I've been reading the Liberation Trilogy, a World War II TOME (this thing is 1,300 pages or more and covers Africa, Italy/Sicily and Europe in its three volumes. I've been reading on it for 3 months now and I'm only 18 percent through it on my Kindle.)
One of the characters the African campaign chronicles is Maj. Robert Moore of a national guard unit in Vilisca, Iowa. Moore, who had very little military training of any kind, is credited with leading his surrounded, besieged and depleted battalion to safety during the battle of Kasserine Pass, a decisive German victory. He received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. The story mentions that when he went home in 1943, a photographer captured his homecoming and the photo won a Pulitzer Prize. I thought it was worth sharing.
This photo goes against all the precepts of good, modern-day journalism photography, which stresses faces, faces, faces. No backs of heads. Backs of heads don't sell papers.
Yet this photograph captures what no words could as Moore gets off the train in Villisca.
http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2012/05/pulitzer-prize-for-photography-1944.html
One of the characters the African campaign chronicles is Maj. Robert Moore of a national guard unit in Vilisca, Iowa. Moore, who had very little military training of any kind, is credited with leading his surrounded, besieged and depleted battalion to safety during the battle of Kasserine Pass, a decisive German victory. He received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. The story mentions that when he went home in 1943, a photographer captured his homecoming and the photo won a Pulitzer Prize. I thought it was worth sharing.
This photo goes against all the precepts of good, modern-day journalism photography, which stresses faces, faces, faces. No backs of heads. Backs of heads don't sell papers.
Yet this photograph captures what no words could as Moore gets off the train in Villisca.
http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2012/05/pulitzer-prize-for-photography-1944.html
