Figure 1.-- We have been able to find very little biographical information Georges Dimitria Boria. We believed he was born in America to an immigrant family, perhaps from Philadelphia about 1920. He produce a hughe quantity of menorable images capturing unforgetable images of Italy during World War II and then of post-War Japan. An Italian photographer points out that he was also an UNRRA photographer. Naples swas the initialn objective of the American landing at Salerno (September 1944). We know that at the time he was active in Naples. The photograph here could have been taken in Naples or some town close to Naples. Probably the children were two siblings sent to buy bread and take water from the public pump. Running water in most homes was not common at the time in Italy.

We have been able to find very little biographical information Georges Dimitria Boria. We believed he was born in America to an immigrant family, perhaps from Philadelphia about 1920. He produce a hughe quantity of menorable images capturing unforgetable images of Italy during World War II and then of post-War Japan. An Italian photographer points out that he was also an UNRRA photographer. He may have taken images used by UNRRA, but as far as we can tell he was drafted into the United States Army and served as part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps which was involved in photographing the War. Interesting that the Army allowed him to take photographs for UNRRA. Hopefully a proper biography will turn up. After the War, Boria served in Japan where with the Signal Corps to photograph the American occupation. While in Japan he became interested in Japanese culture. He became thee supervisor of the color photographic laboratory for the American Far East Command (1947-52). He produced some of the earliest color images of Japan. He donated over 30,000 of his images to the MacArthur Archives.

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