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P because of fences (I had replaced See website: http:// knee replaced? Was it an injury or Ted was everywhere, but was he here? Mail mine after Rita). www.gruenemusicandwinefest.org/ did it just wear out? I’m glad you have recovered so well. Call Ted, thanks for the call. I got your Looks like you are going to be out message after the storm Our school of pocket then and we will be cel- We were in a severe drought here had some serious damage. School ebrating my son’s 24th birthday. last year and at first this year. It is out all week. I will go in Friday. was so dry that most of the State Several of the Marketing deadlines Tell all our friends hello and I banned all outdoor burning. That were Monday. The blessing was would love to be joining you all. included charcoal grills. Gas grills that I got to stay home and take were OK. Since last month we have care of matters at home. We had caught up and just passed the aver- some chimney damage, security Your friend, age precipitation for the year. So Low barometer, high ground system had to be reset and downed — George Jolliff everything is turning green again. I tree branches and that was it. hope your area gets so wet soon. We were blessed. We are on higher During Rita I lost part of my Although not like the Northern Mid ground, the water made its way to fence, so I replaced a section West. The Mississippi is almost 2 the bayou without backing up. We with new posts. Most of these Primo Primeau States wide now. I think I’d rather never lost water. We lost electric for fences are 18-25 years old so be short of water than flooded. a couple of days. Trash just came the posts have been compromised. It was really good to hear from you. I just love having a garden. How- That was a very informative email. ever, since I’ve been up here (1992) I have not had the time. Even when Like you I really miss the travel. we lived in Army quarters we had Mine was all in the States. But it a small plot.

