Me standing in front of a WWII submarine on display at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco in 1983, from a roll of film that was forgotten in a box and not developed until 2013. Photo by Hank Barrick.
My dad's discharge papers. Note the date of enlistment: 12th December, 1941. He was born in 1926 (which you can half see in the ripped part at the top below the word ARMY.) Do the math... he was 15. He lied about his age. On August 19, 1942, at 16 years old, he was at Dieppe. After that he was in North Africa and Italy. They found out, the age at the time of his discharge in 1945 on the form, 19, is correct.
From a photograph of an unknown Weimar-period Berliner, photographer unknown.
I had another plan with where I was going to take this, but decided to stop here because it was working "unfinished" in a way I hadn't planned, opening up a direction I want to explore.
