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Soviet soldiers holding PPSh-41 while defending the outskirts of Stalingrad, November 1942. The PPSh-41 is the abbreviation of “pistolet-pulemyot Shpagina”, which means "Shpagin machine pistol". It was a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgi Shpagin as a cheap, reliable, and simplified alternative to the PPD-40. The PPSh saw extensive combat use during World War II and the Korean War. It was one of the major infantry weapons of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II. Around six million PPSh-41s were manufactured, and was still used by Vietnamese Viet Cong as late as 1970. A common nickname in Russian is "pe-pe-sha" (ППШ), which means "daddy".
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A few days ago I posted a PMT archive picture showing Burlingham bodied AEC Reliance YVT 573 in a Somewhat diminished state having collided with a concrete lamp post.
Looking through some of my early colourisations I came across this offering showing it as delivered to independent Baxter of Hanley. Unfortunately, I can't credit the original photographer as there were no details on the reverse of the print.
The picture was taken on the last but one Longton bus station, Stoke on Trent.
Who needs shirts when you’re packing this much swagger? This fabulous foursome brought the heat to Maspalomas Winter Pride, marching down Playa del Inglés like a walking calendar shoot for leather, lycra, and liberation. Cheers, lads—you’re what Pride (and postcards) are made of.
The German crew of a captured British Mark IV ‘male’ tank named ‘Heinz’ pose for the camera, May 1918.
The officer in the center is said to be 2nd Leutnant Heinrich Köhler, commander of tank 207 'Heinz', tank No.4 of Abteilung 14. If this is indeed Panzer 207, according to other photos, 'Heinz' was lost in action during the fighting near Fort de la Pompelle on June 1, 1918.
A British lieutenant briefs his section leaders (note a 2nd lieutenant at his right) during an exercise in the snow by troops of the 1/7th Battalion, Warwickshire Regiment, between Douai and Orchies, taken by Captain Leonard 'Len' Arthur Puttnam, 26 January 1940. The 1/7th Battalion had just arrived in France in time to join the British Expeditionary Force, which was assigned the task of reinforcing French units and stopping any attempt of German advance. It seems the Company H.Q. was established in the Forest of Flines, near Douai (1). In May, German and British forces clashed in the Ypres-Comines Canal, near the French-Belgian border, south of Dunkirk (2). By the end of the month, only 15 officers and 200 soldiers were left, being ordered to retreat north to Dunkirk, where they were repatriated back to England. Their actions in Belgium were essential to delay the German advance and secure the withdrawal of the BEF. All men in the picture are unnamed. The very same day the photograph was taken, Brisbane registered its hottest day ever, at 43.2 °C.
Source: Imperial War Museums (F 2282)
Bibliography: 1. Imperial War Museums (IWM O 1225)
2. Smith, Mark (2014) The History of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Morrisville: Lulu Press
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The oldest Austrian soldier of WWI, and possibly the oldest of the Great War, 79-years-old Oberjäger Gaspar Wallnöfer* (born ca. 1837/38) pictured here in 1917 wearing a pre-war Jäger tunic** and a war-period cap.
69 years before, as a ten-year-old boy, Wallnöfer took part in the fighting in the aftermath of the 1848 revolution in northern Italy (1st Italian War of Unification) and was awarded a silver medal for bravery. According to a 1917 newspaper caption to this photo, he fought armed with a scythe.
18 years later, in 1866, serving in a Tyrolean Kaiserjäger company during the 3rd Italian War of Unification -also referred to as the 3rd Italian War of Independence- he received the Golden Medal for Bravery (Tapferkeitsmedaille) for capturing an Italian cannon during the Battle of Custozza.
During WWI, Gaspar went to battle a 3rd time against its old foe, Italy, this time in the Tyrol mountains. Being a Standschütze, he served in Standschützen-Batallion Schlanders.
Standschütze was a Tyrolean state militia consisting of men over fifty years old and young people who had not yet reached the age of eighteen and who were members of the Tyrolean and Voralberg rifle clubs.
