No big deal. Just #meljack’s @time letterhead from the Chungking (AKA #chongqing) press hostel in #china #journalism #wwii
71 years ago, today, a 25-year-old WWII “soldier of the press” died. He could have been a legend. Learn who he was: http://t.co/EsRQsvy706
Captain P.E. Saunders poses on the S.S. Melville Jacoby with the books, records, games and photos donated to the ship’s crew by Elza Meyberg, Melville Jacoby’s mother.
life:
We are sad to report that Cal Whipple, a former LIFE correspondent, died on March 17th at the age of 94. Whipple played a huge role in getting this groundbreaking photograph of three dead American soldiers published in LIFE magazine — a fight he took all the way to the White House.
The New York Times writes:
Mr. Whipple and his colleagues at Life believed that Mr. Strock’s photograph would provide a badly needed dose of reality for those on the home front who were growing complacent about the war effort. “I went from Army captain to major to colonel to general,” he recalled in a memoir written for his family, “until I wound up in the office of an assistant secretary of the Air Corps, who decided, ‘This has to go to the White House.’ ”
(George Strock—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
And #meljack was a philatelist. These #stamps were from the nationalist government in #China.
My favorite entry. For its simplicity. #meljack #research
Oh you know, just #meljack’s address book. No biggee.
Still get excited I get to look through boxes that say things like this while I work on my book. #wwii #meljack #research #history
Not only is this not even the half of it, it’s not even the quarter of it. #amwriting #nonfiction #research #meljack
Love.