We have been busy working on the house doing an update of most sys- It might be the blow to the head, but I don’t remember being here. —Ted tems and putting in wood floors Great to get the new newsletter. and repainting everything. I needed some contractors for plumbing and Please let Paul know that I want a electrical and drywall downstairs. hat and I will send my dues to John. MAN, that was hectic. Trying to get everyone scheduled to be here I am sending the attached picture. I in the right sequence. Finally got had this with me at the reunion, but them done now we can finish paint- no one seems to see what I did. ing the basement. This came out Ted do you remember our discus- of the Army sions about words to use in our cap- Duke, back in the Joe had sand in his face, sand in Communicator, his camera, sand in his hair, and tions? I was thinking about the time day when a tele- Had these George Jolliff (left) and Ed Hawes gone over to the “dark a story on Army, sand in his . . . . Vietnam was when I used BRUNT and you used photo lens and a side?” How else can you explain the VIP treatment from Air America? Signal Corps BLUNT of the attack. Funny how dusty flack jacket a sandy place when you spent that Photographers in today and pick up a lot, but it will My neighbors are have to spend much time on the beach. small things can pop up sometimes. announced the be weeks before they get all the $18-20/ft. During Rita it was $12 arrival of Team history. I still say this is Ted in debris picked up in our area and and I thought that was too high, so I Well take care and don’t drive your- “E” for excellent. Vietnam. I just added the DASPO we are in a location of Houston did my fence myself for $4/ft. was several big trips each year. I self crazy. business card for the heck of it. that recieved less damage. I didn’t was on the road for 12 years with — Sandman Joe reach my deductible ($2,000), but The event I wanted us to meet is UND and spent many nights stuck Joseph T. Primeau — Duke Smith some of the neighbors are going coming up October 10th-12th. in a little motel up North. Minot North Dakota to be in access of $4000, mostly Continued on page 5 Why did you have to have your 1 2 At age 17, Endre Friedmann But in 1933, with Adolf Hitler Morris said. “Even though he covered Violent End fled the anti-Semitism and repression having taken power, Friedmann left the most serious thing in the world, of his native Hungary with a train Germany, this time to Paris. He strug- which was war, he tried to make up That French disaster also hit Capa. ticket to Berlin and hopes for a better gled to stand out among a horde of for it by having a good time when he On May 25, 1954, as he traveled with future. freelance photographers, many of them wasn’t covering the war.” a French regiment, he jumped out of It was 1931, amid the Great emigres from Hungary and elsewhere Between assignments and poker a jeep to photograph the advancing Depression, and Friedmann soon in Europe. Work was irregular and the games, Capa dated a number of troops. Minutes later he stepped on a found himself hungry and struggling pay low. women and even several at once — but mine, shattering his left leg and open- to pay the rent in a country where he So he hatched a scheme with never married. His best-known affair ing a chest wound. didn’t speak German and the unem- his girlfriend and fellow photographer was with Ingrid Bergman, whom he Medics rushed him to a hospital, ployment rate was 30%. Gerda Taro to create a famous, met in Paris after the war. where he was pronounced dead on Desperate for work, he decided on wealthy, successful — and fictitious — His passion for women and good arrival. He was 40 years old and had a profession that required no language American photographer named Robert times was matched by his zeal for died holding his Contax camera in his skills: photography. Capa, an appellation that sounded adventure. He often risked his life in left hand. Thus began the transformation of like the name of Hollywood director accordance with his motto: “If your The next year, the Overseas Press a humble tailor’s son into the cou- Frank Capra. The pair hoped it would pictures aren’t good enough, you’re Club established the Robert Capa Gold rageous Robert Capa, a pioneer of help them win assignments and more not close enough.” Medal, given each year to the pho- modern war photography whose work money. He carried his axiom all over the tographer who provides the “best pub- spanned five conflicts and whose per- Friedmann would take the pictures, globe. He covered Japan’s invasion of lished photographic reporting from sonal life bore the hallmarks of a but Capa would get the credit. China in 1938 and later the Allied abroad, requiring exceptional courage Hollywood movie: adventure, fun and “The trick worked well at first — campaign in North Africa and Italy. and enterprise.” INVESTOR’SINVESTOR’S BUSINESSBUSINESS