Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 (serial number B2258) and a Nieuport Scout (serial number B6821) biplanes at St. Omer Aerodrome at night, 19 December 1917.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On this day in 1944, more than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries placed at the Normandy assault area in preparation for D-Day7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A unit of the US 25th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized), 4th Armored Division moves through the village of Le Repas, commune de Folligny (Manche), in Normandy on July 31, 1944.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Boeing Model 314A 'Clipper', G-AGCA Berwick, of BOAC, lands on Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria, for moorings at the West African flying boat terminal at Iquoi c.19455yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on their wedding day. September 12, 1953.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
'Trick or treat?' - Children wearing grotesque heads - 1940s - Happy Halloween!!!5yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
White Death - Simo Simuna Hayha - with visible damage to his left cheek, after his 1940 wound7yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Avenger TBF-1C NZ2523 being re-armed at Piva on Bougainville, about May 1944. Note the yellow mission markers below the windscreen and the white 523 on the lower nose. (RNZAF)4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Veronica Foster, (b.1922 - d.2000) popularly known as Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
President Lyndon B. Johnson and a turkey presented to him in the Fish Room of the White House - November 16, 19676yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Powell in custody. April 14, 1865.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
'Flight to freedom' - Czecho-Slovak orphans from German concentration camps at Prague airport, ready to fly to the United Kingdom, c.19456yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Profumo affair - Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and topless showgirl.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
HMS Pegasus, Lamlash, Scotland, September 1942. A Kingfisher being lowered. The observer sits astride the hull in order to hook on and off.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Ernest Hemingway, as photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Cuba, August of 19527yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Staff Sergeant Maynard Harrison 'Snuffy Smith of the 306th Bomb Group, salutes after being awarded the Medal of Honor by the US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, at Thurleigh Airfield, USAAF Station 111, England, 15 Jul 1943.6yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The day Al Capone arrived at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in California - 7 January 1939.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Alan Turing - a computer scientist, philosopher and cryptologist who played a crucial role in breaking the Nazis’ Enigma code, seen here in happier times. Unknown date.8yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
One-armed Squadron Leader James Archibald Findlay MacLachlan, DFC. & Bar, of a night fighter squadron, playing cards with other pilots of No1 Squadron at RAF Tangmere, November 19414yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Bf109 of Lt Willi Fronhofer of 9./JG26 after he crash landed in a field at Ulcombe Kent 19404yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Alphonse Bertillon, in 1913, demonstrating the two-part 'mug shot' method of photographing suspects that he pioneered8yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
General Weygand, Admiral Wemyss and Marshall Foch after signing the armistice with Germany to mark the end of World War One.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Unwrapping Times Square: 100 years in 30 photographs of four views in one image!7yr ⋅ photojacker ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
1 November 1960: The reverend Vernon Mitchell visits numerous strip clubs in Soho to determine what should be censored.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Joe Black Fox - Sioux chief and performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. - 18985yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
HM Submarine URSULA returns to port after successful patrol. 11 DECEMBER 1941, GIBRALTAR5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Father Christmas wearing a tin helmet walks along Regent Street, London, with a bag full of presents - from Life Magazine, December 23, 19407yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Pilots from 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron lend a hand in pushing Spitfire IX BS451, FY-V, out to dispersal at Biggin Hill. 18 December 1942.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
President John F. Kennedy, seen here in 1947 during his time as a Congressman, representing Massachusetts's 11th congressional district7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Eagle Squadron - Flying Officer Eugene Red Tobin (4 January 1917 – 7 September 1941) was an American pilot who flew with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain in World War II.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI of No. 110 Squadron RAF taxies out for a sortie, past another aircraft of the squadron at Joari, India.January 19453yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
REGENT STREET, LONDON. 1960. The tradition of decorating Regent Street with Christmas lights began in 1954 after the Daily Telegraph reported that London looked 'drab' at Christmas.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 16, 1868 – October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American peoples.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
