Colorization of photographs is one of many ways to bring history back to life – often into completely new life. This new kind of art shows us the true colours of old times, in this particular case about Wolrd War II. Details like the color of uniforms or marks on planes, or even hue of camouflage, is astonishing.
This colorization skill requires a substantial knowledge from the artist about the time that the photographs were first taken. Regularly he has to guess things like the colour of a soldier’s eyes or his hair.
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And below are effects of such colorized work in 16 copies!
A Douglas A-20 attack bomber leaves the assembly line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant for transfer to the flight.
The British Army in Italy 1944 A Churchill IV (NA 75) tank of 25th Tank Brigade passes through the narrow streets of Montefiore, 11 September 1944. NA 75 versions of the Churchill were fitted with 75mm guns from salvaged Sherman tanks.
A Finnish sub-machinegunner in the Vuosalmi bridgehead, Karelian Isthmus1944, notice the Suomi KP-31 Submachine gun.
British Infantrymen in position in a shallow trench near Bardia, a Libyan Port, which had been occupied by Italian forces, and fell to the Allies on January 5, 1941.
The Campaign in North Africa 1941 Soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, 15 October 1941.
The British Army in France 1940 Close-up of the driver of a 4th Royal Tank Regiment Matilda tank, named ‘Deoch’, 12 January 1940.
Churchill tanks of 6th Guards Tank Brigade in NW Europe, 2 November 1944.
U.S. Marines of Marine fighter squadron VMF-222 Flying Deuces relaxing in between strikes on a Vought F4U-1 Corsair on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, in April 1944.
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Dutch Fokker D.XXIs markings are the ones prior to October 1939.
El Alamein 1942, a mine explodes close to a British truck as it carries infantry through enemy minefields and wire to the new front lines.
Langley test pilots (from left) Mel Gough, Herb Hoover, Jack Reeder, Steve Cavallo and Bill Gray stand in front of a P-47 Thunderbolt Fighter in this 1945 photo at Langley.
The crew of a Crusader tank eat their breakfast beside their vehicle North Africa March 1942.
The crew of a Crusader tank have a wash and shave by the side of their vehicle, March 1942. Note the roughly applied camouflage paint on the track guards.
Tuskegee Airmen Capt. Wendell O. Pruitt with his crew chief, S Sgt. Samuel W. Jacobs, c. November 1944.
