Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toughest jobs was to photograph Jap installations on Guadalcanal. From a base 900 miles away, against fierce air opposition, Navy photographers did the job so well that when the Marines landed on the island they knew the number of Japs and Jap planes there, the position of every major...
...most important new invention is "trimetrogon" photography. This enables a flyer to photograph the ground below from horizon to horizon. The equipment consists of three cameras with wide-angle lenses, one pointing straight down and one obliquely to each side. By means of triangulation and ingenious translating devices, distortions resulting from the oblique angles are corrected in the final print. The trimetrogon method, by making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force...
...Ronson cigaret lighter; one Waltham wrist watch; one U.S.-made nail clipper; a colored picture of a tiger (possibly picked up during the Malayan campaign); a helmet with hollow pads in which was secreted a girl's photograph; a mosquito headnet ful of rice. . . . One other item lying near by turned out to be a white silk shirt, made in Sydney. Don't ask me what a Nip would be doing with a white silk shirt...
Senator Carter Glass, reigning eagle of the capital's elder statesmen, last-ditch foe of funny finance, good friend of Franklin Roosevelt, passed his 86th birthday in his Washington apartment receiving friends, letters, cakes, and an autographed photograph of the President...
...photograph of the Big Three at Teheran (TIME, Dec. 13) is a work of art. . . . Whether by design or by accident, the respective chairs occupied and the attitudes assumed by Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt, and Premier Stalin speak volumes...