Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro

[Doctor Strange]

Yesterday I watched the fascinating new HBO documentary Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro.

It's the incredible true story of a WWII GI who did the whole Band of Brothers experience, Omaha Beach to Germany... and photographed all of it while actively engaged in battle, shooting thousands of 35mm negatives with an Argus C3. And he's still here today, mind and body still sharp, revisiting the sites of his photos. His pictures capture the ground-level GI experience of the war in remarkable detail... and he's also a very skilled photographer in general, his portraits and found images are great. (He went on to a long, distinguished career as a pro photographer.)

This is a must-watch for anyone interested in US Army operations in the European Theater!

http://tonyvaccarofilm.com/

(Scroll down a bit, there are many samples of Vaccaro's pictures.)

 

[1930artdeco]

I will have to Netflix it-if it ever comes out with them.

 

[Tiki Tom]

I can't wait to look at it tonight. Am so impressed by the untold stories about "average Joes". It was the 19 year old privates and corporals who really pushed Hitler out of France. From my current vantage point, so many of them were so incredibly young.