Wednesday, August 18, 2004 NEW YORK (AP) - - - Carl Mydans, who photographed 20th-century events from the Great Depression to wars and politics and was a charter member of the Life magazine staff that pioneered magazine photojournalism, has died. He was 97.... Carl Mydans was aboard the U.S.S. Missouri when the Japanese surrendered at the end of World War II.
Remembering one senior Japanese officer in civilian clothes.
"As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent," Mydans recalls. "And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished."
Mydans was taken prisoner while covering the war, and spent nearly two years in a prison camp in the Philippines. He later returned to take photos of that camp.
