196th Signal Photo Company - Selected Bibliography

Photo by APS: Behind the Familiar Photo Credit Line is Untold Story of GIs Recording Your War

T/4 Donald Wiedenmayer provided a copy of a February 1945 Sunday Stars and Stripes Magazine which described the role of the U.S. Army Signal Corps still and motion picture photographers in recording the Italian Campaign of World War II and contained a dramatic photo by Sgt. John Mulcahy of the 196^th Signal Photo Company . The article is transcribed for reference. T/4 Edmund Burke O’Connell is quoted in the in its final paragraphs describing the difficulties of filming in combat. The image and text of the article are reprinted with permission from Stars and Stripes. Used with permission from the Stars and Stripes. © 1945, 2006 Stars and Stripes

They Sweated Out This Drink for A Long Time - Stars and Stripes, Mediterranean Edition, 1945

The end of the Italian campaign is celebrated by soldiers from the 44^th Division and the 10^th Mountain Division at the Italo-Austrian border. Photographer Donald Wiedenmayer was there to capture the joyous celebration and delighted to learn that his photo made the May 11, 1945 front page Stars and Stripes Mediterranean. Used with permission from the Stars and Stripes. © 1945, 2006 Stars and Stripes

Butcher, Harry C., My Life With Eisenhower, New York, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1945.

Fisher, Ernest F. Jr., Cassino to the Alps: U.S. Army in World War II: Mediterranean Theater of Operations, Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1989.

Garland, Albert N.; and Howard McGraw Smyth, U.S. Army in World War II: The Mediterranean Theater of Operations: Sicily and the Surrender of Italy, Washington, DC: Center for Military History, 1993.

Hatlem, John C. and Hunter, Kenneth E., ed. The U.S. Army in World War II (Volume II): The War Against Germany and Italy: The Mediterranean and Adjacent Areas, Washington DC: Center For Military History, 1951. Second edition, 2005

Maslowski, Peter, Armed With Cameras: The American Military Photographers of World War II, New York. Free Press, 1993. An excellent history of the origins of the 163rd and the 196th Signal Photo Companies with a wealth of interviews an anecdotal information. A must for your understanding of the role of combat cameraman during World War II.

Meyers, Capt. Bruce A., Fifth Army History, Part VI, Pursuit to the Arno, 5 June - 15 August 1944, Milan, Italy, Pizzi and Pizio, 1945.

Morris, Eric, Circles of Hell: The War in Italy 1943-1945, New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993.

Raines, Rebecca Robbins, Getting the Message Through: A Branch History of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Washington, DC: Center for Military History, 1996

Schmidt, Robert H., The Forgotten Front in Northern Italy: A World War II Combat Photographer’s Illustrated Memoir of the Gothic Line Campaign, Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994.

Starr, Chester G., ed., From Salerno to the Alps, Nashville, Tennessee: The Battery Press, Inc., 1986.

Thompson, George R., The Signal Corps: The Test (December 1941 to July 1943), Washington DC: Center for Military History, 2003.

U.S. Army, 19 Days: From the Apennines to the Alps: The Story of the Po Valley Campaign, Milan, Italy: Pizzi and Pizio, 1945

U.S. Army, Finito! The Po Valley Campaign 1945, Milan, Italy: Rizzoli E.C., 1945.

Zanuck, Darryl K., Tunis Expedition, New York, Random House, 1943. Group Photo - U.S. Army and U.S. Navy photographers assigned to the Pictorial Division of the Signal Corps, North Africa.

Army Signal Corps photographers include: Lt. Jack Judge, back row, left and co-author Edmund Burke O’Connell, back row, second from right.  Donald Wiedenmayer identifies fellow Army photographers in the front row as Marshall “Sonny” Diskin, far left, and Danny Phillips, second from right, and Stanley Simmons, far right. This informal group photograph is published in Army Col. Darryl F.Zanuck’s wartime memoir, Tunis Expedition, recounting the landing of Allied forces in North Africa in 1942 during Operation Torch. Zanuck, head of Twentieth Century Fox Studios in Hollywood, California before the start of the war wrote a day-by-day account of describing how he and his men were on the battle front only 20 miles from the city of Tunis.)

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