Word: elisofon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just 42 days after the fall of Tunis, a photographic record of the U.S. African campaign went up on the walls of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It was a one-man show by LIFE Staff Photographer Eliot Elisofon (pronounced, by pals, Hellzapoppin). In it were 113 pictures of almost every aspect of the American occupation. Missing: views of U.S. dead, Elisofon prints of which were not released by the War Department...
From India came Jack Belden, now completely recovered from the hardships of the Burma campaign and his long trek across the mountains and jungles with General Stilwell. From America came Photographer Eliot Elisofon, now in Casablanca with Major General George S. Patton Jr.-and by Clipper and boat via Argentina came LIFE Editor Noel Busch on a special assignment to South Africa, to join Hart Preston, fresh out of Ankara, who was last heard from hedgehopping kraals, crocodiles and elephant herds in Zululand...