Book Signing Event Photographs
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July 26, 2012. Denver, Colorado. The Tattered Cover Book Store. Left: Robert B. Sheeks (Major USMC Retired). Right. Gerald A. Meehl. Author of One Marine's War. Photo taken by Marla Meehl.
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November 11th and 12th, 2012. Pearl Harbor Hawaii, book signing. From left to right: Everett Hyland, (USS Pennsylvania Survivor), Gerald A. Meehl, (author of “Pacific Legacy”, “Pacific War Stories" and "One Marine's War”), Robert B. Sheeks, (Major, USMC Retired, and biographic subject of One Marine's War). Photo taken by Marla Meehl.
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From left to right. Author Gerald A. Meehl, Robert B. Sheeks and Daniel Martinez. November 2012, Pearl Harbor book signing event. USS Arizona in the background. Photo by Marla Meehl.
Recognition of Known Combat Photographers
who took Still Photographs and Film Footage of Robert B. Sheeks
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Mr. Norman Hatch who passed away on the morning of Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. Norman was born in Boston in 1921. In 1939 at the age of 18, he joined the Marine Corps. After war broke out, Norm and his film crew (under the command of Mr. Louis Hayward, Hollywood actor/producer/director) formed a team of combat cameramen whose assignment was to photograph and film battlefield campaigns in the Pacific during World War II. While at Tarawa, Norman filmed the famous "Bonnyman Charge". The documentary that he helped film “With the Marines at Tarawa” won an Academy Award. Robert Sheeks was at Tarawa at the same time Norman was. Norm included footage of Lt. Sheeks conducting field interrogations of POWs after the battle. After the war, Robert and Norm became friends and stayed in touch from time to time. Norm was living in Alexandria, Virginia at the time of his death. His final resting place is at Arlington cemetery.
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Photographer Angus Robertson, Cpl, USMC., shown coming across the barbed wire entanglement placed through the town of Garapan to hinder our troops. Robertson is attached to the 2nd Marine Division and was also on Tarawa in the Gilberts. July 1, 1944, Saipan. National Archives Photo. #88398
Obit: Robertson, Angus J Jr, b. 07/29/1918, d. 11/06/1991, SGT USMC, Novato, Marin County, California. Plot: F 143A, burried: 12/13/1991, San Francisco National Cemetery Presidio, California.
Obit: Robertson, Angus J Jr, b. 07/29/1918, d. 11/06/1991, SGT USMC, Novato, Marin County, California. Plot: F 143A, burried: 12/13/1991, San Francisco National Cemetery Presidio, California.
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Photographer Jack Ely, Sgt., USMC. spent two years in the South Pacific where his camera followed action in all major engagements including Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan. From Everett and Lowell, Washington, he entered the service in July 1942. Under the leadership of Capt. Louis Hayward, Jack was one of the Marine photographers who shot the battle of Tarawa. National Archive Photograph #402985
A personal message from Major Norman T. Hatch. Jack Ely was one of the youngsters in the 2nd Marine Div photo section. He was a good still shot man. I talked with him by phone once and I think he was spending a lot of time in Alaska taking pictures. When he passed away his wife or daughter called me to ask what to do with all of the equipment he had. He apparently had duplicates of various cameras that he used in his business. They were all WW II types and I suggested that she donate them to the Marine Corps Museum.
A personal message from Major Norman T. Hatch. Jack Ely was one of the youngsters in the 2nd Marine Div photo section. He was a good still shot man. I talked with him by phone once and I think he was spending a lot of time in Alaska taking pictures. When he passed away his wife or daughter called me to ask what to do with all of the equipment he had. He apparently had duplicates of various cameras that he used in his business. They were all WW II types and I suggested that she donate them to the Marine Corps Museum.
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Photographer John F. Ercole, Staff Sgt. USMC. John was a member of the USMC photographic team that shot the famous documentary film "With the Marines at Tarawa". He was part of the group of cameramen commanded by Capt. Louis Hayward. The images to the left are frames from the television documentary film, "Shooting War" 2000.
Obit: ERCOLE, John F. 1921-2000. Born in White Plains, New York. Decorated WW II Marine combat cameraman with a career of over forty years of producing and directing television commercials and industrial films. Survived by wife Carolyn June, son Jonathan, and daughter Kimberly. Among the films he consulted on was the movie "Saving Private Ryan".
Obit: ERCOLE, John F. 1921-2000. Born in White Plains, New York. Decorated WW II Marine combat cameraman with a career of over forty years of producing and directing television commercials and industrial films. Survived by wife Carolyn June, son Jonathan, and daughter Kimberly. Among the films he consulted on was the movie "Saving Private Ryan".
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National Geographic Magazine,
October 1944.
Article: Springboards to Tokyo
October 1944.
Article: Springboards to Tokyo
National Geographic.
October 1944
Page 406.
Lt. Sheeks at cave entrance.
October 1944
Page 406.
Lt. Sheeks at cave entrance.
History of the Northern Mariana Islands. By Don Farrell, 1991.
Tinian. By Don Farrell, 1992.
