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The Second World War in Colour, a new book from the Imperial War Museum, features rare original colour photos from its archive – many published for the first time in 70 years

The Second World War in colour

Soldiers on cleaning duty in Tunisia This colourful picture shows a crew from the 16th/5th Lancers, 6th Armoured Division, cleaning the gun barrel of their Crusader Mk III tank at El Aroussa in Tunisia, May 1943 (© IWM – TR 939).