Yesterday’s battlefield, today’s memories: Old photos from World War II (color version)

[New Sancai Compilation and First Release] Through the skillful hands of editors, some photos from the World War II period have been turned into color, allowing us to experience history more intimately than we have ever seen before. Get ready to travel back in time to the war years.

△ In 1941, during the visit of King George VI of the United Kingdom to Helwan, Egypt, Maori soldiers performed the haka to welcome him.

△ In 1944, U.S. Army Pfc. David Kenyon Webster took a photo with local residents of Eindhoven, Netherlands.

⁠△ In 1944, a Soviet prisoner of war wore an SN-42 steel breastplate with bullet holes penetrated by three bullets.

△ In 1943, shortly after the Casablanca Conference, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Marrakesh, Morocco.

△ In 1942, a New Zealand soldier smoked a pipe in the Egyptian desert.

△ In 1942, paratroopers trained at RAF Ringway in Cheshire, England.

△ In 1943, on Betio Island in Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific Theater, a U.S. Marine posed for a photo wearing a helmet with bullet holes.

△ 1944, at RAF Manston in Kent, England. Colonel Hubert Zemke poses for a photo while sitting in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt fighter jet.

△ The U.S. 17th Paratroopers (Airborne Paratroopers) and Mohawks receive a briefing before crossing the Rhine.

△ In 1942, during Operation 'Torch', the US military went to the beach of Oran, Algeria.

△ In 1944, an Italian guerrilla member (Stefano Candela) posed for a photo in Piedmont, Italy.

△ In 1942, British soldiers operated artillery in the Egyptian desert.

△ In June 1944, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division set sail from Weymouth, England, bound for Omaha Beach in Normandy.

△ In 1940, Santa Claus appeared on Regent Street, London, carrying gifts.

△ In 1945, a German refugee sat among the ruins of Cologne, Germany.

△ In 1945, after U.S. troops recaptured Manila from the Japanese, injured U.S. soldiers were airlifted from Manila, Philippines.

△ A bomb squad member poses with a bomb with "Merry Christmas" written on it.

△ In August 1945, after the end of World War II, U.S. Army soldiers returned to the United States.

(Author: Carl Seaver)
(Compiled by: Bai Ding)

(Editor: Jiang Qiming)

(Source of the article: Compiled and published by New Sancai)