World War Two Pictorial

Great pics... the men may have flown them but the women built them!

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(SALT LAKE CITY) - Some of these were taken in New Mexico back in the mid 70's when working at Heller's Camera in Bethesda MD. there was a reference book with a color photo of the battleship Pennsylvania in an advanced base sectional dock, somewhere in the Pacific in about 1944.

The quality of the photo made it clear that it was shot with a large format camera, which is puzzling since it was not thought that Kodachrome (the only modern color film of the time in the US) was available in sheet films.

An old Kodak hand (and WWII vet, a radioman in Europe) said that they did have sheet Kodachrome, and that there was only one machine to process the film, located in Rochester.

The exposed film was sent there for processing. And note the almost complete lack of basic safety equipment.

Only one pair of safety glasses, and only a few of the workers were wearing gloves. Working without gloves around sheet metal is an injury waiting to happen. Notice most of the women had lip stick and nail polish on.

WWII could not have been won without the women of America stepping into men's shoes to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers. Fascinating.! Some of these images are 70 years old and look as fresh as ever. If someone had told any of the subjects in these photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2013... boggles the mind.

Americans were united then- unlike any other times- that won the war.

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