By Adam Mandeville, BBC News NI 31 Mar 24 The success of the film Oppenheimer has shone a spotlight once more on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, the story of one Monaghan man involved in the aftermath appears to have been forgotten. Just one month after the bombings, Lt Col Daniel A. McGovern…
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Daniel A. McGovern, who was born in Co Monaghan in 1908, went on to become a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force and President Roosevelt's designated cameraman and photographer. The Irish man's life is explored in Joe McCabe's "Rebels to Reels: A biography of Combat Cameraman Daniel A McGovern."