European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse In i Kcf a actor Captain Sitt at his desk As the chief photographer gels the proper lighting. Camera operator on Boom is ready to shoot the scene. In sound and picture tag Loti Pir Thornt the "star4 in a darkened room. A cameraman on a Fedora Boom Swinge in for the perfect scene. A microphone overhead records carefully written carefully spoken words it has olt the in Bod tests of a new Hollywood epic but the Star is wearing an army uniform end he s getting Ever a Point about military life and activities rtt to Little speech. Am it in t Hollywood of course. It s Kaiser Lautem Dennany where the 69th signal co photo is at work on an army to twi is a by thousands and thousands of people for Terra and div fan Fust like any Hollywood film. Making movies in t the Sot Job of the frit Only unit of its kind in the army. It turns of still photos too. These documentary irrow up on movie screens on television in news 4iml Itti Gaines lit the Iso Man outfit Are movie cameramen. Stilt photographers Laboratory specialists script writers directors repair technicians for cameras and other equipment and the usual administrative and support personnel making it As self sufficient of any other military unit in spite of its uniqueness. Teams of the 69th go pretty for afield in doing their duties in Europe Africa and the near Rajit. When the marines turned out at Lebanon when the Berlin Wall of shame went up when american servicemen combed the rubble after the Agadir earthquake the 69th and its movie and still cameras were there too. And when Plain gis braved the elements in Maneu vers such As Long thrust Winter shield or grand slam the men m the unit commanded by Cape Robert b. Jones were braving the elements with them recording every vital phase. To the men of the photographing 69th, Rufii All in a Day s work Henry b. Kraft Fin the stars and stripes
