"I pointed out to [the colonel] that one of my pictures had been published in the Army's
photographic history of World War II with an erroneous caption. And he looked at me
and he said, 'Lieutenant, we don't make mistakes.' And I said, 'Thank you, sir.'" (Audio
Interview, Part 2, 15:22)
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William Robinson Wilson |
William Wilson in uniform [between 1941 and 1945] | World War II, 1939-1946
Army
Unit C3, 162nd Signal Company, Photographic Company, Army Pictorial Service
North Africa; Sicily, Italy
Captain
Audubon, IA
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In 1941,William Wilson began his career with the 162nd Signal Company Photo in a most
inauspicious way: for three months, he laid cable at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. By the time
he was discharged in 1945, his photos had been published in Life and Look magazines,
and he had worked with and become good friends with Ernie Pyle. Wilson's photos from
World War II, both official and personal, number in the hundreds. Depicting both the
tragedy of wara rainy funeral for a fallen G.I.and the tragicomichis only war
injury: a broken toeWilson's work offers insight into how a creative, well-
educated young man perceived the war from behind a camera's viewfinder.
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