WWII Kodachrome warbird photos | FerrariChat

WWII Kodachrome warbird photos

Discussion in 'Aviation Chat' started by F1tommy, May 23, 2014.

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.

  1. F1tommy

    F1tommy F1 World Champ
    Silver Subscribed

    Dec 15, 2007
    10,254
    Chicagoland USA
    Full Name:
    Tom Tanner
    #1 F1tommy, May 23, 2014
    Last edited by a moderator: Sep 7, 2017
    Some WWII warbird photos from the national archives that are taken from large format Kodachrome. Amazing quality and great colors. Easy to identify aircraft. Photos taken at North American Inglewood, North American Kansas City and Consolidated Ft. Worth in late 1942. It looks like the B24 is being modified from a regular B24 to a LB30 transport.
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
    Image Unavailable, Please Login
     
  2. wizzells

    wizzells Karting

    Jul 16, 2005
    231
    Milwaukee, WI
    Amazing, indeed. Thanks for sharing them!
     
  3. normv

    normv F1 Rookie
    Silver Subscribed

    May 3, 2005
    2,763
    Mishawaka In
    Full Name:
    Norm
    Hello, the color has such a depth and richness too it makes we wonder how digital caught on so much. Im sure its the speed and ease that makes digital popular, but not better. IMHO
     
  4. Bob Parks

    Bob Parks F1 Veteran
    Consultant

    Nov 29, 2003
    7,911
    Shoreline,Washington
    Full Name:
    Robert Parks
    I have hundreds of old slides that continually amaze me with their color, depth, and clarity.
     
  5. tbakowsky

    tbakowsky F1 World Champ
    Consultant Professional Ferrari Technician

    Sep 18, 2002
    19,350
    The Cold North
    Full Name:
    Tom
    You have to figure out a way to get those posted Bob!! Please!!
     
  6. tazandjan

    tazandjan Three Time F1 World Champ
    Lifetime Rossa Owner

    Jul 19, 2008
    37,986
    Clarksville, Tennessee
    Full Name:
    Terry H Phillips
    Bob- Those slides can be scanned easily. There are even holders on the better scanners for multiple slides at a time.
     
  7. kylec

    kylec F1 Rookie
    Silver Subscribed

    Jun 9, 2005
    3,572
    Orlando
    Slides are less forgiving when exposing the film vs digital. But i agree. Kodachrome and velvia 50 are amazing.

    Bob- what size are your slides? 35mm? Anything bigger 120, 4x5?
     
  8. donv

    donv Two Time F1 World Champ
    Owner Rossa Subscribed

    Jan 5, 2002
    23,988
    Portland, Oregon
    Full Name:
    Don
    Those are great pictures! It really gives a sense of what it might have been like to be there. Black and white has it's own charm, but to my modern eyes, it can't help but make things seem "old fashioned"-- but color provides an immediacy.

    I can almost smell the oil, exhaust, rubber, etc.!
     
  9. Crawler

    Crawler F1 Veteran

    Jul 2, 2006
    5,018
    Photos 3 and 7 would've scared the bejeezus out of the Axis leaders.

    Digital certainly has many huge advantages, but I REALLY miss Kodachrome. I have Kodachrome slides of my sister taken in the very early 50s that look like they could've been shot last week.
     
  10. gt4me

    gt4me F1 Veteran

    Sep 10, 2005
    5,637
    UK
    Full Name:
    Lewis Mitchell
    Fantastic pictures.
     
  11. Pogliaghi

    Pogliaghi Karting

    Jan 2, 2009
    114
    Pflugerville
    Beautiful pics! I had seen some of them before but most were new to me.
     
  12. kylec

    kylec F1 Rookie
    Silver Subscribed

    Jun 9, 2005
    3,572
    Orlando
    Try Velvia, it's pretty close.
     
  13. Tcar

    Tcar F1 Rookie

    Hmmm, looks like the B-25's left the assembly building without wings...

    Makes for more planes from a smaller assembly building.
     
  14. Bob Parks

    Bob Parks F1 Veteran
    Consultant

    Nov 29, 2003
    7,911
    Shoreline,Washington
    Full Name:
    Robert Parks
    The axis powers had no idea of the manufacturing power of this country. In the Seattle plant, Boeing built 23 B-17's in one 24 hour period. Other plants were doing the same and as fast as the enemy could destroy our equipment, it was soon replaced . Before the D-Day invasion east England was listing like a ship from the huge fields of trucks, tanks, ammo, bombs, and landing craft and we were cranking out aircraft carriers like clockwork where the Japanese and Germans could not replace a fraction of what they lost. Taking off from the east/west runway at Langley Field we flew over the Newport News shipyard and could see at least two carriers under construction. A German prisoner commented how devastating it was to shoot up 20 American trucks and have 30 replacements show up the following day. I think that this country's rise to meet the threat was our crowning achievement.
     
  15. Crawler

    Crawler F1 Veteran

    Jul 2, 2006
    5,018
    That's what I use now. :)
     
  16. F1tommy

    F1tommy F1 World Champ
    Silver Subscribed

    Dec 15, 2007
    10,254
    Chicagoland USA
    Full Name:
    Tom Tanner
    #17 F1tommy, May 25, 2014
    Last edited by a moderator: Sep 7, 2017
  17. donv

    donv Two Time F1 World Champ
    Owner Rossa Subscribed

    Jan 5, 2002
    23,988
    Portland, Oregon
    Full Name:
    Don
    Oh, they knew. The Japanese based their whole war plan on getting the US out of the war before our industrial superiority came into play, and Hitler has faced it personally in WWI.

     
  18. Rifledriver

    Rifledriver Three Time F1 World Champ

    Apr 29, 2004
    33,736
    Austin TX
    Full Name:
    Brian Crall
    Yamamoto knew us and our capabilities well and why he didn't think Pearl Harbor was a good idea. Big mistake on their part, they may have just gotten away with us sitting it out.
     
  19. F1tommy

    F1tommy F1 World Champ
    Silver Subscribed

    Dec 15, 2007
    10,254
    Chicagoland USA
    Full Name:
    Tom Tanner
    #20 F1tommy, May 25, 2014
    Last edited by a moderator: Sep 7, 2017
  20. Crawler

    Crawler F1 Veteran

    Jul 2, 2006
    5,018
    I think that the USA's contribution in WW1, though pivotal, was mainly in manpower rather than overwhelming manufacturing might. Hitler believed too much in his own propaganda and the myth of German technological superiority. After all, it was he who declared war on the US a few days after Pearl Harbor.

    Yamamoto had attended university in the US and certainly knew full well what the outcome of the war would be, although he did not live to see it.
     
  21. Bob Parks

    Bob Parks F1 Veteran
    Consultant

    Nov 29, 2003
    7,911
    Shoreline,Washington
    Full Name:
    Robert Parks
    You and Brian make good points but what I was saying is that neither enemy realized what they had stirred up. Hitler thought that he could beat anybody with Blitzkrieg and overlooked the need for strategic offensive, such as a long range bomber force. Yamamoto was correct in his assessment of what would happen after Pearl Harbor but Tojo was bent on the Pacific offensive to gain oil and ore and believed that the U.S. was a weak and ineffective nation that would not respond aggressively as it did to confront the Japanese offensive. We were not subjected to bombing or anything else that would endanger us and we opened full the faucet of our potential with the historic results. We had everything that we needed in the way of natural resources where Japan and Germany did not. So, if their quick thrusts failed , they were doomed.
     
  22. Crawler

    Crawler F1 Veteran

    Jul 2, 2006
    5,018
    Very true, Bob. Hitler (and this could apply to Japan as well) made the fundamental strategic error of conquering more territory than he had the resources to hold onto. Emboldened by his early successes, he underestimated first the British, then the Russians, and, finally, most of all, the USA.
     
  23. wrxmike

    wrxmike Moderator
    Moderator Owner

    Mar 20, 2004
    7,573
    Full Name:
    Mike
    Grumman J2F Duck

    M
     
  24. F1tommy

    F1tommy F1 World Champ
    Silver Subscribed

    Dec 15, 2007
    10,254
    Chicagoland USA
    Full Name:
    Tom Tanner
    No try again. It is alot rarer than a Duck.
     

Share This Page