Navy Combat Photographer Loran Smith in 1944. Loran "Little Smitty" Smith, 26, of 115 Stedman Place, who had been away for three years filming and photographing more than a dozen battles from the backseat of a dive-bomber or the pitching deck of a warship under kamikaze attack -- and winning a Bronze Star along the way, awarded him by Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz -- arrived home on leave in 1944 and married Audrey McAdam of Los Angeles before returning to duty in the Pacific. From the Dick Singer collection. See full details here.
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