Though color photography was invented decades before the start of World War II, it was still a rather niche process, which was a lot more expensive than black-and-white photography. The rarity of color film was compounded by the hazards of shipping during wartime, and the difficulties involved in reproduction and printing.
Nevertheless, thousands of color images were produced during this devastating global conflict. Some 3,000 of these were assembled by the British Ministry of Information and eventually ended up in the collections of Imperial War Museums across the United Kingdom, which now hold over 11 million photos of conflict from World War I to the present day.
Below you can see some fantastic color photographs from World War II.
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