Gaspar survived the war but unfortunately, I was unable to find any information concerning his service and date of death.
Note on the medals: The ribbons and medals are either hid by Gaspar’s beard or lack detail. After consulting whatever sources I could get my hands on, and cross-referencing awards lists from both the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empires with an order of precedence list available online I decided on the following awards, from left to right:
Gold medal for bravery (Tapferkeitsmedaille) 1866 version, Silver medal for bravery, Commemorative Medal for the Defenders of the Tyrol, Crown Jubilee Medal of 1898. The last one is an obscure civilian award and it’s the only one that remotely fits the size, the odd oval shape, and the ribbon grey tone: the State Award for Cavalry Horse Breeding (1908 version).
If anyone has any suggestions on the medals, I’m all ears!
*Sometimes also referred to as Caspar Wallnöfer.
** Colour based on drawings and description, not actual photos of an original tunic.
Original: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (BildID_15424442)
Mr Kirk Douglas - 99 years old as I type!
A picture of him in his prime - coloured for you by internationally unknown digital colouring expert Billyfish Photographic Art
A few years ago, when Sam and I were playing with the idea of doing a book with colourisations of German uniforms he sent me this photo from drakegoodman's collection to colourise. I just realised I never posted it here.
A pair of German Landsturm ‘Unteroffiziere’ (squad/platoon leaders) from an unidentified unit, circa 1914/15.
In this case, I believe both men are wearing Litewka tunics: a 1900 blue model and a 1903 grey model.
Rifles are late 19th century’s Gewehr Model 1888 (Gew 88 for shorts).
Original: B.B. Collection (drakegoodman)
Three soldiers from the Grenadier 119th Regiment "Queen Olga" from the XIII Württemberg Corps operating a MG 08 as an anti-aircraft gun, c. 1915. The soldiers can be seen wearing a M92 Überzug covering their Pickelhaubes.
Source: RPPC from private collection
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An Algerian soldier of the 9th Algerian Infantry Regiment takes cover behind Tunisian cactus holding a Thompson M1928A1 submachine gun, Tunisia, North Africa, February 1943. The 9th Algerian Infantry Regiment was an infantry unit belonging to the Army of Africa. The unit was created in 1913. The unit participated in the First World War and the Rif War. During WW2 the unit fought in the Tunisian Campaign and the Italian Campaign. The Army of Africa was the unofficial but commonly used term for the portions of the French Army recruited from French North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) from 1830 until the end of the Algerian War in 1962. From the end of 1942, the Army of Africa was headed by French General Henri Giraud and fought in the Tunisian Campaign before its merger with General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces, participating in the Italian Campaign in the French Expeditionary Corps.
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Although not quite sharp, this former B&W shot, from the recently acquired collection, appealed to me as a canvas for colourisation.
It was a pretty average winter's day circa 1970 when the photographer caught PMT's Marshall bodied Daimler Roadliner KVT 175E at the Greengates Street terminus in Tunstall (Stoke on Trent). The bus was fitted out with the Johnson 'Farebox' which was supposed to speed up fare collection with one man buses. However its principal claim to fame was that it was easily tampered with and not all the collected revenue made its way to the company. The system became something of a carte blanche for theives. Needless to say, the company soon returned to conventional ways of fare collection which was somehow believed to be safer.
Greengates Street, between the Public Baths (left) and the 'Little Park' is no longer served by buses, the last PSVs were probably coaches taking kids to the now closed pool. The situation wasn't aided by the local authority tinkering with the road system thereabouts making bus access / egress incredibly difficult.
Toni Midnight. The quality of the original image lends itself to colourisation. As always the original dress colours are a mystery, but it is the most fun selecting a colour that seems to work.
Disclaimer: The layered colourisation work and digital enhancements to the original are all my own work and any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.
