Color photos of America from the 30s and 40s

[K Frame]

OK, I think that is a P-51A Mustang...

I forgot that the Apache had nose mounted guns, and while it's kind of difficult to tell, there doesn't appear to be a nose gun on the underside of the nose.

[Fudgieghost]

I think the A-20 was called the "Havoc", IIRC.

[K Frame]

In American service it was the Havoc, in British service it was generally known as the Boston.

[Fudgieghost]

Mike: sorry, when I posted, you post wasn't up. . . Yes, the UK gave their own names to US planes: Buffalo, Hudson, etc.  

Was the AT-6 called the Texan by us or the Brits?  Did they also come up with "Dakota" for the C-47?

[K Frame]

The AT-6 Texan was the American name. In Britain it was known as the Harvard.

The C-47 was known as the Skytrain in the United States, and was the Dakota to the British. The Dakota name apparently caught the imagination a little more.

[Antibubba]

Is there a B&W slide film available?

280,

There might be one still being made-there were one or two about ten years ago.  One was in Zagreb, Croatia, but I don't know if they survived the Balkans' War(They were the last source of B&W 127).  The other was Fuji or possibly Agfa.  It would be a special order, and processing it would be quite a feat too.


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FOUND IT!!  It's Agfa Scala.  There are still sellers and processors for this in the US.  I don't know what the future of the film will be, though; it seems Agfa in Germany is in the process of liquidation.  contact me if you want more info

[K Frame]

Funny you should mention 127 film...

One of the things I found in the basement as I was cleaning up was an old photo album (my Aunt put it down there, along with a LOT of other family photos, I told my Father to tell her that the next time I see her she's going to lose some teeth).

Many of the pictures in the album, of my Grandparents and Father and Aunt, were taken with a Baby Brownie Special using 127 film. I also found the Baby Brownies in the basement as I was cleaning up.