WW2 vintage Kodachrome
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WW2 vintage Kodachrome
This was sent to me by a friend...
Great pictures.
Back in the mid '70s when I was working at Hellers Camera in Bethesda Md. I had a reference book with a color photo of the battleship Pennsylvania in an advanced base sectional dock, somewhere in the Pacific in about 1944. The quality of the photo made it clear that it was shot with a large format camera, which puzzled me since I did not think Kodachrome (the only modern color film of the time in the US) was available in sheet films. A guy I worked with was an old Kodak hand (and WWII vet, a radioman in Europe) and
told me that they did have sheet Kodachrome, and that there was only one machine to process the film, located in Rochester. The exposed film was sent there for processing.
And note the almost complete lack of basic safety equipment. I saw only one pair of safety glasses, and only a few of the workers were wearing gloves. Working without gloves around sheet metal is an injury waiting to happen.
Notice most of the woman had lip stick and nail polish on. WWII could not have been won without the woman of America stepping into men's shoes to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
Fascinating! Some of these these images are 70 years old and look as fresh as ever. If someone had told any of the subjects in these photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2012 ... boggles my mind. Thought you'd find this interesting!
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com...hread=22669914
There're a lot of pictures so be patient with the display speed.
Great pictures.
Back in the mid '70s when I was working at Hellers Camera in Bethesda Md. I had a reference book with a color photo of the battleship Pennsylvania in an advanced base sectional dock, somewhere in the Pacific in about 1944. The quality of the photo made it clear that it was shot with a large format camera, which puzzled me since I did not think Kodachrome (the only modern color film of the time in the US) was available in sheet films. A guy I worked with was an old Kodak hand (and WWII vet, a radioman in Europe) and
told me that they did have sheet Kodachrome, and that there was only one machine to process the film, located in Rochester. The exposed film was sent there for processing.
And note the almost complete lack of basic safety equipment. I saw only one pair of safety glasses, and only a few of the workers were wearing gloves. Working without gloves around sheet metal is an injury waiting to happen.
Notice most of the woman had lip stick and nail polish on. WWII could not have been won without the woman of America stepping into men's shoes to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
Fascinating! Some of these these images are 70 years old and look as fresh as ever. If someone had told any of the subjects in these photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2012 ... boggles my mind. Thought you'd find this interesting!
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com...hread=22669914
There're a lot of pictures so be patient with the display speed.
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Those are some fantastic photos. It is like they are in HD they are so crisp. Hate to have to have a war to get us all together like that again, but there was something to all working in the same direction for the good of all not just a few. (stepping down from soapbox) Thanks for sharing they are indeed cool to look at.
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amazing pics...I happen to think that WWII was the greatest war ever in the history of mankind. I will have to share these with my father as well who got me interested in reading about WWII.
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HOLY CRAP, just plain jaw dropping awesome...
If the stunning quality of the images was not enough to blow me away, it was the spirit of "we are all in this together" tat really got to me
Everybody was involved in the war movement in one way or the other, and those pics showed that
Thanks for the post/link
If the stunning quality of the images was not enough to blow me away, it was the spirit of "we are all in this together" tat really got to me
Everybody was involved in the war movement in one way or the other, and those pics showed that
Thanks for the post/link
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This was sent to me by a friend...
Notice most of the woman had lip stick and nail polish on. WWII could not have been won without the woman of America stepping into men's shoes to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
Fascinating! Some of these these images are 70 years old and look as fresh as ever. If someone had told any of the subjects in these photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2012 ... boggles my mind. Thought you'd find this interesting!
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com...hread=22669914
Notice most of the woman had lip stick and nail polish on. WWII could not have been won without the woman of America stepping into men's shoes to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
Fascinating! Some of these these images are 70 years old and look as fresh as ever. If someone had told any of the subjects in these photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2012 ... boggles my mind. Thought you'd find this interesting!
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com...hread=22669914
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