[pics] 1941-1944 WW II in colour, book & site

A new book of never-before-published photos drawn from the Imperial War Museums archives, The Second World War in Colour, surveys myriad aspects of the war, from frontline combat among flamethrower tanks and paratroopers to factories and hospitals on the homefront — all in vividly immersive color.
Though color photography was invented decades before World War II, it was still a rather niche process, more complicated and expensive than black-and-white photography. The scarcity of color film was compounded by the hazards of shipping in wartime and the difficulties of reproduction and printing.
Nevertheless, thousands of color images were created during the global conflict. 3,000 of those were assembled by the British Ministry of Information and eventually ended up in the collections of the Imperial War Museums, which now hold over 11 million photos of conflict from the first World War to the present day.

Vijftien grote foto's van hoge kwaliteit
www.mashable.com/2017/04/30/second-world-war-in-color

Onder andere:

 

www.iwm.org.uk/history/second-world-war/15-rare-colour-photographs-from-the-second-world-war

Sew for victory
Members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) preparing parachutes for use by British airborne forces during the invasion of Europe, May 1944.

 

Lekker opvallend gekleurde chutes voor een militaire dropping.
Is dat wel goed gegaan met die nabewerking?

 

generalaviationnews.com/2018/03/08/kodachrome-captured-world-war-ii-color

 

Er blijken wel degelijk gekleurde parachutes te zijn gebruikt in de II wereldoorlog : in het Airborne museum te Sainte-Mére-Eglise hangt een bord met de verschillende kleuren die werden gebruikt en als ik me goed herinner waren dat toch wel 5 à 6 verschillende kleuren en die stonden allemaal voor verschillende "doeleinden" (ik meen dat "rood" stond voor wapens/munitiedropping)