16th Combat Camera Unit

16th Combat Camera Unit photographer Hal Geer leans against jeep as he poses in Liuzhou in 1945.

S/Sgt. Malvin L. Nelson films a newsreel short in China during WWII. Although blacked out by censors (for some reason), this should be by the 16th Combat Camera Unit.

16CU Oct 20th, 1944 N-24 Revetment A P-51 fighter plane in a forlorn revetment in the CBI during WWII.

Mr. Harold 'Hal' Geer, combat photographer in the CBI, went on to spend a lifetime looking at the world through the medium of movies, television, and photography--his work in fact shaped the way many of us view the world today. Mr. Geer has graciously allowed us to scan many of his pictures from the CBI, and they are included on...