title: Shooting the Pacific War: Marine Corps Combat Photography in WWII
author: Thayer Soule
description: Fortune favored <a href="/exec/obidos/exact-author=Soule%2c%20Thayer/${0}">Thayer Soule</a>. He witnessed the slaughter at Iwo Jima and spent four months under fire on Guadalcanal, yet never received a scratch. When he joined the Marines in 1941, before he had even begun basic training, he was given command of an entirely new organization, the photographic office of the Marine Corps's First Division. Starting from nothing, with great ingenuity, he created a unit that made training films and photographed action against the enemy. He embraced new technology; when he discovered that the military's maps of the Solomon Islands dated from 1910 and were full of errors, he created new maps from aerial photographs. Though obviously very talented, he recounts his story in an unassuming way and with good humor. His unique position gave him extraordinary access to senior officers fascinated by new uses of the technology, access that he exploited to the full. His anecdotes of the men he met, from generals and admirals to sergeants and privates, show acute psychological insight. He tells of the terror of war and the bitter loss of close friends, but leavens his tale with the comradeship that seems to be the strongest memory of old soldiers. <i>Shooting the Pacific War</i> is a lively and unusual account of a gifted photographer's experiences in World War II. <i>--John Stevenson</i>
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  # SAN DIEGO MARINES
  
  
  ## A SWEET MILITARY ROMANCE COLLECTION - VOL 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## JESS MASTORAKOS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Jess Mastorakos
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
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  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
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  Cover Photography By:
  
  
  Back to You - Edith Barfield, Uno’s Photography
  
  
  Away from You - Pnuema Photography Co.
  
  
  Christmas with You - MacKenzi Roe
  
  
  Edited By:
  
  
  Back to You - Amanda Horan, Let’s Get Booked
  
  
  Away from You - Krista Dapkey, KD Publishing
  
  
  Christmas with You - Krista Dapkey, KD Publishing
  
  
  Publisher’s note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
  situations are a product of the author’s imagination. Any similarities to real
  people, places, or things is purely coincidental.
  
  
  Back to You and Away from Y