WWII Homefront in Color

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html

Awesome, Awesome pics!

[djeseru]

1. Wow , a P-51 in olive...

...that was pretty cool!

I enjoyed Rothstein's series but I wasn't aware there were color ones - thank you for sharing. It's kind of disorienting in a way, seeing color photos from a period you've gotten so used to seeing in black and white. =)

[TheMightyFavog]

3. I think that's an A-36 not a P-51

The A-36 was a ground attack plane with a weaker engine that the P-51 was based on.

[djeseru]

4. I'll take your word for it.

Sorry, I only know what my dad passed on to me, or what I picked up from his model building hobby. :blush:

Guess the person writing the caption didn't catch the differences between the two either!

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. That's a 51A

The early models were typically rolled out in olive drab.

One lives here that's a lot like it, though it was rebuilt after a WWII crash with parts from A's, B's and C's.

http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/survivors/pages/43-6006.shtml

[Xithras]

2. They really show how far we've come.

People living in dirt floor dugouts? Tiny hovels tucked along the levees? Fishing for dinner in backwater creeks? As bad as everything is in this country, these types of photos really show how far we've come. For most of us, those are our parents and grandparents.

[LSdemocrat]

10. It really is amazing how things have changed

Schools, stores, dress, homes, workplaces all changing so much. These pictures make most people's daily complaints seem utterly decadent and trivial.

[henslee]

6. Awesome. Awesome is right. Thanks for taking the time to post these.

[LSdemocrat]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Everyone should take the time to see these.

[FuzzySlippers]

8. This is a great site! Thanks for posting it! n/t

[chknltl]

9. Thanks...wonderfull stuff here nt

[XemaSab]

11. Thanks for sharing these!

Shasta Dam is a few miles upriver from here!

If it goes, I'm hosed. :D

[GrpCaptMandrake]

12. Beautiful, wonderful, exquisite photography

Thanks for the find!

:yourock:

[Hand]

13. The FSA photographers were brilliant!

It began as sort of a make work project under the Farm Security Administration during the Depression, with the aim of documenting the plight of American farmers. That project produced the most extraordinary visual record of social change I've ever seen. :toast:

[misanthrope]

14. Wow!...

...What a site! I only got a third into it before I started e-mailing the link out to a bunch of folks.

Earlier this evening I had been reading some of my grandfather's remembrances of growing up on an Alabama farm in the '30s. Fitting that I should stumble on those pictures afterward.

Thanks!