There are usually little hints as to authenticity, though. A film set from 1962, for example, using original equipment that was still fairly common can look as authentic as the real thing. Generally, after you have seen a lot of these pictures, you can pick out the fakes - but not always. Note that the Wehrmacht at this time has no worries whatsoever about air attack, moving along brazenly on open roads in broad daylight.A lot of photos have been colorized, and I mark them as such when I am 100% certain - but any photo here could have been colorized.ĭuring the drive on Naples in 1944, the crew of ‘Sheik’, a Sherman Mk.III (M4A2) belonging to 'A' Squadron of the Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), watch water vapor coming out of Mount Vesuvius.I have no problem with colorization as long as the source photograph is authentic. Major General Rommel (later Field Marshal) also was a bit of a photographer himself - the story goes that Joeseph Goebbels personally gave Rommel a camera. This picture was taken by Rommel while flying above his 7th Panzer Division during the invasion of France in May1940. General Rommel like to fly around in a Fieseler Storch and get a first-hand appreciation of the battlefield. However, these pages are intended to show a balanced picture of the war and not just focus on one side or the other. That preference, if anything, has been amplified during the post-war years. So, aside from static pictures taken at training grounds or posed pictures well behind the front and the like, there are far fewer pictures of Allied tanks than there are of Wehrmacht tanks. The Germans didn't think particularly highly of Allied tanks (with a few exceptions), and the Allies found German tanks to be a novelty. However, everybody on both sides was more interested in German tanks rather than any others. Samuelson on May 2, 1945.Naturally, all combatants had tanks of one sort or another. This photo was taken by Signal Corps photographer Arnold E. Here, the Red Army is using some near Linz, Austria when it hooked up with the US 9th Armored Division. Usually, each Soviet formation would have either T-34s or Sherman tanks, but they were both classified equally as simply "medium tanks. The Soviets had very good tanks of their own, but they used western tanks (which they received for free) interchangeably with their own. This was taken somewhere on the Western Front (maybe Arras) during the invasion of France in 1940 (colorized).As far as I can determine, these are authentic photographs from the World War II time frame (I extend that liberally through the 1930s because 1930s tanks were used in the conflict, but with a definite termination point of 1945). Three Germans (on the right, in black, is a Panzer commander) pose with a knocked out French AMC Somua S 35 Command tank (serial Nº 10664).
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I make every effort to cull out any photos that are from post-war movie sets and the like. However, there is something about a color photograph that places a massive tank in context better than a black-and-white photograph does.Ī US M24 Chaffee Tank, taken in 1943.Accordingly, this is a page of World War II tanks in color. In fact, they are painted so as to blend into whatever background they are in. Due to the poor colors in this photo, I would give good odds that it is an original color photograph.Tanks are not particularly colorful. This was a very popular tank for photographers, by the way, and multiple images at different times were taken of it. The reason so many tanks are photographed on their sides next to roads is that the Allies needed to use the roads for their own operations, so they used tractors to push the tanks off the road and into the ditch that in those days in Europe inevitably lay beside the road. World War II Was A War of Tanks A GMC truck is passing this knocked-out Tiger tank of SpzABt 508 in the vicinity of Rome, Italy, 1944.