Naval Pictures

In 1935, the firm Kodak developed the color film Kodachrome which was one of the first comercial color films available, together with Agfacolor, in 1936, with which one could get transparencies or color slides. The color film Kodacolor was introduced in 1941 and it contributed to its popularization, though the Second World War had started in 1939. Many photographic improvements became available during this war period and it was used mostly in the military field. Some of the shots that survived after sixty years are the ones that you can see here, though there are still many, many more in private hands, which, I think, is not right because they are part of Humankind's Historic Patrimony and are above any selfish way to appropiate them.

It is not my intention to violate any copyright law, so if any of these pictures were violating it, please tell me.

A German submarine on surface navigation.	A surrendered German submarine in the Atlantic.
Getting supplies onto a German submarine.	A German submarine crew loading a torpedo into their sub.
A German submarine being built.	An aerial color picture of a German shipyard where a submarine is being built.
A German airplane flies over a naval combat in Norwegian waters.	An American battleship firing its guns against ground defences in Guadalcanal, 1942.
A steam ship, part of a convoy to Malta, burning due to hits from Axis airplanes.	British cargo ship sinking in the Mediterranean.
Operation Cerberus, to cross The Channel. The Gneisenau seen from the Scharnhorst, after leaving their base at Brest. (12 February 1942)	Checking the armament in an english corvette.
Battleship Arizona surrounded by flames as it is being bombed by Japanese airplanes. Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941.	An auxiliar german ship arrives back to Kiel escorted by an old minesweeper.
An U-boot on surface navigation in the Atlantic, winter 1941-42.	The 203 mm Guns of the German Heavy Cruiser 'Prinz Eugen'.
German Admiral Karl Doenitz with his High Command directing the U-boote campaign.	The old greek battleship 'Kriti', sunk in Salamina.
Dunkirk, once it was taken by the germans. In the picture, the French destroyer "L'Adroit".	British submarines Thrasher, Surf and Graf (ex U570 type VIIC captured in august 1941 in Southern Iceland waters), beside the supplies ship 'Forth', in Holy Loch. (I want to think that this is not a painting.)
Italian torpedo boat on a mission in Lake Ladoga.	A MAS 527 torpedo boat in Lake Ladoga during the operations in the Russian-Finnish scenery in 1942.