‘Herman V Wall’

By Kathy Wall Panatone and Stephen Peck; AuthorHouse, 98 pages, $43.99.

High Sierras.

In the 1970s, Wall also began volunteering with the Mutual Amputee

Aid Fund, a peer-to-peer support group for people with limb loss.

“He stood tall and proved that even on one leg, he could continue working as a photographer right up to the end of his life,” said Peck, 74. “He stood proud his whole life.”

During the war years, Wall photographed training exercises by the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss, Texas, which was later sent to the Philippine province of Bataan, where all the horses and many of the men died. While stationed at a military training base in Chipping Sodbury, England, Wall met Britain’s Queen Mary in February 1944. Two months later, Wall’s unit began secret training for D-Day.

In keeping with government policy, Wall’s D-Day images were published only under the name of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. But in 1949, Wall was honored to receive a hand-inscribed copy of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s war memoir “Crusade in Europe,” in which the future president wrote a personal note saluting “the man whose gallantry on D-Day was outstanding on a field when gallantry was the rule.”

Panatone said her goal is to find museums and universities interested in adding Wall’s photos and negatives to their archives so that his contributions to American photography will be preserved and remembered.

“I thought my father was Superman. Isn’t that what many little girls believe?” Panatone wrote in the book’s introduction. “In the end, he was truly a super man, whose life and work will inspire anyone who reads his story.”