Thank-you Garry and Jack. I am such a stick in the mud and I know it. By this I mean that I do prefer the original monochrome although I have little doubt that the boys and young men, given the choice would want a color version. I came across the quote, "One very important difference between monochromatic and color photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but the statement demands certainty ... absolute certainty." (Anon) Agfacolor Neu was available but prohibitively expensive for working class people. I can imagine a boy saying, "Bitte Mutter, die Kosten für Farbe betragen nur ein paar Mark mehr." (Please Mother, the cost for color is only a few Marks more) to be followed by, "Do you know how long your Father must work to get that much?" Ha! So, in summary, I understand the appeal of colorizing as it brings the boys and their leaders more up-to-date, yet at another cost, by removing our sense of looking into the past and wondering what these boys went through by the mid 40s. I find myself drifting back in time and making of the suggestion an invitation to speculate. In short (oh please get to the point I hear you say), for me there is more emotion in the monochrome portraits made by professional photographers in their studios and a boy with a camera for Christmas or his birthday. Emotion that we bring to the photos. I do not minimize the brilliant bringing to life these lads now gone by using color. I do have one technical question which you can answer and that is whether I am right that the hardest part for a colorizer must be to get the flesh tone right.