D-Day photos

[CaptainSlow]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/d-day-dinn...

[Eric Mc]

There was lots of exceptional quality colour photography during WW2.

[B17NNS]

Cracking pics thanks.

[Jimbeaux]

Very nice; thank you.

[Rollin]

Buggles said:

I have seen some, but I've honestly never seen any with that quality. Most of the stuff I've seen is very grainy. The colours and clarity in those pictures is outstanding.

I would appreciate any links you may have Eric?

Cheers

Chris

This book is good

http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/firstworldwar.html

[Jimbeaux]

Rollin said:

Buggles said:

I have seen some, but I've honestly never seen any with that quality. Most of the stuff I've seen is very grainy. The colours and clarity in those pictures is outstanding.

I would appreciate any links you may have Eric?

Cheers

Chris

This book is good

http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/firstworldwar.html

Good find.

[FarleyRusk]

Very nice.

I tried to look for the "palais de justice" in Saint-Lô on Goole Earth to see if it had been rebuilt, but didn't find it
But I did find the full series of pics, here -

http://life.time.com/history/before-and-after-d-da...

[macp]

Incredible they really bring everything to life where black & photo`s seem almost detached from reality.Not sure if that makes any sense.

[Otispunkmeyer]

Are these false colour?

[Alfachick]

Fantastic. Its strange to see such photos in colour, its like they could be stills from a film made many years after.

[Eric Mc]

Buggles said:

I have seen some, but I've honestly never seen any with that quality. Most of the stuff I've seen is very grainy. The colours and clarity in those pictures is outstanding.

I would appreciate any links you may have Eric?

Cheers

Chris

No, there are thousands of really good quality photographs available from the WW2 era - especially from the US side. When I saw these pictures I immediately thought of Life Magazine, who were famous for their colour pictures. Sure enough, a quick Google reveals that the pictures shown in The Mirror emanate from Life, although I saw no acreditation in The Mirror article. Here is Life's own gallery which shows the pictures that are in the Mirror plus a few more.

http://life.time.com/history/before-and-after-d-da...

Another great taker of cracking colour photos was Charles E Brown who was British and who specialised in air to air photography. After he died in the early 1980s, three books were produced made up of his best pictures. The books are called "Camera Above the Clouds 1-3" and have some of the most stunning aerial shots you will ever see - even by today's standards. The famous picture of Jan Zumbachs (Polish) Spitfire Vb - infamously used by the BNP in one of their posters - was a Charles Brown picture taken in 1942 -



This is one of his pictures showing crew walking away from a Short Stirling at Oakington in 1941 -

[Eric Mc]

Otispunkmeyer said:

Are these false colour?

Absolutely not.

[shauniebabes]

Eric Mc said:

This is one of his pictures showing crew walking away from a Short Stirling at Oakington in 1941 -

Do they know they've left the engines on ?

[Stig]

Eric Mc said:

No, there are thousands of really good quality photographs available from the WW2 era - especially from the US side. When I saw these pictures I immediately thought of Life Magazine, who were famous for their colour pictures. Sure enough, a quick Google reveals that the pictures shown in The Mirror emanate from Life, although I saw no acreditation in The Mirror article. Here is Life's own gallery which shows the pictures that are in the Mirror plus a few more.

http://life.time.com/history/before-and-after-d-da...

Thanks for the link Eric which had particular relevance for me as the photo of the guys on the bridge (1944) was taken in Henley-on-Thames (my home town).

[Eric Mc]

shauniebabes said:

Eric Mc said:

This is one of his pictures showing crew walking away from a Short Stirling at Oakington in 1941 -

Do they know they've left the engines on ?

There are a whole series of pictures taken on that day - most in black and white. It was an official press day at Oakington where the Stirling was shown to the press for the first time. The pictures are prety much posed - but great none the less.

There is also newsreel footage from that day as people like Pathé and Movietone were also there. Sadly, that is also black and white.

[chris watton]

shauniebabes said:

Eric Mc said:

This is one of his pictures showing crew walking away from a Short Stirling at Oakington in 1941 -

Do they know they've left the engines on ?

Selfish - do they not know how big their carbon footprint is!

[Bitzer]

These are worth a look as well..... http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/06/05/th...

Picture heavy.

[Bing o]

Are there any such pictures of the Malayan campaign? It's the 70th anniversary of the fall of Singapore so would be interested to see colour stills.

[Eric Mc]

I've seen colour movie footage of Malaya.

In the Harry Enfield series "Classic British Aircraft", the episode on the Twin Pioneer had some colour film from Malaya.

[audidoody]

I would LOVE five minutes on that Browning 50.