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There was a touch of sarcasm in my original post, it's actually a yes and no answer.
The best (colour) footage of WW2 tends to have been shot on the rarer, more expensive (and far more complicated for the early 40's) 16mm film. The majority is on 8mm film though iirc, which even then retains a native resolution way higher than standard definition (640x480, NTSC grade) so owning an 8mm wasn't too far off a modern day SLR in terms of quality.
My only gripe with "HD" WW2 footage is the fact that 70 years ago they were far from perfecting the conversion from film to reel, so a degree of natural flaws always surfaced. Combined with the fact that these were shot on a battlefield, with incredibly fragile systems, and have been stored in god knows what condition for the last 70 years.
That said, it's a miracle there's any watchable footage left from WW2 at all, and frankly amazing there's stuff left in such awesome quality, at all.
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