US Military Combat Camera History & Stories Museum

MCCHSM has accomplish to bring 3 new board of directors.  We are now seeking fundraisers.  If intereseted, please forward your cover letter and resume to [email protected]  Deadline is 1 October 2021.

We have the privilage to have Mr. Maurice Hicks, former NFL player to be on our Board of Directors.  After, we had a great meeting he has provided interesting topics for what the museum complex should be like and to include.  We really appreciate everything he mentioned and we welcome to our Board of Directors.

The 3rd International Combat Camera Association The 3rd International Combat Camera Association will hold a conference/reunion in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 1-3, 2008. The theme is "Tempt Fate in 08" and will focus on the impact combat photography has on telling the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps story. Topics include the future of Combat Camera as a supporting capability of Strategic Communication, impact of photograph and video imagery during battles in Iraq, and the story of the on...

Farewell salute to LTC Dan McGovern USAF ret.

—elder statesman in the band of brothers

(Sadly LTC McGovern passed away at age 96 as this account was going to press.)

Meet the late Lt Col McGovern: http://www.combatcamera.org/newsreleases/convention2005.php

ICCA: http://www.combatcamera.org/

The ICCA founders, Mr. Joe Longo and Mr. Bill Rogister have said that "the combat cameraman ...is the true historian" who risks his or her life to go into the action and document the events of war. Indeed, the impact of a photograph (motion media or still imagery) taken in combat or during conflict, is powerful. These photographs can evoke emotions, effect change, document history, provide legal guidance, establish a training regiment, provide damage assessment, and much more. To quote the wo...

The brave ones fought with weapons.

The crazy ones fought with cameras.

On October 12, 1967 during Operation Medina, a major reconnaissance operation in the Hai Lang National Forest in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, Cpl. William T. Perkins Jr. made the ultimate sacrifice when he hurled himself upon an enemy hand grenade to save the lives of his fellow Marines. Bill Perkins Jr. is the only combat photographer in our nation’s history to receive t...

Can an International Award-Winning Vietnam-era Combat

Photojournalist Produce Fine Art Photography? Yes

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Sam Bass is a former Navy Chief and international award-winning combat photojournalist. His photo works have been described as stunning and provocative, images that challenge the viewer with one stimulating visual experience after another.

Sam received his grounding in classic commercial photography at the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles,...

Air Force combat camera team discusses role of media in military

Posted 7/9/2009

by Ian Graham

Special to Armed Forces Press Service

7/9/2009 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The media has played a major role in every American military conflict, from the use of newspapers and pamphlets to stoke the American Revolution to embedded journalists in the Middle East.

But a story often lost in the mix is that of the military journalists; those men and...