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Article: Once AWOL, war photos have own story to tell.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- June 7, 2005
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Byline: Annemarie Mannion
CHICAGO _ Henry Van Westrop counts himself lucky to have survived three years of gunfire and grenades in the hostile mountains and dark caves of the Philippines in World War II.
But in the confusion of war's end, Van Westrop lost something he valued almost as much as his health: the vast majority of 40,000 pictures he took as a photographer assigned to the Army's 33rd Infantry.
His 18,000-member division was being transported from the Philippines to Japan at war's end when the negatives disappeared. Van Westrop says he does not know whether they were stolen, placed on the wrong truck or damaged by seawater in a ship's ...