hell to heaven in ’47

moved // creations + ao3

[onelungmcclung]

now @mervynbunter

mine: —things I've made —ao3

shows: —band of brothers —the pacific —masters of the air —generation kill

historical: —vintage photography —ww2 history —reading —the veterans

[mervynbunter]

Edward Ashley as Jack Kidd in MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024)

[onelungmcclung]

decided you should all know about Public Service Broadcasting's album The War Room, which explores the British experience of WW2 via the medium of its propaganda films.

Band member J. Willgoose Esq. discusses Leslie Howard's 1942 war film The First of the Few -- starring Howard as the Supermarine Spitfire's designer R. J. Mitchell and several RAF pilots as themselves -- which PSB sampled for "Spitfire":

[oldnewyorklandia]

Beuford Smith.  Harlem, NY, n.d.

[kvetchlandia]

Arkady Shaikhet The Reichstag, Berlin 1945

[through-a-historic-lens]

Memphis, 1942

[vintage-sweden]

Woman with a hand crank gramophone, 1943, Sweden.

[vintage-every-day]

1940s

[the-night-picture-collector]

/ Nina Leen, Teenage Girls at a Football Game, Missouri, 1944.

[through-a-historic-lens]

World War I amputee fitted with a welding arm, 1920.

[undr]

Fox Photos. Londoners braving the snow and sleet outside Blackfriars tube station. 1933

[sovietpostcards]

November 8, 1945

[electronicsquid]

Chiffon and lace nightgown

(Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1938)

[henk-heijmans]

Someday, Chicago, ca. 1949 - by Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921 - 2012), Japanese/American

[casadabiqueira]

The fog and chimney sweeps, Kragujevac

Tomislav Peternek, 1954

[vintage-every-day]

Photo by Russell Lee: Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying away his chickens, Pie Town, New Mexico (1940)

[paolo-streito-1264]

Emmy Andriesse. Child with a saucepan - ''Winter of Hunger'', Amsterdam, 1944-1945.