THANKS TO ASC VETERANS

In honor of Veteran’s Day (which falls tomorrow), it’s appropriate to recognize ASC members who served our country – a tradition that goes back a long way.  I’ll leave the intro to a clipping from the December 1942 issue of American Cinematographer:

Captain John Alton, United States Army – WW II

Lieutenant Commander Arthur Arling, United States Navy – WW II

Monroe Askins, United States Navy – WW II – John Ford Field Photo Unit

Commander Joseph August, United States Navy – WW II – served in Iceland and the Pacific

Captain Joseph Biroc, United States Army – WW II – Signal Corps – 1st cameraman to shoot Paris liberation & the liberation of Dachau

Norbert Brodine, United States Army – WW I – photographer

Stephen H. Burum, United States Army – Signal Corps, Astoria Studio, New York

Robert Caramico, United States Marine Corps – Korea – 5-year combat cameraman

Lieutenant Commander Philip Chancellor, United States Navy – WW II

Captain Wilfred Cline, United States Army – WW II

William Clothier, United States Army Air Force – WW II – photographed William Wyler’s legendary 1944 documentary, Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress

Sgt. Stanley Cortez, United States Army – WW II – principal cinematographer of the Yalta and Quebec conferences and the liberation of Paris

Major Floyd Crosby – United States Army Air Force Transport Command – WW II – shot many pilot training films

William H. Dietz, United States Navy Reserve – WW II

Captain Clyde DeVinna, United States Marine Coprs – WW II – was the official photographer of our Pacific Fleet

Major Elmer Dyer, United States Army Air Force – WW II

Gerald Feil, United States Army Pictorial Unit – WW II

Captain Ray G. Fernstrom – 9th United States Army Air Force – WW II – disabled during the war

William A. Fraker, United States Navy – WW II

Major Ellsworth Fredericks, United States Army – WW II – 1943-44, was the official cinematographer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Captain Henry Freulich, United States Marine Corps – WWII

Karl Freund – WW II

Lieutenant Commander Alfred Gilks, United States Navy Reserve – WW II

Lieutenant Jack Greenhalgh, United States Army Air Force – WW II

Lieutenant Commander Sol Halperin, United States Navy – WW II

Robert Hauser, United States Army – WW II – combat photographer

Lieutenant Charles W. Herbert, United States Army – WW II

Gerry Hirschfeld, United States Army – WW II – Signal Corps, Astoria Studio, New York

Lieutenant Winton Hoch, United States Navy – WW II

Master Sergeant David S. Horsley, United States Army – WW II – 18th Army Air Force Base Unit (Motion Picture Unit); awarded the Legion of Merit for performance of outstanding services during the period of September 1944 to March 1945, in connection with the development of a secret device which materially added to the success of briefing B-29 crews for actions against the Japanese

Emery Huse – WW II

Levie Issacks, United States Army – Vietnam – decorated for actions taken during the Battle of Dak To

Ray June, United States Army Signal Corps – WW I

Richard A. Kelley, United States Coast Guard – WW II – made fourteen Pacific landings

Ken Kelsch, United States Army – Vietnam – served in Special Forces, MACV\SOG

Victor J. Kemper, United States Navy – WW II

Richard Kline, United States Navy – WW II

Captain Lloyd Knechtel, WW II

Sergeant Herb Lightman, United States Army – WW II – 167th Signal Photo Company; served with General Omar Bradley’s 12th Army Group; later became editor of American Cinematographer

James Liles, United States Merchant Marine – WW II

Captain Arthur Lloyd – WW II

Master Sergeant Fred Mandl, United States Army Signal Corps – WW II

Sergeant John Peverell Marley, United States Army – WW II

Brick Marquard, United States Navy – WW II – a member of John Ford’s Field Photo Unit, he was assigned by Ford to cover the D-Day Normandy landing

Lieutenant William C. Mellor – WW II

Ira. H. Morgan, United States Army – WW I – awarded the French Lègion d’Honneur

Staff Sergeant David L. Quaid, United States Army – WW II – served with the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) (Merrill’s Marauders); Chinese 38th Division; British 36th Division; Mars Task Force; 164th Signal Photo Company in the China-Burma-India Theater

Tech Sergeant William Rees, United States Army – WW II

Chief Gunner’s Mate Jack L. Richards – WW II – United States Navy

Peter Romano, United States Navy – combat cameraman

Joseph Ruttenberg – WW II

Lieutenant Commander Allen Siegler, United States Navy Reserve – WW II

Howard Schwartz, United States Marine Corps – WW II – Pacific photographer

Major Lester Shorr, United States Army – WW II – Signal Corps – enlisted April 1942, spent 26 months in the China-Burma-India Theater

Captain William V. Skall – WW II

Captain Clifford Stine – WW II

Lieutenant Colonel Ted Tetzlaff, United States Army Air Force – WW II

Commander Gregg Toland, United States Navy – WW II – served in John Ford’s Field Photo Unit; directed the U.S War Department documentary, December 7th

Captain Leo Tover – WW II

Lieutenant Thomas Tutweiler – WW II

Captain Joseph Valentine, United States Army Special Services Division – WW II

Lieutenant Paul C. Vogel – WW II

Roy Wagner, United States Air Force – Vietnam

Major Gilbert Warrenton, United States Army Air Force – WW II

Lieutenant Harold “Winnie” Wenstrom, United States Navy Reserve

Joseph Westheimer, United States Army Air Force – WW II – was part of the 18th Base Unit housed at Hal Roach Studio in Culver City

Captain Al L. Wetzel – WW II

Haskell Wexler, United States Merchant Marine; WW II; three ships he served on were sunk by enemy torpedoes

Commander Charles Wheeler, United States Navy – WW II – enlisted in July 1941; began WW II as an Ensign; attended the Training Film Division at the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C.; also attended the Photo School at Pensacola, Fla.; studied aerial mapping and photogrammetry in Norfolk, Va.; saw action in Pacific in a Combat Photo Unit and as an aircraft carrier photographic officer; was Officer-In-Charge of all photography of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri, 9\2\45

Gordon Willis, Staff Sergeant, United States Air Force – Korea – cinematographer

Jack Woolf, United States Navy

Alvin Wykoff – WW II

ALSO:

John Arnold – though not formally inducted into a service branch, he played a huge role in training Army and marine combat cameramen