WW2 original color photos

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HEINKEL HE 111 9KG 27

 

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WRECKAGE LIBYA 1943

 

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B25 NOSE ART

 

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82 AIRBORNE TRAINING WATERMELON ANYONE?

 

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DORNIER 335 PFEIL FIGHTER

 

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P47 THUNDERBOLT

 

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lancaster bombs

loading

 

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W

asp in p47

 

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ROBERT COOPER 335FS 4FG 8 AF IN FLIGHT GEAR

 

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Operation Grassy MISSION BELLE 94th BG 331 st BS dropping food for the French resistance

 

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washing

 

[Grant]

For those into denim, this 1942 Kodachrome 4x5 image of a Coast Guardsman standing watch over a PT boat show early war USN chambray and denim trousers pretty clearly.

 

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When it absolutely, positively needs to be clean and clear.

 

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July 1944. New York. "Under the Third Avenue IRT elevated train line, looking north at East 58th Street." Color transparency by Andreas Feininger for Life magazine.

 

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March 1943. "Camouflage class at New York University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry. This model has been camouflaged and photographed. The girl is correcting oversights detected in the camouflaging of a model defense plant."

 

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CAPTURED FW190 404FG

 

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B26 FLAK BAIT 207 MISSIONS

 

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P47 on jacks pacific

 

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Getting some heat near the stove!

 

[Greg Gale]

That's a great A-2 color, that is really hard to find. Russet, but almost as dark as seal.