Research: Canadian WWII Photographers, Videographers, Films (Parts 1 - 3)

We Know More About WWII Thanks to Men and Women

Behind Cameras: A Three-Part Series

Photo Credit - Donald I. Grant, Library and Archives Canada (LAC)

As found on page 10 of Shooting the War by Sarah Klotz

Introduction:

"...Unlike war correspondents, war cameramen are combatant officers. Besides their cameras and all their paraphernalia, they carry weapons. They do not get their stories from O-pips and vantage points but go into action with the troops, a condition not very often afforded war correspondents except in assault landings." (Part of opening paragraph from news article by Gregory Clark, Toronto Star. See full article below)

The three-part series you can link to below was inspired by a short news article from The Winnipeg Tribune about a Canadian WWII photographer:

1. Canadian WWII Photographers, Videographers, Films (Part 1)

2. Canadian WWII Photographers, Videographers, Films (Part 2)

Canadian Army officers aboard LC(P) on route to Sicily, July 10, 1943

Photo by Lieut. Frank Royal. Library and Archives Canada 21079

Canadian Correspondents; Ross Munro (left), Lionel Shapiro (right)

Photo by Lieut. Frank Royal. Library and Archives Canada 21083

3. Canadian WWII Photographers, Videographers, Films (Part 3)

Landing craft, perhaps manned by Canadians in Combined Operations

are busy at GEORGE Beach, south of Syracuse, Sicily, July 1943

Photo by Lieut. Dolan. Library and Archives Canada 21538

War Correspondent Lionel Shapiro aboard troopship approaching Sicily.

Author of They Left the Back Door Open in which the photo re GEORGE

Beach appears. Photo by Lieut. Dolan. Library and Archives Canada 21545

The Winnipeg Tribune, March 28, 1944

Please click here to view another series of posts related to Canadians in Combined Operations - Lloyd George Campbell, London, Ontario (Parts 1 - 4)

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