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Hello all I have seen a number of color photos being posted and thought I would start a thread showing color photos/slides from our personal collections. I really enjoy picking thses up when I can and will start off with a few from my collection.

 

Hopefully I will see some from that grouping from the Pacific that sold on ebay a few weeks ago crybaby.gif

 

Have fun and comments always welcome.

 

Mike

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these all have come from a grouping from a soldier that was in Ft. Monmouth, and a few others on the west coast and are all dated 42-44. Will post more as I scan.

 

Mike

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Cool stuff Mike...

 

I have only a few color shots in my hard-copy collection that are not modern digital reprints, but none of them are original transparencies or period prints either. They're prints made from what were most likely copy slides, probably circa the 70s or 80s, on a funky plastic type of photo paper. I forget what it's called... if my Dad were still with us he'd be able to say... but it's deep emerald green on the reverse.

 

Anyhoo, all of these prints are kinda crapola, which makes me think the slides from which they were printed were dupes of dupes of... well, they're pretty ugly. But I cleaned 'em up all nice and perty for display on the web. Someday I'll make better hi-res scans, clean 'em up, and have some nice prints made.

 

Here's two of my faves...

 

 

This is a P-40D... perhaps the first production airframe... in Western New York skies during mid-1941.

 

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Project 914 Archives (Steve O. Reno collection)

 

 

And here's a rather lovely 'Rosie' from Lockheed, checking over a P-38. I was able to find out that this gal's name was Sally Wadsworth and that the ship is a P-38J, serial number 42-67106, which was at some time converted to an F-5C.

 

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Project 914 Archives (Steve O. Reno collection)

 

 

Fade to Black...

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Cool stuff Mike...

 

I have only a few color shots in my hard-copy collection that are not modern digital reprints, but none of them are original transparencies or period prints either. They're prints made from what were most likely copy slides, probably circa the 70s or 80s, on a funky plastic type of photo paper. I forget what it's called... if my Dad were still with us he'd be able to say... but it's deep emerald green on the reverse.

 

Anyhoo, all of these prints are kinda crapola, which makes me think the slides from which they were printed were dupes of dupes of... well, they're pretty ugly. But I cleaned 'em up all nice and perty for display on the web. Someday I'll make better hi-res scans, clean 'em up, and have some nice prints made.

 

Here's two of my faves...

This is a P-40D... perhaps the first production airframe... in Western New York skies during mid-1941.

 

P-40D002copy1.jpg

Project 914 Archives (Steve O. Reno collection)

And here's a rather lovely 'Rosie' from Lockheed, checking over a P-38. I was able to find out that this gal's name was Sally Wadsworth and that the ship is a P-38J, serial number 42-67106, which was at some time converted to an F-5C.

 

LockheedRosie001b1.jpg

Project 914 Archives (Steve O. Reno collection)

Fade to Black...

 

 

Helllloooooooooo............ Sally! ;)

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General Apathy
Not my usual armor theme, but a cool photo.

 

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Hi Jim, thanks for posting this shot, it is the town of Weymouth on the south coast of England, it was a U.S invasion loading port for the D-Day landings. Funnily enough there will possibly be a similar ambulance passing that very clock tower this weekend along with a bunch of other wartime vehicles.

 

I think there are a number of fairly well known photos of U.S troops marching along this road where the clock is, to the invasion ships in the harbour.

 

Every year at this time the town has a parade of wartime veterans, wartime vehicles and re-enactors portraying

units that sailed from there during the war. The town comes to a complete standstill during the seafront parade, the sidewalks are generally two to three people deep along the seafront and the veterans receive rapturous applause from the crowds.

 

I used to live around twenty miles from Weymouth prior to moving to France and for the last five years have driven a Willy's Jeep in the parade.

 

Thanks again, ( Lewis )

 

p.s. wish I was there to get you a comparison shot of then and now.

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Salvage Sailor

From our Salvage Photos archive

On the morning of 20 November 1944, while at Ulithi anchorage, Caroline Islands, with a full cargo of fuel oil and aviation gasoline, she was hit by a Japanese "Kaiten" human torpedo, one of five launched from the submarines I-36 and I-47. USS Mississinewa burned, exploded and sank, the first victim of this newly-introduced Japanese suicide weapon.

The ships giving assistance include an ARS to the right (possibly one of the few existing photos of the USS EXTRACTOR, ARS-15, later sunk by un-'friendly fire' from the US Submarine GUARDFISH) & an ATF to the left, probably the USS MUNSEE (ATF-107).

Story, official reports & dramatic B&W photos of the attack taken from MUNSEE here
MUNSEE Photos & Report

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Thanks guys for adding to the thread! some really nice color images.

 

Here is another from my collection. I have plenty more lol

 

Mike

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General Apathy
Not my usual armor theme, but a cool photo.

 

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Hi Jim thanks for your photo of Weymouth sea front during WWII including the clock tower, as I can't figure out how to get two large photos into the same post, then in the next post after this one I will show a shot of the same tower taken two days ago approximately 65years apart.

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

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General Apathy

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Hi Jim & other members, attached is the clock tower at Weymouth taken again after 65 years have past from the

WWII shot you have shown, this town was a major loading port for U.S. troops bound for the beaches in Normandy.

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

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another one to add to the thread. I am scanning them with a better film scanner so these look much better.

This one has written on it; Hubbard, Conklin. FT. Lawson, Washington July 43'

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Looking at the discs etc this fellow was in the signal corp. There are even slides labeled FT. Monmouth.

This on is labeled Barwick feb 43'

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Looking at the discs etc this fellow was in the signal corp. There are even slides labeled FT. Monmouth.

This on is labeled Barwick feb 43'

 

The three ladies look to be the "Rosies the Riveters" c. US Civil War...sorry, couldn't resist.

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Great photos guys! I have just about every WWII color photo book released, and it's great to see new shots.

 

-Ski

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General Apathy
Not my usual armor theme, but a cool photo.

 

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Hi everyone, in post #11 Jim Baker posted a color photograph of a clocktower taken in 1944, I replied with a

photograph of the same clock in Weymouth England taken in June 2008 ( post #17 & 18 ). Since then I have

now found another color photograph taken in early June 1944 showing American troops walking along the same road but just fifty yards past the clocktower as they headed for the invasion boats to load for Normandy.

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

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