Robert Capa Color
"When one thinks of the work of Robert Capa his black and white photos come to mind. Due to the difficulty involved in reproducing color photos during Capa's time, magazines usually required their photographers to shoot in black and white but on occassion they chose to feature some color photography. Included in this album are some of Capa's color work from the Second World War which he shot on assignment for Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post." - Magnum.
"1. GREAT BRITAIN. 1941. Blenheim bombers take off from a Royal Air Force base for an Allied daylight bombing raid over Occupied France. 2. ATLANTIC OCEAN. 1941. As part of an Allied convoy of ships en route to Great Britain from the U.S., American airplanes are camouflaged on the deck of a Cunard freighter. The ship is carrying seven airplanes, two torpedo boats, and twelve passengers who agreed to travel at their own risk. 3. GREAT BRITAIN. 1941. Mechanics inspect a propeller engine on an Wellington bomber at a Royal Air Force base before a daylight bombing raid over Occupied France. Groundcrew at work, almost certainly on the same aircraft. One of a batch of 550 Mk ICs built by Vickers at Chester and delivered in August 1940 to May 1941, R1593 was not the first example to wear the codes OJ-N with 149 Sqn; an earlier Mk IC, P9273, with the same codes had been lost during a raid on Ostend in the autumn of 1940. R1593 itself went on to serve with No 1483 (Bomber) Gunnery Flight at Newmarket, 15 OTU [Operational Training Unit] at Harwell and 21 OTU at Moreton-in-Marsh. It was struck off charge on March 28, 1945. 4. GREAT BRITAIN. 1941. Cows graze in front of an American bomber that is being prepared at a Royal Air Force base for a daylight bombing raid over occupied France."
"1. GREAT BRITAIN. 1941. Blenheim bombers take off from a Royal Air Force base for an Allied daylight bombing raid over Occupied France. 2. ATLANTIC OCEAN. 1941. As part of an Allied convoy of ships en route to Great Britain from the U.S., American airplanes are camouflaged on the deck of a Cunard freighter. The ship is carrying seven airplanes, two torpedo boats, and twelve passengers who agreed to travel at their own risk. 3. GREAT BRITAIN. 1941. Mechanics inspect a propeller engine on an Wellington bomber at a Royal Air Force base before a daylight bombing raid over Occupied France. Groundcrew at work, almost certainly on the same aircraft. One of a batch of 550 Mk ICs built by Vickers at Chester and delivered in August 1940 to May 1941, R1593 was not the first example to wear the codes OJ-N with 149 Sqn; an earlier Mk IC, P9273, with the same codes had been lost during a raid on Ostend in the autumn of 1940. R1593 itself went on to serve with No 1483 (Bomber) Gunnery Flight at Newmarket, 15 OTU [Operational Training Unit] at Harwell and 21 OTU at Moreton-in-Marsh. It was struck off charge on March 28, 1945. 4. GREAT BRITAIN. 1941. Cows graze in front of an American bomber that is being prepared at a Royal Air Force base for a daylight bombing raid over occupied France."
