1940's: American civil life in photos color
To inspire patriotism the participation of women in the war effort and to show life on American soil under a gorgeous day, the Office of War Information commanded several series of Kodachrome pictures shown below.
These images are beautiful by their colors, but by their artistic qualities.
Colors can really appreciate details that cannot be seen on photographs in black and white...
October 1942: A worker install fasteners in the tail of a Bombardier B17F the company Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California.
October 1942: Lieutenant 'Mike Hunter', American assigned the company test pilot Douglas Aircraft Company.
October 1942: Mother and daughters are a great help to provide quality aircraft for their men fighting at the front.
October 1942: Installation of an engine to the company Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California
October 1942: Research team of the company North American Aviation (Ingle-Wood, California), experimenting with a model of the B25 "Billy Mitchell" Bombardier in wind tunnel
October 1942, Kansas City, Kansas. A "Billy Mitchell" B25 is towed out of the Assembly line.
Team riveting the cockpit of a C47 the North American Aviation company.
October 1942: Installation of an engine to the company Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California
June 1942: Driver of tank at Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 1942: Still at Fort Knox, a young infantry soldier (equipped with the former American flat helmet) poses with his M1 Garand rifle brand new
June 1942 at Fort Knox: A light tank passes through a barrier with ease
May 1942: Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. A gunman poses with his "working tool"
October, 1942, Glennview, Illinois. Bottles of intravenous transfusion are inspected to be sent to the front. These bottles will save thousands of lives of seriously injured soldiers.
October 1942: A worker in work of riveting to the Consolidated Aircraft Factory of Fort Worth company
August 1942, Corpus Christi, Texas: After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea Wolf by his comrades of the naval base.
June 1942, company Lockheed Vega Aircraft in Burbank, California: A seductive female worker checks the good electrical beam Assembly.
February 1943: A working class painted insignia regulations on the "Vengeance" bombardier company Consolidated-Vultees, Nashville division.
August 1942: Mrs. Eloise j. Ellis, senior supervisor to "Assembly & repairs Department" of the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas. It dates back the morale of employees visiting from afar to work on this basis, and helps them to resolve their personal problems.
November 1942: A young soldier trains to throw grenade.
May 1942: Detachment in the base USMC of New River, North Carolina.
June 1942: A crew of tank M4 in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
October 1942: A bomber North American B25 overview of Inglewoods mountains, California.
June 1942: Crews of tanks M3 in Fort Knox, Kentucky
August 1942: Is the full an airplane for learning at the naval base in Corpus Christi, Texas
August 1942: The l. Deitz cadet at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas.
Sources: Laboiteverte, Shorpy
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