These are rarely seen color pictures from the Second World War featured in the book "The Second World War in Colour" by the Imperial War Museum. Rediscover the tragedy and heroism of D-Day, the Holocaust, and more with this arresting look at World War 2 in color. US Army soldiers return home to the United States at the end of the Second World War in Europe.
August 1945. Color by @colourisedpieceofjake A Finnish soldier photographed in Rukajärvi, September 1941. Color by @jhlcolorizing If you enjoyed these photos of WW2 in color, about how colorized photos are bringing history to life.
Experience World War II like you never seen it before by viewing some of the most dramatic photos taken during the war. Contribute to history by posting your comments on each photo. An original and growing collection of war pictures in color, declassified, shocking and famous photographs documenting WW2 in every detail.
See a collection of original color photographs of the Second World War taken by the photographers of the US Army Signal Corps. Below is an amazing collection of 27 rarely-seen color images from all over the world during the WWII era. An unidentified US pilot stands up in the cockpit of his plane on the tarmac on Midway Naval Base, Midway Islands, 1942.
While most of the images of the Second World War were captured in black-and-white, many original color photographs of the war do exist. Color photography was slowly becoming more popular in the 1930s and 1940s due to the introduction of Kodachrome color film. However, it was still cheaper to document the war primarily in black-and-white.
In this article, you can see 15 original color photos. Color photography had only just become widely available when World War II began. Existing color images of the war are not hard to come by, but they are considerably rarer than black and white images.
Colour film was a scarce commodity during the Second World War, making the reproduction of printed works both difficult and expensive. Here are 15 of the images that survived from The Second World War, revealed for the first time and in great detail the world as the people in them would have seen it.