1, Bucy-le-Long, France,1917.

 

[BravoZulu]

4th Infantry Division Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. is laid to rest in a temporary American cemetery near Sainte-Mère-Église, July 12, 1944.

 

[BravoZulu]

Fighters of the French Resistance guard a German military train, knocked out and captured by US troops.On the flat cars are PzKpfw VI “Tiger” Ausf. H1 (E). The steam locomotive has a direct artillery hit in the engine cab. September 8, 1944

 

[BravoZulu]

Pierre Lefevre, a Free French BBC war correspondent, making a broadcast as a Guards Armoured Division Sherman Vc Firefly "Banshee II" moves up to the battle area south of Caumont-l'Éventé during 'Operation Bluecoat'. 5 August 1944.
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[BravoZulu]

6-pounder anti-tank gun of the British 3rd Division, along with Canadian Sherman tanks in Rue Montoir Poissonnerie near St-Pierre Church, Caen. Normandy, 10 July 1944

 

[BravoZulu]

M3A3 Stuart V reconnaissance tank and a Sherman of the 26th Armoured Brigade, 6th Armoured Division in Corso Italia, Arezzo, Tuscany in Italy.

 

[Redav]

 

[BravoZulu]

Stridsvagn m/42 (Strv m/42) during a training exercise c.1943

A Swedish medium tank in service in the World War II period. Known by its manufacturer AB Landsverk as Lago II-III-IV, it fielded a 75 mm L/31 gun, the first of its size in a Swedish tank. It entered service with the Swedish army in April 1943. Modern in design and mobile. A total of 282 were produced.

 

[BravoZulu]

26 Oct 1944, Den Bosch, Netherlands. Jo van der Sande, and his daughters Toos (4) and Coletta (5) escaping to safety after being shelled. (And, a Sherman from "B" Squadron East Riding Yeomanry.)

 

[Redav]

The Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto sits in Taranto for repairs in June 1941, just months after surviving the Battle of Cape Matapan. She was torpedoed by British aircraft during the battle but managed to escape thanks to her watertight compartmentalization and damage control teams.

 

[santana]

Members of the Marine Corps' VMF-214 Black Sheep squadron in front of one of their Vought F4U Corsairs. “Pappy” Boyington, their most famous pilot, is in the front row, third from the right.

 

[santana]

A B-24 Liberator and a squadron of P-40's flying from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 1943.

 

[santana]

A Military Policeman from the US 29th Infantry Division, rests on the approach road to St-Lô in Normandy. 7th -19th of July 1944.

 

[Conhoon]

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

 

[Conhoon]

July 16, 1918
Enlisted men 'Doughboys' of the 28th Infantry Regiment, US 1st Division, wearing their prescribed uniforms, rest near Soissons, France.

(Photo source - US Signal Corps Collection)
Color by Frédéric Duriez

 

[Conhoon]

Exercises of the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade of the Polish Armed Forces, Great Britain, 1943/1944.

Colorization by Mikołaj Kaczmarek