DAILYDAILY romance. or so the story goes,” Whelan wrote, After Capa spent a few weeks with Capa’s brother, Cornell, established “If you want to describe a life arc, adding that Taro persuaded Parisian troops fighting in the mountains north the International Fund for Concerned you couldn’t do better than Robert editors to pay three times the going of Naples, Army Maj. Gen. Matthew Photography and the International Capa,” Dirck Halstead, a former White rate for Capa’s photos. Ridgway wrote a letter to the editors Center of Photography. Cornell, him- Robert Capa’s Shots Under Fire House photographer for Time maga- In 1936, Capa was assigned by of Life, saying, “Mr. Capa, by reason self a photographer, worked for Life zine who was inspired by Capa’s life Vu magazine to cover the Spanish of his professional competence, genial and Magnum. He died in May at 90. and work, told IBD. Civil War, which pitted forces loyal to personality and cheerful sharing of all “The world of photography and the BY SCOTT STODDARD Capa — then still Friedmann — the government against insurgents led dangers and hardships has come to be world of journalism owe a great deal to by Francisco Franco. Many of Capa’s considered a member of the Division.” started out in the darkroom of German the Capa brothers,” Morris said. photo agency Dephot. His break came photos focused on the human aspect of On D-Day — June 6, 1944, when in 1932, when he covered exiled war — children playing on barricades, the Allies invaded France — Capa was Russian revolutionary leader Leon frightened refugees, the faces of sol- the only photographer to go ashore Trotsky at a speech in Copenhagen, diers. with the troops at Omaha Beach, scene Denmark. Capa’s close-up photos cap- To take the most dramatic pictures, of the heaviest fighting along the Nor- To me war is like Capa balanced aggressiveness with mandy coast. tured Trotsky’s oratorical power and won praise. sensitivity toward his subjects, Whelan In a blotch on history, a darkroom The trip also revealed the resource- wrote. technician ruined most of the photos in fulness and humor that would help “He was smart. He had a brain, his haste to develop them in time for an aging actress— a heart. You have to feel pictures if Life magazine’s deadline. The frames the photographer out of tight spots and draw plenty of friends and lovers, you’re going to be covering human that survived included blurry images among them Ingrid Bergman. beings,” said John Morris, a longtime of troops wading ashore as bullets friend of Capa and his photo editor at whizzed by. more and more Fast Talker Life magazine. “He just instinctively “The worst experience of my life had a rapport with people of all kinds.” professionally was handling his work “My departure was a comedy,” he Capa gained worldwide fame for on D-Day” when the photos were Capa’s last frame in Vietnam said in “Capa: A Biography” by Rich- his photograph of a Loyalist soldier found destroyed, Morris said. “I ran dangerous and less falling backward on the battlefield at back and we discovered there were 11 ard Whelan. “I got an old passport and no visa. They bought me a first- the moment he was struck in the head frames that could be printed. Those class ticket and I traveled stylish like by a bullet and killed. were the pictures that made history.” a minister. When the conductor came The “Falling Soldier” photo helped In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum and less photogenic. Capa win contracts with magazines photos with Henri Cartier Bresson, to inspect the passport and visa — I took out a menu card from a restau- such as Life and Collier’s, giving him William Vandivert, David Seymour rant and gave it to him among many money to pursue his other pastimes: and George Rodger to give freelance other important-looking papers — and wining, dining and playing poker with photographers more control over their he was baffled at first — but I talked fellow correspondents such as Ernest work. Capa went on to cover the 1948 faster and more than any first-class Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Irwin Arab-Israeli War, in which he suffered —Robert Capa Shaw, plus luminaries like Humphrey a leg wound, and France’s fight in passenger he ever had and he nodded And the camera that took it. finally and passed on.” Bogart and John Huston. Vietnam that ended at Dien Bien Phu “He was always good for laughs,” in 1954. 3 4 Gone fishing? Long Johns fashion show or DASPO football team? Mail Call Continued from page 2 Shady deal spotted by the Nana Hot! I recently talked to Ken Powell man in shades AKA Slick…….. Joel Shanus sent me shots of places we should recognize: Incidentally Bryan Grigsby sent me this from the Nana Hotel hasn’t changed E-bay….Look at where you can much and some of the same staff purchase it from: still works in the front office. The other hotel has been torn down and new hotel has taken it’s place.

