Photo Journalist. He received acclaim as an American photographer capturing World War II combat scenes on islands in the Pacific Ocean such as the Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Makin, Tarawa, Kwajalein, and Eniwetok. Born the seventh child of ten, his Italian immigrant father worked in the steel mills. Knowing he did not want to follow his father's and brother's footsteps to the steel mill, he had a desire for a photography career. In 1936, the Gary, Indiana newspaper, the "Post-Tribune," hired the 18-year-old Bushemi as an apprentice photographer. After being the recipient of several awards while with the "Post-Tribune," he was recruited into the United States Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in July of 1941. His first assignment was to make training films for the Public Relations Department. He was finishing that assignment as Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. While at Fort Bragg, he became close friends with Marion Hargrove, who was also assigned to the Public Relations Department and wrote in 1942 the best-selling book "See Here, Private Hargrove," in which Hargrove made Bushemi a celebrity by mentioning his photography as having "good imagination and a sense of beauty." The book was later made in a film comedy. After his photograph, "An American Soldier," was featured on the cover of "Field Artillery Journal," he was assigned in June of 1942 to be a photographer for "Yank," a magazine by and for enlisted men. He was sent, by the way of the New York City office, to the thick of the action in the Pacific Theater. Traveling to Hawaii, he had the opportunity to study techniques of film making with Colonel Frank Capra, a Hollywood director, who was producing a series of seven films called "Why We Fight." From this experience, he made several Technicolor films doing the shooting, editing, and writing subtitles. He was given the nickname "One Shot" as he had the talent of shooting his ever-present Speed Graphic camera and capturing the desired photograph in one shot. His personal claim to fame was filming First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt while she was visiting Guadalcanal. The First Lady repeatedly used the film as entertainment for her White House dinner guests. With his left arm in a sling from a fractured hand at Kwajalein, he was shooting photographs of Japanese knee-mortar shelling on Eniwetok Atoll when he was hit was shrapnel, receiving life-threatening puncture wounds in his neck, left cheek, and left leg. Relinquishing his camera, his last words were "be sure to get those pictures back to the office." Although he was rushed to a medical transport ship, the Navy surgeons were unable to stop the hemorrhaging with him dying before surgery could be performed. He was the second "Yank" photographer to be killed in action. In 2004 noted biographer, Ray E. Boomhower published his "One Shot: The World War II Photography of John A. Bushemi," which contains many of Bushemi's photographs. In 2001, he was posthumously inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. According to their biography, Bushemi published more combat photographs during World War II than any other photographer. His photographs have been published in the " New York Times" and the "Saturday Evening Post" along with being exhibited as "Yank Illustrates the War" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York city in the spring of 1943.