One took photographs of the hell-on-Earth he witnessed on battlefields during World War II.
The other snapped photos of death and destruction of a different kind – on the often dangerous highways and city streets in and around southern California in the 1940s and ‘50s.
Both rose out of the mayhem to become key figures in documenting Disney history.
Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle under construction in 1955, as photographed by Mell Kilpatrick. [Courtesy of Carlene Thie/Ape Pen Publishing]Mell Kilpatrick was a legendary southern California news photographer. On newspaper staffs around the country at the time,
