WWII in color: Rare photos from 1942 show Flying Fortress

[W.G.Ewald]

WWII in color: Rare photos from 1942 show Flying Fortress bombers and their heroic crews in The Mighty 8th Command | Mail Online

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Indians should know this lady.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Several more photos at link.

 

[Payeng]

^^ who is she?

 

[SPIEZ]

^^ who is she?

Maragaret Bourke White, who took the iconic photo of Gandhi weaving with the wheel.

(P.S.: I googled)

 

[Daredevil]

^^ who is she?

I think she is Margaret Bourke-White. She did a lot of photography in India during and after British rule in India for Life magazine.

 

[angeldude13]

Indians should know this lady.

she was in the a night at the museum 2

 

[W.G.Ewald]

she was in the a night at the museum 2

Are you thinking of Amy Adams who played Amelia Earhart?

 

[angeldude13]

Are you thinking of Amy Adams who played Amelia Earhart?

yup.
i guess she is amelia earhart

 

[W.G.Ewald]

yup.
i guess she is amelia earhart

Amelia Earhart died in 1937, though. The picture is from 1942.

Amelia Earhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amelia Mary Earhart (/ˈɛərhÉ‘rt/ AIR-hart; July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author.[1][N 1] Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.[3][N 2] She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record.[5] She set many other records,[2] wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.[6] Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.[7][8]

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.[N 3]

This is from a review of Margaret Bourke-White's biography.

We never know if Bourke-White met Amelia Earhart, Lillian Hellman, Margaret Mead, Gertrude Stein. We don't know if she felt competitive with Marguerite Higgins, a much younger but equally beautiful and determined war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. There is very little about her relationships with other photographers, except that she drove them crazy. What did she think of Eugene Smith and his battles with Life? How did she get along with Walker Evans, Robert Capa? This book whets our appetite for more information, more details, the whole story.

Margaret Bourke-White, Review by Elsa Dorfman