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Title |
Sgt. Richard Taylor |
Date |
1944 |
Description |
Sgt. Richard Taylor, son of Mrs. John Mills, 332 E. Palm Avenue, a former Hollywood cameraman with the army's signal corps in WWII, shown with his 16-mm movie camera. Taylor, carrying his camera, waded ashore with the assault troops onto Omaha Beach on D-Day, 1944, and was wounded, but kept filming, shooting hundreds of feet of celluloid of American troops fighting their way through the water and onto the beach. A week after he landed in Normandy,Taylor's film, turned into a newsreel narrated by war correspondent Quentin Reynolds, was being watched by millions of Americans in movie theaters all over the U.S., including the Lyric Theatre in Monrovia. By then, Taylor was recovering in a hospital in England. Within a month, he'd be back in France, shooting more battle footage of American troops. |
Object Type |
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Collection |
Dick Singer |
Search Terms |
Businesses -- Theater Military |
Object ID |
DS 317 |