One century ago: The return of Romania's King Ferdinand and Queen Marie to Bucharest - 1 Dec 1918 - Today, romanians celebrate 100 years since Romania's Great Union Day. - The National Holiday - Happy B-Day Romania ! :)5yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Two German soldiers read a newspaper before using it for another purpose, World War II7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A rare look behind the clockface of the Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower), ca. 1920.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The statue of Lady Justice - The Old Bailey - London, In 1937 the statue was re-gilded in preparation for the Coronation of King George V.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Orville and Wilbur Wright, famous for having made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17th, 19037yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, CO of No. 242 Squadron, seated on his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Blitz Fire fighters tackle a blaze in London's Temple, home to barristers and lawyers, following an air raid over the city. May 1st, 19416yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Following the death in January 1942 of her great-great-uncle and godfather, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Elizabeth was appointed on 24 February to succeed him as the Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Bob Dylan - 11 May 1966, waiting at the Aust Ferry Terminal near Bristol.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
M4 Sherman tanks of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers, 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, advancing into Caen, Normandy. 10 July 1944.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Light it up! US Marine Dwayne L. Boice burns out a weapons emplacement - Wolmido Island - 15 Sep 19505yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Ho Chi Minh - led the Vietnamese nationalist movement for more than three decades, fighting against the Japanese, the French colonial power and the US-backed South Vietnamese.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Sergeant Slaughter - - inspects the 'tommy' gun which had jammed when he needed it most, but he still killed three enemies, wounded many more and captured seven. Italy - 9 Jan 19446yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Butterfly Studios in New York City. August 1972.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
King Edward VII and Tsar Nicholas II pass by operation team on the yacht Standart, 1908.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, 19068yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
W.A.A.F. Scottish Station of Flying Training Command - Picture (issued 1944) shows - Leading Aircraftwoman S. Harrison of Alloa, Clackmanshire, a flight mechanic, before the take off. (Miles Master Mark II, DM425)4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Francis C. Barlow, Major General - promoted at the age of 29 in 1864, seen here shortly after the war ended5yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Whitby, England about 1900 - Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (English, 1853–1941)5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev - Russian chemist and inventor - (8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907 ) - circa 18905yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Ground staff work on a No 610 'County of Chester' Squadron Spitfire V at Westhampnett, 11 April 1943. Corporal Houseman (top), Corporal Phenna (with oil can) and Sergeant Moore (below) had all been with the Squadron since its formation in February 1936.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The wreck of the Dimitry of Narva which was the inspiration for Bram Stokers “Dracula” in 1887. In the book he renamed the ship The Demeter of Varna.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Niels Bohr - 1955 - Danish physicist & Nobel Prize laureate who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.5yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Mugshot and fingerprints of a young Marxist named 'Benedetto' Mussolini. Bern, Switzerland, 19037yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
King Oscar II - King of Sweden from 1872 until his death, and the last Bernadotte King of Norway.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A pair of M-8 'Greyhound' Armored Cars of 'C' Company, 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd US Armored Division, turn from Rue de Vire into Rue de la Foret, Saint-Sever-Calvados, Normandy. 3 August 19446yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Corvin Castle and the Main Market - Hunedoara,Transylvania, Romania (today) - circa 19025yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Imperial Russia. Smolny Institute for Education of Noble Maidens, ca. 1913. Photo by Karl Bulla8mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Royal group, including Kaiser Wilhelm II and Edward VII, in the Crimson Drawing-Room at Windsor Castle, 17 November 1907.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Dining with Hans von Luck. A photo caption in the album reads: “With Tommy flyers at Fecamp, 12 Juni 1940”.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
M7 Priest, 2nd Armored Division, at the intersection of Holgate Street and the Paris-Cherbourg Railway. June 18, 1944, Carentan.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Countess di Castiglione The selfie queen of Paris society - c. 1865-18946yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
