Jumat, 08 September 2017

Through a Lens Darkly

A photographer in North Africa found that survival mattered more than great images. On November 10, 1941, 36-year-old Croswell Bowen boarded a ship headed for war. Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into World War II were still weeks away, but Bowen had joined a unit of American Field Service volunteers attached as ambulance drivers …

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