J Malan Heslop

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J Malan Heslop (June 18, 1923 at Taylor, Weber County, Utah) is a World War II photographer with Arnold E. Samuelson Combat Assignment Unit # 123 of Signal 167 The Photography Company documenting evidence of Nazi war crimes. He then served as editor of Church News and managing editor Deseret News.

Heslop worked as a freelance photographer in his native Utah and was hired in Ogden Standard Observer before leaving for California, where he studied crafts at Los Angeles City College.

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J Malan Heslop was born on June 18, 1923 in Taylor, Utah. He is the oldest of three children from Jesse and Zella Malan Heslop. His family moved to a farm in West Weber, Utah when he was three years old. Jesse Heslop encouraged and inspired the photography career of J Malan Heslop. Using his father's camera, Heslop practiced taking photos and developing prints. He attended Weber High School where he participated in the track and field, played trombones in school bands, and became a member of the Photography Club. He took a photo for the school yearbook. His first camera was a 35 mm Argus C-3 with a f3.5 lens and flash. He graduated from Weber High School on May 17, 1941. He was enrolled at Weber College in the fall of 1941. His first photography work was with the Ogden Standard Examiner . His photographs from the airport fire made the front page Examiner . He studied photography at Los Angeles City College. He enrolled in the United States Army Reserve in October 1942. In November, he began studying at Paramount Studios with the Signal Corps Photography School. He is separated from the Signal Photographic Company.

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World War II

J Malan Heslop completed his basic training in Lebanon, Tennessee, where he took his first official military photograph. He received the rank of Technician class 5, T/5, which is equivalent to the Corporal. He was sent to Europe on July 23, 1944 at Mauritania . He served for nine months during the end of World War II at the European Theater from September 1944 to May 1945. He served in Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and Germany. He documented important people, organizations and events during World War II, among them: the Counter-Intelligence Corps, Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill in Paris, and the Battle of the Bulge. In May 1945, he photographed the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp, a subcamp at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria. He was one of the first American photographers to document evidence of Nazi crime and prisoners at Ebensee.

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Deseret News

After the war, he graduated from Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) in Logan, Utah (June, 1948) with a degree in agriculture. He joined the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah. Shortly after joining the Deseret News staff he was made head of the photographer, a position he held for the next 20 years. From 1968-1976 he served as editor of Church News, which was distributed both as an insertion on Deseret News and through the distribution of letters to areas outside the regional Deseret News reader. In 1976, Heslop became editor of the Church News executive, a position he held since then until 1981 and returned from 1983 to 1988.

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LDS Church

Heslop is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Among the positions he held in the church were bishops of the Salt Lake Ward, counselor in the stake presidency of the Salt Lake Pioneer Stake, the president of the Salt Lake Territory, a member of the General Council of YMMIA, the regional representative, president of the North Chicago Mission, and the stake patriarch.

Heslop also wrote several books and played with Dell Van Orden. He was involved in the formation of a group that eventually became the Mormon Historic Site Foundation.

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Family

J Malan Heslop married Fae Stokes on May 1, 1944 in the Salt Lake Temple shortly before he left for Europe during World War II. They later became parents of five children Paul, Lyn, Scott, Ann, and Don. The Heslops also wrote the autobiography of Doubletree Adventure: Autobiography of J Malan and Eleanor Fae Stokes Heslop .

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Legacy

Brigham Young University through the Saints at War Project led by Robert C. Freeman has digitized and made on-line more than 1,000 photos of Heslop war from World War II. The National Archives of the United States and the National Holocaust Museum (United States) also have a collection of World War II era photos of Heslop.

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Publications

• From the Shadow of Death: The Stories of POW (with Dell R. Van Orden) Deseret Book, 1973.
• Joseph Fielding Smith: A Prophet Among the People . Deseret Book, 1971. ISBNÃ, 0-87747-454-0
• How to Collect Your Family History . Bookcraft, 1978. ISBNÃ, 0-88494-344-5

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See also

Arnold E. Samuelson

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References

External links

• Signal 167 Photography Company - A group reviving World War II in the US
• WWII Photo by J Malan Heslop, the collection is featured at Harold B. Lee University's Brigham Young University Library
• Photo of J Malan Heslop and other materials at Harold B. Lee University's Brigham Young University Library

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