* Born in Budapest on October 22, 1913 named Endre Erno

Friedmann.

* Exiled from Hungary for leftist student activity and enrolled in the

Deutsche Hochschhule fur Poltik to study Journalism.

* Began working as a darkroom assistant in 1932 in an important photo

agency. Received his first break when his talent was noticed

by Simon Guttmann who began sending him out to cover minor

local events.

* Left Berlin when Hitler came to power and went to Vienna in 1933,

later that year he arrived in Paris.

* In 1935 he went to Spain to work on several photojournalistic

assignments arranged by Simon Guttmann.

* Invented his new name "Robert Capa", and impressed some editors with

his work. Was in Paris covering the election of the leftist coalition

Popular Front government. In August of 1936 he went to Spain the civil

war that broke out in July.

* Visited New York in 1937, returned to Paris and then went to Spain

in December to cover the battle of Turuel.

* Spent six months in China in 1938 with Joris Ivens documenting the

Chinese resistance to the Japanese invasions.

* Covered the fall of Barcelona in 1939, and at the end of the Spanish Civil

War photographed defeated exiled Loyalists soldiers in internment camps.

After World War II broke out he left for New York where he began to work

on several miscellaneous stories for Life.

* In 1940, he spent several months in Mexico covering their presidential

campaigns and elections for Life.

* Crossed the Atlantic in a convoy carrying American planes to England in 1941.

* Covered the Allied victories in North Africa from March to May in 1943.

During July and August photographed the Allied conquest of Sicily.

Documented the fighting in mainland Italy.

* On D-Day in 1944, he landed with the first wave of American troops on

Omaha Beach in Normandy. In December covered the Battle of the Bulge.

* Parachuted with American troops into Germany and chronicled the Allied

capture of Liepzig, Nurmburg and Berlin in 1945.

* In 1946 he became an American citizen. Spent several months in Hollywood

working on a his war memoirs in which he intended to base a screenplay.

He left Hollywood after deciding that he did not like the movie business.