Imaging Specialists has just finished the latest project from Star Route Books- The Ashe County Public Library Veterans History Project.
The book is a companion to the online Veterans History Project an archive of “stories, video interviews, pictures, and memorabilia of Ashe County veterans collected by community members and Ashe County High School JROTC students.”
We worked with Ashe County Librarian, Suzanne Moore, to assemble images and stories from the Library website. The dramatic photo, below, came from John Gentry, who served as 1st Sgt. of a combat engineer company during the 1969 Tet Pleiku Offensive in Vietnam.
We were able to adjust basic settings to enhance photos, that were, sometimes, made under less than ideal conditions. Below is a before-and-after of a photo of Ronald Lee Phipps, brother of contributor, Robert Phipps. Ronald served in the Navy from 1965-1969. He trained as a Navy SEAL and was in Vietnam for 2 1/2 years.
This August 10, 1945 edition of the Shelby Daily Star is from the collection of Hugh Hamrick who was captured by the Japanese at Bataan April 9, 1942 and was a prisoner of war for 42 months.
Imaging Specialists is proud to have been able to help with this historic project by the Ashe County Library.
