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    • United States Eighth Air Force in Britain. © IWM (FRE 6210) Lieutenant Vernon R Richards of the 361st Fighter Group flying his P-51D Mustang nicknamed ‘Tika IV’, during a bomber escort mission in 1944.
    • Sew for victory. © IWM (TR 1783) Members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) preparing parachutes for use by British airborne forces during the invasion of Europe, May 1944.
    • Keep watching the skies. © IWM (TR 453) An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) ‘spotter’ at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site, December 1942. See object record.
    • The British Army drive on Tunis. © IWM (TR 939) A crew from the 16th/5th Lancers, 6th Armoured Division, clean the gun barrel of their Crusader tank at El Aroussa in Tunisia, May 1943.
  1. Sep 30, 2020 · Rare color photos from the Second World War, 1941-1945. An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) ‘spotter’ at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site. 1942. 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. Many are being published for the first time ...

  2. Apr 24, 2017 · The Second World War in Colour is a new book published by Imperial War Museums (IWM) that contains many color photos of WWII published for the first time in 70 years. During the war, the Ministry ...

  3. Apr 19, 2017 · An extraordinary collection of rare colour photographs reveal the second World War as the people living through the conflict would have seen it. ... Some 3,000 colour pictures were taken between ...

    • Flying over Egypt. © IWM (TR 1) A Royal Air Force Lockheed Hudson Mk VI (AE626) of the Middle East Communications Flight flying over the Egyptian pyramids, 1942.
    • Watching the skies. © IWM (TR 454) An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) spotter with binoculars at an anti-aircraft command post, December 1942. See object record.
    • Making new friends. © IWM (TR 2869) Two soldiers of the Royal Military Police with Anna, a four-year-old Austrian girl with whose family the men were billeted, in the Klagenfurt area of occupied Austria, May 1945.
    • Suiting up. © IWM (TR 185A) Men of the Airborne Division adjust their harnesses alongside an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley 'PX-G' of No. 295 Squadron RAF, October 1942.
  4. May 26, 2021 · Photography during the Second World War is often thought of as only in black and white, which is an easy association to make, as the majority of images taken during the conflict are in this medium. However, it might surprise you to learn the first color photos ever produced came long before the war even began, in the mid-to-late 1800s.

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  6. Apr 20, 2017 · The vast majority of photos taken during the war were in black and white, but between 1942 and 1945, British photographers managed to snap around 3,000 color images. Those which survived became ...

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