My father Al Mozell was a combat cinematographer in WW II during the final year of the war. Traveling with the 71st Infantry Division he shot 16mm movie film to document the war for the Army. Some of this footage was released to the press. This small group of still photographs were taken my Dad for his personal use during the closing months of the war. The frames are part of an archive he put together and stored in a modest wooden box, perhaps for his son’s to discover one day, which we did. Each negative is in its own envelope, annotated with location and exposure information. I scanned this mix of 6×6 and 35mm frames this year
Perhaps the most moving images were taken at the Gunskirchen Lager Camp, which was liberated by the 71st. To learn about the operation, click here see the linked brochure that was written by one of the officers in the Battalion. Caution: the images and descriptions in this booklet are very graphic.
