Simviation Forum - America in Colour from 1939-1943

Aug 11^th, 2010 at 9:42am

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Came across this website. Some very interesting pictures of yesteryear.

America in Colour from 1939-1943 Some of the only colour pictures in existence of this time.

Matt

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Reply #1 - Aug 11^th, 2010 at 10:53am

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What a wonderful find, Matt!....

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Definitely one to keep in my Favourites Folder!

Many Thanks.

All my Family photographs of the same period are all in black and white.
(Only Snow White was in colour!)

Paul.

(Note: Not a single Baseball Cap in sight!)... Smiley

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Reply #2 - Aug 11^th, 2010 at 11:12am

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It's AWESOME ( Wink

) how good the quality is.

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Reply #3 - Aug 11^th, 2010 at 11:19am

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Some excellent pictures and some good sites there Matt...thanks for posting this link...

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #4 - Aug 11^th, 2010 at 1:35pm

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The quality is unbelievable.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #5 - Aug 11^th, 2010 at 4:06pm

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Fozzer wrote on Aug 11^th, 2010 at 10:53am:

(Note: Not a single Baseball Cap in sight!)... Smiley

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Pictures- #50 & #59 (on top of the plane)
Both look remarkably like the old style ball cap my father wore. Wink

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Reply #6 - Aug 11^th, 2010 at 4:18pm

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Excellent. What a superb selection of photos. Smiley

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Reply #7 - Feb 8^th, 2011 at 11:59pm

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Very cool!!!

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Reply #8 - Feb 13^th, 2011 at 3:38pm

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Just now 02.13.11 saw these, great stuff from the past. How photography stops time!

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Reply #9 - Feb 13^th, 2011 at 6:19pm

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Excellent find! Thanks!

Felix/FFDS

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Reply #10 - Feb 14^th, 2011 at 3:32am

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August last year........nice come back Thread Grin

Matt

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Reply #11 - Feb 17^th, 2011 at 9:02am

jrom Offline
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But my dad said that everything was Black and white back then! Angry

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