High Quality WWII photos

[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.

[rondog]

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

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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.