WW2 original color photos

[Smithy]

A common problem now that every Tom, Dick and Harry can interpret images in any colours they fancy.

It annoys me Steve. If you're going to colourise something then at least do something where you have a knowledge and understanding of what the colours were!

 

[Chandler]

A common problem now that every Tom, Dick and Harry can interpret images in any colours they fancy.

Artistic license.

 

[flyincowboy]

Tail gunners

 

[flyincowboy]

 

[flyincowboy]

ball turett cleaning polebrook 1942

 

[flyincowboy]

Marshal sir Arthur Coningham, Italy, January 1944 wearing his irvin jacket.

 

[flyincowboy]

Gen. Claire Chennault of Flying Tigers fame

 

[flyincowboy]

The goon crew.jpg

 

[flyincowboy]

princess pat.jpg 381ST 535 TH BG Back from mission

 

[flyincowboy]

German pilots

 

[flyincowboy]

AVG squadron flight leader Robert 'R. T.' Smith next to his P-40 Warhawk Kunming, China 1942.jpg

 

[flyincowboy]

p40 51st Fighter Group" the hump".jpg

 

[B-Man2]

princess pat.jpg 381ST 535 TH BG Back from mission

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When you piss off your ground crew and they decide to re-camo your plane

 

[flyincowboy]

paratroopers leaving glider" horsa".jpg

 

[flyincowboy]

When you piss off your ground crew and they decide to re-camo your plane

Nope just tryed to get the the ship look obsolete and well abused !

 

[flyincowboy]

B-24, 90th B G 400th B S..jpg

 

[Chandler]

Gen. Claire Chennault of Flying Tigers fame

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Those CBI patches look brand new!

 

[Chandler]

When you piss off your ground crew and they decide to re-camo your plane

I think the Germans helped with that.

 

[Pa12]

Gen. Claire Chennault of Flying Tigers fame

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Do we know what jacket Chennault had?

 

[ES335]

I believe Chennault's A-2 was and still may be displayed at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Talk about "patina"... Whew!