This selection of archived photographs was a assembled by blogger Pavel Kosenko. Shot with Kodachrome photo film, the images look like they could have come straight out of the next big Hollywood period piece blockbuster. When clicking through these images though, it’s truly amazing to see the real life impact the war had on society, especially to see the amazing women who stepped up in the time of need that would go on the pioneer a new era of women in the workplace.
Bonus points, do you have any idea who is captured in these two photos taken by army photographer David Conover at the Radio Plane Factory in Van Nuys in California near the end of the Second World War
That would be Norma Jeane, better known by her stage name “Marilyn Monroe”.