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D-Day at 80: War correspondent news and notes
Eighty years ago today, soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force embarked upon the Great Crusade, as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower…
Jun 6, 2024
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Thomas D. Howie: The Major of Saint-Lô
The story of Maj. Thomas D. Howie moved readers before they even knew his name.
Jul 17, 2023
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Jack Thompson jumps into Sicily
Eighty years ago today, Chicago Tribune correspondent Jack Thompson parachuted into Sicily with Allied troops.
Jul 10, 2023
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John Basilone killed at Iwo Jima
Feb 19, 2022
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'Nuts!': Gen. Anthony McAuliffe's legendary Bastogne retort
Dec 22, 2021
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Joe Morton: War correspondent executed by the Nazis
Jan 24, 2021
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St. Paul's in the smoke: An iconic photo 80 years later
Dec 29, 2020
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Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon
May 5, 2021
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Jim Bates films a tank battle in Cologne
May 14, 2021
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D-Day: Correspondents covering the Day of Days
Seventy-nine years ago today, Allied troops landed in Normandy. Here’s a rundown of how June 6, 1944 unfolded from the perspective of the men and women…
Jun 6, 2023
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The Writing 69th flies to Wilhelmshaven
In February 1943, a specially trained group of correspondents accompanied an Eighth Air Force bombing raid over Germany. One would not return.
Feb 26, 2023
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Leo S. Disher, first correspondent to earn a Purple Heart
The 30-year-old United Press newsman was wounded multiple times covering the opening day of Operation Torch in North Africa.
Feb 24, 2023
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Joe Rosenthal and the flag on Iwo Jima
The story behind one of the most famous news photographs in history and the unfounded controversy that follows it decades later.
Feb 23, 2023
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Lionel Shapiro needed a decade to find perspective on his D-Day experience
As he sat down to write perhaps the most important story of his life to date, Lionel Shapiro knew he didn’t have all the raw material he needed — and he…
Feb 12, 2023
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Doug Werner's D-Day notebook
Merle McDougald Werner spent 15 years as a United Press correspondent, but one day in that span stood out as his most memorable on the job.
Jan 28, 2023
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Red Mueller: D-Day (and beyond) with Ike
Of the four correspondents assigned to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters on D-Day, Merrill "Red" Mueller of NBC was the only one who had a prior…
Jan 27, 2023
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