America in Color from 1939-1943

[line6man]

Really cool.

http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp

 

[m4rk0]

some of the best ones are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/

 

[texicus]

Thanks for sharing!  Both are awesome sets

 

[JaySwear]

these are amazing! i love the Pacific Theatre one (link at the bottom of the first page) and i'm just about to start the D-Day 65th Anniversary page.

just because its sort of relevant, here's my grandfather's B-24. it's the "Barfly" (which you can just barely make out on the side). he was the left waist gunner. it's insane to think that he's standing at THAT window in this picture. crazy. his service and story definitely turned me into a history nerd for life. i can't get enough about the aircraft of WWII.

 

[-CB-]

.... reproduced from color slide.....

Those would be Kodachrome transparencies, the only "film" that had any sort of keeping properties.  The Ansco and Agfa... not up to the task.  Ektachrome didn't come around until 1942-3ish, for the war effort, to allow processing in the field, and its color-fast properties were terrible (back then).

Here's to Kodachrome, in large sheets and rolls, and in small rolls too.  Alas, no more, gone, but never forgotten.

Folks, you just dont get color or detail like that from digital.... not yet anyway.

 

[line6man]

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