A curated archive of World War II military vehicles — fighters, armour and naval vessels — restored from original photographs through meticulous, research-backed colorization.
Fighters, bombers, interceptors and jets from every major air force of the war — Axis and Allied.
From the Panzer IV to the Sherman, the T-34 to the Tiger — the steel that defined the land war.
Battleships, carriers, destroyers and submarines — the fleets that fought for the seas.
Curated sets of vehicles that fought the same campaign — every protagonist of a battle, cross-linked and in colour.
Six years for the sea lanes Britain lived on: the raiders, the U-boats and the ships sent to hunt them.
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Six weeks in which an army with fewer tanks, and lighter ones, destroyed the largest land force in Western Europe.
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The RAF’s Few against the Luftwaffe — the first battle fought entirely in the air, and Germany’s first defeat.
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Taranto, Matapan and the convoy war — two fleets fighting over the sea that fed North Africa.
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From Operation Compass to Tunisia: the tanks and aircraft of the campaign with nowhere to hide.
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Six days and two thousand miles of ocean — every ship and aircraft of the greatest sea chase in history.
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From Barbarossa to Berlin — the largest land war in history, fought by the most-produced machines ever built.
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The morning that brought America into the war — and missed the carriers that would win it.
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Five minutes that turned the Pacific war — the carriers and aircraft that were there.
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From Guadalcanal to Okinawa: the landing craft, the tanks that went ashore, and the aircraft over the beachhead.
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Citadel against the Soviet defensive belts — the tanks, assault guns and aircraft of fifty days that shifted the initiative in the East.
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The largest amphibious assault yet mounted — the invasion that carried the war onto Axis home soil and toppled Mussolini.
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Forty-eight hours in which an entire armed forces changed hands — what was seized, what was destroyed, and what sailed for Malta.
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From Salerno to the Alps — the slow climb up the peninsula, and the only front where Italians fought on both sides.
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The largest amphibious invasion in history — from the airborne drops in the dark to the closing of the Falaise Pocket.
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Four battles in three days — the largest naval clash in history and the death ride of the Japanese fleet.
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From Hitler’s last gamble in the Ardennes to the collapse of the Reich — the machines of the final campaign in the West.
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The Red Army’s final offensive in Europe — from the Oder and Seelow Heights to the encirclement and fall of the Nazi capital.
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The last year: the Imperial Navy’s final sorties, the submarine blockade, and the surrender deck.
Open collection →Settled against the sourced record, not the legend — gun, armour, reliability and numbers, side by side.
Did it really take five Shermans to kill one Tiger? The gun, the armour, the numbers — and what the record actually says.
Open comparison →Germany built the Panther to beat the T-34. It was the better tank — and it still wasn’t the better answer.
Open comparison →The closest-matched duel of the war. They were equals — so what actually decided the Battle of Britain?
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A kill ratio near 19 to 1 — achieved without ever out-turning the Zero. How the Hellcat really did it.
Open comparison →The two mightiest ships in the Atlantic met once. Their guns were near-identical — so why was the Hood gone in three minutes?
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Same engine, same guns, both superb. The Reggiane flew better — so why did Fiat’s Centauro win the production contract?
Open comparison →RN Roma vs Bismarck · Sherman Firefly vs Tiger I · Churchill vs Tiger I · Matilda II vs Panzer III · Semovente 75/18 vs M4 Sherman · Marder III vs Hetzer · Il-2 vs Ju 87 · CR.32 vs I-16 · Type VII vs Flower class.
See all 16 comparisons →Hand-picked machines from the archive — each restored from period photography to full colour.
Every photograph is a document. Every colorization is a bridge between that world and ours.
Iconic WW2 is a personal archive dedicated to the meticulous documentation and colorization of World War II military vehicles. Each entry pairs historical photography with careful, research-backed colour — restoring to these machines the visual immediacy they had for those who built, flew, drove and fought against them.
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