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"During World War II, the Roosevelt administration strictly prohibited news outlets from printing photos of dead U.S. soldiers.."
Not quite true.
Anyone who has studied in depth the history of U.S. photography and film in WWII would know about the first infamous photo of American war dead that was shown in Life magazine..
"In September 1943, the military released the first photographs of dead American soldiers. George Strock's images of corpses on Buna Beach, New Guinea, appeared in Life, the largest- circulation picture magazine. The powerful pictures shocked some readers, but a greater number approved of the policy.
The Washington Post argued that the pictures "can help us to understand something of what has been sacrificed for the victories we have won." Images of dead soldiers appeared regularly after that. All were as anonymous as they could be made to be. Efforts were made to crop the photos or obscure the victims' faces, name tags and unit insignia.
The caption to Strock's Buna Beach photo‹"Three dead Americans lie on the beach at Buna" told Life's readers that they did not need to know the names of the dead in order to appreciate what they had done."
new policy released image of dead on Buna Beach, 1942 photo by George Strock/Life
And then films like "With the Marines at Tarawa", released in 1944, sparked outrage for it's extremely graphic 16mm color imagery of Marine dead on the beach at Betio..I could post some of those..but they are quite graphic.
From American dead stripped of boots and clothing after the Battle of Kasserine by Arab looters; to American dead being stuffed in body bags in France, to actual film scenes of Americans being shot while landing at New Britain, Omaha Beach and countless other scenes..even quite graphic imagery of a US soldier unloading a .45 into a mortally wounded Japanese soldier to finish him off (See the recent documentary "Hell in the Pacific")
Robert Capa took many quite graphic photos that were printed in Life, even more tragic because some were taken just a few days before the German surrender in the Battle of Liepzig, which we had to withdraw from and hand over to the Soviets:
19 year old American soldier killed by Nazi sniper, Leipzig, April 18, 1945
Robert Capa/Life Magazine
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M4 Sherman, surrounded by dead and dismembered crew members, knocked out by Hitler Youth
with Panzerfaust, Leipzig, April 1945
The difference with today's subversive news media is that they want to use this sort of imagery to undermine the war effort..