Sam (Samuel) Jaffe is an American photographer who worked in the US Army during World War II. Sam Jaffe served in Company A of the Army’s 3217th Signal Service Battalion, first assigned to Supreme Allied Headquarters in London and later to Paris. He worked on the territory of liberated France and Germany.

Sam Jaffe shot Victory Day (V-Day) on 8 May 1945 in Paris and the peaceful life in Marseille. After photographing in liberated France, Sam Jaffe traveled to the heart of Nazi Germany, to Berlin. He captured the defeated city in ruins, the Soviet sector and ‘black markets’ of Berlin. After a month or two in Berlin, Sam Jaffe travelled to the north-west of Germany, to the port city of Bremerhaven, one of the biggest bases of the German Kriegsmarine submarine fleet in the North Sea. In Bremerhaven Sam Jaffe photographed the post-war life of the harbour town that was destroyed for 79%.

Then photographer Sam Jaffe went back home to America, New York, on the board of cargo vessels Rollins Victory through the harsh waters of the Atlantic Ocean.