Albert Meserlin, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlbert Meserlin
American photographer
Date of Birth: 26-May-1920
Date of Death: 29-Mar-2009
Profession: photographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Albert Meserlin
- Albert B.
- Meserlin, Jr.
- (May 26, 1920 – March 29, 2009) was staff photographer to General Dwight D.
- Eisenhower.
- With the passing of British Staff Sergeant Susan Hibbert, Mr.
- Meserlin was one of the last surviving witnesses to the German surrender ceremony at the end of World War II, survived by just Eisenhower staff member Noel J.
- Weiner and Life magazine photographer Ralph Morse. As staff photographer, he also caught the surrender ceremony on camera.
- In May 1945, the surrender took place in a windowless room in a corner of a small red-brick schoolhouse – the temporary headquarters of General Dwight Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces. Meserlin was in a small photography unit that lost two men in the D-Day battle at Utah Beach in France.
- His unit was responsible for taking photographs for newspapers and military archives.Meserlin received a Bronze Star for his meritorious service in recording the activities of the Theater Commander in all phases of the war.
- His outstanding devotion to duty ensured that an accurate, everlasting account of General Eisenhower's activities for the War Department.
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