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Show ' . America In Action i AAF PHOTOGRAPHERS The khaki-clad soldier snapping a candid camera shot of a blonde on a prominent street corner in Denver, or focusing a shot of ducks floating on the Denver city park's pond may go a long way toward helping lick the Axis. The chances are he's one of the thousands of soldier shutterbugs who've descended on Denver from all sections of the country since the army air forces photography school at Lowry Field began operations on a 24-hour, three-shift basis. It takes photographic technique to get a picture pic-ture of a pretty girl on a street corner cor-ner the same as it does of Jap and Nazi targets and it's been proved that the students practice harder on pleasant subjects of their own choosing than they do on specific spe-cific less inviting assignments. Photography a comparative war baby 25 years agohas come into its own in this war. The vital need for more and more skilled photographers photog-raphers has placed tremendous demands de-mands upon the army air forces technical training command but the new "million dollar" photo school and laboratory at Lowry Field, Colo., near Denver, is turning out expert lens and bulb men on a veritable ver-itable assembly line schedule. The AAF technical training command's com-mand's photo school, rated by both civilian and army photographers as the finest large scale setup of its kind in the country, is geared to turn out more students annually than a major university. Few war material factories have a bigger production job than Lowry Field. Officials estimate that it takes at least four photographic technicians to back up every pilot-photographer. It's the job of Lowry Field to supply these technicians, allowing three months training for each man. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |