Veteran’s Day Tribute Program: WWII Soldier Photographers and Army Pictorial Center Signal Corps
Channel: US National Archives
Date: 2019-11-14

During World War II, the Army Pictorial Service of the U.S. Army Signal Corps trained, equipped, and then deployed hundreds of combat cameramen across the globe to preserve a visual record of the U.S. Army performing its full range of military activities. A curated sample of these still photographs, which now reside at the National Archives, has been compiled into a new book: Aftershock: The Human Toll of War: Haunting World War II Images by America’s Soldier Photographers.  A panel discussion will explore these fascinating photographs, which will be projected on screen during the program.  Dr. Erik B. Villard, historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, will moderate a panel, which includes the book’s authors, Richard Cahan and Mark Jacob; Dr. Rebecca Raines, who wrote the official branch history of the US Army Signal Corps, and Kaitlyn Crain Enriquez, Photographic Archivist from the National Archives. A book sales and signing will follow the program.
Presented in partnership with the U.S. Army Center of Military History.