This picture was taken by a U.S. Army Air Forces photographer at Turner Field, 
Georgia in 1943. My dad was a photographer at that base and a fellow worker 
shot this pic of him on 8x10 film. I have an original contact print on fiber 
paper. It’s in good shape with just a few cracks and specs here and there. I 
had tried scanning it once before but was unhappy with the results so I did it 
again today. It has a broad tonal range so it’s a bit tricky. Much happier with 
this scan.

Dad was the kindest man I’ve ever known. Fortunately, he was too old for combat 
in 1943 so he worked as a photographer, first at Turner Field and later at the 
Pentagon. He probably wouldn’t have mad a very good killer, but he was an 
excellent photographer and artist. While at Turner Field he painted a huge 
mural in the chapel. His murals once decorated a number of Chicago residences 
and buildings, including the lobby of the long-ago-demolished Edgewater Beach 
Hotel. 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17903100&size=lg



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