{"id":5354390,"date":"2019-10-15T12:54:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354390"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:54:25","slug":"william-c-shrout","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/william-c-shrout\/","title":{"rendered":"William C. Shrout"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da0976e3873b\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354929 desc=\"Asset ID: 1217694. \" caption=\"Portrait of William C. Shrout with his camera. (Photo by William C. Shrout\/The LIFE Images Collection)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/15125222\/1217694-e1571143942658-816x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of William C. Shrout with his camera. (Photo by William C. Shrout\/The LIFE Images Collection)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Portrait of William C. Shrout with his camera. (Photo by William C. Shrout\/The LIFE Images Collection)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">War, injury and disease met their match in Bill Shrout (1913-1986). During WWII he was in the Pacific for some extremely intense battles, such as Guadalcanal, and finally was so battered that doctors ordered him out of the combat zone. Still, he begged for more. &#8220;I will risk my neck for LIFE in order to get the kind of pictures you are after,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Malaria does not bother me&#8230; I will stay out there for the duration.&#8221; Shrout got his wish, and returned to document the fighting. When he was back home in Alabama, away from the theaters of war, things were very different. Every night his family said prayers together, then were in bed by 8:30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-LIFE-Photographers-Editors\/dp\/0316097934\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EH15RRHPZHFO&amp;keywords=the+great+life+photographers&amp;qid=1570115481&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da5bf32cc3f7\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354930 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051478. \" caption=\"View from the rear deck of a US aircraft carrier, its planes parked on the flight deck, Japanese planes shot down by American fighter squadrons in the background. (Photo by William C. Shrout\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/15125111\/Shrout_B_IC2-e1571143871476-716x1024.jpg\" alt=\"View from the rear deck of a US aircraft carrier, its planes parked on the flight deck, Japanese planes shot down by American fighter squadrons in the background. (Photo by William C. Shrout\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">View from the rear deck of a US aircraft carrier, its planes parked on the flight deck, Japanese planes shot down by American fighter squadrons in the background. (Photo by William C. 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