War Shots: Norm Hatch and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cameramen of World War II

by Charles Jones

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* Story of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops

Hatch filmed With the Marines at Tarawa, which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
* New details on the controversy surrounding the famous photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima
* Hatch was Person of the Week on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer in March 2010
* For fans of Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, and HBO's The Pacific
Charles Jones, a former staff writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, has also written Boys of'67 (978-0-8117-3394-6), which the New York Post called "riveting and entertaining" and which won the Military Writers Society of America's Gold Medal for Best Biography, and Red, White, or Yellow? (978-0-8117-0402-1), for which he embedded with a military unit in Iraq. Jones lives in Richmond, Virginia.
  • ISBN10 0811706311
  • ISBN13 9780811706315
  • Publish Date 18 February 2011 (first published 18 December 2010)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Stackpole Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 240
  • Language English