Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I sent the message to Leica@topica.com first. >then I forwarded to the LUG. >Figures I would get some dumbass reponse from the LUG. > >Chris Williams Sorry Chris, I thought you were one of those guys who sends responseless responses to the LUG. Don't know how I got you mixed up with them. Guy >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 2:23 AM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Fw: Leica in WWII > > >> At 10:18 PM -0700 6/7/01, Guy Bennett wrote: >> >Gotta say that I love response-messages which include the whole message >> >being responded to, but lack any response. There's just something >> >otherworldly about them. Like some form of communication from the beyond >> >that never actually materialized. >> > >> >1/2 a dialog. >> > >> >"The Human Voice" (Jean Cocteau) >> > >> >A whistle in the dark. >> > >> >Over and out. >> > >> >Guy >> > >> > >> >>----- Original Message ----- >> >>From: "onetreehillclw" <onetreehillclw@compaq.net> >> >>To: <leica@topica.com> >> >>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:50 PM >> >>Subject: Leica in WWII >> >> >> >> >> >>> I received the LHSA Viewfinder last week. The article on the Leica >Goes to >> >>> War was excellent. >> >>> Today I went to the one year anniversary at the DDay in New Orleans. >I met >> >>a >> >>> man named Jim Keller. He was carrying around a photo album of his war >> >>> pictures. His collection started after the invasion and went to >Germany >> >>> surrendering. >> >>> Pictures were of the glider planes, tanks,soldiers in the snow,pow's >in >> >>> russia, and the concentration camps. After talking to him for a few >> >>minutes, >> >>> he told me all his photos were taken with a Leica that was issued to >him >> >>in >> >>> his company. He did not go in as a photographer, but I guess he knew >> >>enough >> >>> about the cameras to be issued one. >> >>> He told me that most of the rolls he took were taken by the censors >when >> >>he >> >>> came home to New Orleans. He did have a few rolls hidden in his food >tin. >> >>> Thanks to him at least some photos will always exist for future >> >>generations. >> >>> >> >>> Chris Williams >> >>> >> >> eh?? >> >> (generalized Canadian response) >> >> -- >> * Henning J. Wulff >> /|\ Wulff Photography & Design >> /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com >> |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com