Author: United States War Department; Polaroid Corp
Title: Archive of World War II Photography Technical Papers. First Editions
Description: Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA: United States War Department, United States Government, and Polaroid Corp. 1941-1943. Most material in the Archive is printed in mimeograph form and measures 11x8½", unless otherwise noted. Archive includes: How To Make Polaroid Vectographs. 24 pp. Photographic illustrations, charts. Stapled glossy booklet. How To Make Polaroid Vectographs. 1943. 28 pp. Photographic illustrations, charts. Stapled glossy booklet. Important Improvements (Vectograph). 1942. 2 pp. Wabash Exposure Data. 1941. 4 pp. 11x17 folded sheet printed on both sides. Nitrobenzimidazole (Process). 4 pp. typed (carbon copy), developer chart. Optics Lecture No. 1. 23 of 24 figures. 8x10", glossy photographic prints. Miscellaneous Technical Sheets - Use of filters, film characteristics, exposure meter settings, conversion tables. 10 pp. Check Sheet For Tri-Methogon Printing. 1 pp. Depth of Field of a C-3 Camera. 1 pp. Inspection and Maintenance of 16MM A-6 Magazine. 24 pp. Illustration. Disassembly and Reassembly of Bell & Howell Gun Sight Aiming Point Camera. 1943. 9 pp. Illustrations. Sperry Installation Instructions. 1943. 2 pp. Disassemble and Reassemble Overrun Control for GSAF Camera (Fairchild). 1943. 2 pp. 4 pp. illustrations. Disassemble and Reassemble the Gunsight Aiming Point Camera (Fairchild). 1943. 3 pp. 5 pp. illustrations. Check Sheet - A-6 Magazine - Taping Procedure. 1943. 3 pp. Check Sheet - Bell & Howell Film Scoring Viewer G.S.A.P. 1943. 3 pp. A-6 Magazine Inspection & Maintenance (With riveting fixture & reconditioning tools). 1943. 2 pp. Check Sheet - Ampro Viewer, G.S.A.P. Model DL77. 1943. 3 pp. Check Sheet - Loading the A-6 Magazine. 1943. 2 pp. Cycle of Operation and Disassemble Procedure Kalart Model "H" Rangefinder. 1942. 6 pp. Illustration. Job Sheet - Type K-1A Film Developer. 1943. 9 pp. Job Sheet - Loan and Unload a Cut Film Holder. 1943. 3 pp. Illustration. Job Sheet - Develop Sheet Film in Tray. 1943. 3 pp. Illustration. Job Sheet - Set Up and Operate the Type C-1 Ground Camera (Agfa). 1943. 4 pp. Illustration. Job Sheet - Set Up and Operate the Type C-1 Ground Camera (Eastman). 1943. 4 pp. Illustration. [ 2 copies] Job Sheet - Mix Photographic Processing Solutions. Illustration. 1943. 5 pp. Filter Action. 4 pp. 8x10", glossy photographic prints. The majority of the military photographers who covered combat were in the Signal Corps. Signal Corps companies consisted of seventy-five men: twenty were still photographers, thirty were motion picture cameramen, twenty were darkroom technicians, two were film recorders, and three were maintenance men. Signal Corps units accompanied U.S. troops from the beginning of U.S. operations abroad, but they did not have a major presence until later in the war.. Some of the Signal Corps photography units were assigned to combat areas, others to communications zones. Those photographers stationed in forward areas received two sorts of orders: a general assignment to cover an operation (such as an assault on an island or a town), and a specific assignment (such as to record the effect of enemy tank-destroyer fire on friendly tanks). The photographs these units produced were put to many uses: tactical, for immediate use in the theaters; strategic, for use in planning; training or the instruction of troops; intelligence, for reconnaissance; technical, for the improvement of equipment; and historical, for future study. .

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