My name is William K.
(Bill) Pedersen and I was
assigned to the Army Pictorial Center (APC) after graduating from Signal
Corps OCS at Ft. Monmouth, NJ, Class 11, July 1952. After several months
at the Center I earned MOS's as Still and Motion Picture photography and
was assigned to the 525 MIS Unit in Ft. Bragg, NC, to support photo
coverage and military intelligence for the 82nd Airborne Division. I
remained there until my discharge in October, 1953.
After
several jobs in the advertising field, I wound up as Asst. V.P. and
Director, Advertising and Promotion at Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester,
NY, in 1965. I retired from Kodak in 1987 and now live at 4 Burr Oak
Drive, Pittsford, NY 14534.
I'd be interested in
learning the correct designation of the unit in which I served at the
APC and the names and whereabouts of any of my fellow classmates there.
I've already learned that Hunter Low
was trained at the APC (but , not in my
unit) and I knew him as a fellow employee at Kodak. I've lost touch with
Hunter and virtually all of the fine people I knew at the APC.
For the information of
anyone who many have known him, a fellow APC trained photo officer named
Thomas Hope
who served during the latter years of W.W.II in Europe, is still
thriving in Rochester, NY, and is a close friend of mine. He, too,
served a short while at Kodak before establishing his own current
business as a research and information source for the Motion Picture and
Audio Visual industry and the Encyclopedia Britannia.
Thank you for your help
with this. In my twilight years (I'm now 78) it would be nice to be able
to recall, with accuracy, some of the details of my younger years.