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Silk, George

Biography"George Silk (17 November 1916 – 23 October 2004) was a photojournalist. He was born in Levin, New Zealand, and served as a photojournalist for Life for 30 years.[1][2] Silk's career as a war photographer began in 1939, when he was a combat cameraman for the Australian government, covering action in the Middle East, North Africa and Greece. Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later. He began working for Life magazine in 1943."--Wikipedia