After several years of hard work, Ed got the attention of a new picture magazine based in New York, to be called Life. When the World War One hero Sergeant Alvin York (wearing tie) registered for the "old man's draft" in 1942, Ed's photo ran as a double-truck. Soon after, Ed gained a position as a staff photographer.

Conscripts leave their families for the war aboard a draft train from Union Station in Nashville, 1942.

 
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