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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Al Chang<br />
| image = File:Al Chang, AP, Charles Chellappah, freelance and SP4 Kermit H. Yoho DASPO.jpg<br />
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| caption = Chang (left) with [[Charles Chellapah]], freelance (center) and SP4 Kermit H. Yoho DASPO (right)<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|07|13}}.<br />
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|09|30|1922|07|13}}<br />
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| nationality = American<br />
| other_names = <br />
| occupation = Military photographer<br />
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| known_for = Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize<br />
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'''Al Chang''' (July 13, 1922 &ndash; September 30, 2007)<ref name="AP">{{cite web |url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jj4yj37U9DWYfLMh8iNpt2MokknAD8S1N93G3 |title=Obituary in the News |accessdate=2007-10-04 |author= |date=2007-10-03 |publisher=[[Associated Press]]}}{{dead link|date=November 2012|bot=Legobot}}</ref> was an American [[military photographer]] twice nominated for the [[Pulitzer Prize]].<ref name="AP"/><br />
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He was a dock worker in 1941 when he witnessed the Japanese [[attack on Pearl Harbor]],<ref name="AP"/><ref name="Honolulu">{{cite web |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/03/ln/hawaii710030393.html |title=Al Chang, combat photographer |accessdate=2007-10-04 |agency=Associated Press |date=2007-10-03 |publisher=Honolulu Advertiser| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071011100005/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/03/ln/hawaii710030393.html| archivedate= 11 October 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref> and would later work as a military photographer for the [[United States Army]], serving in [[World War II]], and the [[Korean War]] and the [[Vietnam War]]. He briefly left the armed forces to work for [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] and the [[Associated Press]] during the Vietnam War, but then returned to work for the Army during the war.<ref name="Honolulu"/> <br />
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His work includes photographs of the official surrender of Japan aboard the {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}}, but his best-known photograph is of an American Korean War infantryman being comforted by a fellow soldier after learning of the death of a friend; it was featured in [[Edward Steichen]]'s ''[[The Family of Man]]''.<ref name="AP"/><ref name="Honolulu"/><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100402517.html Al Chang, 85; Trained Lens On 3 Wars] ''Washington Post'', October 5, 2007.<br />
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