Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Two German snipers surrender to GIs of the 3rd Army in Koblenz. Colorized a 1945 photo by Alex Lim

A colorized photo depicting two German snipers surrendering to GIs of the 3rd Army in Koblenz. The youngster on the right was wounded by US return fire. Germans generally preferred surrendering to American GIs as Russia

ns took no sniper prisoners; they were invariably shot on sight. March 26, 1945.

Friday, January 26, 2018

Colorized re-enactment of a close combat between a Polish and German infantry at the Battle of Mlawa, Northern Poland, Sep 1939

Colorized with some liberties recreating smoke on the foreground.  This is a re-enacted shot conducted by the Polish government using authentic artillery and actual German Lufthwaffe aircraft sometime in 2015 .  Story of the history battle that preceded the fall of Poland to Hitler here

Monday, December 25, 2017

Don McCullin, War Photographer, Vietnam,1968

Colorized a photo of war photographer Don McCullin resting with the Delta Company, 1/5th US Marines, during the Battle for Hue, Tet Offensive, Vietnam. February 1968.  The moment was captured by Nik Wheeler, a photojournalist with him, and was used as the cover of McCullin's Book, "Unreasonable Behaviour"