Showing posts with label General. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General. Show all posts

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel (1891 - 1944)

Colorized a photo of General Erwin Rommel looking dapper in a Hugo Boss produced military uniform and overcoat some liberties on the background.

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964), colorized by Alex Lim from a 1930 photo

Here's my colorized take of Major General (2-star) Douglas MacArthur in a 1930 photo. He was the U.S. Chief of Staff in the U.S. Army in the 1930s and at age 50 was its youngest major general. He was appointed Field Marshal of the Philippine Army in 1936 as requested by President Manual L Quezon during the Commonwealth period. In July 1941, 4 months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor, Roosevelt federalized the Philippine Army, recalled MacArthur to active duty in the U.S. Army, named him commander of U.S. Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE).and was promoted to lieutenant general. He had direct command over 30,000 Philippine soldiers and was evacuated to Australia in the morning of Dec 8 1941 immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt could not afford to lose him to an impending capitulation of U.S. possessions in the Pacific that were attacked on that day.

Friday, March 9, 2018

Dwight D. Eisenhower by Yousuf Karsh, colorzed by Alex Y. Lim

Undated portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1967), 34th US President by Yousuf Karsh, colorized by Alex Y. Lim. A five-star general in the US Army (one of 4 in 1944, including Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshal, and Omar Bradley) and served as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, and responsible for the planning and execution of invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. With the discovery of Nazi concentration camps, he ordered camera crews to document evidence of the atrocities of the German high command for use in the Nuremberg Trials. He reclassified German prisoners of war (POWs) in U.S. custody as Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEFs), who were no longer subject to the Geneva Convention. A Republican, he won two terms as president from 1953 to 1961


Saturday, December 2, 2017

General Bernard Montgomery (1887 - 1976), photo taken ca 1943

Colorized in two versions,  a portrait of the British WWII general who defeated the "Desert Fox" Gen. Rommelalso colorizedhere.  Biography sketch of Gen Montgomery here.
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