Wilbur H. Durborough

Wilbur Henry Durborough (October 11, 1882 – April 4, 1946) was a photojournalist and film correspondent who covered World War I with the German army.

Photojournalist and film correspondent Wilbur Henry Durborough was born on October 11, 1882, in Rising Sun, Kent County, Delaware.

In wartime Berlin, Durborough and Ries filmed a notable Chicagoan, Jane Addams, along with Aletta Jacobs and Alice Hamilton, who were in Germany as part of the Women's Peace Movement.

[1] On the Firing Line with the Germans has been restored by the Library of Congress in 2015, based on research by film historians James W. Castellan, Cooper C. Graham and Ron van Dopperen.

On April 15, 2017, C-SPAN3 on American History TV first broadcast On the Firing Line with the Germans, with commentary by authors James W. Castellan and Cooper C. Graham.

In November 2017, authors Ron van Dopperen and Cooper C. Graham released an online reconstruction of Durborough's war film for the U.S. Signal Corps, The Western Spirit (USA, 1918), that has the staged attack on Fort Lewis, Washington.

Durborough entering wartime Germany, April 1915
"On the Firing Line with the Germans" (USA, 1915)