A Wwii Combat Photographer's Story: The First Use of Color
By Paula Errigo
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Paula Errigo
I was a World War II combat photographer in the European Theater who followed Patton's Fifth Army from Algiers, across Sicily, the landing at Anzio and the Liberation of Rome. I was also one of two photographers chosen to use the first color film, Kodachrome, given to the Army by Eastman Kodak. Allowed to keep my "outtakes", my private collection of World War II color still photography provides an unique visual record of powerful historical moments. This book of photography from that period to preserves for posterity these stunning color images of WWII.
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A Wwii Combat Photographer's Story - Paula Errigo
A
WWII
COMBAT
PHOTOGRAPHER’S
STORY: The First Use of Color
By Frank S. Errigo As told to Paula M. Errigo
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
My Resume of Experiences
The War Beckons
Somewhere on the East Coast, 1943
Embarkation
Arriving at the Beginning of Destiny
Recollections of Anzio Beach in Italy, 1943
Date with Destiny
Epilogue
A WWII Combat Photographer’s Story:
The First Use of Color
By Frank S. Errigo
As told to Paula M Errigo
Acknowledgements
To my wife Ann, and my son Chip
And the rest of my family Judy, Katie,
Francesca, Ryan, Ava and Emme
for their ongoing love and support
Carrie Steinman Noonan for her generous support
Dick Whitson for his concepts and concern
Michael Winpenny and Cornerstone Graphics for his wonderful scans
Mark and Maureen Schultz for their early work in bringing forth the story
All the fine soldiers then and now with which I had the privilege to serve
Never forget………
Introduction
Frank Errigo’s career as a photojournalist and commercial set photographer spanned six decades from 1941 to 2000. Now retired, he is widely recognized as one of the two most important and prolific color photographers of the Second World War.
Born in 1920 to immigrant Italians in the mining town of Curwensville, Pennsylvania, Errigo was the youngest in a family of nine children. As a schoolboy he was thunderstruck by photographs of the nearby 1889 Johnstown Flood. The glass negative images of the devastation and wreckage helped turn this disaster into the biggest news story in America since the assassination of President Lincoln. From the age of thirteen, young Frank dedicated himself to photojournalism, working two jobs through the midst of the Great Depression to earn money to buy his first camera. In 1936 he purchased a used 35mm Leica camera, along with developing supplies and a book that taught him the basics of his craft. By age 18 he had become a precise, highly skilled amateur with a remarkable eye for light and composition.
As Adolph Hitler moved across Europe in 1939, young Americans began to enlist in the armed services in great numbers. Just past his twentieth birthday, Errigo presented himself at a recruitment center in Harrisburg, PA and told them of his desire to shoot photographs for the army. He was enrolled with 22 professional photographers in the Photo School at the Army War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. in September 1940.
There he was introduced to medium (4x5) and large (8x10
) format cameras, as well as to a young photographer named Ardean Miller III, who had worked for Kodak before the war. Miller was full of praise for Kodak’s spectacular new dye transfer color film, Kodachrome, which he personally had introduced to the public at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Miller successfully convinced the Army Signal Corps to purchase all the medium and large format