Summary Rebels to Reels - Combat Cameraman Daniel A. McGovern. Europe, Hiroshima and beyond Having witnessed the Irish War of Independence as a boy, Dan McGovern later became a designated Cameraman/Photographer to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before training the very first combat cameramen of WW2 for the then US Army Air Forces. McGovern himself filmed on perilous B-17 bombing missions in Europe and survived two crash-landings. Most significantly, he later lead the filming of the aftermath of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki but struggled for decades to save that historical footage of devastation and human suffering from US government suppression. After the war McGovern was involved in the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident and filming rocket test experiments with former Nazi scientist Wernher Von Braun. 'Big Mack' worked with some of the best known celebrities of his day including actors Ronald Reagan and Clarke Gable and Hollywood director William Wyler. In today's show Joseph McCabe joins us to tell McGovern's remarkable story. Joseph has worked in many different and varying aspects of the news media industry for almost thirty years. He is a native of Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, Ireland which was originally also the hometown of McGovern. As a journalist he has contributed to national, international and local publications as well as to the broadcast and online media. He is a long-standing member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). Having a lifelong interest in military history and particularly that of World War 2 he has travelled to many historical battlefields across the world. He has also interviewed many veterans of World War 2 and later conflicts.

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