Bob Jakobsen

Another of his Los Angeles Times photographs, from June 22, 1947, showed the tanker S. S. Markay on fire after it exploded in Los Angeles Harbor.

Jakobsen's most famous photograph won the 1942 Associated Press annual photo contest for California and Nevada, and fourth place in the national Associated Press contest in 1943. It was selected by Edward Steichen for the 1955 Museum of Modern Art world touring exhibition The Family of Man, which was seen by 9 million visitors. When in 1940, the United States expanded its military, units were deployed to expanded Pacific bases, including the 251st Coast Artillery (1,200 National Guardsmen), ordered into service on Sept. 16, 1940, which was transferred to Hawaii. The anti-aircraft unit later was responsible for downing at least two attacking Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Five photos of the men boarding the luxury liner Washington by Los Angeles Times staff photographer Jakobsen appeared in the Nov. 17, 1940, Los Angeles Times Sunday rotogravure section, the lead being his tightly cropped picture of Pvt. John Winbury farewelling his tearful little boy.

Jakobsen's was 'Picture of the Week' in the Nov. 25, 1940, issue of Life magazine, captioned;

Bob Kjer Jakobsen (March 8, 1918 in Portland, Oregon – May 27, 2002) was a Los Angeles Times press photographer who was active from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Jakobsen met his future wife Lucia Hammer (1917–2007) at a photography club in Portland. They were married for eighteen years.