Military Heroes – U. S. Marine Corps

Norman Hatch

Staff Sergeant USMC (Ret.)  As a combat cameraman, Hatch has a very different perspective of the war though the lens of his camera, as he begins, “I was living in the movie, I was disassociated with everything that was going on around me.” Hatch risks his life to document the brutal battle on Tarawa Island as the Marines assault the beach head and take the island. The film won an Academy Award for outstanding documentary short subject in 1944.

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Provided courtesy of Americans at War.