Armed with Cameras The American Military Photographers of World War II

Name: Armed with Cameras The American Military Photographers of World War II
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ISBN: 9780029202654

ISBN-10: 0029202655

ISBN-13: 9780029202654

Edition: 1993

Authors: Peter Maslowski

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A chronicle of the frontline photographers of World War II recounts the sometimes harrowing exploits of the American Military Photographers, men armed with cameras who accompanied the Army, Marines, Air Force, and Navy into battle.

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 9/27/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 412
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



A Personal Note


Abbreviations Used in the Text


Prologue


"Those Guys Went Out Hunting Trouble" The Ubiquitous but Anonymous Combat Cameraman


"Survival of the Cleverest" The Joy and Travail of Combat Photography


"Jeez, This Is Just Like in the Movies" Real War versus Hollywood War


"We Shoot 'em with a Camera - Only" The Army's 163rd Signal Photographic Company


"Sticking Their Necks Out Doing Their Weird Things" The Army's 166th Signal Photographic Company


"It Seemed Like a Lifetime" The Army's 832nd Signal Service Battalion


"Some Incident of Danger to Maintain Their Good Humor" The Army Air Forces' 9th Combat Camera Unit


"The New Battlefront, the Air Front" The Making of The Memphis Belle and Thunderbolt


"Frankly, I Wouldn't Have Picked This as an Assignment" The Navy's Combat Photography Unit #1


"Old Glory Was Raised and, Boy, Tears Ran Down My Cheeks" The Cameramen of the Marine Corps


"The Fringe Necessities" Supporting the Combat Cameramen at the Front


"My Pictures Are at Least Doing a Little Bit of Good" Combat Film on the Home Front


"That Weapon Is Film" Combat Film on the Fighting Fronts


"Pix for a Price" Casualties - and the War's Historical Image


Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Bibliography


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index