page_title: Frank Filan
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Filan
caption_attribution_description: English: "Tarawa Island", a photograph of dead Japanese soldiers at a destroyed pillbox following the Battle of Tarawa. This photograph won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography (sharing the honor with "Homecoming").
context_page_description: Frank Xavier Filan was an Associated Press photographers and one of the winners of the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. He entered U.S. military service in 1929, and covered the pacific theater in WWII as a photographer.
  Born in Brooklyn, New York, Filan began his career with the Los Angeles Times.
context_section_description: Frank Xavier Filan (December 7, 1905-July 23, 1952) was an Associated Press photographers and one of the winners of the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. He entered U.S. military service in 1929, and covered the pacific theater in WWII as a photographer.
  Born in Brooklyn, New York, Filan began his career with the Los Angeles Times.
caption: "Tarawa Island", Filan's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph
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