30 March 2005 09:30
wartime images
by areve & 1 other
"In the Second World War people at home with loved ones spread far away around the world with the forces were fed a diet, often government backed, of "how it works" or "how we will win" technical information leaflets. Very often these would have contained superb cut away and sectioned diagrams, showing the "insides" or as was said at the time "the works!" of the machines that were winning the war for us!"
Photos 14-18
by areve & 2 others
The color photo was invented in 1903 by the Lumiere brothers, and the French army was the only one taking color photos during the course of the war.
