SHANGRALA'S
Kodachrome
Photos
From
1942/43 - Part 2!
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More completely amazing 4x5 Kodachrome transparencies by Alfred Palmer
for the Office of War Information from 1942/43.
They are a documentation of the WWII war effort in the US. Clearly
they're staged and with a view to propaganda, but they are a fascinating
hyper-real slice of the US in the early 40's.
What is really astounding is to think that these images are 70 years old. They look better today than they probably did when they were taken because there is so much information buried in each one. There's no grain and the colours are simply astounding! There's even photos shot in very low light that came out breathtaking. |
Notice No One Bothers To Wear Protective Gear. Enjoy! :)
June 1942. Army tank driver at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
June 1942. Fort Knox, Kentucky. "Infantryman with
halftrack. A young soldier sights his Garand rifle like
an old-timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing
qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism."
Fort Knox, June 1942. "Light tank going through water obstacle."
October 1942. "American mothers and sisters, like these
women at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach,
California, give important help in producing dependable
planes for their men at the front."
March 1943. Yardmaster at Amarillo, Texas, rail yard.
February 1943. Lucille Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband
going into the service. Working at the Heil and Co. factory
in Milwaukee on blackout lamps to be used on
Air Force gasoline trailers
October 1942. Glenview, Illinois. "Transfusion bottles
containing intravenous solution are given final inspection
by Grace Kruger, one of many women employees at Baxter
Laboratories. When her brother left Baxter to join the
Merchant Marine, Miss Kruger, a former life insurance
clerk, took his place."
October 1942. Riveter at work on a bomber at the
Consolidated Aircraft factory in Fort Worth
October 1942. "Thousands of North American Aviation
employees at Inglewood, California, look skyward as the
bomber and fighter planes they helped build perform
overhead during a lunch period air show. This plant
produces the battle-tested B-25 'Billy Mitchell' bomber,
used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51
'Mustang' fighter plane, which was first brought into
prominence by the British raid on Dieppe."
August 1942. Corpus Christi, Texas. "After seven years in the
Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at
the Naval Air Base."
August 1942. Mechanic Mary Josephine Farley works on a
Wright Whirlwind motor in the Corpus Christi, Texas, Naval
Air Base assembly and repairs shop.
August 1942. Corpus Christi, Texas. "Working inside the
nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of
Navy planes. As a National Youth Administration trainee
at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After
about eight weeks, he will go into civil service
as a sheet metal worker."
April 1943. "Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand
house at the Chicago & North Western R.R. roundhouse at
Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and
cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs. Cuvage's husband
works as a guard at the Savanna, Illinois, ordnance plant."
March 1943. "Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque. Hammering
out a drawbar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop."
June 1942. Truck driver at the Tennessee
Valley Authority's Douglas Dam.
December 1942. A winter afternoon in the North
Proviso yardmaster's office, Chicago & North Western Railroad.
December 1942. Three West Coast streamliners in the
Chicago & North Western yards at Chicago.
Shulman's Market at N and Union Street SW, Washington.
Alternate view. In one of the many comments for this post,
an alert FOS (Friend of Shorpy) points out the posters of
Axis leaders Mussolini, Hitler and Admiral Yamamoto in
the window. Along the bottom of each it says
'What do YOU say America?'
June 1942. Lockheed Vega aircraft plant at Burbank, California.
"Hollywood missed a good bet when they overlooked this
attractive aircraft worker, who is shown checking
electrical sub-assemblies."
October 1942. "Noontime rest for an assembly worker at
the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company.
Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background."
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