Syd Greenberg’s Photos From China in the 1940s

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Half a World Away, a Familiar Name

Though most of Syd Greenberg’s neighbors knew him as the town photographer, his military service endeared him to many people he never met — half a world away, in China.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/half-a-world-away-a-familiar-name/?pagewanted=all

A lot of people know about Syd Greenberg in China. Mind you, he hadn’t been back there since the mid-1940s, when he was an Army Signal Corps photographer assigned to the China-Burma-India theater of operations, documenting how American and Chinese Nationalist troops fought the Japanese.