In his capacity as a staffer for Stars and Stripes during the World War II, Martin Harris served in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany photographing most of the Allied military brass as well as world leaders, weary GIs and Nazi POWs.
Lt. General James “Jimmy” Doolittle with reporters and photographers including Martin Harris on the far right, smoking a cigarette, at an unidentified location following the Tokyo raids, the bold longrange retaliatory air raid on the Japanese main islands weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor (January 1942).
Paul Robeson, activist and Broadway, film, concert and recording star entertaining the military at the Hollywood Canteen (c. 1942).
Paul Robeson, activist and Broadway, film, concert and recording star entertaining the military at the Hollywood Canteen (c. 1942).
"Mountain Trooper" – A cover photo essay on the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division training facility at Camp Hale, Colorado (1943). Originally
constituted as a mountain warfare unit, the division was the only one of its size to receive intense specialized training for fighting in mountainous and arctic conditions. Photos by Martin Harris.
"Mountain Trooper" – A cover photo essay on the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division training facility at Camp Hale, Colorado (1943). Originally
constituted as a mountain warfare unit, the division was the only one of its size to receive intense specialized training for fighting in mountainous and arctic conditions. Photos by Martin Harris.
German Prisoners of War, captured by Allied forces following the Anzio (Italy) beach landing and battles (January 1944). Photo by Martin Harris.
Commanders in Rome – “Lt. General Mark W. Clark confers with Maj. Gen Geoffrey Keyes and Maj. General Lucien K. Truscott in the streets of conquered Rome” (June 8, 1944). Photo by Martin Harris.
Stars and Stripes staff photographer Martin Harris received by Pope Pius XII at Vatican City (June 11, 1944).
General George C. Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, signs programs at the Army-Navy college football game in Annapolis, Maryland (December 2, 1944). Photo by Martin Harris.
Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, the Commander of the 101wst Airborne Division, is shown in a Jeep at an advanced command post in France (December 28, 1944). Major General Taylor, who was in Washington, DC when his Division was trapped inside Bastogne during the German counteroffensive in Belgium, flew the Atlantic Ocean and slipped through enemy lines to be with his men in the final phase of the battle. Photo by Martin Harris.
Generals confer in liberated France. Left to right: Lt. General Omar Bradley of the U.S. Army with British officers General Bernard Montgomery and Lt. General M.C. Dempsey (1944). Photo by Martin Harris.
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the son of the former President of the United States, poses before the door of his command post on the day before he died while on active service somewhere in France (July 11, 1944). Photo by Martin Harris.
General George Patton, Commander of the United States Third Army, in France and Germany visiting wounded soldiers at the estate of German Chancellor Franz Von Papen in Wallerfangen, Germany (1944). Photo by Martin Harris.
German Village in Ruins. “First French Army manned tank destroyers in the fight to drive Germans from the Rhine Bridge above Strasbourg (1945).” Photo by Martin Harris.
German Battlefield Scene. Allied view of military action at an unidentified location (1945). Photo by Martin Harris.
Leader of Yanks in Bastogne Siege. U.S. Army General Anthony C. McAuliffe, with his aide, Lt. Ted Starrett “somewhere in the European Theater” (1945). Brigadier General McAuliffe gave the famous “Nuts” reply to a German demand for surrender during the Battle of the Bulge on December 22, 1944. Photo by Martin Harris.
German Prisoners of War frisked by Allied troops in occupied Germany (1945). Photo by Martin Harris.
Vice Chancellor of Germany/Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering, interviewed by Allied correspondents after his surrender to the 7th U.S. Army. (May 14, 1945). Photograph by Martin Harris for Stars and Stripes.
Vice Chancellor of Germany/Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering, interviewed by Allied correspondents after his surrender to the 7th U.S. Army. (May 14, 1945). Photograph by Martin Harris for Stars and Stripes.
Military and civilians reacting to the news printed in "Peace," the Stars and Stripes (August 14, 1945). Photos by Martin Harris.
Military and civilians reacting to the news printed in "Peace," the Stars and Stripes (August 14, 1945). Photos by Martin Harris.
Military and civilians reacting to the news printed in "Peace," the Stars and Stripes (August 14, 1945). Photos by Martin Harris.
Military and civilians reacting to the news printed in "Peace," the Stars and Stripes (August 14, 1945). Photos by Martin Harris.
Martin Harris, third from left, with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, second from left, at a Stars and Stripes staff reunion (1946).
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This online exhibition is based on the exhibition of the same name that was presented at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, January, 18 – March 10, 2017.
Curated by Jim Liversidge | Designed by Elizabeth A. Bouton
Unless otherwise noted, all items are from the Martin Harris Collection, Special & Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida,
which was a gift of his grandchildren Dr. Gregg M. Harris and David Harris