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Gun Camera - World War II Photography.



Despite the obvious risks, World War II was actually well covered by military and civilian photographers. They landed on D-Day, they marched with the soldiers, they sailed with the sailors — and they flew with the bombers over Nazi Germany. Images collected by these "professionals" were taken
during real missions, and while the photographs tend to be reasonably sharp, the compositions look hurried. They were. There was precious little time to compose a shot when the plane beside you burst into flames.
A second type of photography in this book is technically called GASP footage — an acronym for Gun Alignment and Sighting Photography, meaning gun camera footage. Such photography came from the smaller fighter planes and was taken by automatic cameras, almost all of it in bursts of just a
few seconds in length.
This book contains one of the most comprehensive collections of images from the air war over occupied Europe and Nazi Germany ever published. Altogether, they form a pictorial essay of World War II that you will not soon forget.