Here is a bunch of material from the Canadian War museum:
https://www.warmuseum.ca/foreverchanged/
And one of the videos hosted there features Hugh McCaughey, a movie cameraman and the father of a friend of mine who is also a member here on Photrio.
Are you thinking specifically of military employed photographers taking photos for tactical/strategic/documentation purposes - as opposed to photo journalist's war photography?Post whatever you have.
I'm interested in the men and women who took wartime photographs, the equipment they used, and their photographs. As old and new as you can find.
Are you thinking specifically of military employed photographers taking photos for tactical/strategic/documentation purposes - as opposed to photo journalist's war photography?
Taizo Ichinose... Vietnam War... Killed in Cambodia by Khmer Rouge on 29 Nov '73 at age 26.
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Parents having found remnants, clothings, of their little doughter. Victim of an allied bombing at noon in 1943 at the completely unprepared outskirts of Antwerp. A bombing that killed only civilians. Many hundred. Including many, many children inside several schools. But also many girls at Gevaert, converting rollfilms in the dark.
Military effect, likely none.
Photographer was Otto Kropf, Propagandakompanie resident in Belgium.
I can show you my Rolleiflex T.
The model was favoured by the British Ministry of Defence - to an extent where the T model was brought back into production in 1971 due to an order of several thousands cameras.
The deliveries continued up to 1976.
It was used by the Army and Royal Navy.
It was said to have replaced Hasselblad due to the latter requiring too much service.
The T was claimed to last up to 15 years of hard use before requiring service.
The T model is said to have been used actively by BMoD well into the 90's or longer, thus theoretically also during British engagement in armed conflict and war - such as the Falkland War.
Parents having found remnants, clothings, of their little doughter. Victim of an allied bombing at noon in 1943 at the completely unprepared outskirts of Antwerp. A bombing that killed only civilians. Many hundred. Including many, many children inside several schools. But also many girls at Gevaert, converting rollfilms in the dark.
Military effect, likely none.
Photographer was Otto Kropf, Propagandakompanie resident in Belgium.
Post whatever you have.
I'm interested in the men and women who took wartime photographs, the equipment they used, and their photographs. As old and new as you can find.
I have read many times that the great Robert Capa used mostly a Contax pre-war rangefinder for most of his work including the famous Normandy landings.
Some cameras were intended from the get go for military use, like the Kodak Medalist and Kodak Signet 35.
At end of our Vietnam invasion/occupation an enlisted photographer and helicopter rescue/door gunner sold me his (stolen) Graflex XL kit. Needed some cleaning but the 80 Planar was wonderful. I never found a use for the 70mm roll back.
With "stolen" likely is meant "stolen from the US armed forces". And the "enemy" did not use Graflexes as far as I know. I mean he would not even had apt film sizes to feed it.
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