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Late during the summer of 1914, train stations all over Europe echoed with the sound of leather boots and the clattering of weapons as millions of enthusiastic young soldiers mobilized…

The First World War was the first conflict captured on camera in colour

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It’s incredible how much more we can relate to photographs once they are presented in color. These moments in the past go from being a distant memory, to one that we can relate to on a much deeper and more personal level. Women Delivering Ice, 1918 Colourized by Dana Keller Painting WWII Propaganda Posters, Port Washington, New York – 8 July 1942 Colourized by Patty Allison Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, 1921 Colourized by Klassixx Easter Eggs for Hitler, c 1944-1945 Colourized by Zuzzah Abandoned Boy Holding a Stuffed Toy Animal. London 1945 Colorozed by: HansLucifer Hindenburg Disaster – May 6, 1937 Colorozed by: Dana Keller Japanese Archers, circa 1860 Colorozed by: photojacker View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864 Colorozed by: Sanna Dullaway Unemployed Lumber Worker, circa 1939 Image credits: alafoto.com Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921 Colorozed by: Sanna Dullaway Big Jay McNeely Driving the Crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a Frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953 Colorozed by: traquea Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, NY Colorozed by: Edvos Audrey Hepburn Colorozed by: Danna Keller ‘Old Gold’, Country Store, 1939 Colorozed by: photojacker Joseph Goebbels Scowling at Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after Finding out he’s Jewish, 1933 Colorozed by: photojacker Nikola Tesla, 1893 Colorozed by: Danna Keller W.H. Murphy and his Associate Demonstrating their Bulletproof Vest on October 13, 1923 Colorozed by: zuzahin Young Boy in Baltimore Slum Area, July 1938 Colorozed by: photojacker British Troops Cheerfully Board their Train for the First Stage of their Trip to the Western Front – England, September 20, 1939 Colorozed by: BenAfleckIsAnOkActor Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880 Colorozed by: Sanna Dullaway Walt Whitman, 1887 Colorozed by: Danna Keller Mark Twain in the Garden, circa 1900 Colorozed by: zuzahin Charlie Chaplin at the Age of 27, 1916 Colorozed by: BenAfleckIsAnOkActor Elizabeth Taylor – Giant (1956 film) Colorozed by: malakon Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and the only surviving member of the Frank family revisiting the attic they spent the war in, 3 May 1960 Colourized by Laiz Kuczynski Sergeant George Camblair practicing with a gas mask in a smokescreen – Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942 Colourized by Ryan Urban “The Tall Cowboy”, Ralph E. Madsen with Senator Morris Sheppard, 1919 Colourized by Photo Retrofit Portrait Used to Design the Penny. President Lincoln Meets General McClellan – Antietam, Maryland ca September 1862 Colourized by Zuzzah Marilyn Monroe, 1957 Colourized by Zuzzah Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald, April 16, 1945 Colourized by Manuel De Leonardo Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of Titanic’s sinking the night before. (April 16, 1912) Colourized by Dana Keller Boys after buying Easter flowers in Union Square, New York, April 1908 Colourized by Dana Keller Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge ca 1935 Colourized by Dana Keller Broadway at the United States Hotel Saratoga Springs, N.Y. ca 1900-1915 Colourized photo by Sanna Dullaway Times Square, 1947 Colourized by Jordan J. Lloyd Peatwy Tuck of the Meskwahki, 1898 Colourized by Photocopshop Louis Armstrong practicing in his dressing room, ca 1946 Colourized by Dana Keller Young Woman with Umbrella – Louisiana, 1937 Colourized by Manuel De Leonardo Helen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin in 1919 Colourized photo by Zuzahin Dancers of the National American Ballet, 20 August 1924 Colourized by Photo Retrofit (via Pulptastic)

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The Battle of Dunkirk took place in Dunkirk/Dunkerque, France, during the Second World War between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and Allied forces in Europe from 26 May – 4 June 1940. Following the events at Dunkirk, the German forces regrouped before commencing an operation called Fall Rot ("Case Red"), a renewed assault southward, starting on 5 June. Although two fresh British divisions had begun moving to France in an attempt to form a Second British Expeditionary Force (BEF), the decision was taken on 14 June to withdraw all the remaining British troops; an evacuation called Operation Ariel. By 25 June, almost 192,000 Allied personnel, 144,000 of them British, had been evacuated through various French ports. Although the French Army fought on, German troops entered Paris on 14 June. The French government was forced to negotiate an armistice at Compiègne on 22 June. The loss of materiel on the beaches was huge. The British Army left enough equipment behind to equip about eight to ten divisions. Discarded in France were, among huge supplies of ammunition, 880 field guns, 310 guns of large calibre, some 500 anti-aircraft guns, about 850 anti-tank guns, 11,000 machine guns, nearly 700 tanks, 20,000 motorcycles, and 45,000 motor cars and lorries. Army equipment available at home was only just sufficient to equip two divisions. The British Army needed months to re-supply properly and some planned introductions of new equipment were halted while industrial resources concentrated on making good the losses. Officers told troops falling back from Dunkirk to burn or otherwise disable their trucks (so as not to let them benefit the advancing German forces). The shortage of army vehicles after Dunkirk was so severe that the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was reduced to retrieving and refurbishing numbers of obsolete buses and coaches from British scrapyards to press them into use as troop transports. Some of these antique workhorses were still in use as late as the North African campaign of 1942. A marble memorial to the battle stands at Dunkirk. The French inscription is translated as: "To the glorious memory of the pilots, mariners, and soldiers of the French and Allied armies who sacrificed themselves in the Battle of Dunkirk, May–June 1940." (Photos: Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)