

Please enjoy the colors of WWII as they were meant to be seen!įollow Portraits of War on Search for: Recent Posts Recent Update: Captions Added – WWII Marine Corps Veteran Pilot Adds Commentary – Thanks Paul! Although I was only able to snag 7 from a grouping of nearly 200, I am still happy to pass along the images to interested parties. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000. In this case, I was able to pick up a small selection of color slides from a Marine dive bomber. Battle of Verdun, (February 21December 18, 1916), World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. To find a complete collection of color slides is like hitting the WWII photography jackpot. My collection is roughly 500:1, black and white : color.

Yes, color film was shot in 35mm(and sometimes larger format) and was used on a somewhat regular basis by shutterbug soldiers during WWII. the islands attractive vegetation and the colors of the temples reliefs were. One of my goals here at PortraitsofWar is to collect color slides from WWII and make them accessible to those who don’t know it exists. In the first world war, they were busy fomenting a holy war to drive the. The color of WWII is something lost on our generation WWII has been a war fought in black and white for everyone but actual WWII veterans who witnessed it firsthand.
