J Malan Heslop

J Malan Heslop (18 June 1923 in Taylor, Weber County, Utah – 29 July 2011 Salt Lake City, Utah) was a World War II combat photographer with Arnold E. Samuelson's Combat Assignment Unit #123 of the 167th Signal Photographic Company who documented evidence of Nazi war crimes.

Heslop served as a freelance photographer in his native Utah and was employed at the Ogden Standard Examiner before setting off to California, where he studied the craft at Los Angeles City College.

In November, he started studying at Paramount Studios with the Signal Corps Photographers School.

[1] J Malan Heslop completed his basic training in Lebanon, Tennessee, where he took his first official army photographs.

He served for nine months during the end of World War II in the European Theater from September 1944 to May 1945.

He documented significant people, organizations, and events during World War II, among these: the Counterintelligence Corps, Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill in Paris, and the Battle of the Bulge.

Shortly after joining the Deseret News staff he was made chief photographer, a position he held for the next 20 years.

[6][5] J Malan Heslop married Fae Stokes on May 1, 1944, in the Salt Lake Temple just before he went to Europe during World War II.