For fourth time, we share the work of WW2 Colourised Photos (World War Two Black and White photos that are researched and colourised in detail by Doug and other artists from the 'Colourisehistory Group'). We hope you love it as much as we do! Our most heartfelt thanks for these great Masters of the colourisation.

In this ocasion, we focus in Axis Warbirds and Pilots. Enjoy!

Fiat CR.42 AS - 15° Stormo - Above Ravenna, Italy - c.1942 

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Imperial Japanese Army Air Force - Kawasaki Ki.61 Hien, captured in New Guinea, 1943.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Luftwaffe bomber crew eating apples in their Dornier 17 (the same type as the one raised from the English Channel in June this year.)

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Heinkel He 111H-6 (A1+HT)(WNr 4566) of 9./KG 53 at Gostkino, Leningrad Oblast, late 1942.
Kampfgeschwader 53 supported 'Fall Blau' and the German Sixth Army at the Battle of Stalingrad, and took part in the desperate resupply operation after the Russian counteroffensive had encircled the Sixth Army. Attacks were also carried out in northern Russia, against Leningrad.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Scott Spencer from America)

Messerschmitt Bf-110 C-4 (M8+EP) of II/ZG76, the 'Haifisch (shark) Gruppe'. (Based at Abbeville and Le Mans) Flying over the English coast during the 'Battle of Britain', August 1940.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Tom Thounaojam from Imphal in India)

Oblt. Heimo Emmerstorfer in his Bf.109G.6 'Weiß 14' (White 14) of 2.Staffel, I./NAG 12 on the Italian front. Summer of 1944
Emmerstorfer flew 217 combat sorties over 1134 flight hours and – in addition to the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class - was awarded the Luftwaffe honour goblet, the Reconnaissance Combat Pilot Clasp in Gold, the Wound Badge in black and the German Cross in Gold. He made his last flight in a Bf 109 on 9 May 1945 - one day after WW II ended. Determined to avoid Russian captivity he was airborne from Ziri, west of Ljubljana – just ahead of the Russians who occupied the field that evening. He flew west in the direction of Austria and reached his hometown of Hoersching without incident. However with American columns on the roads he elected to continue westwards. Finally at 19:35 he belly landed at Haibach on the Danube River and made his way to his parents house on foot.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Junkers Ju 388 L-1 (Werk Nº 560 049) (Foriegn Evaluation sign FE-4010) surrendered to US Forces at the Allgemein Transport Gesellschaft factory at Merseburg, Germany in May 1945. It was eventually donated to the Smithsonian Institution in the USA.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Tom Thounaojam from Imphal in India)

Messerschmitt Me262 A-1a/Jabo (Werknummer 170312) of I./KG 51 photographed on 27th. March 1945 off the Frankfurt Autobahn. Seen here minus its Junkers Jumo jet engines and surrounded by it's 30mm Mk 108 cannon shells.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Tom Thounaojam from Imphal in India)

Gruppenkommandeur - Oberst Adolf Galland relaxing with the squadron pet dog at the Luftwaffe HQ of III./Jagdgeschwader 26, east of the village of Audembert, Pas de Calais. August 1940. Due to its location, Audembert was the closest airfield to England, and therefore one of the most important fighter airfields during the Battle of Britain. 

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Capitano Adriano Visconti, 1º Squadriglia, 1º Gruppo Caccia, Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicano, Reggio Emilia, Italia. Maggio 1944. Major Adriano Visconti di Lampugnano (11 November 1915 - 29 April 1945) was one of Italy's top flying aces of the Second World War, shooting down between 10 to 26 enemy aircraft. He was awarded with four Medaglia d'argento al Valor Militare and two Medaglia di Bronzo al Valor Militare "in action".

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille seen here in the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Bf.109F-4 in Libya. 1st June 1942.
(He died nearly four months later on the 30th September 1942, aged 22)

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

"The One that Got Away" Leutnant Franz von Werra, Adjutant of 11./JG 3. He is seen here with the Gruppe lion cub mascot 'Simba' and a Messerschmidt Bf 109 E-4 at Wierre-au-Bois in France, August 1940.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

A Japanese Nakajima B6N 'Tenzan' torpedeo bomber is hit by a 5 inch shell while attacking the USS 'Yorktown' aircraft carrier off Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, North Pacific. Mid-day on the 4th December 1943.
Deck side account, "At 300 yards, the Jap plane took a shell in its left wing and flames spurted out. The pilot then veered to try to crash into the Yorktown, skimming the flight deck so close that the flames singed the beard of one of the Yorktown gunners. The plane finally crashed into the sea 100 yards close aboard and exploded in a ball of smoke and flame." (Photo taken from the aft end of Yorktown's flight deck, by Chief Petty Officer Photographer’s Mate , Alfred N. Cooperman) 

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK)

Junkers Ju 87R-2 Trop 'Stuka' 4 Staffel II./StG2 (T6+M) Gambut, Libya, 1941. Axis forces captured Gambut on the 17th June 1941, after the Battle of Tobruk. This was a significant blow to the Allies as the airfield had been used to provide air-support to the Allied forces besieged at Tobruk. The airfield saw use by the German Luftwaffe until its recapture by the New Zealand 4th Infantry Brigade on the 25 November '41.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

A twin engined Fighter Bomber - Messerschmitt Bf 110D-0/B (S9+CK) W.Nr.3341 - 2.Staffel, Erprobungsgruppe 210 on public display in Garnault Place, Finsbury, London EC1. Late August 1940.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Members of the 'Hagakure-Tai' , a ramming division of the 244th Sentai, pose for a group photo at Chofu airfield, Tokyo in November 1944.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Mike Gepp from Australia)

