Green helmets and flushed cheeks – the Second World War in colour
Remarkable photographs from the 1940s, including a young Princess Elizabeth serving in the ATS, give us the jolt of time travel
8 May 2021 • 4:00pm
At ease: members of the Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service and convalescent aircrew at RAF Hospital Halton, Bucks, August 1943
Credit: IWM: Ted Dearberg
It is still a shock to see the Second World War in colour. The past feels somehow more contained when seen in black and white, as it is in most of the surviving photography from that awful conflict. Most, but not all.
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