Carlsbad woman's picture book, 'Herman V Wall: Standing on One Leg,' is about Army Signal Corps Maj. Herman V. Wall, who died in 1997
Not long after Allied troops landed on Normandy’s Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, the very first photographs from the French battlefield were widely published in American newspapers, magazines and journals., who was aboard one of the first landing crafts to reach the Easy Red Sector target zone amid a hail of bullets and deafening grenade and land mine blasts.
“He saw the worst on Omaha Beach, but he spent the rest of his life photographing beauty,” Panatone said, adding that Wall used only the first initial of his middle name, Victor, with no period as his photographic signature. “He stood tall and proved that even on one leg he could continue working as a photographer right up to the end of his life,” said Peck, 74. “He stood proud his whole life.”Born in 1905 to German immigrant parents in Milwaukee, Wall moved with his family to Los Angeles in the 1920s and became a prolific amateur photographer. He was among the first class of students at the ArtCenter College of Design, where he later worked as an instructor alongside Ansel Adams and other famous photographers.
Kathy Wall Panatone and Stephen Peck of Carlsbad with one of her father Herman V Wall’s photographs taken on D-Day. In the foreground is a photo of Wall on the deck of a transport ship before the battle began on June 6, 1944.
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