Copying what I posted earlier in this thread...I want to know if Arfcom detectives can figure out who colorized this photo, and if they know about the rest of Robert Springs awesome photo collection....
Great thread. Is there more out there? I'm hooked. Oh, and I have an original of one of the WWII ones posted.
Proof on the way. Let me fire up the scanner. It was taken by a Robert Spring. Spring was with the 59th Evacuation Hospital. Spring would put together souvenir packs of pictures for GI's passing through to buy or trade for. I have spoken to the son of a man that helped Spring with the taking and developing of the pictures, and that's how I came to know the story. I have one of those souvenir packs in an album of a GI that brought them home. I thought it was extremely interesting that of all the WWII photos ever taken, this was one that someone would take the time to colorize. Also, there's a treat-it was part of a 2 picture series of GI's following a tank. I wonder who colorized this one? Spring took amazing photos, I'd love to see what could be done with the whole collection! RIP to the GI in the foreground.
Check it out:
American soldiers, having lost one soldier, trying to cross the street under cover of Sherman tanks. Sniper fire is from the upper floors of buildings, Western Germany, 1945
ETA: I notice the colorized one has a Signal Corps stamp, notice that mine do not.