For a good time, Google the Nana Hotel in Bangkok. Oh my!

US $10.98

Shipping costs: Slick and canine friend. US $2.98 Ken Mentioned that Steve Pac- quette’s Ex wife had stopped by Play fill in the roster Other (see description) his house sometime after Steve had Service to United States 1 — ? 2 — ? 3 — ? 4 — John Eilers 5 — Jim Eagan (more services) Ships to: World- wide

1 — Ken Powell 2 — ? 3 — Capt. Graver 4 — ? Item location: Central Highlands, Vietnam A slightly more upscale experience 1 — Eddie Walsh 2 — ? 3 — Carl Hansen 4 — ?

Food provides half the charm of Steve Pacquette looks looks air sick. Does anyone remember our team??????????? Thailand. Some satay with peanut sauce, some savory Thai curry over gotten out of DASPO. She said jasmine rice, a Thai coffee an FBI last she had heard was that Steve (Fried Banana Ice Cream) and you bought a fishing boat in Oregon and are ready for the patter of little feet was going to try that as a career. I —running up and down your back. am sure that he’s thinking of that or jumping off the third floor into the pool at the Fortuna hotel. — Ted

Guess what Bryan, they are selling Bryan Grigsby reproduction shades and the mustache too! 6 — Ted 5 Continued on page 7 Continued from page 6 Does VA stand for Mail Call Vague Acquaintance? Tracker Dog Ted DASPO hat at ICCA Vegas? Help Harry or anyone. I have been looking on the Net for Ted, I recently spoke at the Interna- fellow DASPO members for a long tional Combat Camera Conference Greetings from SP5 George Ste- time I know a lot of others has been in Las Vegas. I flew our colors in phenson. Remember me? I’ve doing this as well. the form of a DASPO hat while been receiving the DASPO newslet- making my presentation. ters from time to time and often I finally tracked down John Eilers think about our members and how Captain Hawkins compares the merits one of the company clerks who they are fairing these days. In addition to Vietnam I recounted of being first or last off a LRRP was just as much a member of the leading a DASPO film team in DC. chopper. unit as anyone else. Johns E-mail Time has erased the memory of I recently applied for some veter- is [email protected] phone is exactly who was on the team. I do an’s benefits and to my surprise, my 360 580-2193. remember filming an old ice ware- 214 form doesn’t list my Vietnam John has been living in the Olym- service record. I went down to the pia Washington area for over 30 local VA office and they applied for years. Bryan Grisby mentioned to my records in detail but none of me about how John and Rick would them indicated service in the horse around in the Barracks and Republic of South Vietnam. I spent how they were two big bulls throw- a total of nine months there on 3 ing each other around. All of us got different occasions, Apparently, the out of their way. problem is that we were on TDY — Ted orders and not assigned to a perma- nent in- country post.

