Amazing collection of WWII photos

[PR19_Kit]

One of my buddies on another list sent me this link with the comment that he thinks some of them could have been colourised, but they're still worth looking at. Some pics are well known, some I've never seen before but there are HUNDREDS of them on here and it'll take an age to see them all.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8270787%40N07/sets/72157605269786717/show/

[Cliffy B]

Nice find man!  Bookmarked that one for sure.

[mkhulu]

anything SAAF related - top class. Ta for the link 

[rickshaw]

I didn't spot any that were obviously colourised.   I was aware that some colour photography occurred in the UK but it was expensive and difficult to process there.  The USN was the only service that deliberately set out to use colour photography from the start and that is why we see, all too often, USN footage used in TV documentaries ("can't use black and white, oh, no, the viewers can't cope with it!"   

[PR19_Kit]

There's a few of the photos where the poster comments on possible colourisation in the text box, but the default setting has the text box turned off. One of the little icons on the top right turns it on.

[phoenix54]

Hi Kit,
thanks for posting.  Some of the first photo's shown were taken by / for 'Life' magazine,
(the staged ones, you know, 16 armours re-loading the guns on a Spit!)
Others by Charles E. Brown with a limited supply of U.S. Kodak stock.
For all that, very few are obviously 'hand tinted' as the backgrounds are coloured similar to the foreground.

Hark....................the teeth nashing of JMNs!!