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	John Bushemi Name John Bushemi Birth/Death Dates 1917-1944 Where in Indiana Lake County--Gary When in Indiana 1930-1941 Notable For John A. Bushemi was born in Centerville, Iowa in 1917. His family moved to Gary, Indiana in 1930. He quit high school to work in the steel mill and got his first camera as a teenager. In 1936 he went to work as an apprentice photographer for the Gary Post Tribune. He was drafted into the Army in 1941 and worked for "Yank" magazine. The magazine was run by enlisted men and devoted to them. His photographs were well known by soldiers and people back home. He was killed covering the invasion of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands, in February, 1944. Description Bushemi is shown wearing an army uniform with a YANK patch on the left sleeve. A gun is resting on his helmet as he looks down into his camera lens. He has a cigarette in his mouth. Subject Bushemi, John Photographers Photographic apparatus & supplies Photography Photojournalism World War, 1939-1945 Soldiers Photojournalists Cameras Military uniforms Helmets Firearms Rifles Cigarettes Item ID P.FM Source of Image Mary Ellen Cessna. IHS may not reproduce. Digital Collection Notable Hoosiers (DC 010) Bibliography/Notes Information taken from One Shot: The World War II Photography of John Bushemi, IHS Press, 2004. Copyright Notice Digital image © 2005 Indiana Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
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