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BBC war correspondent Richard Dimbleby -1913/1965- (left), c1943.
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German war correspondent Toni Schneiders (1920/2006) in 1942. His most notable contribution during the war was photographing Operation Oak, the rescue mission for Benito Mussolini on 1943.
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Photojournalist Lee Miller (1907/1977) lights the cigarette of a Russian Cavalryman, Germany - April 1945.
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Photojournalist Eliot Elisofon (1911/1973) prepares to be launched from USS Philadelphia in a Curtiss SOC Seagull seaplane from Safi, Morocco, during Operation Torch - Nov 1942.
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Benno Wundshammer (1913/1986) was a photo journalist and German historian.
Here Benno Wundshammer (right), who served in the Goebbels company of propaganda (Propagandakompanie) and survive the war, poses next to the Luftwaffe officers and the Hanomag Sd.Kfz.250/3 armored car in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Here Benno Wundshammer (right), who served in the Goebbels company of propaganda (Propagandakompanie) and survive the war, poses next to the Luftwaffe officers and the Hanomag Sd.Kfz.250/3 armored car in the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Ottilia Boleslavovna Reizman (1914/1986) Soviet camerawoman. During WW2 she was one of only two women camera operators allowed on the front lines. Her work was recognized by the Stalin Prize twice, in 1949 and 1951.
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Catherine Leroy (born Aug 27, 1944) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer. She was one of only two female photographers in Vietnam during the war. Leroy dedicated most of her time to capturing images of men in combat, living and patrolling with U.S. Marines for the three years she spent as a freelance photographer there. She was accredited by The Associated Press and United Press International and quickly earned a reputation for her powerful images.
C. Leroy with two other American soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Leroy also was an accomplished parachutist and made several jumps with the Marines, including one with the 173rd Airborne Brigade during Operation Junction City, the only major parachute assault of the war.
The North Vietnamese forces held her prisoner during the Têt Offensive and she was seriously wounded in 1968. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Leroy continued to photograph world conflicts, including civil war in Lebanon and the siege of West Beirut by Israel in 1982.
Leroy's moving image of U.S. Marine Vernon Wike grieving over his fallen comrade on Battle of Hill 881, is one of her most famous.
Navy Corpsman Vernon Wike attends a wounded marine Willam Roldan during the battle for Hill 881N in April 1967.
Wike is seen listening for the heart beat, and cries out in frustration, when he realizes that his buddy has died.
C. Leroy died of cancer on July 8, 2006 at age 61.
C. Leroy with two other American soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Leroy also was an accomplished parachutist and made several jumps with the Marines, including one with the 173rd Airborne Brigade during Operation Junction City, the only major parachute assault of the war.
The North Vietnamese forces held her prisoner during the Têt Offensive and she was seriously wounded in 1968. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Leroy continued to photograph world conflicts, including civil war in Lebanon and the siege of West Beirut by Israel in 1982.
Leroy's moving image of U.S. Marine Vernon Wike grieving over his fallen comrade on Battle of Hill 881, is one of her most famous.
Navy Corpsman Vernon Wike attends a wounded marine Willam Roldan during the battle for Hill 881N in April 1967.
Wike is seen listening for the heart beat, and cries out in frustration, when he realizes that his buddy has died.
C. Leroy died of cancer on July 8, 2006 at age 61.
Classic portrait of US war photographer Robert Capa in North Africa 1943
Looking up Robert Capa I found this:
The Falling Soldier
Possibly the most famous of war photographs, this image is all but synonymous with the name of its maker, Robert Capa, who was proclaimed in 1938, at the age of twenty-five, "the greatest war photographer in the world" in the British magazine "Picture Post." Taken at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and showing the moment of a bullet's impact on a loyalist soldier, this photograph has become an emblem of the medium's unrivaled capacity to depict sudden death. It is also prototypical of the style of photojournalism that came to define the work of Capa and his colleagues at the picture press agency Magnum Photos in the late 1940s.
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The Falling Soldier
Possibly the most famous of war photographs, this image is all but synonymous with the name of its maker, Robert Capa, who was proclaimed in 1938, at the age of twenty-five, "the greatest war photographer in the world" in the British magazine "Picture Post." Taken at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and showing the moment of a bullet's impact on a loyalist soldier, this photograph has become an emblem of the medium's unrivaled capacity to depict sudden death. It is also prototypical of the style of photojournalism that came to define the work of Capa and his colleagues at the picture press agency Magnum Photos in the late 1940s.
Robert Capa | The Falling Soldier | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
<strong>Inscription:</strong> Signed in white ink, lower right of image; stamped three times, verso: "Robert Capa // Not for Reproduction;" typed note affixed to print, verso: "Robert Capa // Spain 1937 // Falling Loyalist soldier in moment of death c
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American photojournalist William Eugene Smith (1918/1978) in front of the press tent during Okinawa campaign. In the initial assault on Okinawa in April 1945, a Japanese shell fragment tore through his cheek and mouth.
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Damien Peter Parer was one of the most famous combat cameramen of Australia. He was born on Aug 1, 1912 in Melbourne. When WWII broke out, Parer was experienced in photography and motion picture work. He later became an official photographer of the AIF (Second Australian Imperial Force). There were many times that he decided to go with the advancing troops to get his films as close to the action as possible. In late 1942 he travelled to Timor where he also filmed "Men of Timor" which covered the fight of the AIF in a guerrilla campaign in Timor. In 1943 he left the Department information and accompany with the U.S. Marines where he first filmed them in Guam and during Peleliu operation.
On Sept 17, 1944, his reckless move of moving with the advancing Marines had killed him as he was killed by a burst of Japanese machine gun fire.
Amazing what you can find on YouTube.....
"Sparrow Force - The Men of Timor - Damian Parer Documentary"
"Sparrow Force - The Men of Timor - Damian Parer Documentary"
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William H. Chickering (born 1916), reporting on the Bougainville Landings from a ship.
In Jan 1945 twenty-eight-year-old William Chickering, who had been covering MacArthur's campaigns from New Guinea to Leyte, became the first and only Time Inc. correspondent to be killed in battle during WW2. He was standing on the bridge of the USS New Mexico BB-40 watching the bombardment that preceded the landing on Luzon when his ship was hit by a Japanese kamikaze attack.
In Jan 1945 twenty-eight-year-old William Chickering, who had been covering MacArthur's campaigns from New Guinea to Leyte, became the first and only Time Inc. correspondent to be killed in battle during WW2. He was standing on the bridge of the USS New Mexico BB-40 watching the bombardment that preceded the landing on Luzon when his ship was hit by a Japanese kamikaze attack.
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French Cameraman and also Resistance member Gaston Madru (born April 4, 1897) demonstrates how he concealed a camera in his bicycle basket and secretly filmed the streets of German occupied Paris from 1942 until the Liberation of Paris.
The footage he captured was shown to the public after the Liberation of Paris, released in cinemas on September 18, 1944.
After the liberation of Paris, Gaston Madru followed Allied troops as a combat photographer working for the newsreel “News of the Day”, which was owned by US media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Gaston Madru was killed by an German sniper in Leipzig on April 19, 1945.
The footage he captured was shown to the public after the Liberation of Paris, released in cinemas on September 18, 1944.
After the liberation of Paris, Gaston Madru followed Allied troops as a combat photographer working for the newsreel “News of the Day”, which was owned by US media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Gaston Madru was killed by an German sniper in Leipzig on April 19, 1945.