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William Homer Genaust (October 12, 1906 – March 4, 1945) was an American war photographer during World War II best known for filming the second U.S. flag-raising on top of Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, which was immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.
Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire at Peleliu, Palau.
OMAHA BEACH, Easy Red sector or environs: [1] At 0:39, this clip shows a large cadre of men running up a foggy beach covered in Czech hedgehogs (Shot by USCG Chief Photographer's Mate David C. Ruley [2]) Beachhead to Berlin is a 20-minute Warner Brothers film with narration and a fictionalized framing device that makes extensive use of USGS color footage of D-Day preparations and beach ...
Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 – August 23, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the U.S. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published.
The Mexican-American War was the first one to be captured by a camera. [1] A number of daguerreotypes were taken of the occupation of Saltillo during the Mexican–American War, in 1847 by an unknown photographer, although not for the purpose of journalism.
Smith took photos on the front lines in the Pacific theater of World War II. He was with the American forces during their island-hopping offensive against Japan, photographing U.S. Marines and Japanese prisoners of war at Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. [9] Smith's awareness of the brutality of the conflict sharpened the focus of his ambition.
A land, air and sea invasion of Gaza is “imminent” as the Israel Defence Forces killed a top Hamas commander responsible for one of the murderous attacks on southern Israel last week.. The IDF ...
Turner was a soldier with the 2nd Canadian Siege Battery during the First World War. While in Europe he smuggled [1] a German-built 2 in × 3 in (51 mm × 76 mm) format camera with him and took approximately 99 photographs from the war zone. After the war, Turner returned to Prince Edward Island, married and took up farming in Knutsford. [2]