Arnold E. Samuelson

Mauthausen

prisoners by Arnold E. Samuelson

Arnold E. Samuelson (1917-2002) was a combat photographer during

Nazi war crimes

.

Before America's entry into

Signal Corps

in January 1943.

Three months after

D-Day (June 6, 1944), Samuelson came ashore on the Normandy beaches with the 167th Signal Photographic Company and began documenting the Allied military campaigns in France and Belgium. He saw service in the Battle of the Bulge (December 1944), and, in 1945, he was given command of Combat Assignment Unit #123. That unit consisted of two motion picture cameramen, John O'Brian and Edward Urban, and two still photographers, J Malan Heslop

and Walter McDonald.

Samuelson's group served initially with the 9th Armored Division, advancing as far as Leipzig, then was attached to the 80th Infantry Division as it moved southward to Bavaria and Austria.

During this campaign, Samuelson's crew was the first group of Allied photographers to document Nazi crimes and the plight of concentration camp prisoners at

Mauthausen concentration camp

in Austria.

External links

167th Signal Photographic Company - A World War II Reenacting group in the USA
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Arnold E. Samuelson