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Re: WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]

Post by Pariah » Tue May 15, 2018 11:35 am

I love the torpedos just sitting on the beach.
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Re: WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]

Post by Spectre » Tue May 15, 2018 7:59 pm

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M4A4 Mk.V Sherman tank (T-147477) of 'A' squadron 4 troop, Ontario Regiment, 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade, passes through Via Don Luigi Sturzo, Trecastagni, Sicily
9 August 1943.


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The Drive for Messina - American troops advance through the damaged Piazza S. Martino in Randazzo, Sicily. August 1943

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Local girls giving apples to a Sherman crew outside of a Bakery in Aalst, Holland. 18 September, 1944,
2nd Armoured Battalion of the Irish Guards, 5th Guards Brigade, Guards Armoured Division, 30 Corps.


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"Le flirt", a German soldier and young French woman stand talking together on the Place du Trocadéro, overlooking the Eiffel Tower, Paris 1941

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Sherman tanks of the Canadian, Governor General's Horse Guards Armoured Regiment during the Liberation of Arnhem on Hommelseweg corner of Staringplein, Arnhem. 15th April 1945.

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Members of the German Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 4 “Der Führer” Division, SS-Verfügungsdivision (SS Dispositional Troops) drive through Paleisstraat near the Royal Palace in a Wanderer W11/1 after the capitulation of Dutch forces.
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. May 15 1940.



I always liked these kinds of photos showing the same location during and after the war. Also, interesting to see the extensive use of "extra armour" on tanks later in the war due to bigger tanks and anti-tank launchers.
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Re: WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]

Post by Onebad » Wed May 16, 2018 4:31 pm

Feeding the bird

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Re: WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]

Post by Kildren » Thu May 17, 2018 11:05 pm

Canadians fought in the war? Doesn't seem very Canadian of them more you know I guess
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Re: WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]

Post by Onebad » Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:05 pm

Fw 190 going through maintenance on the Eastern Front

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Re: WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]

Post by Passion » Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:38 pm

Nice pic Onebad
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Post by Biggs » Sat Jun 02, 2018 6:33 am

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Re: WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]

Post by Coopes » Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:50 pm

This picture was taken in Belgium 1947. Guess it took a while to clean up.

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Re: WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]

Post by Pariah » Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:25 pm

Coopes wrote:
Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:50 pm
This picture was taken in Belgium 1947. Guess it took a while to clean up.

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It took years. My dad grew up in London in the 50s and 60s and there were bomb sites everywhere he used to play in.
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Re: WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]

Post by Darky » Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:40 pm

Nice post Spectre
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