Photo mosaic of Resurrection City So now my only option is to on the National Mall from the top contact CO’s or or NCO”S under of the Washington Monument. whom or for whom I served and Pioneering 3D cinema? Not! request letters of affirmation of house that had been set on fire by duty in RVN. I’ve tried to locate I am sorry to inform you that David Cronn has passed a mob. The cork insulation in the Major Valen our last CO or Capt. walls was several feet thick and Mike Sheets, who was CO of away. We were informed by his wife that he passed burned in spite of fire fighters best DASPO during my first stint in away late this past winter. On behalf of all DASPO efforts. We got a great shot of heli- Vietnam. Would you by any chance Mrs. Cronn was sent a condolence letter. Dave served copters overhead that were dis- have an address or contact with DASPO on two occasions first was the Dominican Last newsletter I sent out a picture torted by the rising heat. We also number for either of them or per- had a Nagra short out and emit Republic revolt and then with DASPO in Vietnam. Dave of Jerry Hains and Lee Swain While the photographer lined up haps Capt. Mahan who was my in some white smoke from its insides. shooting dueling Arri 16mm cam- folks for a group shot in Vegas, I country CO? I would appreciate was TDY from APC in NY. Dave went directly to Vietnam Perhaps out best shot of the day eras. No one had explanation for brought up the rear while shooting any help you could offer. and did not stop in Hawaii to report to DASPO and when the shoot? I Contacted Lee Swain was from the top of a Telephone this crucial lens test. his TDY was finished he went back to the APC. Dave and this is what I could piece building next to a TV shop. We I hope this finds you well. I am still together. filmed a bucket brigade of looters working as a cinematographer, had retired from a Monroe Michigan newspaper where moving electronics from the shop currently residing and working in he worked as it’s still photographer. I met Dave for to their car. Someone high up the foodchain New Mexico. lunch one day when I lived in Michigan he told me he wanted an AB comparison of film was the first recipient of the DASPO award. I know he emulsions shot of the same subject Fun while it lasted, but then it was Fraternally, Ah yes, back in the day. shot under the same conditions. on to Vietnam with the 221st — George Stephenson served under Carl Conn and worked with Tom Schiro in Capt. Bill Ruth of the 221st sent Never mind that the lenses don’t match. the Dominican Republic. a picture of me which I had never — Ted -- Roger Hawkins seen before. —Ted 7 8 By Ben Dobbin For decades, Kodachrome was the Geographic in 1985 is considered “we’d either change to a different became much harder to get Koda- ASSOCIATED PRESS standard choice for professional one of the finest illustrations of type of film or do it digitally,” chrome processed quickly. Monday, September 22, 2008 color photography and avant-garde the film’s subtle rendering of light, Link says, but long-term studies filmmaking. It’s the only film to contrast and color harmony. that hinge on image consistency Ektachrome — another line of ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It is an have a state park named after might suffer. Kodak slide films — and similar elaborately crafted photographic it: photogenic Kodachrome Basin products from Fuji, Konica and film, extolled for its sharpness, State Park in the red-rock canyons Alarm bells have been ringing since Agfa were well within the capa- vivid colors and archival durability. of Utah. Kodak exited the film-processing bilities of all processors and took KODACHROME’S Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is con- business in 1988. One by one, its over the market as they improved in DEMISE vinced the digital age soon will During its mass-market heyday in Kodachrome home-movie and still- quality. take his Kodachrome away. the 1960s and ‘70s, countless snap- film formats have been discontin- Digital age shooters put friendships in peril ued. McCurry is turning to digital cam- “Part of me feels like, boy, if every time they hauled out a carou- eras as the technology gap closes. threatens photo only I’d been born 20 years ear- sel projector and trays of slides to Dwayne’s, the Kodak subcontractor film classic lier,” says the 56-year-old photog- replay a family vacation. in Kansas that has had the market “I like to shoot in extremely low rapher, whose work has appeared in to itself since a Kodachrome lab light, inside of a home, a mosque, National Geographic. “I wish they But the landmark color-trans- in Tokyo closed in December, still a covered bazaar,” he says. “To would keep making it forever. I still parency created by Leopold processes tens of thousands of rolls stop movement, it’s just absolutely have a lot of pictures to take in my Godowsky Jr. and Leopold Mannes annually but admits sales are slid- impossible to do that with Koda- life.” went into a tailspin a generation ing. chrome or with practically any ago. It was eclipsed by video, easy- film.” Only one commercial lab in the to-process color negative films and “If Kodak doesn’t feel it’s eco- world, Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, a preference for hand-sized prints. nomical, they might stop making Yet aficionados like Webb remain the film itself,” says owner Grant bewitched by Kodachrome’s Kan., still develops Kodachrome, “You just look at it and think, this Nowadays, Kodachrome is con- Steinle. And “if film volumes “vibrant but not oversaturated a once-ubiquitous brand that has is better than life,” says McCurry, fined to a small global market become so small that we’re unable colors.” freeze-framed the world in rich but who has relied heavily on Koda- of devotees who wouldn’t settle to economically process it, then we authentic hues since it was intro- chrome for all but the last two years for anything else. Before long, might stop.” “It has an emotional punchiness duced in the Great Depression. of a 33-year career. industry watchers say, Kodak might that really always seemed right for stop serving that steadily shrinking Unlike any other color film, Koda- me,” he said. Eastman Kodak Co. now makes the Collectors of airplane and train niche as it bets its future on elec- chrome is purely black and white slide and motion-picture film in just images value its unsurpassed fade tronic imaging. when exposed. The three primary Digital boasts “remarkable clarity,” one 35mm format, and production resistance. Dentists, plastic sur- colors that mix to form the spec- he says, but “it’s almost too clear runs — in which a master sheet geons and ophthalmologists still The digital revolution is undermin- trum are added in three develop- and doesn’t seem to have depth and nearly a mile long is cut up into rely on its clarity and unique pal- ing all varieties of film, even one ment steps rather than built into its texture the way film does.” more than 20,000 rolls — fall at ette, especially for multiyear stud- that produced spectacular images: micrometer-thin emulsion layers. least a year apart. ies. the giant Hindenburg zeppelin dis- solving in a red-orange fireball in There’s a high price: Dwayne’s Kodak won’t say when the last one “Different eye diseases can have 1936; Edmund Hillary’s dreamy charges $8.45 per roll plus $9 for occurred nor hint at Kodachrome’s different colors,” says Thomas snapshot of his Sherpa climbing development. That’s at least 50 per- prospects. Kodachrome stocks cur- Link, an ophthalmic photographer partner atop Everest in 1953; and, cent more than color negative film. rently on sale have a 2009 expi- at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic who most iconic of all, Abraham ration date. If the machines aren’t shoots 10 to 15 rolls of Koda- Zapruder’s 8-millimeter reel of As slide-film sales began to plum- fired up again, the company might chrome a week to help doctors President Kennedy’s assassination met in the 1980s, the limited sell out the remaining supplies, and diagnose and treat illnesses. “Even in 1963. number of independent photo-fin- that would be the end. now, we will go back and look ishers willing to make use of through images taken 30 years ago Steve McCurry’s haunting portrait Kodak’s exacting color-diffusion “It’s a low-volume product; all vol- for research purposes.” umes (of color film) are down,” of an Afghan refugee girl with development formulas fell away. piercing gray-green eyes that Customers evaporated when it says spokesman Chris Veronda. If Kodachrome should vanish, landed on the cover of National 9 10 This is the last page of the magazine but not the end of the journey. Don’t let the sign above fool you. I promise that which follows is absolutely and unequivocally true.

Now I get to hang my feet over the side and drag them in the water while I bask in the sun and let someone else row for a while.

It’s been an honor being the President of such a group. It’s been fun to work for you guys and try to make sure we have some kind of legacy. The next newsletter will be written by someone else who will take our group to a new level with new ideas. — Ted Acheson

And by the way, there is still room aboard ship if you want to join the pirates of the Caribbean—DASPO style. Contact Steve Dorcey at: 1 800 819-3902 ext 82600

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