His Cameras Were "Casualties" On Iwo Jima. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Charles W. Bossert landed with still and movie cameras on Iwo Jima on D-Day. He made a few shots and then was pinned down in shellholes by the intense Jap fire. Bossert finally came out of the battle unscratched, but his still camera was blown to smithereens and his movie camera suffered a shrapnel "wound" squarely in the center. His photographic equipment blasted out of action, Bossert turned to writing news stories of the beachhead battle. He is shown here beside a wrecked Jap bomber on Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, af
His Cameras Were "Casualties" On Iwo Jima. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Charles W. Bossert landed with still and movie cameras on Iwo Jima on D-Day. He made a few shots and then was pinned down in shellholes by the intense Jap fire. Bossert finally came out of the battle unscratched, but his still camera was blown to smithereens and his movie camera suffered a shrapnel "wound" squarely in the center. His photographic equipment blasted out of action, Bossert turned to writing news stories of the beachhead battle. He is shown here beside a wrecked Jap bomber on Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, after getting his hands on another camera from the Coast Guard-manned LST on which he serves. Coast Guardsman Bossert, Photographer's Mate second class, is from 2319 San Francisco Avenue, Long Beach, California.
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