Spielberg and Hanks collaborated on a documentary in 2000 about Combat Cameramen

When I learn where it can be watched on a streaming service, I will update this... but Netflix doesn't have it, and You Tube only has a 144p low res version. Not worth watching a documentary on Photography! in low res. That's just stupid. 

of 1,400 U.S. Army Signal Corps cameramen in Western Europe during World War II, 32 were killed in action and more than 100 were wounded. 

Other lensmen serving with the Navy and Marine Corps also lost their lives trying to get “the shot.” Civilian photographers were not immune from danger; of 21 Life magazine cameramen sent overseas, five were wounded and 12 contracted malaria.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/shooting-the-war/

https://amblin.com/tv/shooting-war