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World War II Honoree

World War II Veteran

Clifford H. Poland, Jr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Memphis, Tennessee

Honored By

Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Poland

Branch Seal
Activity During WWII

U.S. Army Signal Corps with rank of Captain. Officer in charge, Motion School section of Signal Corps Photographic School, Long Island, New York. Training Combat cameramen to document the war. Sent on detached service special assignment to the combined and Joint Chief of Staff to photograph the Quebec Conference and Yalta Conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Also sent on special assignment to photograph the Official Japanese surrender in sound aboard the USS Missouri BB-63 in Tokyo Bay.