WW2 original color photos

[Kermit3D]

Girls !

 

[Kermit3D]

British Airmen Trian In Clewiston Florida, USA 1941 - Royal Air Force cadets take a break from the hot Florida sun beside Stearman PT-17 primary trainers provided by the USAAF & painted in that services bright Yellow & Blue trainer colours.

 

[Chandler]

USAAF aircraft displayed in front of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1945.

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How in the hell..?

 

[Kermit3D]

Pilots assembled for a briefing on board USS Lexington (CV 16) in June 1943.

 

[Ritchy]

@Kermit3D This is french 1st DB in Italia.

 

[Kermit3D]

How in the hell..?

Yes, I wonder how heavy bombers were brought to the foot of the Eiffel Tower... would they have been dismantled ?

 

[Chandler]

Pilots assembled for a briefing on board USS Lexington (CV 16) in June 1943.

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Second row back, second aviator from the right.

No socks?

 

[Chandler]

Yes, I wonder how heavy bombers were brought to the foot of the Eiffel Tower... would they have been dismantled ?

Dismantled, trucked, reassembled? Gotta be a story there!

 

[Kermit3D]

Second row back, second aviator from the right.

No socks?

Good point !
"If I land in enemy territory, they won't get my socks !"

 

[Ritchy]

La WASP colorisée par Marina AMARAL

 

[Chandler]

Good point !
"If I land in enemy territory, they won't get my socks !"

Or ready to be dumped in the drink?

 

[Kermit3D]

La WASP colorisée par Marina AMARAL
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We said original colors...
It's still a great photo, but I prefer the original black and white version

 

[Ritchy]

Ok I'm leaving

 

[Kermit3D]

Or ready to be dumped in the drink?

It's true that Americans drink coffee sock juice

 

[Kermit3D]

Ok I'm leaving

Stay, rules are made to be broken.

 

[Ritchy]

 

[Ritchy]

 

[Kermit3D]

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 43-38412) of the 306th Bomb Group in flight.

 

[Kermit3D]

A picture of two training Barracuda Dive Bomber Pilots standing next to their aircraft 1944.

 

[Kermit3D]

Two United States Army Air Forces crew members of the 8th Army Air Force, stand together beside the tail guns of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress at an airbase in England in May 1943.
The aircraft carries the emblem 'Meet the Fifty Twins' on its tail.