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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
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
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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
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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 shared that with his readers right up fron.
Feb 12
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Joe Morton: War correspondent executed by the Nazis
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Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon
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D-Day: Joan Ellis and the AP's accidental invasion flash
William L. Laurence witnesses the bombing of Nagasaki
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John Basilone killed at Iwo Jima
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Joe Rosenthal and the flag on Iwo Jima
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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
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
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Joe Morton: War correspondent executed by the Nazis
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…
Jan 24
'We just walked': Anzio and the peril of first impressions
The all-but-unopposed Allied landings at Anzio on Jan. 22, 1944 seemed too good to be true to the correspondents on the ground.
Jan 22
Dorie Miller at Pearl Harbor: Telling a hero's story
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…
Dec 7, 2022
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Dieppe at 80: Ross Munro's eyewitness report
The Canadian Press reporter was one of just three correspondents to go ashore in France on August 19, 1942.
Aug 19, 2022
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William L. Laurence witnesses the bombing of Nagasaki
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…
Aug 9, 2022
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D-Day: Correspondents covering the Day of Days
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…
Jun 6, 2022
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Joe Morton: War correspondent executed by the Nazis
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Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon
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D-Day: Joan Ellis and the AP's accidental invasion flash
William L. Laurence witnesses the bombing of Nagasaki
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John Basilone killed at Iwo Jima
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Joe Rosenthal and the flag on Iwo Jima
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