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.
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…
Dozens of journalists died covering World War II, some of them victims of stray bullets or shrapnel, others aboard planes or ships that went down in…
The all-but-unopposed Allied landings at Anzio on Jan. 22, 1944 seemed too good to be true to the correspondents on the ground.
Mess attendant Dorie Miller was the first Black hero of World War II, but it took months of effort by the Pittsburgh Courier just for the Navy to…
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The Canadian Press reporter was one of just three correspondents to go ashore in France on August 19, 1942.
On August 9, 1945, William L. Laurence was one of 13 men aboard the B-29 The Great Artiste, one of three Superfortresses on a mission to Nagasaki…
Seventy-eight years ago today, Allied troops landed in Normandy. This is a rundown of how June 6, 1944 unfolded from the perspective of the…
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