Mandeville show features WWII photos, V-12 program

"A Soldier's Eye: Europe 1944-Photographs by Irving Shapiro" opens Thursday, Oct. 21, and runs though Dec. 19 in the Mandeville Gallery.

In 1944 Irving Shapiro was a soldier in the midst of the Second World War. But he was also a man with a camera, and the photographs he took during the first months after the Normandy invasion are a remarkable record of the people and places he encountered in that period of turmoil and upheaval.

Also on exhibit will be artifacts and images of Union College's experience with on-campus Navy officer training during the later years of WWII, known as the V-12 Program, featuring research by Jeff Roffman '05.

During the run of the exhibition, an evening film series on World War II in Europe, organized in conjunction with the History Department,  will be held on alternate Thursdays at 7 p.m. in Old Chapel.