Bright images in dark times: Mesmerising colour photographs show resolve of Greatest Generation during World War II

They are the images usually only seen in black and white - a fitting hue for the gloom of a 1940s America engaged in World War II and having just experienced the Great Depression. 


But these vivid photographs in glorious colour show better than ever what life on the United States home front was really like as war raged in Europe and the Pacific. 


From a Californian female aircraft worker focused on checking electrical wiring, to children rolling potatoes into a barrel on a farmyard in Maine - the pictures illustrate the significant role of those not on the battle fields.    More