WW2 colour photos of U.S pilots

[chamboid]

Can someone point me to a large cache of colour photos of U.S pilots? been searching and can't find much, I know they're out there but can't find them.

Air Forse or Navy.

Thanks

 

[chamboid]

Sorry if anyone is looking at this expecting photos, as soon as i did it tried to edit it, but it wont let me.

sorry

 

[Skip]

If your after a stock library style cache you'll be pushing it, but there is stuff out there you gotta look extra hard cause most of them are mono:

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/gallery.php?Group=56

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/gallery. ... rchString=

you might want to narrow the search to theatres, such as 8th, 9th 10th AF etc

 

[chamboid]

Thanks skip

 

[Skip]

This was in another topic posted recently and might be what your looking for, although they're posed. Note the picture credits, a well known stock library which may have more if you dont mind paying that is:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mmand.html

 

[Anonymous]

http://www.shorpy.com/world-war-2-photos-wwii Might find something here.

 

[dmar836]

WW2 wasn't in color. Everything was B&W back then.

 

[Anonymous]

Yes WW2 was black and white, most of the conflicts after were shades of gray

 

[capt71]

WW2 wasn't in color. Everything was B&W back then.

If you're speaking of photography back then, color film existed and was used during the war. Just look at Life Magazine's archives and any number of sites that have posted color photos of WW2.

 

[chamboid]

I stumbled across this amazingly on a ebay listing, some great photos, and a huge database.

http://ww2db.com/photo.php?list=sp&sp=c

 

[Russ 27752]

In 1935 Eastman Kodak Corporation introduced a color film in 16 mm format for home movies trademarked as Kodachrome. In 1936, Kodachrome was introduced in 8 mm format for home movies and also 35 mm format for still photography. By 1938, Kodachrome sheet film in various sizes was available for professional photographers.

By December 1941, the initial month of the United States' involvement in WWII, Life magazine had many of their staff photographers equipped with Kodachrome film.

While color photographs of the Second World War do in fact exist, Black & White photos predominate because they were cheaper to take, process, and print than color ones.

WW2 wasn't in color. Everything was B&W back then.

 

[rich]

WW2 wasn't in color. Everything was B&W back then.

He's joking!

 

[Russ 27752]

Well, then, my post was for those folks who thought he was serious...

WW2 wasn't in color. Everything was B&W back then.

He's joking!

 

[dmar836]

Lol. I meant true life actually had no color back then.
On a serious note, I remember the first time I saw an all-color doc of the war. Having grown up watching World at War I was not used to that at all. Blew me away!
Dave