World War Two In Colour

Posing: M-4 tank crews of Fort Knox in Kentucky during World War Two (Alfred Palmer, June 1942)

World War Two In Colour: Extraordinary Photos Capture America's Men And Women Mobilising The Country For Battle -- Daily Mail

* New release from Library of Congress of amazing colour pictures

* Taken by Office of War Information photographers in early 1940s

* Aimed to show industrial mobilisation of U.S. as it entered war



Some are smiling while posing for the cameras, others are hard at work and one couple are caught in a moment of reflection.



But this amazing collection of World War Two photos from the Library of Congress is all the more impressive as they have been released in full colour.



They feature the work of Office of War Information photographers who were trying to document the industrial mobilisation of the U.S. in the early 1940s as it was entering World War Two.



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My Comment: Impressive.