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Some veterans came home from World War II with more than memories, scars and whatever souvenirs they could stuff in a duffel bag. Some, like Cliff Brooks and Harvey Day, brought back photos. By chance or choice, they found time to document their experiences with a camera on opposite sides of the world. Brooks, 86, of Avon Lake, photographed Marines and scenes on Okinawa during the invasion of that island in 1945. Day, 88, of Parma, brought along his $10 Kodak when he went to Europe as an Army military policeman. Both readily admit they were amateurs, shooting snapshots. Both deliberately avoided taking pictures of the all-too-familiar scenes of death and destruction surrounding them -- they already had too much of that seared into their memories. So they brought back a black-and-white world of good buddies, foreign nationals and exotic locales. For that, too, was part of their war. And sometimes, one of the few parts they care to remember nowadays. Initially, Cliff Brooks was more concerned with taking care of himself than taking pictures.
The amphibious tractor crewman could see his own apprehension mirrored in the faces of fellow Marines ferried aboard Brooks' LVT (landing vehicle tracked) to the beaches of Peleliu in September, 1944. "I was so concerned with them that I didn't even think I might get blown up in the next instant," Brooks recalled of his first Pacific invasion. As it turned out, their concerns were justified. "Peleliu was our hell," said Brooks of the battle where more than a third of his division fell as casualties. "When we landed on the beach, we were completely covered with mortars and machine guns." Peleliu also was where the ghosts that still haunt him would first arise, including the dead and possibly wounded Japanese soldiers crushed under the tracks of his LVT. Or the grievously wounded Marine who gave him a wink and a wave, and all Brooks could think was, "I was watching a man die." His division fared much better during the invasion of Okinawa in 1945, when Brooks found a box floating in the water, accidentally dropped with other cargo from a U.S. ship.
The box contained a camera and photo-processing gear. During military training in California, Brooks had briefly worked with a civilian photographer, taking and selling tourist photos on the beach. Armed with that expertise and the new-found gear on Okinawa, he and a buddy set up a crude darkroom under a tarp, then went out and took pictures to sell to fellow Marines or trade with sailors for food. "We were strictly amateurs," Brooks recalled. "They were mostly snapshots, guys in the platoon. Somebody would get a (Japanese) machine gun and everybody had to have a picture of themselves with that machine gun." Brooks tried to get photos of Okinawans when he could. Other shots included scenes of everyday camp life, or areas with stories attached -- such as the airfield where a Japanese pilot landed his fighter, not realizing it had just been captured by the Marines. "The poor guy didn't stand a chance," Brooks recalled. "Once he got out of the cockpit he was dead." His experience in the service sparked a lifelong interest in photography.
After the war he served as a Marine Reserve combat photographer, stateside, during the Korean War; shooting publicity photos for USO shows and the John Wayne movie, "Flying Leathernecks." Back home he became a commercial photographer in Youngstown, then a NASA photographer and motion picture cameraman for 25 years. He also taught photography. Today, partly because of reunions with old buddies depicted in those early snapshots on Okinawa, Brooks said he can look back on the war "with some pleasant nostalgia." Otherwise, the war echoes through bad dreams that started a few years ago. Or in the eerie feeling he still gets whenever he hears a siren. Or seeing a military landing craft, and choking back tears. As Brooks noted, "You still have the ghosts with you." MP carries camera across Europe , 1944, Army military policeman Harvey Day dug out his pocket diary and wrote: "I think that I shall never see/ A place as bad as Normandy./ Besides the hedges/ Krauts and trees/ We had to fight those blasted bees."
Today that little diary is among Day's other souvenirs of war including five albums of snapshots that he took as his unit followed advancing U.S. troops from England to France, then into Belgium and Germany. Thirty months' and seven countries' worth of images -- and a story behind each one. "This boy here had his right leg shot off in Normandy," Day recently remarked, pointing to a photo of buddies from his unit. "An 88 (German artillery shell) hit the Jeep, killed the driver, and tore his leg off. He was 20 years old." Day said that prior to the war, "I was always taking pictures with one of them little box cameras." So before shipping off to Europe, he picked up a Kodak for $10 at the PX. "I wanted to take a camera with me," he recalled. "I thought boy, this would be something, to have something to show when I got home." Most of his photos depict buddies from his unit, at work and play, or historic sites such as ancient castles and monuments. "Anything history," Day said.
As a military policeman Day had his own vehicle, so he could drop off film for processing, and pick up prints and film at civilian photo shops. Day said shooting photos helped ease the strain of the more nerve-wracking parts of his work which could include wading into drunken bar fights, dodging sniper fire, guarding prisoners, directing traffic and once, even capturing German spies. He recalled that capture came when he and a fellow MP were posted on a bridge shortly before the Battle of the Bulge, with orders to check every vehicle that tried to cross. Day soon stopped four soldiers riding in an American Jeep that looked odd -- it was way too clean. Similarly, the GIs' uniforms, IDs and billfold money appeared brand new. "Where's the Rose Bowl played? Who's Daisy Mae's boyfriend?" Getting no answer, he forced the soldiers from the Jeep at gunpoint and discovered they were wearing German identity tags under their U.S. uniforms. A search of the vehicle yielded a box of high explosives destined for use on the Americans' military headquarters.