Thread: Making shells WW2

What a great set of photos.You can't beat black and white/sepia for this sort of thing. Boy I'll bet some of those blokes had night mares about Jerry cans avalanching down on them. Did you pick up the note on the air chamber in the design to make sure the cans could float.
Hats off to all those factory workers who worked in those factories for long hours so we could inevitably be able to live in freedom.
I don't think anyone really "wins" a war, as we know there is so many on both sides who "lost" so much.
Did you see on the discovery channel last night a ship loaded with Jewish internees that were put on a ship loaded with explosives and blown up and sunk! There were something like 4500 people lost! Such a terrible waste.

Originally Posted by Hunch

Don't know about "skill", seems to be a lot of mindless repetitive work for the couple minutes I watched, you'd be heartily sick of it after 4 or 5 years - the horror!

Here's a propaganda lot of staged WWII era ones, just imagine setting solid rivets for a full shift with no ear protection....if that's indeed what happened.

pavel_kosenko: 4x5 Kodachromes

Oh, notice in the group photo, not a fattie to be seen, what progress we've made.

I would not describe any of the war effort photos as propagander sport , staged or not . Unless you lived through it you don't know jack.

Originally Posted by Hunch

Don't know about "skill", seems to be a lot of mindless repetitive work for the couple minutes I watched, you'd be heartily sick of it after 4 or 5 years - the horror!

Here's a propaganda lot of staged WWII era ones, just imagine setting solid rivets for a full shift with no ear protection....if that's indeed what happened.

pavel_kosenko: 4x5 Kodachromes

Oh, notice in the group photo, not a fattie to be seen, what progress we've made.

I don't care if it propaganda or not the pic of the blacksmith shop drop hammer is awesome. Just look at the size of the tongs. War is unfortunate and i agree nobody wins (not that i'm old enough to remember even Vietnam) But great leaps in technology are always made at the greatest time of need, usually during wartime.

Originally Posted by Hunch

pavel_kosenko: 4x5 Kodachromes

Hard to believe those photo's were taken in the 1940's.... You would swear they were taken recently given the superb sharpness, clarity and colour...

Originally Posted by .RC.

Hard to believe those photo's were taken in the 1940's.... You would swear they were taken recently given the superb sharpness, clarity and colour...

Don't ya know its all a conspiracy.......

ha ha.... nah it is 5"X4" kodachrome negatives...

Originally Posted by Retromilling

I would not describe any of the war effort photos as propagander sport , staged or not . Unless you lived through it you don't know jack.

There's no need to get cut or touchy about it, if you do a very basic search for the photographer's employer at the time, it's quite evident the purpose of the shots. Still a great insight into what the era was like...and the quality is amazing.

Don't know if it's still available, the Talking Heads interview with Tony Gaze on his amazing life gives an interesting perspective of what was happening in the armaments factories on the other side of the Atlantic - it wasn't all sweetness and light and everyone striving for the common good.

Looking at those US fuel cans being made , the amount of hand assembly is to be noted .

These US WW2 cans are ubiquitous and often turn up . Its amazing to think that each one was hand assembled and painted .... millions were made .

The US cans have a screw top . The German / British cans have the familiar cam action top.

Lots of info out there , people collect them .

MIKE