Retronaut 1940s | Retronaut - See the past like you wouldn't believe.

1942:
Barnes Wallis using marbles in his garden to test Dambuster bouncing bomb idea

September 1949:
Smog Helmet

1939-1945:
“Fool the Axis. Use prophylaxis”

1948:
Angels Flight – the shortest railroad in the world

1939-1945:
Bomb crater garden

1939-1945:
Tangee Lipstick ads

1940s:
Hitler the pig

1945:
Cruising Detroit teenagers celebrate the end of WWII

1940:
Toyshop window

c. 1948:
Picasso with an owl

1948:
House being moved

c. 1940s:
Celebrity feet

WWII:
Soviet soldier feeding an owl

c. 1940s:
Spy radio built into pocket watch (no batteries required)

c. 1943:
Batman and Robin

1945:
“Deaths Head” Hitler Postage Stamp

1939:
Painting a Cow

1940 - 1945:
Women Cleaning Blast Furnaces

C. 1940s:
Girls on the wing of a Boeing XB-15

29th August 1945:
Singing to GIs

c. 1949:
Deep-sea-diver with an umbrella

c. 1940s:
Parking in Pittsburgh

c. 1945 - 1946.:
Inside ‘The Well’ US Signal Corps Army Base Terminal

1942:
The Dambuster Marbles

November 1943:
Ice on the HMS Belfast

1945:
Redundant Warplanes

1941:
Listening Post and Air Raid Lights in Pershing Square Los Angeles

1944:
Lifting a Tank

1943:
Carole Landis in a ‘Farmhouse’ Hat

c. 1940s:
Are your panties up to date?