XI Flieger Film Korps photographer Erwin Seeger posing in the nose of a Heinkel-111 which was towing a Gotha Go-242 transport glider between Sicily and Tunisia. c.1942/43 

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Messerschmitt Bf.109G-6/R-6 ("Rote/Red 29") of 1/JG 302, Malmi Airfield, Finland. March 1944.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

An unidentified Royal Romanian Airforce fighter pilot climbing aboard a (Industria Aeronautică Română) IAR-80 at an airfield in the Ploiești area, 35miles (56kms) north of Bucharest. c.1943.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Junkers Ju.87 D-5 'Stuka' of I./Schlachtgeschwader 3 - I./SG3 being hand crank started in Immola, Finland. June/July 1944.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

A rare, good quality photo of an Imperial Japanese Navy Pilot. He was probably a Kamikaze pilot (Japanese pronunciation "Shinpu") used in suicide attacks against allied naval vessels.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Mitsubishi A6M-3 Type 22 Zero, JNAF 251 Kōkūtai (Tail code UI105) flown by Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa known as the 'Red Devil of Rabaul' by the allied pilots and became Japans leading Ace of WWII. Seen here flying over the Solomon Islands in May 1943.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

A Croatian Oberfeldwebel pilot of the 10.(Kroat)/ KG3 bomber-group standing by his Dornier Do-17Z on the Eastern Front. c. October 1941

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Focke Wulf FW-190A6 Nº20 of 4./Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54) on the airfield at Immola in Finland. 2nd of July 1944.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Jared Enos)

Heinkel He 111. A collection of old and new colourisations of this German Bomber.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

A Finnish Brewster Buffalo 239 fighter (BW-352) of (Squadron) Lentolaivue/24 at Selänpää airfield. 24th June 1941. The account of Corporal Heimo Lampi, 2/LeLv 24, after his first air victories at Selänpää 25.6.1941.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Tommi Rossi from Finland)

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A3 of 1./JG51 (I. Gruppe / Jagdgeschwader 51) "Mölders" - Jesau, Siliesia (now Jěžow, Poland). August/September 1942.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

An armourer/mechanic holding a belt of incendiary tracer ammunition ready to re-arm the MG-151/20 cannon of a Messerschmitt Bf 109F-2 fighter aircraft of the group (II. / JG 54) from Jagdgeschwader of 54 “Grünherz” in Leningrad, Soviet Union. August 1941.

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Messerschmitt Bf.109 E-1 7 Staffel/Jagdgeschwader 54 (White 13+)(Werke/Nr.3576).Pilot: Unteroffizier Arno Zimmermann crash-landed on the beach at Lydd in Kent, South of England. Sunday morning, 27th of October 1940 (Weather, cloudy with some bright intervals)

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

Staff Sergeant Eero Kinnunen and his Brewster 239 fighter (BW-352) of Squadron Lentolaivue/24 at Selänpää airfield, Kouvola, Finland.
24th June 1941

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Tommi Rossi from Finland)

German Luftwaffe Bomber crews of Heinkel 111s and Junkers 88s during the period of the 'Battle of Britain' 1940

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

"The One that Got Away" . Leutnant Franz von Werra with “Simba” the squadron lion cub in the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 (W.Nr. 1480) “< + –” of Stab II./Jagdgeschwader 3. He was shot down in combat over Kent in the south of England on September 5th 1940, and was captured unhurt. (Nb. at that time, his rank was Oberleutnant)

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Doug UK)

For those that have commented that we never seem to post pics of the Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan. We have in the past, but there are very few suitable images out there that are good enough in quality and in High Resolution

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Mike Gepp, Doug and Michele Masetti)

Cyrenaica, Libya, Summer/Autumn 1941: East Sector’s Commander of 'Aeronautica della Libia', Generale di Brigata Aerea Ferdinando Raffaelli, ready to take-off in a Macchi MC.200 of the Italian Regia Aeronautica’s 373rd Squadriglia, 150th Gruppo Autonomo Caccia “Asso di Bastoni” (Ace of Clubs). On the fuselage under the cockpit the rank’s insignia of Raffaelli: one red star over a light blue background

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colorised by Rui Manuel Candeias)

A poor quality but very rare photo. (to those in the know about Bf.109s) Ground operations around a Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7 of the Luftwaffe’s Jagdgeschwader 27 (JG27) possibly during it's brief operational spell in Gela, Sicily between the 3rd and 24th of May 1941. During its stay in Sicily, III./JG27 operated over Malta

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colourised by Royston Leonard UK)

Royal Romanian Air Force IAR 81C of Nº 346 Escadrila 62, Grupul 6 Vanatoare. A low-wing monoplane, all-metal monocoque fighter and ground-attack aircraft

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colorised by Rostariu Florin from Romania)

Luftwaffe at La Villiaze airfield, Guernsey. 1940. Once France fell, the Germans occupied the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey and quickly started making use of the airfields as advanced fighter bases for units such as JG53. Taken in July 1940 during the first phase of the Battle of Britain, this photo shows the airplane of 50 year old Hauptmann Wilhelm Meyerweissflog, JG 53 Stab’s Administrative Officer at Guernsey’s La Villiaze airfield, being refuelled from 45 gallon drums carried in the back of a Commer lorry belonging to native J. H. Miller’s firm

(Via WW2 Colourised Photos, Colorised by Rui Manuel Candeias)