Leon, I'm in a similar situation. I'm helping my girlfriend, Julie Jones publish her late stepfather, Army Sgy. Edmund Burke O'Connell's wartime memoir of his service as a motion picture combat photographer with the 196th Signal Photo Company in the Italian Campaign of World War II. He covered the North African campaign and went on to Florence, Italy. While in Florence, O'Connell met and fell in love with an attractive Florentine woman, Tina Calamai, and used her family's 15th century Medici villa as his base of operations.
We have been able to locate an 89-years-young Army still photographer who worked with O'Connell during the final 1945 push to the Swiss border. We have several photos of O'Connell holding and using his Bell and Howell Eyemo, and would love to locate any surviving film he shot.
You will find Peter Maslowski's book "Armed with Cameras" - The American Military Photographers of World War II to be a great resource.
Tom Sullivan and Julie Jones
Pacifica, California
