His Cameras Knocked out on Iwo. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Charles W. Bossert hit the beach of Iwo Jima with three cameras. He came off unscathed, but his three cameras were casualties. Two of them disappeared skyward when Jap mortar fire struck the spot where Bossert had set them. That beach was red hot and the Coast Guard lensman burrowed into a foxhole, his remaining movie camera close by his side. A Jap shell landed too close for comfort and a piece of shrapnel tore a jagged hole square through its center. Here, Bossert ruefully displays the remains. Making the best of it, Bossert swi
His Cameras Knocked out on Iwo. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Charles W. Bossert hit the beach of Iwo Jima with three cameras. He came off unscathed, but his three cameras were casualties. Two of them disappeared skyward when Jap mortar fire struck the spot where Bossert had set them. That beach was red hot and the Coast Guard lensman burrowed into a foxhole, his remaining movie camera close by his side. A Jap shell landed too close for comfort and a piece of shrapnel tore a jagged hole square through its center. Here, Bossert ruefully displays the remains. Making the best of it, Bossert switched from photography to reporting, and wrote several stories of the Iwo Jima beachhead. His home is at 2319 San Francisco Avenue, Long Beach, Calif.
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