Word: cameramen
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...days after Pearl Harbor, Hudson bombers manned by Australian crews had lumbered through the cottony skies to take photographs of the Truk Islands. But not until three weeks ago did Allied cameramen call again. U.S. Marines, flying two Liberators over 2,000 miles of enemy ocean, swooped in, snapped pictures...
This story was told last fortnight by a commander of U.S. flying cameramen, Colonel James G. Hall, to the American Society of Photogrammetry, convened in Washington. Photogrammetry is the name of the relatively new science of mapping by means of aerial photographs. The photogrammetrists (mostly servicemen) made many other eye-opening points...
Today air photography is considered so vital that the U.S. has 1,000 photogrammetrists compiling charts and several squadrons of flying cameramen (divided into strategic and tactical groups), while a third of the planes on every bombing mission carry cameras. Reconnaissance flyers, a cocky, confident group, like to quote a prewar prediction by German General Werner von Fritsch: "The military organization with the best aerial photo reconnaissance will win the next...
...Hill. Earthy, fire-hydrant-shaped Al Binder, who "knows everybody" and who had come in from vacation for his mail, was told to get Patricia's picture. He scored a screaming beat, an exclusive photo which the News splashed over Page One. Before it was over, 20 News cameramen, 20 reporters were on the story...
...incite hatred of the persons of enemies and to be excessively gruesome." Stalingrad is not by a long shot the mightiest war film ever-Desert Victory (TIME, April 12), for one, was better. Neither can the Legion's objections be entirely brushed off. Nevertheless, the 24 Russian cameramen who shot Stalingrad (eight of them were killed on their jobs) have provided history with some images of war as true as they are powerful. Some of the images: > A great, flaming city which seems to float on a tranquil river until the Volga also flames from the reflected holocaust...