Colourzoid

I take black and white photos from the past and colour them...because I can.

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Confederate dead behind the stone wall of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia, killed during the Chancellorsville campaign (the Second Battle of Fredericksburg), May 1863. Photograph by A.J. Russell.

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Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell posing with a map of the Tokyo region in November 1944

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Panzer 38(t), Soviet Union, June 1941. The Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) was originally a Czechoslovak tank of pre-World War II design. After Czechoslovakia was taken over by Germany, it was adopted by the German Army, seeing service in the invasions of Poland, France and the USSR.

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B17-F parked in the English countryside as evening draws in, June 1943

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Portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, officer and general of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, 1864. Lee was a top graduate of the United States Military Academy and an exceptional officer and military engineer in the United States Army for 32 years. During this time, he served throughout the United States, distinguished himself during the Mexican–American War, served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy

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Daimler Mk I scout car and Cruiser Mk III tank of 1st Armoured Division, seen in a picturesque village near Arundel in Sussex, 5 February 1941. The scout car belongs to HQ 22nd Armoured Brigade, while the Cruiser is a regimental command vehicle from 3rd County of London Yeomanry (3CLY).

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Infantry and Bren gun carriers of the 5th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment pass through a village during 3rd Division exercises near Christchurch in Dorset, 12 March 1941

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The Special Air Service (SAS) in North Africa during the second world war. A close up of a heavily armed pastrol of ‘L’ Detatchment SAS in their jeeps, just back from a three month patrol. The crews of the jeeps are all wearing an Arab style headdress, as copied from the Long Range Desert Group, North Africa, 18 January 1943

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Finnish StuG III Ausf. G assault guns of the Finnish Assault Gun Battalion (Rynnäkkötykkipataljoona, Ryn.Tyk.P) - Sturmkanone 40 or StuG IIIG (Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G, "Sturmi") - The swastika in front of the tank was a longstanding emblem of the Finnish military, and was used independently of Nazi German forces. Finland, 1943

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Red Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917

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German soldiers on a Panther tank on the Eastern Front, 1943

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Members of the Condor Legion sent by Hitler to Spain during the civil war. These are cadets at an infantry training school in Avila, during a course run by mixed German and Spanish speaking guides lasting eight weeks, Spain, January 1939

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German infantryman in front of a fallen Russian tank soldier and burning BT-7 light tank in the southern Soviet Union during the early days of Operation Barbarossa, June 1941

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A photograph of a council of war of United States Navy officers off Korea aboard the Asiatic Squadron flagship USS Colorado in preparation for the June 1871 United States expedition to Korea. Asiatic Squadron commander Rear Admiral John Rodgers is at right, leaning over the table. Seated left to right are Commander Edward P. McCrea, Commanding Officer, USS Monocacy; Captain George H. Cooper, Commanding Officer, USS Colorado; and Captain Edward T. Nichols, Chief of Staff to Rear Admiral Rodgers. Standing behind them left to right are Master John E. Pillsbury, of USS Colorado; Commander Lewis A. Kimberly, Commanding Officer, USS Benicia; Commander Homer C. Blake, Commanding Officer, USS Alaska; Lieutenant Commander William K. Wheeler, Flag Secretary; and Lieutenant Charles H. Rockwell, Commanding Officer, USS Palos. - June 1871

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British Commandos with captured German soldiers during Operation Archery, also known as the Vaagso Raid, a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on Vaagso Island (Vågsøy), Norway, on 27 December 1941

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An Australian soldier writes a letter home from his billet on the Somme front, 1916

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British 18-pounder field guns come into action at Signy-Signets during the Battle of the Marne, 8 September 1914. On the left of the photograph are men of the 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).