Based on a photograph of the silhouettes of dead Buddleia against the eveing sky. Once I'd cropped it I noticed this shape, which I repeated. It reminds me a little of Chinese or Japanese calligraphy, written in black ink on parchment paper, slightly blotchy. The diagonals suggest movement ... Probably other people can see other shapes and suggestions too.
I converted the original photograph to black and white. Inverted it and used a number of blending modes with the textures to suggest an absorbant parchment surface with water marks, or, maybe impressions of mist and water, and ink marks ...
Textures:
Vintage Negatives - here is another colourisation. This time from roll 5, with Tom and Cecilia Riley and Amy Stott (the photographer's wife),
A Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun position manned by the 2/9th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, on the main fighter runway at Gili Gili airfield (Turnbull Field, 1942–1944), September 1943. A Kittyhawk fighter can be seen coming in to land.
Source & caption: AWM, 026629 (Thomas Fisher)
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Another colourisation by Billyfish Photographic Art - a pilot guns the engines on his Spitfire in Burma.
Just to carry on from Fridays update of adding a fitting colour tone to some captures that were originally shot in B/W.
I love B/W photography and I could go on and wax lyrical about why and what I see in B/W photography..........but I'm a simple person who likes simple terms ( I LIKE IT IN B/W ) enough said!
But I know B/W it's not everyone's favourite..... and adding a one tone colourisation can sometimes give a nice unreal feel to a scene.
All these shots were taken on very heavy misty mornings just after sunrise.
The sun was obscured by the mist so the light and colour was actually just a paler version and less saturated version I've used in these captures.
I've add the B/W in the comments so you can see how they originally looked .
Here's another of Stephen Arrandales' efforts to introduce colour to an old black & white images.
I rather like the effect on night shots, where the light from the station lights could play havoc with colour balance - and one of the reasons B&W was originally a good choice
47538 rather unusually heads the 01.40 Waterloo - Yeoil
Thích Quảng Đức (1897 – 11 June 1963, born Lâm Văn Túc), was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quang Duc was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm. Photographs of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diệm government. John F. Kennedy said in reference to a photograph of Duc on fire, "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one." Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the monk's death.
For addicional information on this photo visit the b&w original at paranoid_womb's photostream.
Two German soldiers from Infanterie-Regiment Vogel von Falkenstein (7. Westfälisches) Nr.56 in a trench, somewhere on the western front, July 1916.
On their heads they wear a M1916 steel helmet with a Stirnpanzer, a steel plate designed to offer extra protection to the soldier’s forehead.
Despite the extra protection (it was close to 1cm thick) it added an extra 1,2 Kg to the front of the head causing considerable discomfort and strain to the neck. It was not well liked by the soldiers and only a small number were manufactured.
Note: The troddel’s grey tones suggest that it was most probably white/red, indicating the 2nd Company, 1st Battalion.
(Text adapted from Paranoid_Womb's original post)
My gratitude to S. Wouters for his knowledge and invaluable contribution concerning historical accuracy. Thanks mate!
Original property of S. Wouters
[View of Lynmouth from Lynton, Lynton and Lynmouth, England]
[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Notes:
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.
Print no. "10161".
Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrom print collection.
Subjects:
England--Lynmouth.
Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Views of the British Isles (DLC) 2002696059
More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.08644
Call Number: LOT 13415, no. 657 [item]
This is an anonymously published postcard which has the typical German colourisation of an early divided back postcard. It was posted in December 1905 and shows the Dulwich Tollgate during winter after a heavy snowfall. I used College Road countless times during the 1970s and 1980s but as I rode a motorcycle I never paid the toll which I believe is now £1.20 for a car. The Toll gate has changed a bit since 1905, there is now a white toll booth in the centre of the road and payment is now accepted by swipe and pay, Apple pay and cash. It is the last remaining tollgate in London having been established in 1789, the road is private from the junction with the South Circular road in the north to the junction with Fountain Drive to the south. The view is looking north towards the South Circular and on the left through the trees are the Dulwich College buildings. The road to the right past the house now leads to a modern gated community which in the mid-1980s was the home of Mrs. Thatcher, the then Prime Minister.
