Mick sends us a link to the sad news that Marine Corps Major Norman Hatch has passed at the age of 96. Hatch was the photographer for the documentary “With the Marines at Tarawa” which won an Oscar in 1945 for Best Documentary Short Subject. He also filmed “To the Shores of Iwo Jima” (1945).<\/p>\n
As the filmmaker, this marine, a combat cameraman during the war, waded in right beside his comrades who were about to attack.
\n“When I was looking through the viewfinder, I was living in the movie,” he said. “I was disassociated from what was going on around me.” <\/p>\n
Even as he saw Marines get shot and fall to the ground beside him, Hatch made sure to document every second of the battle with his 16mm camera. <\/p>\n
“You cannot take pictures laying down. Being a cameraman was like somewhat of being somebody with a target on your back,” Hatch said. “We were upright walking in, while everybody was down at helmet level in the water.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hatch retired from the USMC in 1981 after 41 years in the active and reserve forces. Every year, the United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Foundation gives out the \u201cThe Norman Hatch Combat Photography Award\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mick sends us a link to the sad news that Marine Corps Major Norman Hatch has … USMC Major Norman Hatch passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Norman-Hatch1-236x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n