Great WWII Images

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[Liar]

Tres cool.

People actually did look like them there recruitment posters...

 

[Bad_Doggie]

That’s a stunning collection of photos; I’ve never seen 40’s photos with that quality before.



http://www.pavelkosenko.com/lj/048/24.jpg

Woof!

 

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[koalabear]

Proof that women should build airplanes instead of running for office.

 

[torchthebitch]

Loadsa lippy and nail polish.

Except for Thelma Cuvage.

 

[hobbit.]

~must not post pearl harbour photos!! must not post pearl harbour photos!! ~

 

[VaticanAssassin]

~must not post pearl harbour photos!! must not post pearl harbour photos!! ~

Why?

Afraid of waking a sleeping Giant?

 

[hobbit.]

Why?

Afraid of waking a sleeping Giant?

something like that

 

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[miles]

The generation of Americans that saved the world.

 

[coachdb18]

Check out these really great WWII 4x5 Kodachromes:

http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/4x5-kodachromes/

Great pictures!

Just one thing I find amusing in looking through them, so much emphasis nowadays is made to safety, red tape and regulations, laws upon laws for such work as these people did ... anybody wearing rings, watches, necklaces, etc would be fired, there would be mounds of paperwork for OSHA claims, union meetings, general bullshit... Thank GOD these people were living in a time where their focus was on WINNING The WAR!

 

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[RoryN]

http://i48.tinypic.com/2433mgz.jpg

This is not a great WWII image. It is, however, a picture of a large, empty lot north of the Long Beach Airport. The WWII pictures you posted were taken here within the Douglas Aircraft factories that used to sit on this land. Because of the extensive photography taken here back in the 40s, it's considered to be the spiritual home of Rosie The Riveter(s). Officials are in the process of putting up tributes to them.

Directly north is the town Douglas Aircraft built: Lakewood (famous city motto: "Tomorrow's city - today!"). If you'd like to get the full effect of the surroundings while you drive through Lakewood, music like this is required listening:

Slaney - Window Gazing

 

[Sean Renaud]

That’s a stunning collection of photos; I’ve never seen 40’s photos with that quality before.



http://www.pavelkosenko.com/lj/048/24.jpg

Woof!

I'm not sure if this is proof that the XM-218 is the perfect machine gun or if we don't have enough people working on machine guns or not.

 

[bra_man69]

http://i48.tinypic.com/2433mgz.jpg

This is not a great WWII image. It is, however, a picture of a large, empty lot north of the Long Beach Airport. The WWII pictures you posted were taken here within the Douglas Aircraft factories that used to sit on this land. Because of the extensive photography taken here back in the 40s, it's considered to be the spiritual home of Rosie The Riveter(s). Officials are in the process of putting up tributes to them.

Directly north is the town Douglas Aircraft built: Lakewood (famous city motto: "Tomorrow's city - today!"). If you'd like to get the full effect of the surroundings while you drive through Lakewood, music like this is required listening:

Slaney - Window Gazing

Never know that I had a house in cypress for awhile ben thru lakewood a lot

 

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[RoryN]

http://i50.tinypic.com/288xys2.jpg

The building in the distance, left, is an original Douglas building, and has a nifty 50s-era "Fly DC Jets" sign still on top. Most of the larger factories were located to the right of my car, though. If you've ever flown in a DC-9 or DC-10, chances are it was built on the land now covered by those weeds. Great aircraft.

It's also the land where thousands (around 3K) of the B-17 Flying Fortresses were built with cooperation from Boeing. Although the famed Memphis Belle was manufactured in Seattle, the plane that portrayed her in the movie Memphis Belle was built right here.

 

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[RoryN]

Convair plants at Lindbergh Field San Diego built the fuselage sections for the DC-10 and the MD-11. The program produced a lot of local jobs for San Diegans.

The Convairs were beautiful planes. There's still an extremely rare 990 parked at the entrance of the Mojave Airport, I think, unless they finally scrapped it...now called the Mojave Spaceport, home of Virgin Galactic. It's where all the folk with 200K to blow are going to launch into space privately for the first time.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The Convairs were beautiful planes. There's still an extremely rare 990 parked at the entrance of the Mojave Airport, I think, unless they finally scrapped it...now called the Mojave Spaceport, home of Virgin Galactic. It's where all the folk with 200K to blow are going to launch into space privately for the first time.

We already had Space Dragon day and private space travel has already happened.

 

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[jomar]

Great pics. Love the richness of the color.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Good stuff! It's nice to see that era in full color.