21 color photos of World War II that you cannot forget
American Douglas Banks knows that photography carries value, regardless of whether it is color or black and white. Nevertheless, it is difficult to argue with the fact that color photographs, as a rule, reveal a little more than monochrome photographs. Small details (but no less important), which are often lost in black-and-white photos, in color suddenly become apparent and can most dramatically affect the reading of the meaning and content of the frame. We bring to your attention 21 Banks colorized photograph taken during the Second World War and showing the true essence of the war.
Raid on Makin Atoll
A soldier takes a bath in the dilapidated building of the Libyan city of Tobruk
A fighter in position with his puppy during the Ardennes operation, January 4, 1945
Navajo communications officer sends message
US Marines storm Japanese firing point with a flamethrower
Captured Messerschmitt sent for study
Soldier of the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism on the Eastern Front
Battle of Iwo Jima
English pilots rest at the base in Cambridgeshire
German troops at Brenner Pass
The Battle of Peleliu
Mustang fighter surrounded by pilots
Abandoned German StuG III self-propelled artillery
Lt. John Pattison talks about aerial combat
Personal Mercedes of Hermann Goering
At a halt ...
Captured German tank Panther
Pilots enjoy lunch
American Mustang fighter at the airport near Mainz
Pilots with captured German flag.
German anti-aircraft gun, known as the "eight to eight"
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