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Incredible WWII Color Slide Collection - Signal Corps Photographer Lt. Joseph Zinni


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A friend of mine, Paul (a member here) and I were able to snag some incredible 35mm and 4x5 color slides taken by a combat photographer during his time overseas. He landed on Omaha D-Day +10 (many shots of that scene) and filmed lots of action during the Bulge. An incredible collection... the lot hasn't arrived in the mail yet but I'm posting some previews here to wet the forum whistle.

 

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/55674013_signal-corps-photographer-s-color-slide-archive

 

 

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/55674020_us-army-signal-corps-photographer-s-color-negatives#&gid=1&pid=2

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Those are some great pictures. I have looked over the picture with the panzers and I do not see any GIs? Was this a surender picture or a captured picture? Great pics congratulation

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Thanks for the info guys! - Yes I suspected the piper cub shot may be a little later based on the caps. The German general is the surrendering general of the 11th Panzer - Wendt von Wietersheim

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  • 2 weeks later...

Color slides are the holy grail of WWII photography: scanning those images for online use creates photos that are generally far superior to anything we ever saw in books. newspapers and magazines with their low-res half-toned photos.

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It turns out the original listing was incorrect. Paul and I snagged over 300! Even some shots of Patton in the field in Autumn of 1944.

 

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In post #2, the helmets appear to be painted with a camo pattern.

 

If so, you may want to repost these in the helmet section. The helmet guys will go nuts over them.

 

In post #3, the Germans in the boat look to be wearing a yellow or gold breast eagle... I believe that would make them coast artillery. The full color photo of the Panzer Mk IV is pretty unique as well.

 

Nice selection.

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BILL THE PATCH

In post #3 there are at least 3 Germans with Hitler mustaches, what poser's.

 

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Very interesting set of photos. The last 6 photos seems to have been taken in brittany.

However the photo of the pipercub seems to be post war.

The airplane shown is NOT a Piper Cub. It's a Cessna L-19 Bird Dog (Type later re-designated as an O-1). These planes didn't enter service till late in the 1940's and were used in Korea and Viet Nam. We even operated some of these planes in the Civil Air Patrol as late as the 1980's.

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The airplane shown is NOT a Piper Cub. It's a Cessna L-19 Bird Dog (Type later re-designated as an O-1). These planes didn't enter service till late in the 1940's and were used in Korea and Viet Nam. We even operated some of these planes in the Civil Air Patrol as late as the 1980's.

 

LOL! And the proof is right in front of us. The national markings are post WWII, with the red bar added to the star. The slide appears to be backwards based on the tail number. I am curious what is written above it.

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Incredible find, good for you and thank you for sharing these. There are three really nice black & white film clips of 11.Panzer-Division surrendering to the U.S. 90th ID,

These are located on:

http://www.criticalpast.com

Go to clips by decade and select 1940

This will take you to the Browse A1> 1940s

Select 1945

A list of locations will appear

Select Neumark Czechoslovakia

You will see the first three clips as: LIB 6339, LIB 6340 and the third clip is dated 1945 May 4th.

Hope you enjoy,

Best regards,

Mike

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Incredible find, good for you and thank you for sharing these. There are three really nice black & white film clips of 11.Panzer-Division surrendering to the U.S. 90th ID,

These are located on:

http://www.criticalpast.com

Go to clips by decade and select 1940

This will take you to the Browse A1> 1940s

Select 1945

A list of locations will appear

Select Neumark Czechoslovakia

You will see the first three clips as: LIB 6339, LIB 6340 and the third clip is dated 1945 May 4th.

Hope you enjoy,

Best regards,

Mike

 

 

Wow! You should post a stand alone thread with these instructions. This is years worth of material to review.

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