George S Patton – America’s Blitzkrieg General (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945)5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953)6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Franz Joseph I of Austria, 1905. He was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and monarch of other states in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Lieutenant Walter L. Chewning, Jr. climbs aboard a crashed Hellcat to save pilot, Ensign Byron M. Johnson. USS Enterprise, November 10th, 1943.7yr ⋅ Urban2487 ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Franz Liszt was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Fw 190A-8, Melsbroek, Belgium. Works No. 175140, 6 + – (Brown outlined in black). Burnt and looted. September/October 19445yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Wing Commander Reginald W. Reynolds (right), with his navigator, Flight Lieutenant Edward Sismore - the pair that made German air force Commander-in-Chief Hermann Goering go berserk6yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Major Donald James Matthew Blakeslee from Ohio became the first flier in history to shoot down an enemy plane with the P-47 Thunderbolt - 15 April 19435yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Wilson D. Watson, Marine Corps Private who received the Medal of Honor for his actions at Iwo Jima during the Second World War7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A Supermarine Seafire Mark IIc of 885 Naval Air Squadron warming up its engine for take off in bright sunshine on the deck of HMS FORMIDABLE in the Mediterranean., December 1942.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
HOLLYWOODLAND - 1923 - Surveyors standing east of the sign on top of Bronson Canyon measure the Hollywoodland sign with Mulholland Highway visible beneath it.7yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Jasta 1 - Josef Kister and his Albatros DVa - Mont St Martin June 19184yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Flight-Lieutenant R H A Lee, after being awarded the DSO and DFC, and Flying Officer K H Blair, after being awarded the DFC, by King George VI at RAF Hornchurch, Essex. 27 July 19405yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general's tent, September-October 1862.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Karstadt department store on Berlin’s Hermannplatz, built in 1929 - it was a real feature of Berlin’s skyline, especially when lit up at night!5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Major General G L Verney, GOC 7th Armoured Division, enters Ghent in his Staghound armoured car, 8 September 1944.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
SSG Hiroshi H. Miyamura, Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War - held for 28 months as a prisoner of war immediately following the actions that earned him the Medal of Honor, which was kept secret until his release7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
First graders pictured at a flag-pledge ceremony at Raphael Weill Public School, San Francisco, 20 April 19428yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Lynn D. “Buck” Compton, leader of the 2nd Platoon of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
King George V at Buckingham Palace in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of war.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Boston Strangler > Self-confessed Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo is taken into custody after his arrest, north of Boston in Lynn, Mass. - Feb. 25, 19675yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy serving under the Johnson administration, shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 19647yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Children welcoming in the New Year on Bleecker Street in New York City, 1 January 19437yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
'Sherlock Jr.' - Silent comedy directed by and starring Buster Keaton in (1924)6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Bristol Scout D, No. 8980, piloted by Flight Sub Lieutenant Day RNAS, banking away to port. Flight Sub Lieutenant Day was killed at Ostend in 1917.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
100th anniversary of Richard Wagner, born 22 Mai 1813. Portrait in Munich 1865. Photographer Franz von Hanfstaeng1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Group of people at the corner of Isak Slaktaregatan (Isak Butcher street) and Stortorget (Main Square) in Malmo, Sweden, 1910.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The RAF is 100 today! Liberator crew of No 311 (Czech) Squadron and dog sat on the wing of a Liberator Mk IIA, possibly serial number LV343 at RAF Beaulieu, 21 July 1943.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Charles Lindbergh in the open cockpit of airplane at Lambert Field, St. Louis, Missouri in 19235yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
German surrender at Luneburg Heath - 4 May 1945 – The senior members of the German delegation: General Admiral Hans-Georg Friedeburg, Rear Admiral Gerhard Wagner and General Eberhard Kinzel arrive to deliver a letter from Field Marshal Keitel offering to surrender Army Group Vistula.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The way the Photograph was made on the roof... December, 19207yr ⋅ BenAfleckIsAnOkActor ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
One wheel motorcycle, invented by Italian M. Goventosa de Udine, 19318yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Fanny & Cobber! Flying Officers N Fanny Orton and E J Cobber Kain of No. 73 Squadron RAF, standing by a Hawker Hurricane Mark I - 19405yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Metro Goldwyn Mayer film star Dorothy Sebastian brushes up on her flying instructions, circa 19297yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Marian Rejewski was responsible for the initial analysis that enabled exploitation of the German ENIGMA cryptographic machine. Without his breakthroughs, which he provided to the French and British in 1939, the U.K. and U.S. may have never been able to exploit ENIGMA.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Sherman M4A3(76)W of the 752nd Tank Battalion, Buttapietra Italy 25 April 19456yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A gunner of the 451st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force with a dog mascot before a mission in his B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-78465) nicknamed Patches. Handwriten on image: 'Gunner -before mission.' 1943-455yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Theodore Roosevelt c. 1916, at his home, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, NY8yr ⋅ DJhinVA ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
