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Most of these are WWII pics, though there is a Tour De France (or similar bike race) photo in the mix.
Don’t see too many color photos from back then
Very good pictures, the colour picture is unusual as the 2 Americans appear to be riding a German BMW R75, perhaps one they had captured maybe ?
2nd to last photo — looks to me that they two involuntary military detainees as tour guides ( or bullet stops if needed) The one on the right also to me, looks like a younger teenager , from the size and cleaness of his face
Hi!
The first shot, the collor one, depicts a column of the famous 2nd Free French armored division, or Division Leclerc (because the name of his “patron”, general Philippe de Hautecloque, aka Leclerc) during the liberation of Paris. I haven´t more info regarding this shot.
The jeep with the serial number of 95122 at the frontal bumper is the vehicle of capitaine Raymond Dronne, an officer of this same French armored division. The nickname of this jeep was “Mort Aux Cons 2”. The first “Mort Aux Cons” was destroyed during the Normandy campaing.
Cpt. R. Dronne was in fact the officer of “La Nueve”, one of the companies which formed the RMT, or Régiment de Marche du Tchad. This company, “La Nueve”, was formed mainly from ex-Spanish republican soldiers. In fact, I think that lieutenant Amado Granell, from Burriana, Valencia, is at the right of the pic, wearing his “calot” or “bonnet de police”. “La Nueve” was consider obviously an élite unit, although a bit undisciplined, due to the vet character of the veterans.
Capitaine Raymond Dronne was assigned by general Leclerc for entering Paris at 25th August 1944, and he chosen several of the vehicles from his unit, as half-tracks “Tunisie”, “Résistance”, “Teruel”, “Santander”, “Brunete”, “Guadalajara”…and also 3 (or 4) Sherman medium tanks from the 501e Régiment de Chars de Combat (RCC), called “Montmirail”, “Romilly”, “Champaubert”, plus several vehicles from the engineers unit of the division, the 13e Bataillon du Génie.
Sorry for this long story! But I hope you´ll enjoy it!
Also, and if I´m not wrong, 4th shot was taken during the war at Algerie. The soldiers are wearing the 50s model French helmet or TAP helmet, and we could see a M8 Greyhound and a GMC CCKW at the background.
8th shot probably was taken at Vienna, after war, with an Allied mixed patrol unit, as we could see at the pic: British, French, Soviet and US soldiers at the jeep.
Last one seems to have been taken too at Algerian war.