Posted on 11/12/2011 5:54:04 AM PST by nuconvert
They are the images usually only seen in black and white - a fitting hue for the gloom of a 1940s America engaged in World War II and having just experienced the Great Depression.
But these vivid photographs in glorious colour show better than ever what life on the United States home front was really like as war raged in Europe and the Pacific.
From a Californian female aircraft worker focused on checking electrical wiring, to children rolling potatoes into a barrel on a farmyard in Maine - the pictures illustrate the significant role of those not on the battle fields.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I think the woman working on the bombardier nose section looks like Vivien Leigh
LOC - 1930s and 1940s in color collection.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/with/2179930812/
Truly remarkable.
Click on the link.
Sorry... Post #7
Thank you, J. A generation of great pride and integrity. *sigh* I miss those kinds of people.
Have a blessed day.
Good Morning or evening or night .....there’s a great website that shows the US in great B/W and color pictures from the Civil War through Depression through WWII at http://www.shorpy.com
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