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WARSHIP PICTORIAL 34
UNITED STATES NAVY
B~TTLESH:IPS
by Steve
Wiper
I~
COLOR
USS
IDAHO BB-42
firin
g
upon Japanese
shore
installatioll
S"
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t
Okinaw a,
late
Mnrch
1945.
CLASSIC WARSHIPS PUBLISHING
P.
O.13ox 57591
·
Tucson,
AZ.
85732·
USA
Web Site:
wwwJ.:
lassicwflrship
s.com·
Ph/Fx (5
20)748
-2992
Copyrigllt
©
July
2010
ISBN 978-0-9823583-5-1
Pri
nted
by
Arizan
... Lit hographers,
Tucson,
Arizona
1
UNITED STATES NAVY BATTLESHIPS IN COLOR
The collection of
color
pho tog
rap
hy
co
nt
a
in
ed
w
ith
in
this book
is
the
accumulation
o
f
years of
sea
rc hing
througb
numerous
archives, nelwork
ing
On
(he Intern
et
with
co
llec tors, anel
ju
~
t
~
h
eer
luc
k
,
in
findin g
a
nd
ama
ss­
in
g
h
i
~',(ori c
color
ph
otograph
s
to
enable
myse
lf
to pro­
duce such
a book.
In 1936
Kodak
in the
USA
bega n mass
produc­
(ion
or
"
Kodachrome"
35
mill
still
pi
cture
f
ilm
,
fo
llowed
in
1937
in
G
e
rm
a
ny
by
Agfa,
w
ith
th
e
ir
co
mpet in
g
"Ar;.facolor."
For
the
ave
rage
person,
color still
picture
CHm
was ex
pensi
ve,
and
if
you were
bu
y
ing
Kod3chrom
e
i
n
th
e
USA, on
l
y
Koda
k
c
ould
d
evelop
th
ose
pho
­
tographs.
As
tim
e we
nt
by,
people began to reali
ze
[ha l
it
was worth
the
pri
ce
to
have
really
good color pictures,
as
fhe
Koda
ch
rome picture
quality was
very
good, with th
e
co
l
o
r~
be ing
very
true.
Photojouma
li
st
played
the leaciing role in
color
photography jusr before
and
ciuring the Second World
\\fa r. Because
they
we
re
eilher
working
fo
r
a
large
pub­
li
s
he
r.
s
uc
h
as
LIFE
magazin
e,
o
r in
th
e
c
ase
of
{h
is
boo
k, the
US
Navy.
they had
access
to large
amo
unfS
of
co
lo
r film
.
Beca
use
of
thi
s.
a
very
large
amount
o
f
co
lo r
pho tography
was
taken
,
but unfortun
ate
ly, little
was actu
­
all
y
used
.
and
whe
n
so,
in the
form
of
a
lithog raph
.
This
was a
printin
g
process
that
made the printin
g
of
co
lo r
images
in
books and
magazines less expensiv
e
but
at
th
e
cos
t
of
a
dramat ica ll
y
reduced quality.
See the image
on
pnge
58
for
an
exampl e
of
this.
So.
where are
all
the color
photograph~?,
one
might
ask.
Good ql.lestion.
Many are in variolls archiv
es
aro
und
the world,
and a
fe
w are in private collectio ns.
Unfortuna
te ly
,
I11nny
hav
e
not survived the
"Test
qf
Time,"
as
1
ca
ll
it.
Many were absconded
with,
ciamaged ,
or
des t.royed
by
acc
ide nt
.
o
r in many cases, just thrown
a
way wh
e
n th
o
ug ht to
be
o
f no necessity.
Many
co
lor
im
ages
from
rhe
US
Navy
coll ec
tion
where
not
properl y
srored
and
a:;,
a
res ult ha
ve f"ded
to red. losing
all
of
th
e
blue pi
g
me nt
fro m
th
e
film.
It
is m
y
belief that ma re
co
lo
r pho
lOgraphy
ha
s
been lost for the abov
e
reaso
ns
than
what
c
un'e nr
ly survives.
I
have pu
t
together
a
collection
of color pho tos
oj'
Ih
e
US
Navy
ba
ttl
es
hip during
the Second World W
ar
period
th
at
wi
ll
sho
w what
these magnificent warship
s
really
looked
like.
So
me
of
you, for the first time,
will
have
a
chall ce
to
~ee
many of these
warships in
their ori
g­
in
al
colo
r,
This
no
t
only
brings all the
black
and
white
ph
o
tograp hs
we
have
see
n
o
ver the
years
to
life.
but
we
ca
n
a
lso
learn new
details
that the
color
film
shows
us
thai.
wc ne ver
new
abo
ut the
A
me rican bartle.') hip.
Steve
Wiper
Classic
Wars
hips
Pub
li
shin g
'
a.;.~
.ai'¢
mOst of
the
US Navy's
fr<lnlline
anchor
Iii
LahaniA Roads,
off of
Maw,
Hawaiian
Tslandi.
Left
10
right are all Ihree of
the
COLORADO
elMS,
MISSISSIPPI
.
IDAHO.
a
TEN
­
NESSEB
,
lass.
NEW MEXICO and
a
NEVADA
cia"
battleship
.
The
date
W","
..
•
September
1940.
A\l()lher view of the
US
Navy Battle Flee! at
anchor
in
Lahanio
Roads
,
with
US$'
NEW MEXIC.O
B8
-40
in
the
foreground
and Ihe
USS
!'I!NNSYLYAN IA
BB-:lS
in
thel
b"ckgrounll. September 1.940.
NEW
MI!XICO
had
her boat
boom,
extended.
with
'<everai
of
her
ships
boars
tied
11
p.
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