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Dan Steele Colour

@dansteele.net

Digital Photographic Colourisation. Usually found rummaging in the IWM archives. dansteele.net 📍 Southampton, UK

Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 01/07/2025

Cpt Arnold Fraser-Campbell MC, 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. One of three brothers from a wealthy Scots-American family from New York who served in the British Army during the FWW. Arnold was wounded three times and lost his arm in action.

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 29/01/2025

One of the crew of the British Submarine HMS Taku (N38) sewing another success bar to their Jolly Roger on returning to port after patrol. Malta, March 1943. Dan Steele Colour / Roper, F G (Lt) / IWM (A 15093) #ww2 #royalnavy #submarine

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Marina Amaral @marinamaral.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Finally emerging from my cave after what feels like forever! I had no choice but to take some time off because - who knew - obsessively questioning my entire career thanks to the rise of AI in the creative/artistic sphere wasn't doing wonders for my mental health. BUT... /1

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 23/01/2025

#ww2

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 22/01/2025

Battle of Overloon: A young German prisoner captured in Venraij, Netherlands, 17 October 1944. Dan Steele Colour / Norris (Sgt) / IWM (BU 1224)

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SensibleDan™ @dansteele.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What would I do without this lot… 😍 @dansteele.net

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 17/11/2024

Miss Daphne March holds onto a rope as she stands at the tiller on board the Narrowboat ‘Heather Bell’, keeping an important economic lifeline open during the Second World War. Dan Steele / Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer / © IWM D 7653

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 15/11/2024

#ww2 #militaryhistory #photography #royalnavy #fleetairarm

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 14/11/2024

44-year-old Lieutenant-Commander (Flying) Jack “John” Goodyear RNVR poses by a Fairey Barracuda at HMS Cormorant II (RN Air Station, Gibraltar), January 1944. Dan Steele Colour / Coote, Reginald George Guy / © IWM A 21945

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 12/11/2024

Sub-Lieutenant Pearson, RNVR, a Fleet Air Arm pilot, aboard HMS Victorious in September 1942, as the ship conducts sea trials following a minor refit in preparation for Operation Torch.

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 12/11/2024

#ww2 #usnavy #puppy #royalnavy

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 11/11/2024

On 24 September 1942, American sailors, survivors of Arctic Convoy QP 14, gather with their mascot, Lassie, at Scapa Flow, Scotland, after returning from Arkhangelsk, Russia. Braving Arctic conditions and German U-boat attacks, the Allied convoys were crucial in supplying the Eastern Front.

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 10/11/2024

Sgt. Allen Desailles Glover, a gunner with the 753BS, 458BG, completed six missions aboard the B-24 Liberator ‘Big-Time Operator’ (41-29288) before his forced retirement. After earning the Air Medal, Glover admitted to his crew that he was only 16 years old, having lied about his age to enlist.

Dan Steele Colour / Associated Press photographer / IWM (FRE 1929)

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Dan Steele Colour @dansteele.net · 10/02/2024

Air vice-marshal William Dickson, Air Officer Commanding the Desert Air Force, sitting in the cockpit of his personal Supermarine Spitfire LF Mark VIII, JF814 "WFD", at a landing ground in northern Italy, ca. 1944.

Dan Steele Colour / Abbott, L H (Flying Officer) / © IWM CNA 3174

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