Thayer Soule couldn't believe his orders. As a junior officer
with no military training or indoctrination and less than ten weeks
of active duty behind him, he had been assigned to be photographic
officer for the First Marine Division. The Corps had never had a
photographic division before, much less a field photographic unit.
But Soule accepted the challenge, created the unit from scratch,
established policies for photography, and led his men into
combat.
Soule and his unit produced films and photos of training, combat
action pictures, and later, terrain studies and photographs for
intelligence purposes. Though he had never heard of a photo-litho
set, he was in charge of using it for map production, which would
prove vital to the division. Shooting the Pacific War is based on
Soule's detailed wartime journals. Soule was in the unique position
to interact with men at all levels of the military, and he provides
intriguing closeups of generals, admirals, sergeants, and privates
-everyone he met and worked with along the way. Though he witnessed
the horror of war firsthand, he also writes of the vitality and
intense comradeship that he and his fellow Marines experienced.
Soule recounts the heat of battle as well as the intense
training before and rebuilding after each campaign. He saw New
Zealand in the desperate days of 1942. His division was rebuilt in
Australia following Guadalcanal. After a stint back in Quantico
training more combat photographers, he went to Guam and then to the
crucible of Iwo Jima. At war's end he was serving as Photographic
Officer, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, at Pearl Harbor.
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