French pilot Jules Védrines in the cockpit of his Morane-Saulnier N in September 1915
Before Fokker’s famous gun-synchronizing device made his appearance, another solution, implemented by French manufacturer Raymond Saulnier, had already been tested in combat by Roland Garros, the first pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft using a fixed machine-gun.
It was Saulnier’s friend, Roland Garros himself, that came up with the idea of installing wedge-shaped bullet deflectors on the propeller’s blades. These would simply deflect any bullet that might have struck them. The system worked to a degree, considerably reducing damage to the blades, but it also reduced the propeller’s efficiency (said to be by about 30%) making the already slow Morane-Saulnier fighter even slower.
This particular photo shows the whole firing system with the deflectors clearly visible. Concerning these early weapon systems, I cannot help but wonder about how difficult and complex must have been for the pilot when he had to reload the gun (in this case, a Hotchkiss Model 1909 Benét-Mercié machine-gun) by inserting a new 25 round magazine, while at the same time piloting his aircraft and attempting to keep his opponent in sight.
Jules Charles Toussaint Védrines (1881-1919) was an early French aviator, notable for being the first pilot to fly at more than 100 mph (in 1912 flying a Deperdussin Racing Monoplane) and for winning the Gordon Bennett Trophy race in 1912.
During the Great War, he was posted to the French 6th Army flying reconnaissance and clandestine missions in his Blériot XXXVIbis. By war's end, he had flown over 1,000 hours.
On April 21st, 1919, Védrines was killed in a plane crash near Lyon while attempting to fly a Caudron C.23 from Villacoublay to Rome.
This is the second of two colour treatments of an old black and white WWII photograph that I found here on Flickr posted by Ronnie Bell who has very kindly said I can post it.
(See Ronnie's original post here)
Boat with medical personnel from the United States Coast Guard USCGC Spencer is coming back from the HMCS Trillium at that time had 167 on board rescued American sailors from u.s. ships (SS Empire Redshunck), (SS Exposetor) and (SS Chattanooga plant City). All the vessels were in convoy ON-166 and was sunk with torpedoes from German submarine U-606 Ss Exposetor was later sunk by torpedoes, damaged by U-303). U-606 was sunk after that attack by the coast guard ship USCGC Kembell and Polish destroyers (ORP Burza).
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Louis Porche, a roofer drafted in 1914, August 1914, probably in Nevers. When the First World War broke out, the French Army still had in service their nineteenth century uniforms, known navy blue coats and red trousers and cap. The French cuirassiers cavalry soldiers still wore the same uniforms of the Napoleonic period, that had nearly unchanged in one hundred years. Adolphe Messimy, Minister of War, wisely claimed ‘This stupid blind attachment to the most visible of colours will have cruel consequences’. If the population and the High Staff had listened, the red pieces of cloth they would not have caused disasters in what from 1914 would be the revolution of modern war.
Original picture: Europeana 1914-1918
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80 years ago, German soldiers and 'Landespolizisten' (border police) of the Free City of Danzig remove the Polish border crossing in Sopot, September 14, 1939, as a reenacment of the same event on September 1. The day the invasion began, resistance was offered by the Polish 2nd Maritime Rifle Regiment in the crossing at Sopot. The following weeks of suffering would become months and eventually years as a new kind of war turned to evolve in one of the cruelest events in Human history.
Source: Główny Zarząd Polityczny WP (1960) Z Dziejów Wojny Wyzwoleńczej Narodu Polskiego 1939-1945, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, pp. 129
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Francoist planes, most likely three Heinkel He 111 from the Condor Legion, flying over the city centre of Burgos, Spanish Civil War, c. 1937.
Aviones franquistas, probablemente tres Heinkel He 111 de la Legión Cóndor, volando sobre el centro de la ciudad de Burgos, Guerra Civil Española, c. 1937.
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