High Quality WWII photos

[thebolt]

Taken 70 Years Ago But These WWII Photos Could Have Come Fresh off a Hollywood Set!

These are amazing pictures and this is worth your time if you have any interest in that period of time

http://fullym.com/shot-70-years-ago-but-these-wwii-photos-could-have-come-fresh-off-a-hollywood-set/?pid=160

[buffalobo]

Great pics. Tells the story of supporting the war effort.

[Sharpienads]

Were there no hotties in the '40s? Dang.

Still some cool pictures.

[Aloha_Shooter]

The color and detail on those shots is incredible!

[Aloha_Shooter]

Were there no hotties in the '40s? Dang.

Tons of them but these pictures were meant to be of people working to support the war effort. Just look up Vargas and the models he and his contemporaries used. Hubba hubba.

[wctriumph]

Pretty cool, thanks.

[TEAMRICO]

Not one of them wearing eye protection in the factories!!!
Good God!!

[rondog]

I've seen those before, wonderful photos! Nothing like 4x5 Kodachrome in a view camera with proper lighting, real artwork. I love photos like that, both my parents were machinists during the war and I keep hoping I'll run across a photo set like that with a photo of one of them at work. That would be so awesome!

[Squeeze]

Thank you very much for sharing. Awesome pictures.

[Bailey Guns]

Really cool pictures. Thanks!

[bgouker]

Cool pictures, my grandmother worked at the Boeing plant in Wichita, KS during the war. The few pictures she had looked a lot like those. I used to call her Rosie the riveter.

[Hound]

These are amazing but the totally black background and posing makes me wonder.

[Veritas]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

[mackbamf]

Seeing those pictures with such clarity is really amazing. Thanks for sharing...

[Dave]

Nice pics. I found some of my grandfathers pics from occupied Japan along with a hand painted service set for 8 with all the plates and cups marked "Made in Occupied Japan" on the bottom. The pics are all in b&w, but there are some good shots of different places in Japan and him and his friends.

[Gman]

Cool stuff. It gives an understanding as to how Kodachrome really changed photography in its day.

[rondog]

These are amazing but the totally black background and posing makes me wonder. Wonder about what? These aren't 35mm snapshots. These are posed, professional promo shots, done with a 4"x5" view camera on a big, heavy wooden tripod with the black cloth over the photographers' head, and carefully placed lighting, probably with a couple of assistants. Each piece of film was 4"x5" Kodachrome, which was just about the best film ever made.

Remember, every single thing the fighting forces needed and used had to be produced and transported by somebody, I bet for every person in uniform there were a hundred civilians involved behind them. Photos like these were huge tools to stir patriotism and involvement even more than it was already. This country will never pull together like that again, IMO.

Man, if I could stumble across a photo like this of my mother running her turret lathe in the shipyard, or my dad running his verticle boring mill, I'd piss down both legs! A photo like that would be priceless to our family.

[blacklabel]

Awesome pictures. Thanks for sharing!

[Digi]

All those women acting like they know how to use those tools. [LOL]

[rondog]

All those women acting like they know how to use those tools. [LOL].

You'd be surprised. The majority of the workers in most wartime industries were women. Most young men were in the service. There were still a lot of men working in factories at home, but they were outnumbered by women.

[Digi]

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You'd be surprised. The majority of the workers in most wartime industries were women. Most young men were in the service. There were still a lot of men working in factories at home, but they were outnumbered by women.

Haha, I'm aware of the situation. It was a joke.

[BlasterBob]

Many thanks for posting those outstanding photos.

[rondog]

Haha, I'm aware of the situation. It was a joke.

I figured it probably was. But nowadays it's kinda hard to imagine women building airplanes, big radial engines, guns of all kinds, running lathes and mills, welding, and on and on. A lot of younger people these days think you're nuts if you try to tell them these things. Many may be shocked at some of the stuff their own ancestors did that they've never heard of.

[Jmetz]

Those pics are awesome! I found 2 news papers from V-E Day, at my moms today.

http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee511/jmetz9/761A133E-1376-4C58-9ABC-B7CB72EA1E21-57555-000007A3524F586C.jpg

http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee511/jmetz9/A5AFF930-8D29-4181-983C-6A287D9CAB6E-57555-000007A233100E37.jpg

[Leatherneck Hayes]

Awesome photos! And Jmetz those newspapers are really cool!